The Perfect Peruvian Dress

GRACE ESPERANZA writes: It was our last day in Lima. Time really does go by especially in Lima. I couldn't believe it was our last night and in about a day we would be in Cuzco. The weather was gorgeous like it always is in Lima. Its usually not too hot and has a perfect breeze. My favorite part in Lima has always been Barranco. Barranco is a only a 5-10 sole trip away from Miraflores which is where we are staying. Some of the group wanted to spend our last night right off the ocean with a nice dinner. Me and one of my classmates (Cristina), wanted to go shopping for a nice summery dress. Last time we went shopping we went to one of the main malls in Lima and didn't have much success. We first spotted this little mini mall. There were a bunch of little stores who all had a variety of dresses.

We both looked a little lost entering the little mall and I felt like people knew we were tourist; but I still wanted a summery dress! I looked at some stores. The dresses looked far to tight, bright and just too out there! Once we entered a store I automatically said "hola!" and smiled at whoever was working in the store, then the person said something back and I completely didn't understand what they said. Each time I entered a store they said some greeting that me and Cristina couldn't understand but we just smiled. Then we finally entered a store where we both found dresses. The lady who worked there told us we could try them on. I turned around to look for a dressing room and I found out the dress room was actually a little curtain that wrapped around the person who tried on the clothes. Cristina and I both got into our dressing rooms, you could barely move, it was by far the smallest dressing rooming I had ever been in. We both laughed at how different it was but there where mirrors at least. The lady at the little store told us the dresses were "muy lindos" which means "very pretty." At the end, we both decided that store had our perfect Peruvian dresses for our last night in Lima.