Straight No Chaser - the Best!
- Merry Christmas from Chicago!
December of 2011 kept us very busy entertaining our guests for the Christmas season! It really started on November 16th with a sell out trip to “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, with a stop at Two Brothers Roundhouse for lunch. On to the show stopper “Memphis” … hot from New York November 30 and December 3, two more sold out shows! Not to mention our trips to Chicago for “Free” Days… these are days that we drop guests off at places they want to go, just to enjoy a day of lunching, shopping, museums or looking at the Macy decorations. December got really crazy with our trips in to see Donny and Marie Osmond at the Oriental Theatre, Chicago. America’s favorite brother and sister invited us to join them in celebrating the joy of the season in true Osmond fashion, it featured everyones favorite hits mixed with their trademark show-stopping production numbers… three sold out buses! We had 168 of our friends on three buses going to Chicago for Christmas shows! On December 7 and 14… two more sold out buses for Million Dollar Quartet, Apollo Theatre, Chicago. Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis played together for the first and only time in history – this show was inspired by the actual event, even the men loved this one! Then one of my favorites for the year “Straight No Chaser” the Male Acapella group of 10 guys founded at Indiana University in the fall of 1996. They totally reinvented the idea of acappella with their modern twist on well known songs that you will remember! We enjoyed a gourmet dinner at Wildfire Restaurant before the 7:30 pm show.
I hope you can join us in 2012 for more of what we do… making memories for years to come!
Lisa & Pat
We planned this trip to the Blackhawk game after our first hockey game last year and the overwhelming response we received! The weather report blasted 4 - 8 inches of snow starting Friday afternoon, about 3:30 pm when we were scheduled to depart the Highcrest Centre for our hour and a half motor coach trip to the United Center. Our guests called all morning… what happens if it snows? My response… we NEVER not go 
and right on time, flurries swirling around us, we left for Chicago. We had a full bus all excited to see a Chicago Blackhawk game, many had gone last year and many had never seen a professional hockey game! We had a contest on the way in, the question was… what will the final score be and the tie breaker question was, what is the attendance for the game. Out of 56 guests 3 got the final score correct, Hawks 3 – Panthers 1 and out of those 3, one came within 700 of the total attendance of 21,555 to win 2 baseball packages (2 tickets and transportation) to one of our games this summer! Congradulations Matt!
What started out as a 2 hour trip turned into 4 1/2 hours… it was a blizzard! When our guests go with us they always know what capable hands they are in with our drivers, Steve, was outstanding! He got us to the United Center in time for the drop of the puck at 8:00 pm, which was delayed a half hour when the players were late getting there. We got back to Rockford, safe and happy at 1:00 am.
What a great game and experience… and what a great driver! We had a blast! Can’t wait until next for another hockey game…until then let’s get to a baseball game…check out our 2012 game schedule.
Hawks vs Panthers
We have had a lot of changes in 2011 – lots of trips, lots of trip requests and lots of new friends!
We look forward to seeing you in 2012, its going to be a great year
December 4 – STRAIGHT NO CHASER – Holiday Performance – Male Acapella group of 10 guys founded at Indiana University in the fall of 1996. Straight No Chaser’s goal was to expand the boundaries of the traditional college a cappella group -in the process, they are reinventing the idea of a cappella on the modern pop scene! Cost is $140 per person; includes your show, a gourmet dinner at Wildfire Restaurant and transportation before the 7:30 pm show! You may also choose to just see the show and visit Woodfield Mall which is $85 per person.
December 14 – Million Dollar Quartet, Apollo Theatre, Chicago. On Dec. 4, 1956, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis played together for the first and only time. “They ROCK the HOUSE!” – this show was inspired by the actual event. Cost is $85 per person for Includes ticket to the show and transportation with time for lunch on Michigan Ave.
Dec. 14, 17 – “Donny & Marie,” Christmas in Chicago. Oriental Theatre, Chicago. America’s favorite brother and sister team invite you to join them to celebrate the joy of the season in true Osmond fashion, features your favorite hits mixed with their trademark show-stopping production numbers. Cost is $140 for Wed. and $145 per person for Sat. Time on Michigan Ave. or the Loop for lunch on the Wed. date and lunch and dinner on the Sat. date.
January 20, 2012 – Chicago Blackhawks vs Florida Panthers, United Center, Chicago. Should be a good game, the Panthers got Brian Campbell 
and the fact that the Blackhawks meet the Panthers every other year! There are two ticket prices – we have 21 tickets in Sec. 303 – Cost is $140 per person and 35 tickets in Sec. 307 – Cost is $105 per person. This price includes your ticket and transportation and time to eat before the game.
