If you have little ones, you must take them to feed the fish at the Blue Springs Lake Marina. They will love it! There are hundreds of fish (carp, I think). Grab a bag of food in the store and watch the fish go crazy. Warning: they splash.
This is the neatest place, we took our son a few weeks ago: http://www.thebutterflypalace.com. You watch a 3D movie about the life of a butterfly and then get to walk along thousands of butterflies, I could have stayed for hours with my camera.
Everybody had a Coke at this wedding! It was just funny, because there were lots of other beverages, but looking through the images, cans are everywhere!
So, being back in Missouri during the 4th of July was...... loud. I did think it was pretty neat to be able to sit on our deck and see fireworks. My new camera arrived just in time. Did I mention that I bought a new camera? It was like Christmas in July!