FRIDAY - NOVEMBER 9 — This morning we board our motorcoach to start our journey to Ohio. We will meet our local guide in Berlin and start our backroads touring and learn the history and highlights of the area. First stop — Tis the Season and Schrock’s Farm and Village Shops where you will find the entire store decorated for the season. Next you make your own sundae and enjoy shopping in the bulk food section at Walnut Creek Cheese. End the evening with a lavish dinner buffet at Berlin's Bountiful Bounty. After dinner it's time to rock around the Christmas tree with musical entertainment by Pam Thompson. There will be audience participation and a reason to sing, sing, and sing!

SATURDAY - NOVEMBER 10 — Start the morning with breakfast items made by the Amish before visiting the Hershberger Truck Patch & Amish Bakery where your senses will be filled with the aroma of the best fresh-baked pastries in the county! Followed by a stop at Guggisberg Cheese, where taste testing is encouraged. Then on to Coblentz Chocolate Company where you can watch as more than 40 types of choco-concoctions come to life. One bite and you've discovered Amish Country's sweet side! You will have a delicious lunch prepared by a local Amish family at an Amish family home. You will have an Amish experience shopping at the Amish Flea Market — from hand-carved art and jewelry to leather goods and crafts and wood items to quilts, clothing, scrapbooking items, and candles and so much more, all made by the Amish!! A full, hot, holiday dinner buffet will be ready for you at the Canton Women's Club. Built between 1866 and 1868 — and listed in the Stark County Registry of Historic Homes — the John R. Bucher House is an elegant example of High Victorian Gothic and Romanesque design. Capturing the European artisanship of the era, the house features carved archways of solid cherry, a Tiffany chandelier, vaulted ceilings, marble-relief fireplaces, and a circular staircase with carved newel posts. Entertainment tonight will be an old-fashioned radio show live on-stage at the Canton Palace Theatre. The variety show, which brings back memories of the old "Bob Hope and Perry Como Christmas Shows," includes singing, dancing, brief comedy sketches, and even audience participation! It's a Holiday Christmas Extravaganza! The program has grown to be a Canton tradition that features individual singers, show choirs, dancers, and celebrity impersonators — literally a cast of hundreds.

SUNDAY - NOVEMBER 11 — After a restful sleep and good breakfast we will depart for Warther Carvings in Dover, Ohio. There will be the annual Christmas tree festival which offers dozens of trees decorated to the hilt by area designers. You will get a full tour of the incredible Warther Carvings...proclaimed by the Smithsonian as the most priceless exhibit in the United States. View the works of Ernest "Mooney” Warther and decide for yourself how this man created incredible works made of steel, ivory, and wood. See the "pliers tree" and see why it is in "Ripley's Believe it or Not.” Tour the lower level of the home of the World's Master Carver. View the 1920's Christmas decorations, the priceless carvings that the Warther girls would have received, enjoy visiting the button house with over 70,000 buttons arranged in artwork, and visit the knife shop and gift shop for some holiday shopping. A final lunch on the tour will be enjoyed at Pine Tree Barn & Farms. The Barn, a historical landmark built in 1868 with spectacular views overlooking two lakes and Killbuck Valley, offering 25,000 square feet of beautiful gifts and accessories and a year-round Christmas Shop, is one of Ohio’s premier shopping and dining destinations. After lunch, the journey home continues taking the Christmas spirit with you.