Copenhagen New Year 2016

Me and my sister left for Copenhagen for New Year since neither of us wanted to spend it in Helsinki!

We thought of going for longer and further away like to Philippines or New York but with my ringette season on we couldnt, yet again..

It took us months to decide where to go and we ended up in Copenhagen. :D

We book the flights quite late, tho we only ended up paying around 150€ / return. Accomadation we decided to take via AirBnB since it was over 40€ cheaper / night than a hotel would have been. Found this kind nice apartment rather close to center and we paid 40€/ a night / person.

On 29th we woke up after 3 am and and were at the airport before 5 am. The flight to Copenhagen took around 1 hour and 40 minutes which we managed to sleep somehow..

At the aiport we met our landlady Marta who came to give us keys to her apartment. We bought a metro ticket and hoped on to Metroline 2. Got off on second to last stop at Flintholm, hoped to bus number 13 for six stops and managed to get off at the right stop with Trina's maps when she put the mobile data on couple of times. The walk from the bus stop to our place was maybe 300 meters. After trying to figure out which door was ours since the doors didn't have any names on them we tried one and figured that it wasnt ours.

Nice little apartment, just perfect for us! :)

We took a bus 2A to citycenter and just started wandering around the narrow streets. We went to eat at Friends&Brgers tho I passed since my stomach felt shitty.. Shopping and wine was included in our day. We went to Irma for grocery shopping and then started heading back to our place. I was absolutely knackered for the day. We watched the movie Nerve and after at 8 o'clock I started sleeping and woke up 12,5 hours later. :D

Notices:
- Most people speak really good English!
-Loads and loads of bikes! Really wide bike streets next to the car lines
-Supermarkets Netto and Irma 

Asia for 10 weeks!

The idea about a trip to Asia came from the place we had met.. We wanted to go back to Asia, not to Thailand yet tho. We have this massive map on our wall (actually two maps..) and on this dark and cold November night we decided that we wanna go! The length of the trip was first three months, then it dropped to two months because of our work and the rent we obviously would have to pay from the empty apartment.. When booking the tickets to Kuala Lumpur we become a bit creedy and added and an extra two weeks.. So all in all ten weeks! 

We opened up our travel account to which we saved around 300 € / head / each month. We searched about airBnb but decided not to do that.. We carefully asked our landlady about if one of my friends could come and live here while we were in Asia.. She basically said yes.. I started posting on different webpages and told my friends about that our place would be free to rent for almost three months. Couple of young girls were interested in moving to Helsinki for the summer. They couldnt promise anything so we decided to forget them and move on. So many weird people contacted me! For example a Russian family of five people..! This weird woman that I searched from Facebook that had some hooks on her skin and was hanging from the ceiling! :D All the emails were so annoyingly written like no phone numbers, no "best regards" or anything.. 

I think in around January I got an email from this couple and it stood out a lot! It was so nicely written saying that almost on the exact dates they were gonna have pipe repair thing on their apartment block and they had to move out.. They were so nice and friendly so I knew that was it! They were willing to pay the whole rent! OUR SAVING !! They came to see the place and Steve was at work so mom came here with me. We agreed the renting on a piece of paper which I printed from the internet. SO nice and honest couple, could NOT have asked anything better. I knew instantly that our place would be "safe" and kept well. We only removed some papers from the house and left everything else here. When we got our place rented we saved over 2000€! That woulda been a massive lump to save extra just to get the rent paid!!

The shit thing is that I had written all the money stuff up on my phone... and.. it exploded in Singapore! 

We spent around 2500€ together without flights to KL and back! So not that bad at all I don't think! So basically everything included for the 10 week trip from the two of us costs us less than 3500€!

The dates that we went were from 27.4 to 3.7! The spring went really fast when we had to work and I had to finish off the ringette season so that I could actually go on a holiday that long. From the gym I just arranged all my clients that they knew I was going and did programs for them in advance to which they would change at certain point. 

We didn't plan that much! I'm usually really good at planning trips and organizing stuff but I struggled! I felt like it was too long of the trip to plan. We read here and there and had a rough plan which changed on the way many times just because lack of time and that we hadn't considered distances that much. What looked like a short trip on the map could easily have taken hours and hours because of the poor condition of the roads! 

We had to get a visa to Indonesia which we wanted to take in advance. We went to the embassy and they denied it because we didn't have an arriving date to the country. That was so annoying cause we hadn't wanted to put any time for ourselves when we were gonna swap from Malaysia to Indonesia and which point we would go to Singapore.. Originally we had also planned to go to Philippines but that we decided to forget in quite early state because of money and all the hassle. We went to to actually see the countries properly not just a glimpse of places.

Here starts the story writing almost two years later.. Thank god we wrote a journal! :P

My fairy tale

This one was written on 27th of October, three months after me and Steve decided to continue our lives to different directions..

Καρδιά μου πληγωμένι..

Sad? Mad at life? Hurt? Lost? Empty? Tired? Broken?

Are words to describe how lost I feel. Most of the people have broken up and everyone handles it differently. Im just a big broken mess. Lost and alone. My heart and my chest literally hurts. I wanna throw up. I have lost my best friend to whom i could tell and share everything with. Who was there for me for everything. The kindest, sweetest and loving man i will ever meet. Now it's just me and my thoughts.

It's been 13 weeks and the first ten of them i cried every day until i had to go to doctor's because my heart hurt. Literally. Nothing was found. The nurse told me as a female to another that i have a broken heart. I havent stopped my life tho, im fine during the days when im busy with two jobs, school and my sport. When alone at a car, bus or at home im a crying mess.

