Spousetivities - 2010 VMworld Conference in San Francisco

Welcome to the 2010 VMworld Spousetivities tour program! 

I am excited to present to you tours that will entice those who are returning to San Francisco and excite those who are coming for the first time.

Please scroll down and view each of the tours so that you can plan your tour itinerary and get the most out of your days!

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me, Crystal at www.Spousetivities.com or e-mail me at crystal@spousetivities.com.

Monterey/Carmel Peninsula Tour

Sunday August 29, 2010
Friday September 3, 2010

Not to be missed at the Monterey Bay Aquarium are the Sea Horses.
With heads like horses, tails like monkeys and pouches like kangaroos, these fascinating fishes are anything but ordinary. They’ve got more than 15 species of seahorses and their kin—one of the nation’s largest collections of these charismatic animals.

Meander through four multimedia galleries and discover how these shy and secretive animals grow up, attract mates and give birth—this is the only family in the animal kingdom in which the males get pregnant!

The 17-Mile Drive is a study in superlatives, a spectacular set of twists on every must-drive list. Smooth, shiny pebbles first piqued the curiosity of turn-of-last-century visitors to this sublime meeting of land and sea.

Tour costs:         $115.00 per person, minimun of 40 per motorcoach


Includes:

•   Admission to Monterey Bay Aquarium

•   Admission to the 17-Mile Drive

•   Highlights tour of Monterey and Carmel

•   Time for shopping and lunch in Carmel

•   Transportation via luxury motor coach

•   Expert Organized Chaos guide

•   All taxes and gratuities

Itinerary:
8:00am                  Depart the Marriott Hotel

10:30-12:30pm     Time to explore the Monterey Bay Aquarium

1:00-3:00pm         Time for lunch on own and to explore the town of Carmel

3:00 – 4:00pm      Drive through the 17-mile Drive – with two to three stops for photos

6:30pm                 Return to San Francisco

Tour California’s Wine Country

Monday August 30, 2010
Thursday September 2, 2010

Napa and Sonoma Valley’s, just over an hour from San Francisco, are famous for their rolling hills, beautiful vineyards, and top-quality wineries.

Your tour today will include a visit to two wineries, where you will tour the grounds, learn about the special vintages, and of course taste the wine! 

Also included in this tour is some time to explore and enjoy one of the many quaint towns located in Napa or Sonoma Valley.

Tour costs:                      $99.00 per person, min. of 40 per motorcoach
Tour Cost with lunch:      $125.00 per person (at V.Sattui Winery-see attached menu)


Includes:
•    Tour and tasting fees to two wineries

•    Organized Chaos expert guide

•    Transportation via executive motorcoach

•    Fuel surcharge, taxes and gratuities

Itinerary:

Schedule for MONDAY AUGUST 30, 2010
10:00am                   Depart from the San Francisco Marriott Hotel

11:15pm-12:45pm    Tour and tasting at first winery

1:15pm-2:45pm        Group lunch at V.Sattui Winery (or free time on own for lunch in St Helena)

2:45pm-3:15pm        Tour and tasting at V. Sattui Winery

3:30pm-4:15pm        Time to explore St Helena (those who dined in St Helena will return for another visit)

6:00pm                     Return to the San Francisco Marriott Hotel

Schedule for THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 2010
9:00am                      Depart from the San Francisco Marriott Hotel

10:15am-11:45          Tour and tasting at first winery

12:15pm-1:45pm       Group lunch at V.Sattui Winery (or free time on own for lunch in St Helena)

1:45pm – 2:15pm      Tour and tasting at V. Sattui Winery

2:30pm-3:15pm         Time to explore St Helena (those who dined in St Helena will return for     another visit)

5:00pm                      Return to the San Francisco Marriott Hotel

V. Sattui Winery Luncheon




WINEMAKER’S CHOICE PICNIC LUNCH

Buffet of focaccia sandwiches from the following:
•    Roast beef tri-tip sandwich with tomato, arugula and remoulade sauce
•    Oven-roasted turkey breast sandwich with cranberry chutney
•    Spicy Italian sandwich with salami, hot coppa, mozzarella & pepperoncini
•    Vegetarian sandwich with eggplant, roasted red pepper and goat cheese

Salad side dish:

•    German-style red potato salad

Dessert:

•  Italian-style Tiramisù made with V. Sattui Madeira

Includes:
•    table linens

•    wine glasses

•    plastic ware

•    bottled water

•    glass of V. Sattui wine per person

From Muir Woods to Sausalito

Wednesday September 1, 2010

Thursday September 2, 2010

A trip to the woods is just what the doctor ordered for peace, rest, and rejuvenation of spirit. The towering redwood forests of Marin County are home to the tallest, oldest trees in the world. They are majestic in scope, awe-inspiring in beauty, and singular in rarity.