February 14, 16, 18 – Chicago Auto Show, McCormick Place. Enjoy door to door service to the 104th edition of the largest auto show in North America and held more times than any other auto exposition on the continent. Cost is $45 per person for weekdays and $48 on Saturday, includes your transportation.
March 13, 15 – Chicago Flower and Garden Show, Navy Pier. The 2012 theme is “Haute Hort Coutur,” inspired from textures and colors found in plants, fabrics and all beautiful elements found in nature! Cost is $99 for Tues. with features a luncheon cruise also, and $55 per person for the Thurs. date.
March 15, 17; April 26; May 24; June 21 – Chicago “Free” Days – Transportation to Chicago to do what you want to do. No fussing with gas, tolls or parking. Sit back and relax… let us do the driving for you! Enjoy a day of shopping and lunch, visit one of the museums, or Navy Pier. Many drop off selections. Cost is $43 per person for your transportation.
March 17 – “Riverdance,” Oriental Theatre, Chicago. The Farewell Tour! Experience the original, now in its 17th year, the internationally acclaimed celebratin of Irish music, song and dance is coming to Chicago for one week only! Don’t miss it! Cost is $135 per person with time for lunch on Michigan Ave.
March 17 – “Showboat,” Lyric Opera, Chicago. Moving from 1890s Mississippi to Chicago to “Roaring 20s” Broadway, Showboat follows the lives of a company of theatre folk-deeply involving us in their triumphs and sorrows. Front row upper balcony. Cost is $130 per person, includes ticket and transportation.
April 21 – “Burn the Floor,” Paramount Theatre, Aurora. Tango, Waltz, Foxtrot, Quick Step, Cha-Cha and more! Athletic, sensual and rocket-fueled! Time for lunch and shopping in Geneva before the show. Cost is $85 per person.
May 5,16, 30 and June 2 – “Jersey Boys” Bank of America Theatre, Chicago. Worldwide, more than 13 million people have seen JERSEY BOYS, and now, the show that broke records and made critics and audiences cheer every night is back! This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. The show features their hit songs “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,”"Rag Doll,”"Oh What a Night,” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You,” to name just a few! Wed. May 16 – $140 & May 30 – $130 per person and Sat. May 5 – $150 & June 2 – $140 per person. Cost includes ticket to the show and transportation, with time for lunch on Michigan Ave. or the Loop on the Wed. dates and lunch and dinner on the Sat. dates.
May 5 – “Cats,” Cadillac Palace Theatre, Chicago. The One. The Only. The Original! The longest running, most popular, touring production in history! This show features 20 of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s timeless melodies, including the hit song “Memory.” Cost is $125 per person, this includes ticket to the show and transportation, with time for lunch and dinner.
June 14 – Cook’s Tour of Chicago – Don’t miss this popular trip! Visit many grocery venues, enjoy lunch and a tour of Kendall Cullinary College. Bring your coolers! Cost is $70 per person; includes gourmet luncheon and transportation.
July 12 – Odyssey Luncheon Cruise, Navy Pier, Chicago. Cruise the shoreline, enjoy a gourmet luncheon, live band and shopping on Navy Pier. Cost is $95 per person, includes cruise, lunch and transportation.
Aug. 16 – Tour of Ten Chimneys, Genesse Depot, WI. Visit and tour the summer home of Broadway acting couple Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Cost is $92 per person, includes tour, lunch and transportation.
Jan. 30; Feb. 20 & 23, 2013….The Book of Mormon, Bank of America Theatre, Chicago. From Trey Parker and Matt Stone, four-time Emmy Award-winning creators of “South Park,” and Tony Award-winner Robert Lopez, co-creator of “Avenue Q” comes this much anticipated Broadway musical! The New York Times calls this show “the best musical of this century.” Contains very, very, explicit language. Cost is $165 for the Wednesday dates and $175 per person for the Saturday date.
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Olympia Tominelli and her Mother at Fox and Obel Market
- Our Stop at Whole Foods in Schaumberg
We visit several interesting food venues in Chicago. It’s hard to call them supermarkets or grocery stores, the food is arranged and displayed like a museum of fine art. Fox and Obel was our first stop, it could be called the “Tiffany” of food markets. Next we visited Kendall Cullinary College for a demonstration and a three course luncheon including filet and salmon, salad and a decadent dessert. Spectacular! All prepared by the students along with a tour of the facility. On to the Spice House and Olive Oil and Vinegar shops. We stopped at the new Whole Foods Market at Woodfield for the fanalie! It couldn’t have been a better day – everyone was excited, full of good food and coolers full of goodies they bought to bring home! Even if you don’t like to cook… we know you like to eat … it’s a GREAT time for everyone! BON APPETIT EVERYONE!
