Monday, November 2, 2009

Halloween in Puerto Rico!

On Halloween night there were several big fiestas going on in the San Juan area. We finally narrowed our choice down to a concert/circus party called "Coors Light Circotic", in which several Puerto Rican artists performed + Sean Paul + some reggae groups too! The video above shows the advertisement for it.

Although there were no Halloween stores that we could find at least, in Puerto Rico, we were all able to at least be creative and make up our costumes! Treavor and I decided to be gangsters/mobsters together!
This is Treavor, Hubert and Ricky trying to be scary...
And Treavor and I in our gangsta poses...
When we finally got to the concert around 9pm we were actually really early so we got to stand front row, middle at the stage! The concert was in Old San Juan in a huge tent outside. It was originally supposed to be at the Colliseum, a very nice, clean venue, but there was a little problem...A couple weeks ago at the MTV Latin Music Awards, Calle 13 (a popular Puerto Rican reggaeton group) said some very disrespectful, awful things about Governor Fortuno of Puerto Rico---a VERY disliked man among Puerto Ricans right now. So, in response to this, Calle 13, who was supposed to perform at Circotic, was pulled from the show, and the show was moved from the nice Colliseum venue to a tent outside! Anyway, it made no difference really because the show went on just as great I think as it would have been in the Colliseum!

Circotic started with a lot of opening acts which did circus-like stunts...people twirling fire, people hanging and doing flips from ropes tied to the ceiling, and this guy below could bend and twist his body into a pretzel!


This guy's purpose, below, was just to pump up the crowd but I thought his costume was pretty awesome..he mainly just jumped around the stage though to the song "I got a feelin', that tonights gonna be a good night"


Then, Cultura Profeitica came out to perform. This was a Reggae group that went on, which I guess is really popular because everyone knew the words to their songs except us!

And this was the lead singer of Cultura Profeitica..

And here you can see his SERIOUS Rattail that is actually one giant dreadlock! (gross!)

A big group of us left shortly after this because we knew it would be really hard to get a cab home---which it did take forevvverrr.
All in all though, Halloween in Puerto Rico was AWESOME!