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From Argentina / Desde Argentina

My flight finally leaves today, I don’t know, it feels weird, after 7 months, here I am, waiting at the airport. I keep feeling like this is a dream, I can’t believe they choose me, after so many girls, they choose me. It’s also a big responsibility some how, at least a responsibility with myself, I have to do this right, if they choose me it has to be for a reason, so I have to believe this and do my best.

Well, after a couple of hours delay, my flight left Cancun, to Mexico city and Buenos Aires.

Seating besides me on the plane, was this girl, called Angie, and we were talking about our destination and what was the reason to go there, it was so funny when she said, I´m going to be on a tv show, called Utilisima, ha ha ha ha, same show than me. We kept talking about how did they found about us, and how was I contacted, we didn’t knew any of the other girls that were going to be on the show. Anyway, it was an 18 hour flight so we slept most of the flight.

Down in Buenos Aires, A car was waiting for us and we meet a third girl that was there for the same reason, Rosalba, she is a fashion consultor. We found out that there was already 2 other girls at the hotel, and 2 more had left the day before, so I think it was 7 of us total. The car took us to the hotel, which is really close to the “Casa Rosada” it´s like the white house for Argentinians. It was so weird to hear them talking, I mean I have friends from Argentina, so I´m kind of used t the accent, but i ´d never heard so many of them talking at the same time. I was like – Wow, I´m surrounded by Argentinians” ha ha ha ha, of course, you are in Argentina.

The hotel

Later on, an Argentinian friend of mine came to pick me up at the hotel, we went walking around and grab something to eat, and i went back to the hotel, need to prepare everything for tomorrow, and I was also a bit tired from the flight. Even dough is only July, its a bit cold, but in this side of the world July is winter.. weird ha ha ha.

Well right now it’s 8:30 PM here, but in my time would be 6:30 PM, and I´m ready to go to bed, tomorrow it’s a big day, and I need to wake up at 4:30 AM, since the car will pick us at 6:30 AM. Ciao, Ciao!!!

By the way, I don’t know about you, but in Mexico we use 110 v for electricity, and here it’s different, nobody told me, or I didn’t thought about asking, so how am I going to charge my Computer and phone?

Finalmente salio mi vuelo para Argentina, no se, se siente raro, después de 7 meses, por fin aquí estoy, sigo pensando como que estoy soñando, como que no lo puedo creer, que me hayan elegido a mi, entre tantas chicas. También me pesa un poco saben, como que es una responsabilidad bien grande de alguna manera, conmigo mas que nada, pues tengo que hacerlo bien, por algo me eligieron.

Y bueno, después de esperar un buen rato en el aeropuerto de Cancún, mi vuelo por fin salio hacia la ciudad de México… y de ahí Buenos Aires.

En el avion conoci a una de las chicas que va a grabar tambien, nos toco sentarnos juntas, fue muy chistoso por que mientras platicabamos a que ibamos a Buenos Aires salio el tema de Utilisima y nos moriamos de la risa. Fueron casi 17 horas de vuelo, Me dormi casi el camino, lo cual lo hizo un poco menos pesado.

Llegar a buenos aires fue un poco raro, como que habia demasiados argentinos juntos ja ja ja,  fue chistoso escuchar ese acento en toda la gente. Digo, nunca lo había escuchado en tanta gente al mismo tiempo, y eso me parecio chistoso.

Llegando a Bs As, ya nos estaban esperando en el aeropuerto y nos llevaron al hotel. En total somos 5 chicas de Mexico grabando, dos ya estaban aqui y 3 llegamos hoy. El hotel esta muy cerquita de la casa rosada, en el centro de Bs As, esta bastante bien ubicado, cada una tiene su habitacion. 


Mas tarde, llego una amiga mia, que vive ahí en Buenos Aires, para llevarme a conocer un poco, como mañana tengo que levantarme muy temprao y venia cansada del vuelo, solo fuimos a caminar un poco por ahí y a comer algo… Aunque es Julio, hace frio, aquí es invierno para ellos, pero nada extremo, se puede aguantar.

