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Inbound exchange from
Lima and Tarapoto, Peru - September
Pam Varney Terrell is the Exchange Director. Contact her for more information or to volunteer in any capacity. Maureen Smith has already assigned home hosts, but please contact Jackie Bluhm to day host, Ruth Barrow or Barbara Jones to host or attend a small group dinner.
Contact Teresa Wilkin for addresses of home parties. Have all reservation forms back to her by September 10th. Please tell us if you are coming to any of these events, even if they are free or you are not buying anything, so that we can plan for how many will attend.
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Sat Sept 15 |
10 am -
Hosts meet AA flight #1773 arriving from Miami 7 pm – Welcome dessert party at home of Lee and Marilyn Cowley. No charge. Dessert pot luck. Help welcome our Peruvian Ambassadors …. Get creative – bring your best desert, fruit platter or cheese and crackers! Beer, wine and coffee will be served.
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Sun Sept 16 |
10:30
am –
Tour
of Mandolyn
Horse Ranch in Aubrey near
2 pm: Lunch at Ernesto's Restaurant: 10279 E, Pilot Point
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Mon Sept 17 |
9:45 am – Dallas Day - 3 hour tour of downtown on DART bus, including Belo Mansion and Guadalupe Cathedral (meet at Spring Valley/ Greenville Dart Rail Station and take special DART bus -15 spaces only on the bus for FFD members; return to station at 5). Meeting place for those wanting to join on the walking part will be announced later.
1:00 pm – Box lunch at Pioneer Plaza (for as many as want to come) - $10 per Dallas person. Or just meet us there.
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Tues Sept 18 |
Free day to visit museums or other points of interest according to interests of ambassadors. A list of suggested places to visit will be available at Welcome Party.
6:30 pm – Small group dinners in homes coordinated by Ruth Barrow and Barbara Jones. Contact one of them if you wish to host or attend a dinner.
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Wed Sept 19 |
10 am – Fort Worth Day - take cars to Sid Richardson Museum (meet in parking lot across the street at 10) - 309 Main St., Fort Worth. www.sidrmuseum.org 817-332-6554. Visit stockyards, cattle drive at 11:30. Lunch in the stockyards - choice of Chicken Fried Steak, Burger basket or large salad; Dallas people order and pay at the restaurant individually. Rest of the day free in Fort Worth.
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Thurs Sept 20 |
Free day as above.
Optional night out: 10 pm – Go salsa dancing (check with
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Fri Sept 21 |
Free day as above.
10:300 am – option to Arboretum (8525 Garland Rd., Dallas. 214 515-6500. www.dallasarboretum.org) Pay at the gate - membership or $7.
6:30 pm: Western theme Farewell party at home of Ray and Elizabeth Enstam. Catered barbecue dinner. Wear your western clothes for photo ops. Dallas person $15.
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Sat Sept 22 |
Depart: 12:25
pm - flight to
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| Reservations for the events listed must be received by Teresa Wilkin by Monday, September 10th. Make checks for those events to Friendship Force of Dallas. | |
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Check these websites for more information on Lima: http://www.peru-travel-adventures.com/lima-peru.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima
and on Tarapoto: http://www.leslietaylor.net/index.html (her great jungle website) or to go directly to Tarapoto - http://www.leslietaylor.net/peru/tarapoto.htm. |
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