MIller Outdoor Theater Weekend Adventure

 Friday afternoon, Rylee and I headed downtown to meet Ryan at work when he got off. We warmed up dinner in his break room and then headed over to Herman Miller Park to see the Pearl of the Orient featuring Leyte Dance Theater at the Miller Outdoor Theater. We let Rylee wander around the park and play for about an hour and half before the show started at 8. Then we took some family selfies.

She loves seeing herself on the phone screen!

She danced to the music, wandered up to strangers on their blankets, ran up and down the hill, and ate her weight in cheerios. After the show we changed her into PJs and headed home.

Saturday, we attempted to go to the Fine Arts Museum for the first free weekend of the month for Bank of America card holders, but it didn't work out very well. Something about the fragile,expensive objects within a baby's reach and big echoey exhibit halls that magnified Rylee's screaming tantrums when we didn't allow her to touch, said priceless artifact. So we went to the Children's Museum and let her burn some energy. We thought about going to the zoo but decided it was way too hot. The ¡Ritmo Latino! featuring Pedrito Martinez Group was performing at the Miller Outdoor Theater, so we decided we wanted to see that. We grabbed some sliders from Little Big's off Montrose and headed back to Herman Miller Park(my favorite place in Houston). The band had an Afro-Cuban inspired sound and was really awesome! Rylee wandered around the hillside, trying to steal people's keys and knock over wine glasses. She got really good at walking up and down the inclined hill. This is what the theater looks like.

All performances are free and you bring blankets or chairs to sit on the lawn on the big hill.
Or if you're 16 years or older and stand in line for tickets the day of the show, they
have covered seating under the roof.

She had developed a really bad diaper rash earlier that afternoon, and halfway through the show, she started screaming inconsolably. She had pooped and it had really irritated her rash, poor baby! It was already 9pm at that point(normal bedtime), so in the middle of an awesome drum solo, we packed up all our stuff and took our screaming baby home. She clung to Ryan the entire walk back to the car and finally started to calm down. She was asleep as soon as we started driving.

We had a big weekend, but it was fun as always with my two Ry's!

Random family selfie from General Conference weekend(aka stay-in-pjs-all-day)