"Arte por Dentro y por Fuera"

Last night we got invited to a social art charity event at the Park Hyatt by our friend Katia who works for the Crear Vale la Pena Charity. Didn't really know much about it except that it was at a nice hotel and it said "cocktail" on the invitation- thats always a plus. We got there and the hotel was so so beautiful! The first guess I see is an overly tan lady wearing a huge furcoat and a diamond necklace... theres so much to be said about that, it's not common to wear diamonds down here so that automatically means its a nicer event and although fur coats may look nice, 600 chinchillas to make one jacket is...

As we walk in, we're greated by a little man in a tuxedo and a silver tray who serves us champagne, we continue going down the stairs into the event and there's painted wine barrels spread out throughout the entire room. Twenty different local artists painted wine barrels and they are being auctioned off for two weeks online through Mercado Libre (Argentina's ebay). This was the kick-off event to start the bidding. The champagne served that night was also from the bodega who donated the wine barrels.

There were servants spread out throughout the event with little appetizers on trays and people refilling your champagne glass when it got low. Of course me and Bryan hadn't eaten dinner yet, so we a picked a very "convenient" spot to stand... kindaaa right outside the kitchen doors-ish, we had first dibs on the different appetizers that came out. haha. But! doing that, we got to see the chef come out and look around. Turns out, he's this famous argentine chef we see all the time on the "El Gourmet" channel (their Food Network). It was so cool! I think it made the food taste better just knowing that. We watched him make Thai food last week.

The event was a lot of fun, the wine barrels were really cool, the food was good, the champagne was great and they even had live music! I think we were among the few actually looking at the wine barrels though, most of the people just came to show their face. And the hotel was so beautiful, $700USD a night to stay in the cheapest room.. yikes. I wanted to take pictures of the event and the barrels and the hotel, but I didn't. This one couple did and a lady actually frowned at them. I took one of me and Bryan right when we got there, but that was it. I found pictures online, so that works too I guess :)

Thennnn I went to class after that which sucked, but it was sports marketing so it wasn't too tough. My teacher brought in a guy from the Miami Dolphins marketing team who kept preaching to the class about how Dan Marino was the best QB ever... uhh Vince Young? helllooo.. haha just kidding. (Rosebowl 2006, anyone?)