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What better way to spend a rainy spring day than with a trip to the museum, two museums, in fact. Our bus trip will take us to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and the Oregon Rail Heritage Center, both located within a few blocks of each other along the Willamette River in southeast Portland. At OMSI we will view the featured exhibit, “The Art of the Brick.” This is the world’s largest display of LEGO art, with both original pieces of inspiring artwork as well as re-imagined versions of some of the world’s most famous art masterpieces, made entirely from LEGO bricks. We will also see the big screen IMAX movie “National Parks Adventure” and take in a laser light show or see the stars in the Kendall Planetarium. Optional activities are a 45-minute tour of the USS Blueback submarine docked along the Willamette River ($3.00), or a ride in a motion simulator ($5.00). Be sure to tour the museum’s regular science exhibits in the Turbine Hall and visit the Science Store for gift ideas. Lunch is on your own in the “Theory Eatery” (sandwiches, soups, salads, tacos, pizza, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.), or bring your own lunch to eat in the visitors’ lunchroom. Sometime after 1:00 p.m. Jim Northrop will lead fellow train enthusiasts two blocks to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center to visit three steam locomotives, including SP 4449, which pulled the “Freedom Train” for the bicentennial celebration in 1976. The railroad museum includes a gift shop and other displays of railroading in Oregon. If the weather is nice and you are up for some exercise, hike across the new “Tillikum Crossing: Bridge of the People” over the Willamette River. This bridge next to OMSI carries pedestrians, cyclists, city buses, the Portland Streetcar, and MAX trains, but not cars. It is the largest car-free bridge in the United States and is a marvel to behold. We will re-board our motor coach at 3:00 and hope to arrive back at Shopko before 6:00 p.m. Board motor coach at 7:45 a.m., depart at 8:00 a.m

Please make checks payable to: Obsidians Bus Trips Account
Cost: Members $66 Non-members: $68 Due March 22
RESERVATIONS & MAIL CHECKS TO: Mary Lee Cheadle 541-689-1085
3225 Richard Ave., Eugene, OR 97402