December 29th - Star Wars en Guayabitos

On our walk this morning Kirk and I spotted an Ivory-billed Woodcreeper right on our lane.

In the afternoon we headed into Rincon de Guayabitos to see Star Wars.  The English version with Spanish subtitles.

Less than $5

3D
The movie was great, really nice theatre.  We found ourselves reading the subtitles so some of those Spanish lessons are paying off.  Then out to dinner at El Rodeo.  Rincon was really hopping with Mexican tourists.   Fun for the holidays but it will be nice when they all leave in a week.   

These guys were also at the RV park recently and were really good.

Drinking a Michelado (beer, worchestershire, clamato)

and of course the food photo

A great evening all in all.  Buenos noches.  

The whole evening was unbelievably convenient.  Despite the masses of people, we parked on the street, in front of the theatre.  After purchasing our tickets, assigned seating, pick your seat, we found that we had 50 minutes before the show started.  (show was not starting as advertised 8-)  We walked directly across the street to El Rodeo for a beverage while we waited.  Our waitress was a young Quebecois woman, now trilingual, who had met and married a Mexican, and had imported her parents when she moved south.  Back across to the theatre, for a slow multiple flight stair climb, with no hand rails, to the actual theatre.  Despite dark, could-be-cleaner 3D glasses, we enjoyed the show, afterwards reminiscing about who and where we were in 1977 when we saw the first Star Wars.  Out into the dark after the show, where to go for supper?  Why not leave the car where it was and walk back across the street to El Rodeo for supper?  We had a great supper, beverages, and conversation.  By the time we left, the streets were packed.  How packed were they?  The sidewalks were so full of people, pedestrian traffic had migrated onto the street, and was now two-deep on the traffic side of the cars parked along the street.  Luckily, traffic was also at a walking pace, including the skilful drivers herding the ginormous primero tour buses through the throng.  We did a tour through Rincon south and back again, enjoying the intensely active street life, crowds everywhere, smoke from the barbecue stalls, hundreds of little shops, brightly lit, with their wares spilling onto the sidewalk, and everywhere, people walking, talking, eating, laughing, and enjoying their Christmas holidays.