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Friday night I attended a Shakira concert with the girls (from left: Teresa, Me, Stephanie, Maura). We arrived around 6.00 expecting to get right in because we already had our tickets. There was a mass of people on the street-walking and vending and pushing. When we asked a police officer where the entrance to the concert was, he pointed to a line along the road. I probably looked dumbfounded because he said, "What? It's Shakira." Long story short, we waited in line for an hour and a half to get in. It was slow moving but there was a lot of look at and contemplate buying--Shaikira headbands and posters and T-shirts and pins...( I confess, I cracked and bought an ice cream from a street vender with no teeth). The actual concert was really fun-- Train (which we missed), Ziggy Marley and Shakira. 

I had some videos of Shakira dancing as well as Ziggy Marley playing but I'm having trouble uploading them...

Saturday there was a parade in the downtown area. From what I understood, it was a theater group. (Also have video footage which I'm working on uploading...) 

Anyways, the parade was really something to see--the costumes were so vivid. I wish I could describe the way the colors and music moved and swayed and jiggled...The pictures don't really do it justice. The performers walked on stilts, stopping every few blocks to preform a skit in each major square. I sort of followed behind and snapped pictures. My favorite part was a group of four men playing traditional Andean music on panpipes and leather drums.