Day Trips

Swift Creek Mill - The Sweet Delilah Swim Club

Wednesday, June 21, 2023 | 10:30am-6:00pm

We will travel to Chesterfield, VA to the Historic Swift Creek Mill theater to enjoy the play "The Sweet Delilah Swim Club." The Play tells the story of five Southern women whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team. They come together every August for a long weekend to recharge their friendship. They meet every year at the same beach cottage named "Sweet Delilah" in the Outer Banks without their husbands, children, or distractions to catch up, laugh, and meddle in each other's lives. Lunch is included.

Activity Level: Easy

Open to all.

Location: Chesterfield, VA

Black History Museum and Cultural Center

Wednesday, June 28, 2023 | 8:15am-3:00pm

Join us for a guided tour of the  Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia in Richmond, VA.  The exhibits trace the history of Black Americans with a particular emphasis on Black Virginians and African Americans in the Richmond area.  Lunch will be on your own at the Cheesecake Factory in Short Pump Town Center. 

Activity Level: Easy

Open to all.

Location: Richmond, VA

Colonial Williamsburg

Thursday, July 27, 2023 | 9:00am-6:00pm

  Come join us as we enjoy a four-hour guided walking tour sampling some of the best of the Historic Area. Tour the Governor’s Palace, Capitol, or Raleigh Tavern and learn of the debates that raged in the years leading to independence. Visit a trade shop or historic house and discover something about the everyday life of Williamsburg’s 18th-century residents. Lunch on your own. Activity Level - Active. Open to all. 

Open to all.

Location: Williamsburg

Riverside Center - 42nd Street

Wednesday, August 9, 2023 | 9:30am-6:00pm

Come along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway. 42nd Street celebrates Broadway, Times Square, and the magic of show biz with wit, humor, and pizzazz. Aspiring chorus girl Peggy Sawyer lands her first job in a new Broadway show. Enjoy sensational tap numbers, lavish costumes, and music including “Dames”, “We’re in the Money”, “Lullaby of Broadway”, “Shuffle Off to Buffalo”, and “Forty-second Street”. You will be thoroughly entertained from the first note to the final tap.

Lunch is included. Activity Level - Easy Open to all.

Open to all.

Location: Fredericksburg

Flying Squirrels Baseball Game

Sunday, August 20, 2023 | 11:00am-6:00pm

Join us for a summer afternoon watching America’s favorite pastime at the Richmond Flying Squirrels Baseball Stadium in Richmond. The Flying Squirrels are the AA team of the San Francisco Giants. Your ticket includes an “all-you-can-eat” buffet luncheon in the Third Base enclosed picnic area.  After your lunch you will have a field level seat nearby to enjoy the game. The Flying Squirrels will be hosting the Harrisburg Senators, AA affiliate of the Washington Nationals. It’s always a fun day at the ballpark with on-field entertainment and giveaways.Open to all. Activity Level - Moderate 

Open to all.

Location: Richmond

Green Valley Book Fair

Wednesday, September 20, 2023 | 9:00am-4:00pm

Come travel with us to the Green Valley Book Fair located just south of Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the heart of the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the Green Valley Book Fair is a discount book outlet store featuring over 500,000 new books at incredible bargain prices. Save up to 90% off retail on over 30,000 different titles in more than 60 different categories, including fiction, history, health and self-help, children’s books, religion, science, sports, cooking, home and garden, crafts, art, reference, nature and outdoors, and more. Lunch on your own at Cracker Barrel.

Activity Level: Easy 

Open to all.

Location: Mount Crawford, VA

Virginia Scenic Railway - Alleghany Special

Thursday, October 19, 2023 | 9:15am-3:15pm

All Aboard the VA Scenic Railway

Experience Virginia’s rural countryside as you enjoy lunch on the 3-hour Alleghany Special railway adventure. Our group will travel westward from Staunton train station through beautiful farmland, rolling hills, and mountain ridges out towards the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests and back to Staunton.

Your ticket to ride includes a full luncheon with dessert as well as unlimited refills of beverage choices including coffee, soda, or tea, all taxes and gratuities, and bus transportation.

Activity Level: Easy

Open to all.

Location: The Center

Seats available: 19

Museum of the Bible

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 | 8:00am-3:30pm

We will travel to DC to visit the Museum of the Bible. It contains more than 40,000 objects and artifacts ranging from the time of Abraham through the New Testament era. Artifacts include Biblical papyri, Torah scrolls, rare printed Bibles, Jewish artifacts, and contemporary treasures of Christian and Jewish Culture.

The Museum of the Bible is an innovative, global, and educational institution whose purpose is to invite all people to engage with the transformative power of the Bible. Lunch on your own. 

Activity Level - Moderate - Walking and standing 

Open to all.

Location: The Center

Seats available: 25

Riverside - Miracle on 34th Street

Wednesday, December 20, 2023 | 9:30am-6:00pm

MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET

at the Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, VA

Join us as we travel to the Riverside Center for another spectacular musical. Kris Kringle, an indignant, is hired to play Santa in the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and does so well that he is hired to play Santa in Macy’s downtown store. This joyous, heart-warming holiday classic is filled with humor, spectacle and beloved music such as “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”. Lunch is included. Open to all.

Open to all.

Location: Fredericksburg

2023 White House Tour

Monday, December 25, 2023 | 12:00am-1:00am

White House Holiday Tour

Date: December ??, 2023

We are planning a tour sometime in early December for a self-guided tour of The White House and to see the festive holiday decorations.  We have requested a December tour but The White House will determine the date.  Please call or stop by the Travel Office to put your name on the interest list as soon as possible, 434 220 9737 Some walking is involved and there is a possibility of waiting in line at the gate.  Lunch is on your own at Fashion Centre in Pentagon City.  A valid government-issued United States ID (driver’s license, Military ID, etc.) or a valid   U.S. or other official government-issued passport is required.

Activity Level: Easy to Moderate

Open to all.

Location: Washington, DC