C3VR 2009 Gathering Itinerary

Wednesday 7/15/09

• 5:00 PM - Meet & Greet at the Best Western Mystic Hotel.
• 7:00 PM - Dinner at the Ground Round Restaurant attached to the hotel. ((Click HERE to Sign Up))
  

• 8:30 AM - Meet in the hotel meeting room for the kick-off meeting
• 9:30 AM - Drive to Old Lyme for a tour of Callaway Cars. ((Click HERE to Sign Up))
• Alternate Choice #1 - Walk (or short drive) to Olde Mistick Village. Casual tour of the shops.
• Alternate Choice #2 - Tour the Mystic Marinelife Aquarium (near hotel) featuring the submersible that found the Titanic.
• 12:30 PM - Lunch at Go Fish or Steak Loft
• 1:30 PM - Tour Mystic Seaport Museum. ((Click HERE to Sign Up!))
  Alternate Choice - Drive to Groton, CT and tour the Submarine Force Museum featuring the USS Nautilus.
• 3:30 PM - Leave Mystic Seaport Museum for a scenic drive to the Kimball Farm Ice Cream store in Westford, MA featuring live music, BBQ, mini golf, pitch & putt, driving range, bumper boats and the best ice cream in New England. It is also Cruise night.
• 9:00 PM head back to the hotel.

Friday 7/17/09

• 8:30 AM - Meet in the hotel meeting room for a short meeting.
• 9:00 AM - Scenic tour to Newport, RI. (1 hour drive)
• Alternate Choice - Foxwoods Casino. (20 min drive) 39 Norwich-Westerly Road, Ledyard, CT
• 10:00 AM - Tour of the Breakers Mansion (44 Ochre Point Ave., Newport, RI) or Cliff Walk hike along the ocean.  ((Click HERE to Sign Up!))
• 12.30 PM - Lunch at a restaurant in the Newport Harbor area.
• 2:00 PM - Tour another mansion or boat cruise.
• 4:00 PM - Scenic drive back to our hotel
• 6:00 PM - Dinner in Mystic or Groton, CT.
• 8:00 PM - Photo shoot at Avery Point. (15 min drive) This is mandatory. 1084 Shennecossett Rd, Groton, CT 06340

Saturday 7/18/09

• 8:30 AM - Meet in the hotel meeting room for a short meeting.
• 9:00 AM - Scenic tour to Stonington Borough. (15 min drive)
• 11:30 AM – Drive to Lunch at Olde Town Tavern Pizza Bar & Grill. (45 min drive) 104 Beach Pond Rd, Voluntown, CT. 860-376-3378 (Costa)
• 2:00 PM - Ice cream run to Buttonwood Farms (3 min drive) 471 Shetucket Turnpike, Griswold, CT
• 4:00 PM - Cash bar at the Hotel. (35 min drive from Buttonwood to Hotel)
• 5:00 PM - Pizzetta's Pizza-Firetruck. Pizza party in the hotel parking lot.
• 8:30 PM - Closing meeting and award presentations.

Sunday 7/19/09

• 8:30 AM - Farewell breakfast.
• 10.00 AM - Head for home.