We had just come off the Playa Norte and were turning in our beach towels at the front desk of Maria Del Mar (Cabanas). It was another perfect day of sunning and floating and salty margaritas in the Windex-colored water. Well, you've been there so you know! What, you haven't been yet?
Sandy was wearing a pareo over her bathing suit, her sombrero, and on top, her amarillo "Bob's 60th" tee shirt. Do you remember it? On the back it says "Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys" and "Lil Anne & Hot Cayenne."
It is hard for me to believe that tee shirt will be four years old this July.
All of a sudden this couple walked in, spied the names on the back of Sandy's shirt, and both started talking a mile a minute. "How do you know Steve Riley? What a great band! Do you go to New Orleans? Have you been to Mulate's, Michelle's, Haven Brothers, the Maple Leaf, Tipitina's, the Rock and Bowl, Mamou, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, Church Point, Lafayette, the Mardi Gras?"
Charles and Cactus Cathy, our friends from Albuquerque, were wearing their tee shirts in Tucson when just about the same thing happened to them. A couple originally from New England -- but now living in Arizona -- said that they love the music and really, really missed the Cajun/Zydeco dance scene.
Our new Isla friends were from Dallas -- it's in Texas. I think. They have been to Mexico a million times but Isla is their favorite place to go. "Did we know of the Pine Leaf Boys?" They happen to be Sandy's second favorite Cajun Band. At his 60th they had the Pine Leaf Boys come to play. Holy Frogs! Where have I heard this story before?
We mentioned that we were seeing Steve and the Playboys at Johnny D's in Boston the very next Thursday night
and then again Saturday night, along with the Creole Cowboys (Boozoo Chavis doubles) and C.J.Chenier, Clifton's son, at the Mardi Gras Ball in Rhode Island.
Steve Riley asked "Did you get their names?" NO! And they didn't ask for (or get) ours.
You just don't think about these things when you are in the middle of a STEVE RILEY HAPPENING.
Sincerely,
Roberto Tocino
Mayor of La Isla Mujeres
(I was a write-in on the ballot.)
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