To get to the woods, you have to go over the river, or in this case, over the bay. And the trip over this bay is a destination in and of itself. Guests will travel across the well loved Golden Gate Bridge into beautiful Marin County, making a brief stop at the North Tower where everyone can capture on film the breathtaking view of the City from across San Francisco Bay.

Guests will then wind down the Panoramic Highway into Muir Woods. President Theodore Roosevelt saved this grove of ancient redwoods from the lumberjack’s saw almost one hundred years ago. Today, visitors from throughout the world come to see these gigantic redwoods, only found along the Pacific Coastline. After touring Muir Woods, guests will travel on to Sausalito.

Tour costs:                    $68.00 per person, max 20 per minicoach
Tour cost with lunch:    $123.00 per person (see Ondine Restaurant menu below)

Includes:
•    Muir woods tickets

•    Muir woods brochure

•    Sausalito map

•    Group lunch at Ondine’s in Sausalito (or lunch on own)

•    Wine, iced tea or coffee with lunch

•    Organized Chaos guide

•    Transportation via executive minicoach

•    All taxes and gratuities

Itinerary:

9:00am                Depart from the San Francisco Marriott Hotel

9:45am                Arrive in Muir Woods

9:45-11:15am      Self Guided Tour of Muir Woods

11:15-11:45pm    Travel to Sausalito

11:45-1:45pm      Group lunch at Ondine Restaurant or lunch on own in Sausalito

1:45pm-2:15pm   Depart for San Francisco

2:45pm               Return to the San Francisco Marriott Hotel

Note:    If group is less than 40 people we will dine at Horizon’s

Waterfront View lunch at
Ondine in Sausalito

For Houseboat and
Muirwoods Sausalito Tour

Ondine Lunch Menu

Entree
Grilled Chicken Caesar
romaine hearts, garlic croutons, aged parmesan
OR
Dungeness Crab Melt
lemon pepper brioche, swiss cheese, avocado, mixed greens

Dessert
Apple Crisp

Served with a glass or wine or ice tea

A Photographic Tour of San Francisco

Monday August 30, 2010
Wednesday September 1, 2010

This tour will focus on allowing your guests to capture San Francisco from a variety of different angles!  An Organized Chaos guide will lead the tour through the city, stopping at the not so touristy  destinations and pointing out terrific shots and angles. We’ll provide digital disposable cameras for the trip.

Stops to include:
•    Twin Peaks: Being almost at the geographical center of San Francisco there is no finer place to see the city than atop Twin Peaks. With it’s panoramic views, Twin Peaks should be a must-stop on every tourist’s list of places to go.  Named for it’s two virtually identical summits, Twin Peaks, stands at an elevation of about 922 feet, second highest in San Francisco

•    Golden Gate Bridge: This landmark defines San Francisco. The gateway where the Bay meets the Pacific Ocean, the Golden Gate Bridge has established the boundary to riches for people throughout history.

•    Yerba Buena/Treasure Island: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, an 8.5 mile long combination suspension / cantilever structure, passes through Yerba Buena Island and looking back at the Skyline of San Francisco is unbeatable!

•    Nob Hill: Once the home of the silver kings and railroad barons, the “nabobs,” Nob Hill's noble tenants include Grace Cathedral, a replica of Notre Dame in Paris; Huntington Park, site of many art shows and graced by a replica of a 16th century Roman fountain.

We’ll also supply everyone with postcard albums. Send them out, frame them, or claim the photos as their own, this souvenir is perfect for the occasion.

