Dance Festival

Today there was a dance festival located at Plaza Civica. It was after school, so we took the kids and went downtown to see what is was all about. As usual, the stage was just being set up when we Americans arrived. Yes, we still think things should start when they are advertised... perhaps by the end of our trip we will learn that Mexican time means about 30 minutes to 1 hour later. Kids were promised ice cream (one of our regular stops around here) so we hit a good ice cream place at the jardin. I tasted chili ice cream, but decided it was definitely not my favorite and went for my old standby - lime! Yummy.

We went back to the dance stage and watched a neat performance. Kids, adults, and elders all did different dances. Some salsa, sensual tango, group dances, modern dance, you name it.

Alex decided to climb a tree to get a better view and ended up getting stuck. So typical! Luckily, Charles could help him down as he was way too high up for me. Did we see any other Mexican children climbing trees? Of course not, only mine.

Owen watched the dancers for a while, but then found a woman selling bubbles. She would dip her wand that she made into a bubble mixture (that she also made) and then the kids would run through them. Owen had a bit of fun running and catching the bubbles with a few other Mexican children. Nothing like bubbles to cross over the language barrier for kids. I ended up buying Owen some bubbles and he happily carried his wand (he called it his magic wand) and bubbles all the way home (takes us about 20 minutes from there to walk home).

Then a woman who cooks for us twice a week had made us chili rellenos which were waiting for us on the stove. Delicious!