Festival Imperial

So on Sunday it really hit me how different Malawi and Costa Rica are...we went to an outdoor concert called Festival Imperial. Over Saturday and Sunday five major groups played (okay, so it depends on your definition of "major" but let's just say groups people have heard of...) including Smashing Pumpkins and Incubus on Saturday and Seal, Enrique Iglesias, and Duran Duran on Sunday. We went on Sunday with a friend and got $20 for the lawn. We watched Seal from the lawn and then decided that for Enrique we would try to sneak up a little closer...which we did and essentially got to about row 30ish...you could totally see him and I have to admit he was quite attractive in person! Also, of the three groups we saw perform on Sunday, he was by far the best with a crowd - the crowd loved him but when he finished performing the crowd didn't really applaud much which meant that he didn't come out for an encore! Maybe that's not a thing here? I'm going to have to look into that...it was even obvious that Enrique Iglesias didn't sing his most famous song (Hero) because he was waiting for the encore...weird.

Anyway, the reason that I know this is very different from Malawi is that in Malawi I never even went to a movie, let alone a live performance of anyone I've ever seen before. I did go to a concert once of a Hugh Masekela (clearly no one knows who he is...South Africa jazz guy) and like everyone we knew went because there was nothing else to do. He was really good though...(no worries getting up close there...there was no security to sneak through!)