Seeing Aerosmith last night was (well, besides pretty freakin' awesome) like a little slice of America down here in Peru--almost.
1. Pre show, the best part of my day was befriending a cat in Parque Kennedy. He jumped into my lap!!
2. Walking towards the stadium, we were harassed by countless people selling unofficial merch and successfully bartered to get 2 tshirts for 30 soles. We also bought 2 cans of warm beer from... some random dude.
3. Most aggressive ticket scalpers ever! "Entradas entradas entradas! Here, let me wave them in your face some more in case you didn't hear me the first 10 times!" Why would I be continuing to walk towards the door if I didn't already have a ticket?!
4. Steven Tyler opened with, "Bbbbbuenas noches Limaaaaaaa!" and I believe attempted to say something else in Spanish that I didn't understand. He made a few other comments in English, but mostly just avoided the whole talking thing--I was very OK with this!
5. The crowd is not a sea of lighters/cell phones during romantic songs, but video camera lights throughout the entire concert--by today I bet there are already videos on sale in all the markets and families have relived the entire thing several hundred times. I would have brought my camera but since I wasn't sure how crazy it would be, I didn't take anything except a few bills I stuffed in my bra :) Turns out it was pretty chill... ah well.
6. During "Walk This Way," a random dog wandered down our aisle...
7. ...followed shortly by a vendor yelling, "Salchichas salchichas papitas papitas salchichas papitas!"
8. There was a woman selling toilet paper outside the bathroom for 50 centimos.
9. Leaving the stadium we were greeted by a sea of combis, cobradors yelling where they would take us once they could get out of the horrific traffic jam (we just walked out of the craziness and found a cab instead).
10. As soon as we got into the cab, we were assaulted with Peruvian cumbia music again. Sadness.
Also, in case anyone was wondering, Steven Tyler can, in fact, still sing pretty damn well. Something sounded a little off during "Sweet Emotion," but I am pretty sure it was something with a speaker or guitar, not his singing. And he looks eerily similar to how he looked years ago--eerie meaning Botox. Lots and lots of Botox :)
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