Flamenco on My Mind

Snoozed til noon, wow. But, we didn’t get to sleep until almost 4 am. We had no idea what time it was, and Pili was just letting us sleep. She’s another one on our adopted Auntie list. She got us some warm bread and Serrano ham, peach jelly, coffee, …. And… wait for it…. The leftovers of the big chocolate cake and hazelnut spread came around the corner! Yes! And I even drank the coffee, and liked it! We had a visit from Pili’s daughter, sister and brother-in-law while and mother today. We met the 10-month old grandson last night, so that pretty much makes the whole family. I keep speaking to them in Portuguese, its so hard to remember Spanish. Lauren keeps me on track with the Spanish.

The Skoda felt a lot better today after a good night’s rest. Didn’t we all …

We drove into town near the Tower of Gold, and went to some shops. We found a lot of nice things, bought a few. Perhaps mine and Lauren’s shining moment - a fabric store! It was full of nice stuff, a lot of polka dots, which I figured out later is a common pattern in Flamenco dresses. We only had a couple hours, since we had an 8:00pm reservation at the best Flamenco show in the city!

Of course Pili wanted to feed us before the show, more soup and cheese, olives, bread, mussels. Yeah, Lauren put a dent in those. But we just made it to the show, the traffic tried to ruin our plans. Its on a narrow, old, little back street in the old side of the city, and we did some crazy parking on the curb and spent the next two hours in Lauren’s Flamenco dreams! (She was really excited) The one guitarist is Reuben, Manuel & Pili’s son. And one of the four women dancing is Annabelle, Reuben’s wife. The entire show was so fantastic, each performance just got better. There were three men on guitar, three men singing, one woman sang, four more women danced, and a man danced. It was so loud and exciting and colorful and full of emotion. At the end everyone was on stage doing their thing, and the castanets were jamming and heels were clicking and hands were clapping. Just wonderful! Sorry, there was absolutely no picture taking allowed. Everyone needs to come to Seville and see it for themselves someday!

We went walking around afterward, and stopped for some food. It was a different place, the menu had things like meat and cheese plates to dinner with scrambled eggs. So that’s what we got! And some dates stuffed with blue cheese. Oh how we’ll miss eating in Europe!

(Lauren) I’m so stinkin’ excited, I’m so stinkin’ excited!!
(Corey) Vale!
(Lauren) This castanet fits like a glove!
(Nicole) Oh no! There’s four girls in the garden!
(Man from balcony) Hola!
(Keri) There’s definitely something going on in the garden…
(Corey) Doing it Slim-Jim style!
(Lauren) I’ve just realized I’m in the wrong profession, I want to be a full time Flamenco attendee!