September 2014. Minneapolis Monarch Festival, Lake Nokomis, Minneapolis, MN. We went to the Monarch festival at lunchtime and tried to eat lunch there, which was a mistake and a disaster for a couple of reasons: long lines, grumpy kids, etc. but the festival itself was great! Wish we'd all been in a better place to enjoy it.
There were a lot of booths and activities with information about the monarch migration and how to make our city a hospitable stopover for these beautiful traveling pollinators.
Ama and Rowan made mudballs (Ama is posing with hers in the next picture) that are filled with milkweed seeds. You're supposed to throw them somewhere in your yard or wherever so more milkweek can grow!
After our ill-fated lunch, we played in a grassy part of the park away from the crowds and all of the bustle. The boys played hack, and the girls played hide and seek, and everybody had a nice time laying around in the grass. Incidentally, we saw a lot of monarchs flying around while we were at the monarch festival.
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