Great Expectations - 2013
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center Hotel
2013 Catalog
601
Cooking with Real Life Delicious
Learn new cooking skills and helpful strategies for feeding your family while having a fun dinner party with six of your friends! Your hostess is a trained chef, food writer, and kitchen coach who will come to your home and bring all the ingredients for a fabulous meal. The evening will include hands-on cooking, demonstrations, written recipes to take with you, and a delicious meal to enjoy with the group. Also includes "Food Rules: An Eater's Manual" and "The Food Matters Cook Book."
Mutually agreed-upon date during the spring or summer of 2013.
Value: $960.00
Guaranteed Purchase: $1,440.00
602
The Hole in One Gang
Gift card for a free One Hour Initial Evaluation Lesson using digital video, impact analysis and motion analysis computer to analyze and improve your golf swing (expires 1/9/14). Round of golf with Craig Saeman at Cherry Hills Country Club, includes cart, caddie and lunch for you and two of your friends (total of three people). Date to be mutually agreed upon.    
Value: $1,000.00
Guaranteed Purchase: $1,500.00
603
Mystery "Date Night" Designer Purse w/ dinner at Cafe Bar
Mystery "Date Night" Designer Purse - This Coach Purse (valued @$300 retail) is filled with items for both "him" and "her", to ensure the perfect date night!!  To wet your appetite, Cafe/Bar restaurant has included at $200 - 4 course dinner, for two, with a beautiful 208 Jordan Cabernet Sauvignon (donated by Rebublic National Distributing) included, to make the evening extra special.
Dinner for (2) with Wine @ cafe Bar. Reservations encouraged.
Value: $700.00
Guaranteed Purchase: $1,050.00
604
The Broadmoor Resort - $700 In Gift Cards
$500 gift card to the uncomprable Broadmoor in Colorado Springs.  Good for five years.
Enjoy a luxurious Spa Treatment at the Broadmoor Resort.  This Gift Certificate may also be used towards breakfast, lunch or Dinner at any of the fine restaurants located at the Broadmoor (Penrose Room, Charles Court, Summit, Tavern, Golden Bee, Lake Terrace).  Package also includes cerificates to nearby attactions.
Four passes for attractions at the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park, a gift Certificate for two to ride the Pikes Peak Cog Railway (expires 12/31/13) and two passes to the Cave of the Winds Discovery Tour (expires 3/31/14).
Expires 12/31/2013
Expires 3/31/2014
Value: $910.00
Guaranteed Purchase: $1,365.00
605
One week vacation in "Paradise"-Anna Maria Florida
Single Family home with three bedrooms, two baths, four HD flat screens tvs, sleeping for eight. All linens supplied. Just bring your bathing suit!  175 steps from the beautiful sandy beach on the Gulf of Mexico and a one hour drive from Tampa airport.  Available from May 4 to November 23.  
May be extended to 2014 season.  Coordiante with donor.
Value: $900.00
Guaranteed Purchase: $1,350.00
606
Book of Jewels
A book box full of elegant Stella and Dot signature jewelery.  These classic pieces are guaranteed to charm.
Value: $400.00
Guaranteed Purchase: $600.00
607
3 Night stay in Beautiful Vail Mountain Home
Looking for an exclusive weekend getaway?  Here is a beautiful 4 bedroom, 4 1/2 bath (sleeps 8-10) Mountain home in Vail's Cascade Village.  A Thursday, Friday & Saturday night stay at this recently renovated Brooks family mountain home.

Guest selects a weekend in January 2014 that is mutually agreed upon by the donor.
Value: $2,985.00
Guaranteed Purchase: $4,480.00
608
Authentic Mexican Gourmet Party for (12)
Authentic Mexican Gourmet Party for 12 People
Our already famous Mexican Gourmet Dinner Party is coming Bakc!
Organize an unforgettable fiesta and gather twelve friends in your own home and we will transform your dinign room into the best Mexican restarant you and your friends have ever tried!
We will be serving a Mexiccan dinner, buffet style with a delicious variety of gourmet Mexican dishes from an extensive menu to choose from like Chicken pepian, mole, carnitias, green chili, Mexican style beef, side dishes like potatoes with poblano and cheese. Selections also include Mexican salads, four kinds of dlicious rice, three kinds of beans, five homemade Mexican salasas, guacamole, delicious Mesican desserts like tres leches cake and flan, or menu choices are endless
Erick and Sandra are originally fro Mexico and both chefs have ben teachin Cookin classes for kids and adults and catering parties for fourteen years in the US and for several years in Mexio.  Do not miss this wonderful opportunit to organize and authentic and unforgettable Mexican Fiesta!
Adult only party
Value: Priceless
Guaranteed Purchase: $0.00
609
Denver Botanic Gardens- Cultivation Cruiser program
The Cultivation Cruiser Outreach brings the Gardens to your classroom with plants, fun and unique activities, and planting projects. Our programs will engage your student's natural curiosity to excite them about the world of plants -- all within the confines of your classroom.  A lucky St Vincent de Paul School class will have the opportunity to participate in this very fun experience.  Parents are invited to bid on this donation item, that will benefit their entire class.  

Sensory Adventures (Grades PreK-1)
Students will use their sense of smell, taste, sight, touch and hearing to explore the world of plants.

Ecological Explorations (Grades 2-4)
Plants and animals work together in many ways in ecosystems all over the world. Students will discover what lives in an ecosystem and how the plants and animals in the ecosystem interact with one another.

Plant Detectives (Grades 2-6)
When plants go missing, it's up to your students to find out where they've gone. Students will investigate clues and search for the plants in a wide variety of places to help solve the mystery. They'll be surprised at all of the places the plants can be found.

Flower Power (Grades 2-12)
Flowers are beautiful, but their real and important purpose is for reproduction in the plant. Students will investigate flowers and learn how they help in the important process of pollination and seed formation.

Moldy but Goody (Grades 6-8)
While often thought to be plants, fungus such as mold, yeast and mushrooms make up their own kingdom. Explore the unique world of fungus as you learn how they are similar to and different from plants, and the optimum conditions for their growth.

P.S.I.: Plant Science Investigators (Grades 5-8)
Many crime scenes and suspects contain traces of plants as evidence. Learn how basic plant concepts such as photosynthesis and seed dispersal are used by investigators to solve crimes.

Mendel's Madness (Grades 9-12)
Introduce Mendelian genetics in a practical, hands-on fashion. Students will explore the work of Gregor Mendel and how he came up with his theory of genetics while they apply Mendelian genetic theories to actual plant specimens. This program is an introduction to the study of genetics and is best completed at the beginning of a genetics unit.


Cultivation cruiser outreach classes are based on grade level, therefore, only one class will win this opportunity on Friday April 26th 1-3pm.
Value: $100.00
Guaranteed Purchase: $150.00
610
Taos, New Mexico Vacation Home
Enjoy 3 nights in a 3 bedroom house nestled half way between the town of Taos and Taos Ski Mountain.   Casa del Lujo sleeps up to 8 and boast amenities including clubhouse, pool, tennis and many more.  Subject to availability excluding Christmas and New Years.  See www.taosvacationhomes.com/detail_property1.php?month=6&year=2013&pid=58
Value: $750.00
Guaranteed Purchase: $1,125.00