Princess Festival - June 22nd

The Princess Festival this year was held at the Thanksgiving Point Children's Gardens and did they ever go all out. There were 20 plus princesses around the gardens with pen ready in hand to sign autographs. They also had mini shows for many of the princesses where they would put on a little play. Most of the plays followed the story line of the books, but they also stuck in a few little pieces here and there about why it's more important to be kind than it is to be beautiful. Great idea! I think most little girls get caught up on the dresses and crowns and forget about the good things the princesses do as well.

Ready for the onslaught of princesses and magic fairy dust.

There were quite a few little girls there and both Annika and Mieka were not wanting to stand in line to get autographs. We got a few where we could just walk right up to the princess but mainly we watched the shows, got a few treats, and had their fingernails painted.

Mieka climbed up the stack of mattresses to get the Princess and the Pea autograph.

Rapunzel - the must have autograph. These girls are huge Tangled fans.

Playing games with the 12 Dancing Princesses in their cave.

Getting their nails painted - favorite part.

The girl that painted Mieka's nails was very patient. Mieka kept changing her mind and the girl had to redo her nails a couple of times.
She ended up with a rainbow of colors on her nails. :)

Aside from seeing all the princesses and the fun little plays, the thing that impressed me the most about the festival was that all the people working there were volunteers and all of the proceeds for the festival went to a charity in Africa. Amazing.