Tour costs:        $57.00 per person, min. of 40 per motorcoach

Includes:
•    One digital disposable camera for each guest

•    One postcard album for each guest

•    Organized Chaos photography tour guide

•    Transportation via executive motorcoach

•    All taxes and gratuities

Itinerary:
Schedule for MONDAY AUGUST 30, 2010

10:00am                     Depart from the San Francisco Marriott Hotel

10:00am – 2:00pm     Tour the above mentioned sites

2:00pm                       Return to the San Francisco Marriott Hotel

Schedule for WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

9:00am                      Depart from the San Francisco Marriott Hotel

9:00am – 1:00pm      Tour the above mentioned sites

1:00pm                      Return to the San Francisco Marriott Hotel

Experience “FLOATING” Sausalito
Houseboat Tour and Sausalito Shopping

Wednesday September 1, 2010

While a tour solely of San Francisco is an excellent introduction to the City, to truly appreciate the magnitude of beauty encompassed within the Bay Area, one needs to travel northward to Marin County. There, one can witness in full splendor the majesty of the headlands baring their grassy chests to the edge of the continent. There, one can breathe in deeply the views of San Francisco and Oakland with their resplendent irregularity of homes and skyscrapers, bridges and piers and ships of all sort and size sailing lazily in between the shores.

We will cross the Golden Gate Bridge en route to Marin. No matter how many times one makes such a trip the aesthetic impact never weakens, if anything it grows stronger with each trip. Great cables span like albatross wings hundreds of feet above the rolling ocean. Fog drifts in, donning a different character every day: some days coy, almost hesitant, other times assuming a fearsome, gargantuan character, while other days it seems to be only an impenetrable mystery of serenity.

The destination will be the charming town of Sausalito. This artist community located directly across the Bay from San Francisco, is home to a very unique community of individuals who have found a way to make this glorious location their permanent home. Welcome to the Sausalito Floating Homes community, where residents greet the day as light slips up over the horizon, leaving a shimmering, multicolored glaze over the water’s surface. The community consists of approximately four hundred homes inhabited by a diverse and eclectic group of people, many of whom are either executives or artists.

Says one resident of her lovely water-born mansion, “There is a serene beauty to living on the water, in close harmony with the broad variety of wildlife which surrounds are homes. From the mollusks, crab, and fish (including the notorious humming toadfish) that populate the waters, to the egrets, heron, ducks, kingfishers and the many other birds that fly, swim, wade and dive among our homes, we share the environment with an abundance of fascinating creatures.” Other residents speak fondly of the decompression they experience when they return to their homes, where they are surrounded by the natural, primordial, tranquilizing influence of the sea’s waters.

Today your guests will enjoy the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to immerse themselves in the rhythm of the sea and those who set their lives by its ebb and flow. Guests will enjoy exclusive tours of some of the most beautiful and unusual Sausalito Floating Homes. Each home’s owner will personally conduct the tour, introducing guests to their inner world.

Tour costs:                     $70.00 per person, min/MAX. of 40 per motorcoach
Tour costs with lunch:    $125.00 per person (see Ondine Restaurant Menu below)

Note:
•    Maybe challenging for wheelchair access

Includes:
•    Houseboat tour (four homes)

•    Set up fee through the Houseboat Association

•    Time for browsing Sausalito

•    Lunch in Sausalito

•    ORGANIZED CHAOS staff to facilitate and coordinate

•    Transportation via executive motorcoach

•    All taxes and gratuities

Itinerary
9:15am                        Depart from the San Francisco Marriott Hotel

10:00am – 11:30am    Arrive to Houseboats in Sausalito; Tour 4 houseboats

Noon-2:00pm              Group lunch at Ondine in Sausalito or lunch on own

2:00pm-2:30pm          Time to explore Sausalito

3:00pm                       Return to the San Francisco Marriott Hotel
 
Waterfront View lunch at
Ondine in Sausalito

For Houseboat and
Muirwoods Sausalito Tour

Ondine Lunch Menu

Entree
Grilled Chicken Caesar
romaine hearts, garlic croutons, aged parmesan
OR
Dungeness Crab Melt
lemon pepper brioche, swiss cheese, avocado, mixed greens

Dessert
Warm Apple Crisp

Served with a glass or wine or ice tea