Ricky Martin

We went to Guatemala City from Panajachel to meet Reshma (childhood and family friend) and see her rock the show with Ricky Martin! We stayed at the Marriott with Reshma and pampered ourselves in the pool, jacuzzi, and eucalyptus steam room...fantastic!

The whole experience was first class all the way. Reshma is one of eight dancers in the show, we met a bunch of the dancers and band members, all really cool people. (We didn´t meet Ricky before anyone asks. It wasn´t important).

The concert was Thursday night at the Estadio Mateo Flores. When we arrived at the stadium, and we saw a HUGE V.I.P. sign. We looked at the sign, looked at our tckets, looked at each other and said, ´That´s us!´ We kept showing our tickets to the ushers and they kept pointing forward to the next usher. We were in virtually the front row. We met Reshma before the show started and she got us into the V.I.P. party (to the right of the stage). We ate sushi and drank good Guatemalan rum (18 year old and 12 year old Ron Butron) for 2 hours before the concert started.

The concert was a lot of fun. Ricky Martin is a fantastic entertainer, making up his dance moves as he goes along. Although I have to say, anytime Reshma was on stage, I was watching her.

Most of songs he sang were in Spanish and during the two songs in English, interestingly the crowd was quiet. He spoke in Spanish between songs, which was beautiful, although we didn´t understand a lot. We also got the exit cue from Reshma to beat the crowds. As the whole crowd shouted ¨Otra, Otra! (Encore)¨, we ran (literally because it was so fun to run at that point for some reason) out the stadium to catch a taxi. We got back a little before the dancers and band folks and hung out with some of them downstairs for a bit before going to bed (and waking up to another morning in the jacuzzi and eucalyptus steam room!)