Last night we packed a picnic lunch, took our lawn chairs and headed to Wolftrap which is a national park/concert venue in Virginia. We had tickets to sit on the lawn. This place is a similar concept to Ravinia outside Chicago. The lawn tickets here are more expensive and there is actually less lawn to sit on. All of the lawn seating is on a slop above the stage and indoor seating; you can probably see the action on stage from all points of the lawn. Therefore, people sit rather close together, lawn chairs can only be used in the upper areas and people want to see what is going on on stage.
The gates open 90 minutes before the performance starts and we were there early enough to stand in the throng of people waiting to get in. You have to have a tickets for kids - no matter what age - so there weren't a lot of other kids there. But it was cheaper to take Lexi than to get a babysitter. We keep an umbrella in the car and were so glad that we had taken it with us as about 15 minutes after we got set up on the lawn (with our picnic out, chairs set up, etc), it started downpouring. The sky had been getting darker and we hoped it would clear up, but it didn't. Stephen stayed with the tipped over chairs under the umbrella while Lexi and I ducked under the eave of one of the surrounding buildings.
It finally let up and we did manage to finish eating but about the time the music was ready to start, it started up raining again. We ended up fairly wet. The program was music by John Williams and there were people dressed up as characters from Star Wars and at one point, a light saber fight among the audience. Lexi seemed to enjoy it all - including the rain but Stephen and I would have appreciated it more if it was dry! Comparing Wolftrap to Ravinia, I would say that I like Ravinia better - cheaper and less crowded in terms of not sitting on top of each other on the lawn.
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