What doesnt kill you makes you stonger they say. I believe in that. I also believe that everything happens for a reason. I just cant see that now, will i ever?  To give up someone you love madly just for the other person to be happy or find what they want in life is one of the most difficult things i have ever done. Or will ever do. To let go someone you love and the only person you have ever been able to see the future with. To know that the other person loves you to the moon and back, respects you of who you are and what you do and then you need to let go. It's hard. No words to describe it. Nothing. Just tears.

He showed and taught me what love is and what it can be. He will become the most perfect and loving husband and a father one day when he finds his passion and desire in life what he wants to do, and the place where he feels like home.

It started from Thailand as a summer romance, as a fairy tale. It ended up over three years later by best friends giving up from each other cause the time and the place didnt match in this life. This was my fairy tale.

Always thankful from everything <3

The morning after the strip club

The morning after the strip club. OMG what a hang over. Ida left to shop when me and Melina were trying to get some will to live again.. We dragged ourselves to In and Out burger and I was probably still drank at that point. I felt AWFUL! My head was spinning like fuck.

We took a Uber to Tipsy's place around 14.00, from the downstairs pizza place we built our own pizza's for 8.99!! It was similar place to Subway here in Finland but just for pizzas. Brilliant. We went to the poolside to eat and chill! NICE!

There was this guy with a parrot there who came to talk to us. We stayed by the pool for the whole day until the sunset. Beautiful.

We went to eat with Ida, Melina and her friend at this Wasapi place after they got ready at Tipsy's place. Then Tiffany drove us to our hotel for me to get ready and then hit a bar again. HOW were we able to with Melina? NO IDEA!

But before we left to eat at this nice place which name I cant remember :( we went to eat at The Cheesecake factory!! Brilliant!

This club was located in West Hollywood and was called 1OAK. We had the kindest promotor there and our table (with free drinks of course) was on this platform behind the DJ. Pretty nice. ;) I wasn't able to drink barely anything that night, the taste of vodka was too much for me..

We took Uber home together all three of us. :)

The next morning it was time for me and Ida to pack and start heading to airport while Melina stayed for another couple of days. :)

Waffles and chicken and a strip club ?

On a Sunday morning we woke up at 10.30, hangover of course. Melina had talked about this Waffle and Chicken Roscoe's place ages so we decided that fuck it, let's have that for breakfast. Ida didn't wanna come with us so we agreed on catching up later with her to go sightseeing.

The place was weirdly popular! Definitely not a breakfast place but at 10 am you had to queue to get in! We waited around 30 minutes until we got called in by name. We ordered literally waffle and chicken. Check the pic!

After that we went to catch up with Ida at this starbucks place and I was trying to sort my card out with my bank here in Finland.. Saw some nice street art on the way there:

Then we left to walk to the Observatory which was quite a walk for two hangovers in a warm sunny weather.. Views again were pretty amazing. We didn't spend too long at the Observatory cause there wasn't really anything to see..

After the climb down we shopped a bit and then took Uber home, had a little rest, got ready and head out again.

It was time for a bar right at the Hollywood street, a bar called OHM! Free drinks again at a table all night! Stayed until it closed around 2 am. A really good night it was! :)

On a Monday morning we took an Uber to Beverly Hills! Rodeo Drive was just like in movies! All the expensive cars etc. Definitely felt like I didnt belong in there...!!!

Then it was time to shop again at this close by shopping center ! I found lovely Nike's but of course they didnt have my size.. Didnt buy anything. Ida stayed to shop while me and Melina found this SoupPlantation food court ! Amazing! Paid almost nothing for a buffet of all sorts of stuff!

That night was my bday.. Me and Melina got ready and somehow we agreed to leave for a strip club... We accidentally got there one hour too early.. A bit embarrishing.. This night is probably the most embarrishing of my life. :D We went for drinks to this close by pub which ended up being a guy bar. We sophisticatedly drank one class of wine each and got ready to face the strippers. Got in VIP, didnt have to queue. The first hour I was shocked to see all the women getting ready and walking at the bar talking to people. Boobs everywhere. Almost naked bodies everywhere. Most of them were fake tho especially asses!!! So many implants! I was also really surprised to see also bigger girls and "normal" who weren't that thin nor tight at all.. Cellulite also (thank god im not the only one, even strippers have it! )

Video doenst work. Thank god.

We eventually got to our table where we were the only girls just three guys there with us. I was probably closer to 12 when we got our first drinks.. Vodka, champagne, cognac.. you name it. Then the strippers came in. Oh god. They were quite good. Then also Black Chyna and the boyfriend came in to celebrate their engagement. That was also in the newspapers in Finland the next day. What a coincidence.

We stayed at the table until they started to close maybe around 2 am.. Considering that we started to drink at 12 and I can barely remember anything after 2 am was something. We drank so fast and so much that I dont know how im alive :D They can't sell alcohol after two so they collected everything away and I remember trying to hide my drink from them so i could finish it.. Woulda been a good idea to give it away at that point.

We also danced. On our table not on the poles, thank god. I also got tipped. Three one dollar notes. One in my bra.

Can't remember leaving the bar. We got to this car with these random people. I remember feeling terrible. At one point Melina told me this is it, we are getting out. We got out at this gas station in some getto area.. They went to get so weed or some drugs so we decided to fuck of. We got uber back to our place, and yes we stopped for me to through up. I think I puked in the car also a bit.

When we eventually got back Ida said that it had taken us 10 minutes to come up from the car (it took literally 10-15 seconds to walk to our door..). We hadnt even been able to open to door.. I walked straight to bathroom to throw up. Wasnt able to take my shoes off by myself.

What a fucking night.