Last weekend we took a journey into town to the Washington Nationals stadium for the annual Opera in the Outfield event. Mimi had asked Evie to volunteer to help her with the WETA booth and she was more than happy to oblige (especially because there was a free t-shirt involved). During the "pregame" while Evie helped, Izzy and I checked out the activities for kids. We tried on opera costumes
Played on the playground (totally brilliant by the way to have a playground within a baseball stadium!) And made paper flowers....
After a bit we were joined by the rest of the Lacroix O'Sullivan crew and Dylan helped to man the booth too.
The main event was, of course, getting to sit on the National outfield and watch a live simulcast of a Kennedy Center opera - The Marriage of Figaro - on the big jumbo tron. The O'Sullivan Lacroixs and Izzy made it to intermission, which is pretty impressive for the non-reading set because the whole thing was in Italian with subtitles. Evie really wanted to stay, and Vivian was willing to acquire Izzy for the night, so Gen and I stayed to the very end (along with Mimi and John, who being the lucky ducks they are could just walk home.)
All told it was a great time and Evie and I didn't get home until just before midnight. Patrick, who had been in New Orleans, even beat us home :)
