Pegged Jeans! Jump on the band wagon cause they are coming back!

So yesterday my day was spent lying on the beach and eating some pizza at one of the many restaurants on the boardwalk. I naturally woke up before the other three and it was quite a struggled getting them moving. It was a really perfect beach day out. I was expecting the ocean to be warmer here; it was way too cold for me to venture in. I made sure to wear sun screen but ended up getting hardly no color from my laying out which was sad.  I have been spending quite a bit of time these days with Alex which means hearing lots of High School Musical. It is out of hand how obsessed he is with it.

Dani had to leave us early to get back to Madrid for school. After she boarded her ferry we headed to Veguetta, the old area filled with shopping and dining.
We were just looking around and I witnessed probably the craziest fashion trend on tour yet. It is exclusive to Gran Canaria because I haven’t seen this anywhere else! I kept noticing high school age boy sporting this look: First off their hair spiked to extreme heights almost as if their whole head of hair is mohawked. Then they kind of have the punk look going on, similar to the UK, but the best part is they have developed their own take on the pegged jean look that was all the rage in the 80’s / early 90’s. There were variations but most of them would take their jeans and twist them around their ankle and the secure it with a few elastic bands.

I was so intrigued by this craze and needed to document it. While Mauricio and Alex went into a cologne store, I stayed outside and was trying to stealthily get a picture of this absurdity. Well, I was apparently not very sly so they noticed me trying to take pictures of them. One kid started waving! So I ended up going over and talking to him. My friend didn’t actually have the hair or the jeans but he informed me that, “the Canary Islands have mucho style!” He kept commenting more about the hair so I was giving him a hard time for not having his done up. I got a picture of one kid but I wish I could have documented the whole group of them. There were literally over 20 kids congregating in front of this Foot Locker.

I could have sat there for hours just watching them interact….so that is exactly what we did. We sat down at a restaurant right nearby and people watched! This had to have been the highlight of my whole weekend! We enjoyed some sangria while the gang of mucho stylish kids amused us. We then decided it would be a great idea to peg our own jean and walked around for awhile with our panted folded up. Mauricio also taught me how to ask in Spanish if I could take a picture with someone and then had me test my skills out. I think I frightened the kid but I got my picture none the less. Our fun night continued with us back at the hotel singing along to Mika and we even attempted to make a short music video. We were having so much fun and decided to continue it out again since we were on a roll. The place we ended up Noa was slightly empty so I decided to runway walk on the empty dance floor. You could say our night was major.