mostaza mishap

well i have been bamboozled by the best of them!
today al, my theater project buddy, and i were walking near la plaza de independencia when we felt something wet hit us on our backs. we stopped and looked up, thinking it had fallen from the sky, or a window. i saw that al had something yellow all down his back, and i had it on my jeans. then, quickly a man approached us and said in spanish "i saw it. it was paint. here take this napkin to clean yourselves off." we started to do that but then he said, "here that is not working. come over across the street to this fountain that will clean you off better." i tried to ask him who had done it and why, but he didn't answer me. across the street someone else approached us and said "i'm so sorry, i saw that happen. here, there is a fountain in here." we stepped off of the street a little bit into a hall towards a big room. one of the men began to help al while someone else completely different showed me into the room where a very very bizarre circus demonstration was taking place, and there was no fountain to be seen. i stood there just long enough to think "what the hell is this?" and when i turned around, al was looking at the ground, then at me. "they took my camera."
he had taken his camera off from around his neck to pull his jacket over his head...set it down on the ground next to him just as i was being distracted by the circus..and when he pulled his jacket off, it was gone. there were at least 3 or 4 people involved..and it was so quick! i think the circus was fake too, a planned distraction.
we also realized soon after that it was not paint at all, but mustard.
my mom also lost $200 to an ATM that never gave her the money and the bank won't do anything to help.

QUITE a day.

but on we go.

cuenca tomorrow.