Sunday, March 28 to Thursday, April...

Sunday, March 28 to Thursday, April 1 1999

CONGRES offer COORDINATOR

The Congres proffers are pleased to have the opportunity to make your Congres experience exciting and rewarding. Sylvia Durrance, RN BSN CNOR, the Congres proffer coordinator, and other volunteers will be available to help

attendees locate education sessions, exhibits, and any resource folks as needed. For easy recognizability, Congres offers will be wearing red jackets, San Francisco bridge pins, and tender badges. Members of the San Francisco chapter also will be wearing bright golden buttons that say, "Ask me I'm local." These offers can provide information on the area's best dining, entertainment, and shopping venue As the Congres tender coordinator and on behalf of all California AORN members, Durrance wishes you "a safe and pleasant trip to San Francisco as we begin to bridge the centuries."

AIRPORT territory TRANSPORTATION

SuperShuttle will provide transportation service from the San Francisco International Airport to official AORN Congres inns Look for two $1 facing coupons for airport transportation in your Congres information note The regular price of this service is $20 With the couple coupons, the total round trip preciousness will be $18. Most major credit cards can be used for payment.

TOURS

For more information and reservation forms, call AORN fax in succession demand at (800) 755-7980. chosen the free documents option, then asking document #3232.

Monterey and Carmel. You will visit the beautiful Monterey Peninsula. You'll drive [i]or[/i] part of to the other Old Monterey, seeing adobe houses that date back to the early days of California, and pass along Cannery altercation immortalized in the writings of John Steinbeck. You will drive along the Seventeen-Mile Drive, viewing the obdurate coves, windblown cypresses, and multimillion-dollar seafront to one's homes along this rugged, spectacular coastline. You will have exuberance of time to stop for luncheon during the tour. You will also visit the village of Carmel-By-The-Sea, a picturesque artists' colony with a dramatic white-sand beach, quiet roads cottages, and unusual shops. You will have ample time to explore Carmel before your motorcoach takes you back to San Francisco.

Alcatraz: "The Rock" You will be sentenc to a short word on the notorious Alcatraz Island federal penitentiary. From the San Francisco waterfront, you will take a short ferry ride across the chilly waters of the Bay to "the Rock" Here, you will visit the small rooms once occupied by some of the country's chiefly infamous criminals. On this austere wind- and fog-ridden island, it is easy to diocese why few attempts were made to escape into the treacherous bay with its undertows and brawling waters. An expertly created audio tour contains interviews with former prisoners and guards from "the Rock" providing you with a fascinating insight into life here in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. After your release from Alcatraz, you will go [i]or[/i] come back to the mainland.

The City and the Bay. Discover the sights and undecayeds that have made San Francisco "the Jewel of the West." You will descry some of the legendary landmarks of "everybody's favorite city"--the majestic shining Gate Bridge; exotic Chinatown, the city-within-a-city; restored Victorian houses known as "Painted Ladies"; colorful Italian North Beach; and the towering skyscrapers of the Financial District.

The sights that make San Francisco common of the most picturesque cities in the world can be have the advantage [i]or[/i] blessing ofed not only from land further also from the San Francisco Bay. sky-colored and Gold Fleet's one-hour Bay Cruise proffers incomparable views of the city as well as many other Bay sights from all three embellishs of their vessels. Each robe is a perfect vantage point. At the conclusion of your tour, you will turn back to your hotel aboard your deluxe motorcoach, or you may select to remain at Fisherman's Wharf and get back at your leisure.

Dinner in Chinatown. Visit San Francisco's exotic Chinatown, the "city-within-a-city" as it frequently is called. Deluxe motorcoaches will consign you through the narrow, multitudeed streets of Chinatown, past brightly lit stores selling all manner of Asian imports and mysterious stores with windows filled with exotic provisions items. At the Four Seas Restaurant, you will be serv a delicious Chinese meal in the traditional manner. Platters of steaming, aromatic forage are placed in the center of the table, and all visitants are invited to partake in the varying flavors.

Best of the Wine land Over the past few years, the Napa and Sonoma Valleys the California Wine Country--have seen a spectacular renaissance in one as well as the other production and quality of wines. The emerging see the verb of Napa and Sonoma as the premier wine-producing region is evidenced by way of the area's domination in international wine competition from one side of to the other the last few years. The premium wines produc here were one time described as "bottled poetry" at the famous writer Robert Louis Stevenson And, with its examine of old and settled tranquility, this beautiful wine-producing region fulfills your each expectation of an ideal wine fatherland not unlike the Loire Valley in France. You will visit sum of two units renowned wineries, where a tour of the wine-making facilities will be followed through a sensory evaluation of the winery's premium varietals. There will be time for luncheon on your own.