Ahora, son las 8:30 pm, alla serian las 6:30 pm y yo ya muero de sueño. Mañana tengo que madrugar a las 4:30 am, deberia de estar acomodando lo que me voy a poner mañana pero la verdad se me cierran los ojos.. que descansen!

Pd. a ninguno de mis amigos argentinos/uruguayos se les ocurrio decirme que las entradas para conectarse a la electricidad son diferentes.. quize cargar mi compu y mmmmmhh no entraba el enchufe ja ja ja ja.

Trip to Rio Lagartos

A few days ago I went on a trip with my mom, brother and some friends to a town called Rio Lagartos, Río Lagartos is within the Biosphere Special Reserve on the northern coast of the Yucatán on the Gulf of Mexico, just west of the border with Quintana Roo, and is famous for its enormous flamingo colony and large variety of other species.

We arrived in Rio Lagartos around 7:00 AM, had breakfast and rented 2 boats. We sail along the river for a little over 2 hours and enjoy the sights of white and brown pelicans, fishing eagles, herons of many white and pink species, ibis, crocodiles and the breath taking spectacle of thousands of American Flamingos feeding in the salty waters.






The area is the home to Mexico’s largest American and Caribbean flamingo population. It estimated that over 8,000 pink flamingos live within the now protected canals and mangroves just up the river from Rio Lagartos. Wild flamingos eat many different foods but their favorite is shrimp. The more shrimp they eat, the pinker they get.




After 2 hours of bird watching the guide took us to a salty pond, to take a bath in the salty water that keeps you up on the surface without any movement, and then we smeared white mud all over ourselves as we were told it is good for your skin.




We spend the night there and next day we went to Las coloradas, on the western side of the Rio Lagartos estuary its a large salt processing enterprise that collects salt from dry lake beds and ships it all over South America.  The water is all shades of pink and if you touch it, it kind of burns from the salt. The color of the water its because of a small organism that lives in it, called artemia, this is also the preferred food of the flamingos, so it also gives them the shades of pink. This place is so amazing and different that it looks like you are in another world.






For more than 2000 years, before the Mayans, salt has been gathered from the shallow lakes in the area and traded as a valuable commodity. It is bulldozed into huge mounds then processed, cleaned and packaged in the factory here.




And back in town….

Laguna Azul

Something that I love about where I live is that we have all this amazing places to visit and just a few hours away from town. This time, I went with some friends to Laguna Azul, we left Puerto Morelos after they closed the restaurant they work at and drove about 4 hours south, towards Chetumal.

Lake Bacalar is in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The lake itself is 50 kilometers long (north to south), but at most just 1 Km wide. Its southernmost point is just north of the Belize border and Chetumal.

The place we went to it’s called Laguna Azul (Blue Lagoon), nearby Limones, it’s owned by a German men called Federico (Fritz), He runs a little restaurant, four fully enclosed cabanas, and camping facilities. It’s a great place to swim, hang your hammock, and meet a pretty unusual cast of characters.

5:00 AM


My friend Lalo trying to catch something… he fail.

6:00 AM

I’m trying to catch some small fish to use as bait.


My technique didn’t work :-(

Good thing we had something else to eat.



We spend the day doing nothing, just chilling, swim a bit, did some kayaks, sleep in the hammock, and eat, eat, and eat!



He had better luck the second night, but we only did catch and release, since we weren’t actually eating those fish. They were small anyway.

Next day, on our way back to Puerto Morelos, we went to eat in Mahahual.




Isla Contoy.

This is an experience i´ve been wanting to share with you, a few weeks ago I went with some friends and family to an amazing Island, Isla Contoy, Protected by the Mexican government, and declared a National Park, its approximately 30 kilometers north of Isla Mujeres. We took a boat from Cancun, the trip took about one hour, it usually takes about 2 or 3 hours depending of the boat, but ours was pretty fast.

As soon as we could see the island on the horizon and the closer we got, our excitement was getting bigger and bigger, it´s absolutely gorgeous, is not very big, i think  it´s only 8 Km in length. There is nothing but palm trees, clear blue water, lots of birds and white sand, PARADISE!!!!

