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January 29, 2010

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In This Issue:

Apache Junction, Arizona
Looking for an uplifting good time?

Manitou Springs, Colorado
Two sisters Inn, award-winning 5-room Bed and Breakfast.

Washington State
A unique marriage of natural beauty and rich culture.

Washington D.C.
2010 National Cherry Blossom Festival®


Apache Junction, Arizona


Jousting Knights - photo courtesy Arizona Renaissance Festival

Looking for an uplifting good time?

Pinal County, AZ – It’s easy! Take a day trip out to the wildly popular and entertaining Arizona Renaissance Festival. The annual faire begins at 10 am every Saturday, Sunday, and on Presidents’ Day Monday, from February 6th through March 28. Today’s audience wants to be more then spectators. They want to participate and be surrounded by their entertainment as they seek to escape the everyday world. At the Festival, the audience is a special guest in another place and time. This Festival transports visitors to an European style country fair filled with an agreeable rabble of knights, rogues, royalty and craftsmen, all roaming throughout a 30-acre charm filled village with 200 quaint shops, 12 stages of non-stop entertainment, an arena for full contact armored jousting, kitchens, pubs, and people powered games and rides.

All the Festival is a stage with a cast featuring more than 2,000 brightly costumed actors, dancers, and musicians. These are the amazing people who populate this bustling fair to ensure a good time for the nearly 250,000 visitors who mingle into the endlessly wacky and unpredictable medieval mayhem.

The Renaissance Festival experience is meeting and interacting with these colorful characters, shopping for arts and crafts, and taking in a selection of over 150 shows every event day. There is a great variety of food for feasting, and a bevy of beverages including Medieval Margaritas, Da Vinci Coladas, Dukes of Daiquiri, wine, honey mead, beers and ales, along with soft drinks and lemonade.

The Festival runs from February 6 through March 28. 
10a.m. until 6:00 p.m., rain or shine.
Visit www.RenFestInfo.com for more information.


Manitou Springs, Colorado


Valentine's Heart Cookies

Two sisters Inn, award-winning 5-room Bed and Breakfast.

Two Sisters Inn - a bed and breakfast is owned by Wendy Goldstein and Sharon Smith, Innkeepers since 1990. Two Sisters Inn is an award-winning 5-room Bed and Breakfast in the center of the quaint mountain town of Manitou Springs, Colorado, the "largest historic district west of the Mississippi" at the base of Pikes Peak.

The town of Manitou Springs is filled with historic inns and B&B's, and is known as the Saratoga of the West for its numerous drinking mineral springs. It has quite a health culture going back over 125 years when the British discovered the springs, and eons before when the Native American tribes came from the Mountains and the Plains to cure their ills. After the Indians drank the "magic waters", they would go to the nearby Garden of the Gods for their religious ceremonies. The red sandstone formations in the Garden are really awe inspiring!

Manitou Springs celebrates Pikes Peak, "America's Mountain", where Katherine Lee Bates wrote America the Beautiful after climbing to the top of the Peak. Two Sisters Inn offers many soft adventure packages that highlight this unique area.

Two sisters Inn, charming 1919 Victorian Bungalow and Cottage, winner of Colorado's coveted Golden Muffin Award.

For reservations or more information please visit www.twosisinn.com
 



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Washington State

A unique marriage of natural beauty and rich culture.


Cascades View on Granite Mountain, trailhead at exit 47 off I-90
(Seattle/King County Region)
Courtesy Washington State Tourism/Levy Sheckler

While Washington state is known for many different things to many different people, our most popular attractions center on the unique marriage of natural beauty and rich culture. Visitors can enjoy unsurpassed adventure in our scenic areas and coastal waterways for part of the day, and then spend the remainder indulging in world-class wine and cuisine or experiencing arts and culture in vibrant urban surroundings.

Four national parks and monuments are four-season draws here. Mount Rainier National Park features twenty-six glaciers and the iconic Mount Rainier, one of the state’s five active volcanoes, at nearly three miles high. Featuring the nation’s longest wilderness coastline and rare temperate rainforests, Olympic National Park is a World Heritage Site and a Biosphere Reserve where ancient trees wear beards of lush, green moss. North Cascades National Park contains 400 miles of trails, many leading into vast, undeveloped wilderness where you’ll see more animals than humans; and Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument offers can be explored by helicopter, foot or car.

Visit www.experiencewa.com for more information.


Washington D.C.


Photo Courtesy E.David of NCBF Luria

2010 National Cherry Blossom Festival®

The 2010 National Cherry Blossom Festival® will be held between March 27 and April 11. This year's festival marks the 98th celebration of the original gift of the 3,000 cherry trees by the city of Tokyo to the people of Washington, DC in 1912.

The Key Event Dates are:

National Cherry Blossom Festival Family Day & Opening Ceremony - Saturday, March 27th - National Building Museum - 401 F Street, NW

Fireworks Display on the Southwest Waterfront - Saturday, April 3rd

National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade® - Saturday, April 10th

Sakura Matsuri - Japanese Street Festival - Saturday, April 10th

Visit www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org for more information.

 

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