*Holiday Festival of Lights
Dates: | December 4, 2025 |
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Meets: | Th from 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM |
Location: | MCC Sarpy Center Parking Lot |
Cost: | $189.00 |
There are still openings remaining at this time.
Spend a special day in northwestern Iowa creating special holiday memories. Visit an 1869 Victorian mansion, the Dodge House, honored as a National Historic Landmark. Beautiful decorations make the Dodge House magical during the Christmas season. All of the 14 elegant rooms will have a decorated Christmas tree, each in a different theme. The Donna Reed Center & Heritage Center in Denison, IA will capture your interest if you embrace old Hollywood glamour. Enjoy a delicious group luncheon in a Harlan, IA before receiving a guided tour of Templeton Distillery and the beautiful Sacred Heart Church of Templeton, IA. Later, depart for Touch of Country and browse their selection of crafts and gifts. After a fast-food dinner on-you-own, take a journey to Swan Lake Park in Carroll, IA. The highlight of the trip is the annual Christmas Light Show at this park, a million and a half twinkly lights, and the Schrad Holiday Light Show on the other side of Carroll, which are a delight to experience. Holiday festivities take on a new splendor as lights and animation unite for your enjoyment. The cost paid to MCC includes deluxe motor coach transportation, the group luncheon (including tax and gratuity), the Dodge House tour, the Donna Reed Museum fee, the Templeton Distillery and Sacred Heart Church tour, and the Festival of Lights fee. Bring money, including cash, for shopping and evening dining. You may bring coffee and snacks onboard the motor coach but avoid bringing glass containers. Our deluxe motor coach departs promptly at 9:00 a.m. from Sarpy Center; park and meet the bus at the northeast parking lot. Return is approximately 10:00 p.m. Refunds will not be allowed within fourteen days of the trip. The trip leader is Kevin Kowskie. There is moderate walking involved.
Fee: | $189.00 |
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Hours: | 13.00 |
CEUs: | 1.30 |
MCC Sarpy Center Parking Lot
Kevin Kowskie
Kevin Kowskie is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is passionate about travel and art. His artwork has been displayed at the College of St. Mary’s, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Durham Museum and has been included in a group show at the Joslyn Art Museum. Kowskie’s love for foreign travel and cultural enrichment goes back as far as he can remember. While traveling with his family to Rocky Mountain National Park as a child, he developed a keen desire to expand his journeys to distant lands, and the rest was history. After traveling through much of the United States as he got older, this ambition drew him to expand his travels on an international scale—discovering destinations in Canada, Mexico and a dozen European nations. In his early thirties, Kevin and a friend devoted two weeks every year to backpacking through Europe and visiting different nations and destinations via train. He loves encountering new cultures and meeting people from diverse backgrounds. After someone suggested to him that Omaha would appreciate seminars on European travel, Kowskie followed his passion to become a noncredit instructor on the subject for MCC. Planning, organizing and leading group tours are part of his favorite pastimes. Kowskie is currently a trip leader and coordinator for MCC’s Traveling Classrooms, sharing his experience and knowledge as part of the motivated Continuing Education staff.powered by ACEweb from ACEware Systems