guayaquil, how i heart thee
so last weekend i went to guayaquil. why did i go to guayaquil you might ask? i´ll tell you why, it was guayaquil fashion week. www.guayaquilfashionweek.com if you want to check it out. (pasarelas means runway if you want to see some pictures.) why did we go to guayaquil fashion week? why not! and we know the owners of a company that had a booth and a runway show so we got staff passes and went to everything for free! the company is Dealer T-Shirts, they obviously make t-shirts. they guys who own it, carlos y adrián, are my age and they knew one of the guys from north carolina cuz he had met them on a mission trip to ecuador once, so they invited him and told him to bring whoever he wanted.
so we get to guayaquil and carlos y adrián pick us up at the bus station and drive all 7 of us around in a truck to a bunch of hotels till we found a room. the hotel people sucked and they kept telling us there was no room. which was a lie. they thought we looked like trashy gringos (which we did, we had just gotten off a 10 hour bus ride...) who were going to trash their rooms. so we´d ask for a room and the people behind the desk would look at one another and say, no, there´s no room. whatever. happened at like 5 hotels in downtown guayaquil. they weren´t even nice hotels. they were decent, but not 5 stars or anything. so we finally found one in downtown guayaquil about a block from the iguana park. so that day we went to the iguana park, which was amazing!! it´s a whole city block in front of this gorgeous old church and it has about a million giant iguanas! you could pet them and everything. but you had to be careful becuase they shit a lot from trees so you had to stand in the sun, or risk the shade. they also randomly jump out of the trees... after the iguana gardens we went to ¨la bahía¨which is a GIANT market where they sell knock-off crap. everything is knock-off and i felt dirty being there. ahhhhhhhhh!!! i didn´t buy anything. but one of my friends bought 4 t-shirts as a joke, and they are disgusting. needless to say, we made him wear one of them to fashion week... hahaha!! so later that night we went to fashion week.
let me tell you about fashion week, it´s a joke. we thought it was going to be really sweet and have all kinds of ecuadorian designers and stuff. no. nothing of the sort. there were like 20 boothes, some of which were guess, and miss sixty. which are huge in ecuador, but not ecuadorian companies, and nothing that should be in fashion week. there was also a body suit booth. we didn´t really understand that one but there were workers at their booth wearing ONLY the body suits. awkward... and there was a booth called ¨Go God.¨ it was a christian camp that just HAPPENED to sell t-shirts like they do at every camp. somehow they made it into fashion week. what?! ok, there were a few real designers there. there was a shoe lady who hand painted high heels. those were cool, i was going to buy some as presents for my sisters, but they were $90 and i didn´t know what size they would wear and thought it was too expensive to guess. sorry sisters. right, so now it´s time for the runway. we go in and it´s terrible. tonights runway is X-Fashion. well, we decided that the X meant that it used to be in style. it was american eagle, armani exchange, hollister, ect. clothes on the runway, WITH THE PRICE TAGS STILL ON!!! why did we come again?? also, the models were terrible. the runway show was saved by the next segment that was the swim suit and bras section. that had real models. and we loved it... hahaha! so we left after that cuz we were bored and went to las peñas, which is a historic section of guayaquil on a hill and all the houses and buildings are painted pastel colors. very pretty. we went to a resteraunt there and then went to carlos´s house to party a little bit.
saturday we woke up in the hotel, got breakfast, and went exploring around guayaquil again. we went down to the newly re-developed waterfront, called the malecón 2000. which is awesome! i went to pingüino, the ice cream company here, and got a cone. then i found out that for 15 more cents i could buy a cheap plastic power rangers mask. so i did. i got a green monster thingy. it was sweet. but not as sweet as when i had the idea to have my picture drawn by a street vendor wearing the mask!! hahaha. it´s a great drawing. good times. so a few min after that we get a call from our designer friends and they tell us we need to be at fashion week by 3.30. we were like, why, it doesn´t start till 7ish. that´s when they told us that models had to come early to get ready... WHAT?! no one told us were were IN fashion week! well, we were. it was rediculous! so i walked in the runway show that night with my friends. hahaha!!! it was a crazy run-way show. all their friends were their models and there was fire and lots of skipping, air-guittars, and fake fights on the runway! lol! it was out of control... we all would just go in back and change t-shirts with someone else and go on the runway again! they also sent us down in pairs sometimes and i got paired with one of the real modelas who wanted to be in the crazy runway. it was hot. so somewhere out there is a pic of me on the end of a runway with a real model! hahaha! if only i had that picture. it would be my facebook picture so fast. afterward we went back to carlos´s house and the afterparty was out of control! i mean REALLY out of control! that´s all you need to know...
