Festival of the Arts

The week of November 6th through the 15th was an international arts festival in Puebla.  This festival is similar to Reno's Artown with tons of free concerts.  We headed in on Monday night to try to see a floutist for FHE, but the theater was full so we went over to the concert in the city center. 
Then on Wednesday Karl and I snuck out for a date.  We went out to eat at a fun seafood place with a live Veracruz-style band.  Karl was excited to hear them do La Bamba in the traditional Veracruz style.  They were great.

This is one of the dishes we ordered.  It is half a pineapple filled with a kind of seafood soup with octopus, shrimp, and possibly oysters or some other kind of fish.  It was topped with cheese, merichino cherries, cilantro, and bell peppers.  It was delicious.

After dinner we waited in line for an hour and a half to hear Tony Sheridan who wrote music for the Beatles and others.  (We were waiting for the concert before him to end).  It was a fun concert with music we knew like renditions of "Yesterday" and "Johnny B. Good."

On Thursday the whole family and Marcela went to the city center to hear Pablo Milanese.  He is a Cuban singer with a beautiful voice reminescent of Andrea Bocelli, very renowned in the Spanish speaking world.

On Saturday we had volleyball in the morning - we're having a stake tournament for both men and women. Both teams are undefeated! Then we headed back downtown with the kids to check out the markets and attend another concert and watch some dancers.  The concert was given by a classical group from England and Elena and Stephen enjoyed talking to them and getting autographs when the concert ended.  The kids also liked sitting in the theater's box seats.

It was a fun week!