A lovely day for travelling

I started my day with this delicious strawberry-mint-ginger-soymilk smoothie and a jog. I'm still feeling a bit jet lagged, it's a weird feeling... I woke up already at 8 o'clock, I guess my body hasn't yet gotten used to Finnish time and the amount of sunlight. It's amazing how bright it is here even during the night! The whole day I've been feeling so energetic. Maybe it's because I know that in a few hours I'll see my Turku  friends, finally :) It's been almost 5 months that I last saw them.

Yesterday I went to a flee-market and here's some stuff I found:

hippie-dress :)

At the moment I'm sitting on the train from Helsinki to Turku. I'm too excited so the time is going by very, VERY slow! It's a lovely weather tonight so I will be going to some nice restaurant and afterwards to the river boats.

Back home with a Jetlag

Today at 2 AM I arrived to Finland. And boy, the travel experience was by far worst I've ever had! First we had to fly from Toronto to Bruxelles. This took about 6,5 hours. This part of the trip was alright as there were many movies to watch during the flight. I'm not a big Twilight fan, but I still ended up watching the latest part! After this flisg came the worst part of the whole trip;We had stay at the Bruxelles airport for 12 hours. Brussels Airlines for some reason stopped flying to Helsinki so we  had to fly to Frankfurt to catch the Helsinki plane. We had originally planned to fly from Bruxelles straight to Helsinki, but our travel agency had to change it. I still can't believe they coulnd't find a better option than a 12 hour wait... All in all the whole trip from Toronto to Helsinki took about 35 hours(without sleep) so now I'm suffering from a pretty bad Jetlag.

I must admit, it's pretty nice to be back home. Toronto was great, but I think 4 months was just the right duration for my exchange experience. It's funny how I really started missing certain clothes,shoes etc. while I was there. I have always loved painting, arts and crafts, but I wasn't able to do anything without my stuff! At the moment I don't have an apartment so I have to stay at my parents' house. The problem is that my parents are renovating their "regular" house, meaning the house I grew up in, so my parents, my 2 cats and I are living in a pretty small apartment at the moment. However, it feels like home because some of the furniture are the same "old" ones.

The greatest part of staying at my parents' is that I don't have to pay rent and the fridge is always full of yummy food :) This will do fine before I find a new place in Turku :) As soon as I move into the apartment, I can start doing clothes and other projects, hooray!

Something I had waiting for me :)

Yesterday's outfit,new hair and more

This was my outfit yesterday when we went to the city to have "the last dinner" and drinks with our exchange student friends. I put a coat on, but it was a bit too warm for it. It's Nice that the final days in Toronto have been super warm! I finally got to cut my hair and colour it as well, it was in such horrible greenish and super dry condition after all the swimming. The colour is pretty close to my own hair colour so it will be easy to just let it grow.

Day 4 in Miami Beach

Yesterday was Cinco de mayo, a Mexican holiday. There was so much people in town and it ended up being quite crazy! First we had dinner and after a few drinks. The "few drinks" ended up being HUGE, 1,2 litres per drink. I took a strawberry daiqiri and the second round was free so beer was my second choice. I couldn't finish either one! When we were waiting for the bus to go to the hotel, things started going wrong; apparently the bus was 1,5hours late, and there were a lot of very aggresive people at the bus stop. It was nice that I got to sit down because my heels were killing me. I didn't know at that point that I was actually sitting next to some older man who had been acting crazy and pointing people with a knife... The cops came to the bus stop and started searching the guy's stuff in order to find a weapon. Thank God he hadn't gone crazy while I was sitting next to him! In the end we took a taxi because people were staring to get angry at each other and because of all the fuss.

Today It was the hottest day today so far, and I actually got a bit of a sunburn. We decided to go shopping in the evening, but in the end I didn't feel like shopping. We just walked a while in town, bought some food and came to the hotel.

People celebrating

Searching for a weapon

Healthy breakfast

Mr. Pink

Ourfit of the day

Trying darker make-up than usually

Shopping, eating and enjoying the sun in Miami Beach

I've been in Miami Beach now for a few days, but I've really enjoyed it! Sunny and really warm, clear turquoise water, cheap food and drinks... Every building and shop has air conditioning, so what's not to love? Our hotel is actually on the "more quiet" side of Miami Beach, so the restaurants and bars are a bit cheaper here. On the first evening we had delicious Cuban food, first time for me. It was absolutely delicious! I took grilled fish and it was served with very basic Cuban side dishes, Fried sweet bananas and rice with black beans. We've also French food and desserts. Yesterday we went shopping downtown. Macy's was my absolute favourite, too bad there was so much to see that I didn't actually buy anything, the amount of wonderful clothes,shoes and bags was just so overwhelming! We're going back there for sure. Here's some photos I've taken, including some stuff I did buy :) 

When I went to Mango, I found these really cute crochet bikinis. Too bad the model was not for my body, but I decided that I will actually crochet similar bikinis when I get back to Finland.

Urban outfitters. Love them!

Urban outfitters

Delicious Cakes from a French Café

Seen at least 4 of these fellows!

Shopping at Lincoln Road

Miami Beach calling!

I came home from the lovely Niagara Falls sunday evening, and now it's time for Miami Beach! Only 10 hours and we will be sitting on the plane. Me and K decided that before going back home to Finland we want to travel somewhere really warm. This trip will also be a "reward" for all the hard work we've done in Toronto. K will also probably be working all summer so this is the last chance to travel together in a long time. I still can't believe that it's been 4 months since we first came here...

I spent most of the day packing and getting ready for the trip by doing my nails etc. It's nice that we fly to Miami  already in the morning. It also takes only 3,5hours, so I can spend that time sleeping!

Packing. Can you tell I like colourful clothes? The Neon Yellow bikinis will look awesome once I get a real tan.

Something basic that will last even in the sea water.