Check in at one of Perryville's four group-friendly hotels. This evening is a beer/wine pairing dinner. Let Chef Matt prepare you a dinner of amazement that pairs multiple courses of your meal with the perfect craft beer or wine experience. Take a food journey customized for your group with Matt Ruesler of food locally grown and prepared.

Breakfast
Continental breakfast at your hotel before departing.

American Tractor Museum
Opened in 2020, this museum celebrates the iconic machine and backbone of America. Tour this amazing collection walking you through the evolution of the machine that plowed, planted, and harvested the American dream for centuries. See one of hte most unique and largest collections of its kind featuring rare manufacturers such as Rumely, Waterloo Boy, Case, Illinois, Indiana, Huber, Plymouth, Avery, and many more. Guided tour available.

Missouri's National Veterans Memorial
If you have never had the opportunity to visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., here is your chance. This awe-inspiring EXACT full-scale sister wall to the Vietnam Wall in Washington, D.C. offers veterans civilians, and those currently serving a place in the Midwest to reflect on the sacrifices of all service men and women. A museum and gift shop are on site. Guided tour available.

Lunch
Preordered buffet lunch or bag lunch at the previous site.

The Lutheran Heritage Center & Museum
This site professionally interprets and beautifully preserves the history of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod religion and the German descendants of the Altenburg and Frohna area since 1836. It highlights their quest to get here and their trials, tribulations, and triumphs. The historic Log Cabin College was the first college west of the Mississippi. Tour the museum, college site, and more than 100-year old Trinity Lutheran Church.

Dinner
Dinner in Altenburg. Enjoy an authentic German home-cooked meal featuring several favorites of the area. This meal is served family style with a food guide telling you about the dishes, their traditions, and how they became favorites. Learn how to spread cooked cheese on homemade baked bread the way it was meant to.

National Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal & Rosary Walk
Nationally recognized, the Shrine and church have welcomed visitors since 1818. It's designed as a 1/3-scale replica of the motherhouse in Cistrio Rome that serves as the hisoric seat of the American Vincentians. The shrine is decorated with beautiful paintings and intricate design work on the walls and ceiling to make it a masterpiece. Don't miss the candle room of thousands of lighted candles in prayer.

Rosary Walk is a 35-minute walk option for visitors. Easy stroll, flower gardens, natural areas, WWI grotto, plenty of benches, shade, and breathtaking marble and bronze statues from Italy.

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Arrive at Missouri's National Veterans Memorial. The campus includes The Wall, a permanent full-scale black granite model of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., a military museum, visitor center, and pavilion.

Enjoy lunch at Mary Jane Burger & Brew in our historic downtown square.

Visit the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. Here you will have a guided tour of the church, tour the largest rosary walk in North America and visit the gift shop.

At Stonies Sausage Shop, where they have been crafting and selling deliciously smoked and cured meats for sixty years, you will have a behind the scenes tour and time for shopping.

Check in at the Holiday Inn Express - Perryville

Enjoy a wonderful dinner and decor at Brass + Bone with artisan cocktails and fine dinning in our historic downtown square.

Return to Hotel

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Enjoy breakfast at the Hotel

Depart Hotel

Visit the American Tractor Museum and tour an amazing collection of orphans tractor walking you through the evolution of the tractor. One of the best agricultural museums in the country. Guided tour. Gift shop.

Tour Voelker Brown Swiss Dairy Farm. The Dairy started in 1946 with Chaimer and Evelyn Voelker. They had some Holsteins, Jerseys, and Brown Swiss. From there Chalmer and Evelyn fell in love with their Swiss and became all Swiss in 1960.

We travel to the Lutheran Heritage Center & Museum who professionally interpret the largest organized immigration of German settlers of 1839 to the United States. Enjoy a German lunch, tour of the museum and a gift shop.

At the Saxon Lutheran Memorial, you can stroll through the village of 13log cabins, barn, granary and more. The Saxon Lutheran Memorial commemorates the German-Lutheran migration of 1838-1839. National Register of Historic Places. Gift shop.

Depart for home.