In the island lives a group of government-sponsored biologists who continually monitor and study the ecosystem of the island. Only a few tour companies have permission to bring guests to the island and only 200 visitors are allowed daily.  If you plan to visit the island in your own vessel, you are required to apply for permission first which can be arranged at the Park offices in Isla Mujeres or Cancun. as soon as we got to the peer, we jumped in the water, we didn´t care about barracudas, there was like 50 of them, just right in the peer. I have to say that I was a little bit impressed by them, they are so ugly with the mouth full of teeth!!.  Anyway, it´s better if I let the pictures talk.

Ready to go

arriving to the island

take a good look…. 7 barracudas!

The other side of the island

Dinner time! It´s good to have friends with restaurants.

chill out time after dinner.

our night camp.

almost sunrise.

Next morning we went snorkeling to the reef.

Nurse shark

Mantarraya, Samantha it´s her name, and you can actually touch her, she comes to the shore looking for food.

This is why I love where I live.

and guess who came with us….

I made her bathing suit with a balloon :-)

Quintana Roo

Cancun, safe to visit!

These typically are the good days for Cancun, a busy time where the locals catch their breathe between the madness of Spring Break and the high summer national tourist seasons. Several Cancun Hotels are offering a “Swine flu free travel program”, a campaign that promises you three years of free vacations if you get H1N1 while in their hotels. This expresses the high confidence that it is indeed safe to travel to Mexico. The tourism boards and travel service companies are working diligently to ensure that visitors start to return to Mexico, to a safe and healthy environment for all to enjoy.

Our main priority continues to be the safety of our citizens and visitors, and with evidence that the flu appears to be less threatening than originally thought, Mexico is ready to welcome back all of its visitors and offer them the hospitality and services that have always distinguished us.

There is no doubt that the H1N1 has hit our country very hard; specially the tourism sector, an essential part of our economy. Mexico is known for its capacity of coming out of tough situations even stronger, and this will not be the exception. The travel industry -at all levels- is ready to offer its visitors what they come here for: diversity, culture, relaxation, luxury, adventure, world class infrastructure and most importantly, the best service in the world.

It’s a great time to book a trip down to the Mexican Caribbean, some great deals and great weather, if you love Mexico, pack your suitcase, take a plane and come down here. Great package deals are popping up, if you don’t have a trip planned, now would be a great time. With so few people in the area at the moment, it will almost be like a private vacation. Come to cancun!!!



Ny NY… finally!!!

NY, NY

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* American animals, at Natural History Museum


* Dinosaurs.

* Indian Tribes

And this is just for my craftster friends, a picture of how they made textiles.


more of Natural History Museum

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* Central Park

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* Seaport

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* Night out with the girls and our friends.

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* Re-building the WTC

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* Chinatown

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* Museum of Modern Art!!!!

Chain silver knitting

Plates lamp

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* The girls and me freezing!!

NY, NY!!!!

I’m so excited, I’m going to NY for the first time, only 5 days. But Im so excited!!! it will also be my first time in the States, so there’s so many things I want to do… and so little time. Empire State and Chrysler Buildings, the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, the Bronx Zoo, Brooklyn Bridge, the Metropolitan Museum, Natural History Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Van Courtland House Museum, the Museum of Sex, Bodies, and so other many things like fabric shops, trim shops, button shops, craft supply shops, bead shops…. Damn! I want to do all of this in 5 days?????

Looking around for places to shop for supplies and came across this site www.sistahcraft.typepad.com I send her a message asking for tips and the best places to shop… she was great, sahara gave me lots of places to shop and she even told me she could take me shopping, Great!!!!!! I can’t wait to meet her.

Since I live in the Caribbean, I was worried about the weather in NY, it’s going to be cold!!! I wish I could find some outfits like this from College Fashion’s what to wear in winter, Which it’s a bit hard to find in Cancun.

So, I’m just going to take the warmest cloth I have, and maybe borrow something from a friend…. I can’t wait to be in NY.


Guaya, means giving your life some flavor, with little things that make your day happier. Guaya, is handmade goodies. Thanks for visiting by my blog, here I share my love, my creations and my life.

Guaya es buscarle el sabor a la vida, con pequeñas cositas que nos alegran el dia. Guaya, son cosas hechas a mano. Gracias por visitar mi blog, aqui comparto las cosas que hago asi como algunas anecdotas en mi vida.

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