144th Annual International Exhibition
April 5 to May 1st 2011
Salmagundi Club Galleries
47 Fifth Avenue, NYC

THE BUS IS FULL!! with a waiting list! Thank you for your support!
Bus Trip from RI - Saturday April 9th

A luxury coach bus has been chartered to take us to NYC on Saturday,
April 9, 2011 to see this year’s 144th Annual International Watermedia
Exhibition sponsored by the American Watercolor Society at the Salamagundi
Club. Tickets are $38 for members and $42 for non-members.
We cannot reserve your seat without your payment. Please purchase your
tickets at the gallery or mail in your check, payable to RI Watercolor
Society. Please include a note with your check with your name, cell phone
number, telephone number, and the names and phone numbers of any
guests, if you are including their payment in your mailing.
Members and guests seats will be reserved on a first-come-first-serve
basis. You have until February 28 before we advertise and open this up
to others.

ITINERARY

First Pick up: We will leave from Cardi’s Furniure store parking lot at 6:30am. The bus will arrive at their lot at 6am.  Pull into the lot and go right to park in the lower lot. You may park your car there for the day.  Cardi’s address: 999 Newport Avenue, So. Attleboro, MA 02703
Take Exit 2B off I-95.  www.cardis.com for detailed map

Second Pick up: We will be leaving the Rte 117 Park and Lock at 7:30 AM. (Rte 95 South to exit 10A...Warwick, Rte 117 east).  At end of exit, you will soon pass under Rte 95.  Immediately on the right is the Park and Lock. You can pull in and park for the day.  From 95 going North, you will get off at the Rte 117 exit.  At end of exit, go left onto 117 to next light.  Make a U turn, go under 95 and it will be on your right.

The bus will make a 15 minute stop somewhere in CT. (Probably at a MacDonald’s) It will arrive in NYC about 11 AM.  In NYC, it will make 3 very quick stops (the buses are not allowed to idle for too long).  
Stop 1:  5th Ave and about 82nd Street (near the Metropolitan Museum of Art).  Guggenheim, Whitney, Central Park, Nueue Museum are all in that general area. 
Stop 2:  midtown; 5th Ave and about 45th. Rockefeller Center; NBC studios, lots of shopping, theater district, etc.;
Stop 3: downtown...Greenwich Village, Soho, Canal St., NYU, AWS show, etc.......  The AWS show is open from 1 - 5 PM. and is located at 47 Fifth Ave in the Salmagundi Club, about 2 or 3 blocks north of Washington Square).
Enjoy the day however you wish.

At 6:30 pm sharp, the bus will pick us up for our return trip.  The bus driver will tell us exactly where he will pick us up.  But the stop has usually been at/near Bryant Park behind the NY Public Library on 42nd Street.

On the way home, we will make a stop somewhere in CT.  (Probably at a MacDonald’s)
We should be back in RI at the Park and Lock about 10:30 PM, and by 11- 11:15pm at Cardi’s Furniture in So. Attleboro, MA.

You may leave any articles, etc. on the bus for the day.  The driver stays with the bus.  The price for the bus includes a tip for the driver.

If you have any questions, please email me at: riwsgallery@verizon.net
I look forward to our day in the “Big Apple”.

Kris Occhino
Gallery Director
My Cell for that day is: 774-254-5055