Friends of the Garden 3rd Annual Butterfly Festival

We happened to go to another festival while on our trip to Springfield: Friends of the Garden 3rd Annual Butterfly Festival which is according to ilove.springfieldmo.org "one of Springfield's most popular events". Really? I find that hard to believe. We saw pretty much everything in about an hour. I will cut them some slack because it is only the 3rd annual event. I'm sure it takes a while for these things to really get established.

I think it has potential to be a good festival at some point. It is held at a nice park with a permanent Butterfly House on the grounds. They carried the butterfly/caterpillar theme throughout the event and had lots of hands-on activities for the kids. Another plus - they sold the best strawberry lemonade I've ever tasted. The worst part of the festival was the heat! Usually it's a little cooler in Springfield than it is in LR but not this weekend. It was hot!

The kids' favorite part of the festival was this giant, inflatable caterpillar called the "Kiddie-pillar". We adults couldn't decide which was more disturbing: the entrance or the exit!