so the day after was just a recovery day. we hung out on the water front again and then went back to quito. we all got off the bus in quito and were like, ¨what the hell just happened?!¨
so last weekend i went to guayaquil. why did i go to guayaquil you might ask? i´ll tell you why, it was guayaquil fashion week. www.guayaquilfashionweek.com if you want to check it out. (pasarelas means runway if you want to see some pictures.) why did we go to guayaquil fashion week? why not! and we know the owners of a company that had a booth and a runway show so we got staff passes and went to everything for free! the company is Dealer T-Shirts, they obviously make t-shirts. they guys who own it, carlos y adrián, are my age and they knew one of the guys from north carolina cuz he had met them on a mission trip to ecuador once, so they invited him and told him to bring whoever he wanted.
so we get to guayaquil and carlos y adrián pick us up at the bus station and drive all 7 of us around in a truck to a bunch of hotels till we found a room. the hotel people sucked and they kept telling us there was no room. which was a lie. they thought we looked like trashy gringos (which we did, we had just gotten off a 10 hour bus ride...) who were going to trash their rooms. so we´d ask for a room and the people behind the desk would look at one another and say, no, there´s no room. whatever. happened at like 5 hotels in downtown guayaquil. they weren´t even nice hotels. they were decent, but not 5 stars or anything. so we finally found one in downtown guayaquil about a block from the iguana park. so that day we went to the iguana park, which was amazing!! it´s a whole city block in front of this gorgeous old church and it has about a million giant iguanas! you could pet them and everything. but you had to be careful becuase they shit a lot from trees so you had to stand in the sun, or risk the shade. they also randomly jump out of the trees... after the iguana gardens we went to ¨la bahía¨which is a GIANT market where they sell knock-off crap. everything is knock-off and i felt dirty being there. ahhhhhhhhh!!! i didn´t buy anything. but one of my friends bought 4 t-shirts as a joke, and they are disgusting. needless to say, we made him wear one of them to fashion week... hahaha!! so later that night we went to fashion week.
let me tell you about fashion week, it´s a joke. we thought it was going to be really sweet and have all kinds of ecuadorian designers and stuff. no. nothing of the sort. there were like 20 boothes, some of which were guess, and miss sixty. which are huge in ecuador, but not ecuadorian companies, and nothing that should be in fashion week. there was also a body suit booth. we didn´t really understand that one but there were workers at their booth wearing ONLY the body suits. awkward... and there was a booth called ¨Go God.¨ it was a christian camp that just HAPPENED to sell t-shirts like they do at every camp. somehow they made it into fashion week. what?! ok, there were a few real designers there. there was a shoe lady who hand painted high heels. those were cool, i was going to buy some as presents for my sisters, but they were $90 and i didn´t know what size they would wear and thought it was too expensive to guess. sorry sisters. right, so now it´s time for the runway. we go in and it´s terrible. tonights runway is X-Fashion. well, we decided that the X meant that it used to be in style. it was american eagle, armani exchange, hollister, ect. clothes on the runway, WITH THE PRICE TAGS STILL ON!!! why did we come again?? also, the models were terrible. the runway show was saved by the next segment that was the swim suit and bras section. that had real models. and we loved it... hahaha! so we left after that cuz we were bored and went to las peñas, which is a historic section of guayaquil on a hill and all the houses and buildings are painted pastel colors. very pretty. we went to a resteraunt there and then went to carlos´s house to party a little bit.
saturday we woke up in the hotel, got breakfast, and went exploring around guayaquil again. we went down to the newly re-developed waterfront, called the malecón 2000. which is awesome! i went to pingüino, the ice cream company here, and got a cone. then i found out that for 15 more cents i could buy a cheap plastic power rangers mask. so i did. i got a green monster thingy. it was sweet. but not as sweet as when i had the idea to have my picture drawn by a street vendor wearing the mask!! hahaha. it´s a great drawing. good times. so a few min after that we get a call from our designer friends and they tell us we need to be at fashion week by 3.30. we were like, why, it doesn´t start till 7ish. that´s when they told us that models had to come early to get ready... WHAT?! no one told us were were IN fashion week! well, we were. it was rediculous! so i walked in the runway show that night with my friends. hahaha!!! it was a crazy run-way show. all their friends were their models and there was fire and lots of skipping, air-guittars, and fake fights on the runway! lol! it was out of control... we all would just go in back and change t-shirts with someone else and go on the runway again! they also sent us down in pairs sometimes and i got paired with one of the real modelas who wanted to be in the crazy runway. it was hot. so somewhere out there is a pic of me on the end of a runway with a real model! hahaha! if only i had that picture. it would be my facebook picture so fast. afterward we went back to carlos´s house and the afterparty was out of control! i mean REALLY out of control! that´s all you need to know...
so the day after was just a recovery day. we hung out on the water front again and then went back to quito. we all got off the bus in quito and were like, ¨what the hell just happened?!¨
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