MICHIGAN BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL / PEACH HARVEST

August 10-12, 2012             3 Days      

eals Included:  2 CB, 2 L, 1 D

Price per person {Includes Basic Trip Insurance}

        Single:  $655      Double:  $470     Triple:  $415       Quad:  $385

This year’s Blueberry/Peach Tour has a new date and it coincides with the South Haven, MI annual Blueberry Festival.  Also included this year is one of the perennially favorite attractions from previous Blueberry/Peach Tours.  A visit to the Joliet Area Historical Museum is a journey through time. Walk through a life-size replica depicting the building of the historic Illinois & Michigan Canal. Stroll down a turn-of-the-century street past store fronts showcasing fashions of yesteryear.  Browse through a hardware store. Take a virtual ride on a replica trolley.  Discover Joliet’s connection to the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, and try your hand at landing your own Lunar Lander on the moon’s surface.  Live the myth of Route 66, the true Main Street of America. Speaking of Route 66, the included lunch today is at a Route 66 landmark, Dell Rhea’s Chicken Basket, which serves up down home charm and a tasty menu.
Comfort Suites in Benton Harbor will be our lodging for the next two nights.  The Saugatuck Dune Rides, one of West Michigan's premier attractions is sure to provide you with thirty-five to forty minutes of entertainment, fun and excitement.
On the tour of one of Michigan's treasures learn of the lost town of Singapore as well as local vegetation and wildlife.  The afternoon will be spent at the Blueberry Festival with its arts and crafts fair, lawn tractor pull, and typical festival offerings.  The included fish-boil dinner starts with a blazing bonfire under a kettle of salted water. When the temperature is just right and the crackle of the fire is just loud enough, the boil master adds a basket of potatoes and onions to the kettle. A few crackles later, the mild whitefish steaks, fresh from Lake Michigan, are delicately lowered in. At just the right moment, kerosene is tossed into the fire, exciting the blaze and causing the water to boil over, dramatically carrying off the fish oil that has collected on top. The fish are pulled out and greeted with a generous drizzling of butter. Ladies and gentlemen, dinner is served.
Begin your last day picking a bucket of fresh blueberries at DeGrandchamp’s Blueberry Farm before traveling to Eau Claire’s Tree Mendus Fruit Farm.  Because our tour date is later this year the orchard will have more varieties of peaches available in addition to plums, pears, apricots, and apples so that you may bring home fresh, high-quality Michigan fruit.