A Concert
This week was the "week of the disabled person" here. They were selling tickets for a concert to be held in the Civic Auditorium here in Guaymas. The proceeds are to go towards assistance for the disabled. We hadn't bought tickets in advance as we weren't sure if we were going to go. We did finally decide that we would attend and as the concert was supposed to begin at 3 PM, and we didn't as yet have tickets we headed uptown shortly after 2 PM. When we arrived at the auditorium the doors were open and we purchased our tickets, 25 pesos each, around $2.50. We looked around the building as we have never gone to anything held there before. We were impressed with the structure, thinking that it is a wonderful building for the size of our city. It compares very favorably to auditoriums that I have been in, in other bigger cities.
After checking out the building we went and sat down in our nice, padded seats, by this time it was almost 3 PM. There were only a handful of other people there, the organiser, the sound man and a couple of performers so we didn't have high hopes of it starting on time. It did begin shortly after 3 PM though, playing to an almost non existent crowd.
As the show progressed more people did show up; but even near the end the place was not even 1/2 full, what a shame as they missed a great show.
We know that they sold a lot of tickets as periodically throughout the show they pulled tickets to give away some gifts and some of the numbers on the tickets were over 1000, so even if people did not show up they still had donated to this good cause.
The acts were all local and showcased how much talent there is in this area. There were various acts; singers, a band, a chorus, and dancers doing dances from various different places in the world and Mexico.
Instead of eating our big meal at lunchtime today we had decided to go out for dinner after the concert, assuming that it would last for about 2 hours. Well, when we looked at our tickets it showed the show time as being from 3 PM to 8 PM!! Around 7 PM Roy turned to me and asked if I was ready to go for dinner. We were both hungry and decided that it was time to leave. The show could go on without us.
We walked a few blocks over to the main street and then down a couple of blocks to one of our favorite places, Loncheria Doney. Roy decided on his favorite, papas locas and I had a Torta Milanesa. Both our meals were very good, even though they serve Pepsi instead of Coke. Cost of our supper was reasonable, 95 pesos, around $9.50. So for 165 pesos, (includes tips),about $16.50 we got to see a long concert and have dinner. How could you ask for more than that? An enjoyable afternoon and evening.
Some of the dancers and performers.
