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Excursions

Shamrock Farms tour: This tour does require a reservation so please let us know as soon as possible. Check out shamrockfarmstour.com for details on the farm. It is about a 2 hour tour (with driving, its only 20 min away), you get to see the entire farm of 10,000 cows, it gets a little stinky. Watch hundreds of cows get milked in minutes, playground for the kids, free milk tasting, calf petting. HAnk took a field trip here for his preschool and it was really fun to take the kids to. THey have the cutest cow gift shop too.
Farm Tour Admission
Adults - $9.00
Military - $7.50
Seniors (60+) - $7.50
Children 12 and under - $6.00
Children under 2 years old (must sit in your lap on tram) - Free
Group rate (minimum of 15 paid guests with one form of payment in order to receive group rates) - $8.00 per adult, $7.00 per senior and $5.50 per child. Ice cream pricing for groups is $1.00 per group member.

Casa Grande Ruins: some of these ruins date back 700 years and have been preserved for the not only the lucky residents of Casa Grande, but for you too. Just a few minutes away from The Winder Manor you will be able to enjoy a nice work out as you travel around this national park. Bring your strollers. Its $5 per person 16 and over all others are free. However, we have an annual pass so that gets us and 3 other adults in for free. For the kids 8-14 you can even become a Casa Grande Ruins Junior Ranger. That could be fun. (I guess Adam is the only one who qualifies for this and Nick)http://www.nps.gov/cagr/index.htm

NOON YEAR'S EVE AT THE PHOENIX ZOO!

Monday, December 31

9 a.m. – noon

Join us for the 8th annual Noon Year's Eve celebration! With tons of snow and activities near the main lake, learn all about Japanese Snow Macaques (a.k.a. Japanese Snow Monkeys) through fun interactive activities such as:

Snow Ball Rolling Races
Learning about the importance of opposable thumbs
Prize drawings and give-aways
Live music, fun and games with Radio Disney
Meet Spike the Team Captain as he joins us from 10:30 a.m. -noon for activities and countdown.

The event comes to a close at noon with a special bubbly toast for kids to ring in the New Year! See how much fun you will have "monkey-ing" around at Noon Years' Eve.

$14 for adult, 12 and up, $6 for kids. STing Ray Bay is $3 inside the park
AT night they also have Zoolights where everything is lit up around the park.

The Arizona Mills Mall:

My favorite place to shop ever!!!! It is about a one mile loop full of awesome shopping. Bath & Body Works, The Disney Store, THe CHildrens Place, GAP Eddie Bauer, Forever 21, Aeropostale, Windsor, and much, much more, but remember they are all outlet stores so the prices are awesome.

Casa Grande Promenade: Prices Vary
Our beautiful new Harkins 14 Theatre (is that the french spelling?)just opened with all the latest movies. When you're done there just stroll on down to Dillards or JcPenney's maybe you prefer Target or Kohls or get in the car and drive 2 miles south and Hit our own little Outlet mall.

Hiking: Free
Over look the beautiful city of the Big House when you hike Casa Grande Mountain. An easy place to hike, easy enough to do with kids and babies. Hank and Josh have hiked it and Hank did it all by himself.

Mountain Biking:Free ( unless you break the bike)
Josh can take you on some fun, easy or hard trails. Want something easy? Pack up the kids in the buggy and pull behind your bike.

PaintBalling: The cost of paintballs
See Josh for details, bring your own gun, but all guns are checked and registered at the Bar.

Tennis: Free
Bring your racket

Hula: Free
Come learn how to Hula in the comfort of your own Winder Manor, a personal instructor will help give you a great workout while learning about the South Pacific.

Saguaro Lake: Free
Feeling Brave? take the Centurion out to the lake for a joy ride or be brave enough to get in the water to try wakeboarding, maybe we'll even inflate the Big Momma.

*Rawhide: Free (Rawhide.com) you have to check out this website
Stroll down the old cowboy town of Rawhide, with its authentic looking saloons, steak house, cowboy shops, maybe the local sheriff will even throw you in jail. This place is really cool we went here with Uncle Larry and had a really good time.
They even have a blacksmith on hand everyday.
Bull Riding
Sheep riding for kids
Calf riding for bigger kids
shoot outs in the middle of the street
Oh and they have the best Candy store!!!!! All the old favorites in this store

Santas Theme Park: visitsantas.com
Normal admissions is $20 for adults $15 for kids but lucky for all you sheriffs you are free on the below dates. Kids 2 and under are free.

Public Safety Night* Dec. 27 and Jan. 2 (Includes Police, Firefighters, EMTs and Corrections officers with current ID)
*Free admission for ID holder, family members for $14.95.

Other Promotions (these offers are not combinable with any other offers or discounts)

Stop by participating Kentucky Friend Chicken valley locations and pick up a FREE Kids Ticket to Santa's Theme Park.

Stop by participating Food City valley locations pick up a FREE Kids Ticket to Santa's Theme Park, a $14.95 value.

Well that ought to do it. Please let me know what you are interested in.

Gifts

To the Royalties who arrive first there will be a special gift. As throughout all of your stay there will be many opportunities to win "Door Prizes"

Please don't forget your entertainment to be performed New Year's Eve Night. An agenda will be put together prior to your arrival. Please read the list of excursions and fill out what you are interested in doing so that we may arrange for your lesiure.

Deadlines

I wrote a whole nice explanation for the deadline and it got deleted so here is the just of it... RSVPs due tomorrow. We are still awaiting the acceptance of the Duke & Dutchess of Haslet as well as Emperor and Empress Fletcher. I'm sure they won't let us down.

Welcome Royalties

We look forward to all of our future guests at the 1st Annual Winder Manor Masquerade. We invite you all to visit back often to our blog to familiarize yourselves with upcoming events. We are pleased to announce the latest guests to our event: Lord & Lady Fletcher with Little Lady Kathryn. We will also be esteemed by Her Majesty and Imperial House, including Heiress Jenni (pronounced gin-ni)and the Royal Court Jesters.

Room Accomodations

Winder Manor has many beautiful room accomodations for all of our guests. Our greatest investment has been in our beautifully designed Casita just off the premises from the Manor. With over 3000 squarefeet of peace and quite this Casita offers a 4 bedroom suite with full baths, kitchen and game room for the children and on the veranda; a breathtaking garden view.

In the Manor itself every accomodation you could imagine.

Please let Sir Hankalot, our Head Chief of Winder Manor, know of any special needs you may have in advance so that we may let your visit be a most pleasant one.