"These friends, they don't love you, they just love the hotel suites"

Because in the end we've had each other for years. And for years to come. It's like walking on egg shells and not caring if they break. Truth only hurts when it's not true and that's never been the case here. It's feeling like you're home when fingers touch and laughing at inside jokes that sometimes don't make sense to us either.
The tac-tac-tac of heels on the empty streets sounds as sweet as an unheard symphony in my ears and I love that you hear it too. We can all dance in circles around our hearts and enjoy the night.

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Late birthday parties are the best because they're unique. They're un-birthday birthdays that we share with just us, laughing while the whole world stares bewildered. Mada's late birthday last night was just that and more. Happy birthday darling :)

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Birthday girl looking fabulous!





Improvised photoshoot i the middle of the street, the clock struck midnight and the people stared be just didn't care. From left to right: Me, Dana, Mada and Minnie.


Strike a pose, break a lens!











Obligatory full outfit shot!




















We went to this turkish/egiptian place that has these turkish/egyptian smoking things. Dana and I did a Godfather smoking remake. (PS: none of us really smoke, hence the happy dizzy smiles in the photos after this one)








Narcissism and alcohol go well together.





Minnie and I <3





One last photo while sitting at a stop sign. Lots of cars and lots of laughs.


So long, good bye and good night! Tomorrow will be greeted with aspirins and coffee.

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Song of the Day: Fall Out Boy - I Don't Care

"It's a new world each day; Rome - Days One & Two"

"Rome is like a book of fables, on every page you meet up with a prodigy. And at the same time you live in dream and reality. "

- Hans Christian Andersen

I finally got round to sorting through all the photos I took in Rome and it was a very enjoyable -- even if very tiring --task. So here is the first batch of photos from Day 1 and Day 2. Sorry to any dial-up users for the insane number of photos but I always have a hard time when trying to decide which photos to take out and which to leave!

These photos are my favorites I took in those first two days. Enjoy!

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Day One:


Plane from Bucharest to Rome now boarding.


I love window seats, it always feels like I'm floating on clouds and not flying in a tin can 10000 meters from the very hard ground.


Making our hotel room feel like home.


View from our terrace. We got in very late that day, hence the stars.






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Day Two:


Breakfast in the back garden.


Welcome to Vatican City. Straight ahead say hello to the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano (also known as St. Peter's Basilica)





The Basilica is breathtaking. I haven't felt this tiny in a long time.


Just like I said: breathtaking beautiful.








Altar.














Michelangelo's Pietà. No, people have not exaggerated, it really is an amazing work of art. The kind that makes you sit there with wide eyes, wondering how something so beautiful could be sculped out of piece of rock.





View from the balcony up at the dome.





View af Vatican and Rome from the very top.








Vatican Museum.


Ahem, cute boy ;)


I love photographing people. That's something new I learned on this holiday. They're more intereting than anything out there. Usually people don't sit to be photographed but some do and those end up being my favorite photos.


Laocoon and His Sons.








Salvador Dali will always get my heart pumping, especially when seen this close!


Te exit stairs. They sure let you out in style!
(Unfortunately there are no photos of the Sistine Chapel because the gards wouldn't let us take any photographs.)


Our first italian lunch/dinner.








It's the only city I've been in where the streets are so beautiful that you just want to walk everywhere.

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Song of the Day: Incubus - Echo

"Suddenly we're running out of time"

"We're crashing cars we used to share
With summer girls
With summer hair
We're driving around chasing the stars
But the party's busted up
Before it ever starts

Stop making plans, start making sense
Don't you believe any word they said
Sparked up, sparked up like a book of matches
Falling through the night
And rising from the ashes

I'll never let you go
Don't ever forget
Tell me you'll remember
Forever young
I'll never let you fall
It's not over yet
You and me forever
Forever young
We're forever young
We're forever young
We're forever young"

The Academy Is... - Summer Hair = Forever Young