Excursions
Excursion #1 - Wichita Wind Surge Baseball Game and Baseball Museum - $40
Sunday, July 21 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
We will enjoy private access to the newly opened Wichita Baseball Museum, that features interactive attractions, located inside Riverfront Stadium. Your ticket includes a 2-hour all-you-can-eat buffet (traditional baseball fare of hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, chips, cookies and non-alcoholic beverages) and seats in the Boot Barn Home Run Deck where you have the opportunity to try to catch a home run. The Wind Surge (Double-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins) will be playing the Frisco RoughRiders (Double-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers). Transportation not included.
Excursion #2 - Maxwell Wildlife Refuge, Lindsborg, and Old Mill Swedish Heritage Museum - $100
Monday, July 22 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM (Swedish Lunch is included)
Welcome to the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge, where you can experience the beauty of nature up close and personal. Come and explore their stunning trails, observe majestic bison and elk in their natural habitat, and immerse yourself in a sea of colorful wildflowers. We will enjoy a private photo tram tour of the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge. Unlike the regular tram tours, we will be able to get off the tram to photograph some of the 200 bison in the Refuge that are friendly and come close to visitors. Snacks and beverages are included. We will then have lunch in Lindsborg, also called Little Sweden, with time to visit the craft and souvenir shops in the downtown area. Many of the stores feature the Dala horse, a traditional carved and painted wooden horse statue that originated in the Swedish province of Dalarna. We will spend the rest of the time in the Old Mill Swedish Heritage Museum. The Old Mill is a fully restored flour mill dating back to 1898. The Swedish History Museum is a collection of restored buildings depicting Swedish immigrant life in Lindsborg.
https://maxwellwildliferefuge.com/
https://www.lindsborgcity.org/
https://www.oldmillmuseum.org/
Excursion #3 - Kansas Aviation Museum - $20
Tuesday, July 23 8:30 AM - 11:30 PM
Welcome to the Air Capital of the World! Find out what it was like when you entered Wichita's original Municipal Airport! Experience the history of aviation in Kansas in a historic Art-Deco former airport terminal with extensive indoor and outdoor exhibits. You'll be amazed and entertained, and you'll leave with a much better understanding both of aviation and of Wichita's vital role in aviation history.
Excursion #4 - Strataca Salt Mine - $55
Tuesday, July 23 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Kansas Underground Salt Museum is a mine filled with unique experiences and decades of history that you can only get 650 feet below the small Kansas town of Hutchinson. Our tour will include time to discover the Museum galleries, which are lit well enough for photography, the Dark (tram) Ride and a Train Ride, which lets you experience a thrilling subterranean quest unlike anything you've experienced before in the raw, abandoned areas of the mine. The mine is also a very dry storage facility where Hollywood studios store their film archives. It may not be suitable for the claustrophobic.
Walking Tour to Keeper of the Plains
Sunday, July 28 8:30 PM - 11:00 PM (No charge, registration not required)
The Keeper of the Plains is a 44-foot-tall steel sculpture standing at the point where the Big and Little Arkansas rivers join together in downtown Wichita. This land between the two rivers is sacred ground to the Native American people and is also home to the Mid- America All-Indian Museum. The American Indian sculpture was created by Wichitan and Native American artist Blackbear Bosin (1921-1980). This icon of Wichita was erected on May 18, 1974, to celebrate the United States Bi-centennial and has kept a watchful eye on the city ever since. Stroll or carpool to the nearby Keeper of the Plains for the lighting of the Ring of Fire, a series of fire pots that surround the statue, at 9:00 PM, weather permitting. This is a 15-minute walk, about 0.7 miles.
https://www.visitwichita.com/listing/keeper-of-the-plains/28029/
Excursion #5 - Tanganyika Wildlife Park and Botanica - $100
Monday, July 29 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM (BBQ Lunch is included)
We will start our day exploring Tanganyika Wildlife Park, which features the third largest animal collection in the state and interactive exhibits where you can get up close to most of the animals. Our tour will include tickets to 3 feeding stations. We will have lunch at Bite Me BBQ, an excellent barbecue restaurant downtown. We will finish the day in the beautiful Botanica, a botanical paradise which comprises over 18 acres of stunning gardenscaping that features over 4,000 species of plants, both native and new to the region. The gardens are decorated with a collection of 50 elegant sculptures, flowing streams, fountains, and waterfalls that complement the beauty of plants and that create a visually stunning atmosphere. This summer, Nature Pop, a LEGO art exhibition, will be displayed throughout the gardens.
Bite Me BBQ Menu 
https://twpark.com/
https://botanica.org/
https://seankenney.com/exhibits/nature_pop/city/?city=wichita