Schedule of Event
CHRYSLER 300 CLUB, INC.
39TH ANNUAL NATIONAL MEET
AUGUST 26-30TH 2009
for reservations
SHILO INN TACOMA
7414 South Hosmer, Tacoma Wa. 98408
1-800-222-2244 for reservations
(Cutoff date for reservation guarantee is July 26,2009)
($99.00 per night includes Continental Breakfast)
Wednesday: Early arrivals will get together for dinner at a nearby restaurant
Thursday: In the AM we will tour to the capital WW Seymour Botanical Conservatory a Victorian Style Conservatory, one of only three on the West Coast.
Then, we will go across the street to the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum. They are dedicated to the preservation of the original hand written letters and documents of the men and women who have shaped our history. Admission to both is free!!!!!
Then we will move on to lunch at the restored Union Station.
After lunch, we will go to the Museum Of Glass. Here they have working glass blowers and you can sit in the amphitheater above the world's largest glass blowing "Hot Shop" and watch them create masterpieces in glass. There is a gift Shop to ck out as well. Admission is $10.00. Groups of 10 or more get in for $8.00)
Friday: We will tour to the Harold LeMay car collection. It is the largest car collection in the U.S.
Harold and Nancy LeMay accumulated over 3000 cars during their lifetime. It has since been paired down to about 300 of the most interesting cars. A car museum has been planned next to the Tacoma dome, but, as not yet been constructed, so we will visit the cars in their current location. Admission is $15.00 per person.
If you like gardens, in particular Bonsai, we can tour on Friday afternoon to the Weyerhaueser Corp. Headquaters in Federal Way, Washington. They have 22 acres of Rhodes and Azaleas, one of the largest collections in the world!
Admission is $3.50 per person, and includes access to the Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection which includes more than 50 Bonsai specimans. Instead of gardens and Bonsai, you can choose a two hour harbor tour available @ $25.00 per person, that tours Gig Harbor, The Narrows Bridge, and Point Defiance.
Saturday: Car show at the Shiloh Inn, in the parking lot at 10:00 am - 2:00 pm.
Dinner Banquet at 6:00 pm just down the street at Oscar's on Hosmer.