The Carlyles at the Spice Shop
Canterbury Trip Guests - Go Cubs!
Nothing like great seats, parking right across the street from the front entrance of Wrigley Field and a beautiful day! It’s the only way to see a baseball game! There are a few more games this year:
Wed. June 22 – Cubs @ White Sox
Thurs. June 30 -Giants @ Cubs
Tues. July 19 – Phillies @ Cubs
Tues. July 26 – Cubs @ Brewers (Tailgate)
Sun. Aug. 7 – Reds @ Cubs
Let Us Take YOU Out To A Ball Game!!
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On Saturday, March 12, 2011 we traveled to another classic theatre show called “Hair.” It was a show that I have never seen so I didn’t know what to expect.
We walked north, it was a beautiful sunny day, and visited the Coq d’or Restaurant and Bar in the Drake Hotel to see their new renivation, wow was it ever beautiul! Then we walked back to the Hancock Center and jumped on the elevator to the 95th Floor where we had a great lunch while overlooking ALL of Chicago from our table! Everyone needs to visit the Hancock Center at least once to have a thrilling experience.
We arrived at the Oriental Theatre for the 2:00 pm matinee of “Hair.” The music brought back memories from the 1970′s… “Let the Sun Shine In,” “Good Morning Starshine,” “Easy To Be Hard,” “Aquarius,” and the title song, “Hair!” The cast was outstanding, especially the lead gentleman named Berger… played by Steel Burkhardt. He had long dark hair and ran right out into the audience and sat and sang in the seat in front of my seat… yikes! His soulful voice and good looks were mezzmerizing. He looked like a creature of ZEN, in the show he lives in a Big Purple house with his mom and dad. It was a very colorful and compassionate show… a celebration of love, life and freedom. The end was a tear jerker with one of Berger’s friends being killed in the war.
Dinner was a light appetizer at “Harry Caray’s Restaurant,” … last time I was at this restaurant I ran into Ernie Banks… he’s HUGE but sweet as a pussycat! Lot’s of memories on this trip!
- The Adults and Kids Had a Great Day on Navy Pier
The Chicago Flower and Garden Show on Navy Pier is always a favorite for our customers. We get the tickets in advance and drop everyone off a short walk from the main entrance to the gardens. We had two full buses this year on two dates – Tuesday, March 8 and Thursday, March 10, 2011. It’s a wonderful day filled with many themed live flower garden , demonstrations and vendors selling everything you need to achieve a successful flower garden.
Get ready for Spring with fun for the whole family!
Make the Chicago Flower and Garden Show on Navy Pier a yearly destination with Canterbury Tours!
Sheila and Janet Lunching in Chicago Before the Show
On Saturday, February 26 our motorcoach departed the Highcrest Centre at 9:00 am sharp for Chicago! There was a small blanket of snow on the ground but the sun was shinning bright and everyone was excited to start our adventure! We dropped off at Rush & Superior for those that wanted to lunch on Michigan Ave., then we traveled on to drop off those who wanted to lunch in the Loop. Everyone gets a time schedule and map including all the restaurnats in the area, no matter where you are you can read your map and know which way to go – fun!
We were picked up at our drop off at 1:15 pm to ride to the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago. Door to Door service is the BEST! We had a sold out trip – 56 clients were there to see “Les Miserables.” This is the masterpiece of theatrical music from French composer Claude-Michel Schonberg. I loved the familiar melodies “I Dreamed A Dream,”… BEAUTIFUL! … and when Valjean sang “Bring Him Home” we were on the edges of our seats. The staging was amazing and the reimagined computer scenery was outstanding, we just couldn’t belive how real it all looked, you felt like you were a part of the show.
After the show we walked a block to Petterinos on Dearborn and had a fantastic salad with desert! Our motor coach picked us up accross the street from the restaurant at 7:00 pm and we relaxed and chatted all the way back to Rockford. It couldn’t have been a more perfect day! It’s the only way to travel to Chicago.
We had a motor coach full of guests bound for Chicago on Wednesday, February 9, 2011. We were dropped off in the Loop and enjoyed lunch at the Walnut Room in Macy’s. We then walked across the street to the Bank of America Theatre for the 2:00 pm matinee show “Burn the Floor” which features “international style,” dance moves which has been done competitively since 1920. These professional dancers really did BURN up the theatre for two solid hours! They started out with a Cha Cha, then on to the Viennese Waltz, Foxtrot, Swing, Lindy, Jive, Samba, Rumba, Quickstep and Tango. It couldn’t have been a more enjoyable day! There are so many fabulous shows to see in Chicago and we love taking everyone in to see them!
