At the Drop of a "Sombrero".... by Abril

Apparently Sarita and I don't really think things through sometimes....

We went to check out the famous 'Teatro de Calderon'

to be up on our Zacatecan sites and culture.

Weeeeeeeeeelllllll.

There just so happened to be this show playing at the exact moment we went in to check it out! I mean, the poster looked really cool. It had this Arabian woman on the front and it was all in Espanol so we thought

"how interesting! to see these two cultures play out"....

So we bought our tickets and settled into the middle of a row towards the front.

(Hindsight... shoulda sat in the back on the aisle for a quick getaway...)

So we are looking around and taking mental notes for really awesome observation notes later...

(*winkwink* Hope you are reading this Dr. Ryan...)

However we start to notice there are a lot of families here with flowers,

(which sends up the first red flag)

Then the lights go down, and the curtain and all the familias' cameras go up.

(second red flag)

That feeling of being ripped off or duped slowly comes over us as we watch what turns out to be a group of teenagers, not in synche i might add, attempt to do some sort of bellydance to this Spanish, Indian, Middle Eastern song....question mark?

(third red flag)

When the second group comes out... the gig is up.

It's official.

We payed 50 pesos to come to a School's Bellydancing Dance Recital.