I used to love going to the Cherry Blossom Festival in Nashville up until these last few years, but it’s gotten so crowded to the extent that I feel like I can’t enjoy it anymore. You’re pretty much shoulder to shoulder to others at all times. The lines at food and drink vendors are always ridiculously long throughout the entire day no matter how early you get there and there is no rhyme or reason to the waiting lines. You can’t tell where it starts and ends. By the time you get to order your food/drink, the vendors run out of whatever it was they were selling and they don’t tell you beforehand, so you’re waiting for nothing in the heat. Not only that, but everything is grossly overpriced. We spent $47 on food for just the two of us. I’m not blaming the organizers of the event for all of this, but the festival is just really disappointing these days as opposed to within the past 5 years. Wayyyyy too many people. There were also vendors there that seemed completely out of place and irrelevant. Not only that, but the parking fees are outrageous.

I don’t necessarily think that this is the fault of the event organizers or the event itself like I said. I just think Nashville is overpopulated now. I miss this festival before it was ruined by tourists and crowds.