This weekend was the season opening of the Symphony Orchestra of Yucatan - Friday night, Saturday night and Sunday at noon. They now have performances about every weekend at the Jose Peon Contreras Theater in downtown Merida through June. The best seats are only 350 pesos - sometime performances are only 300 pesos. We bought tickets for this Sunday and the two following Sundays that we will still be here. Next Sunday there will be a pianist with the orchestra. The concert was relatively short - about an hour and 45 minutes including a short intermission but it was very well done. The pieces performed were well know classics including Smetena and Strauss Waltzes. The encore was, of course, Strauss' Radetzky March which is always fun for the audience. There are quite a few Russian names among the orchestra members.
After the concert we walked a block or two and had dinner at Casa Maya which was o.k. but not great - pretty much for tourists. We kind of like the places the locals go to. After all, we are locals - for a month anyway.
On Monday, we had rain on and off most of the day so we spent a quiet day at home. The air is deliciously cool and fresh now. 10 day forecast looks great - high only in the mid 80's - lows in upper 60's.
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