Weekend Event

4/4/09 - 4/5/09

Kite Fest in West Chester

Where in the world could you see flying fish, octopi, alligators, and snakes? Right here in Butler County you can see all of these creatures flying in the sky as kites! Kite Fest at Voice of America Park will feature hundreds of flying kites, The Chicago Fire Kite Team, and a variety of kid-friendly activities including a kite building workshop and seeing animals from the Cincinnati Zoo! You won't want to miss this extraordinary event!

www.westchesteroh.org

Daily Event

4/2/09

It's Spring...Time for a Dinner Party!

Learn to make a simple, stylish, elegant dinner with Bonnie Walsh and Janet Hontasosas at Jungle Jim's International Market. You will learn to make shrimp and scallop ceviche slightly poached, served with avocado and mango in a martini glass, roasted asparagus salad with baked chevre, rolled beef tenderloin stuffed with roasted bell peppers and spinch, swiss chard gratin, wild rice and orzo pilaf with toasted pine nuts, and lemon roulade. Mmmm!

www.junglejims.com

Weekly Feature

4/1/09

Wake Nation Opening May 1, 2009 at 10 a.m.

Wakeboarding and water skiing without a boat?! It’s hard enough to stay seated on an inflatable tube being skipped across the water by a boat.

Fairfield’s new attraction is the latest buzz circulating throughout Butler County. Wake Nation is a water sport complex designed for wakeboarding, water skiing, waterskating, and knee boarding. Instead of riders being pulled by a motorboat, they are suspended by a high tech “cable pulley” system that’s set up 30 ft. above an 8 acre lake. The circulating cable system looms over the water on 6 towers that pull riders across the lake while they practice their sport.

Boarders can practice their sport of choice on one of the many floating grind rails, table tops, and kickers. They can use the high powered cable to “load the line” and do high distance air tricks. The cable is designed to carry multiple riders at the same time, allowing for time or work on complex tricks. It’s quite the crowd pleaser to watch multiple riders practice their tricks on the same lake.

Bruno Rixen of Munich, Germany is the inventor of the cable system and largely responsible for the expansion of this sport worldwide.

Wake Nation is the only wakeboarding cable park in the Midwest! Come out to the opening May 1, 2009 at 10 a.m. and take a ride on the water!

Daily Event

April 1, 2009

April is for Kids at EnterTRAINment Junction

Celebrate springtime at EnterTRAINment Junction, the world's largest indoor train display! For the entire month of April (through May 3), kids call the shots. With discounted prices that will make parents smile and specialized events designed around educational play for kids, EnterTRAINment is a must-visit this spring!


www.entertrainmentjunction.com

Hello World!

Welcome to the Butler County Visitors Bureau (BCVB) blog!! Thank you for taking the time to check out our postings and reading what we have to say! If you've never heard of the BCVB or or of Butler County and you want to know more, here is a little history and background...

Butler County is located in Southwest Ohio, sitting in the Cincinnati/Dayton corridor. The County was founded in 1803 and is around 469 square miles. Butler county consists of 6 communities including Fairfield, Hamilton, Middletown, West Chester, Oxford, and Okeana/Shandon. For more statistics and fun facts check out http://www.bceo.org/bcdata.html

The Butler County Visitors Bureau was created Dec. 1, 2006 and we are located in West Chester, Ohio. From a corporate perspective here is a little bit about us...

Our Vision: Trailblazing in tourism through industry-leading visitor services that set new performance benchmarks for contributions to the economic developement of Butler County, capabilties of the staff we employ and the systems we use, and contentment from the visitors we serve.

Our Mission: Crafting exceptional experiences, start to finish, professional to recreational, for visitors throughout Butler County with our Visitor Experience Enhancement Program (VEEP) and reaching goals within our philospohy, process, the people we serve, and the places we promote.

Our Values: Upholding a well-earned reputation of excellence through innovation, collaboration, satisfaction, and expansion.

That's a brief introduction to who we are. If you want more information or want to see all the exciting events happening in the county, visit our website at
www.destinationbutlercounty.com