Flashback Sicily (1)

So yes... The 9th of Octobre I had a one-week great escape to Sicily with Rikke. And I pretty much forgot I hadn't documented it.

We purchased a charter vacation and didn't know how we felt about that. And it was horribly tourist-y throughout the whole thing - but since we were at the Italian island outside the busy season it was actually quite all right.

The water was nice enough tempered to jump in and the first night of our visit, Denmark played against Italy (and lost miserably).

We booked a small trip with the firm (Tui) and got around to see some different towns - and we saw a Godfather location (the church).

Yes, we did see a lot of churches. It is Italy after all.

 Beautiful modern piece in a church in Taormina! And the bus plan changes quite a lot...

Buying food for lunch in the massive super market and eating Italian ice cream from our immediate favourite ice-vendor while watching chick flicks. 

Let's go to the beach, beach, let's play LUDOOOO. And how about going to Etna, the volcano, while we're nearby? (Basaltic stone is blackkkk weee)

Etna is so tall that you go above the clouds. It felt pretty surreal - seemed as you could step right across them. And yes we are considered children and bought Disney rings.

Going to Etna is probably ranked quiet high on my list of great achievements of my lifetime. It was such a fantastic experience ! I'm so glad we went.

 

 There were several different craters you could visit. Some were easy to get to. Others not so much. I decided to climb that MOUNTAIN (picture with bus) and it was both the worst and greatest idea ever. Rikke had to abandon ship since the air was so light and made the climb harder. I was bloody terrified since there were nothing to hold on to and the path wasn't cleared or made easy for you - it was millions of tiny stones that fell away from under your feet every time you took a step. I felt like I was going to fall down every second. But when I reached the summit it was just so breathtaking - and I'd surprised myself by actually accomplishing the climb.
And those souvenirs were ridiculous, haha.

Brushing Indian fashion

It'd been too damn long since I'd worn my dungarees! I love them so.

I went to the ARKEN museum of modern art with my parents some weeks back. They had this exhibition called "INDIA: ART NOW" with a selection of different installations. There was this video one, where items attached themselves to you until everything + the ground was covered. And that room with the fake pinball machines and horrible game soundtrack-ish music playing. That was quiet surreal.

The place was almost empty because we went in the evening on a weekday.

Gigantic heads!

Indian fashion designer.

Also! I'd been looking around for a brush set because to buy them on their own just adds up to a ridiculous amount of money. And then I found this one in Sephora - and it was 50 % off in the January SALE! So super cheap and I am really glad it has a stand, haha. So much more practical that way!

Belated greetings

 A very happy new year to all of you! I hope you all had a happy last day of 2012!

For my New Year's celebrations I went to dinner at Rasmus' along with Tina. We had a great, relaxed time and saw the Queen's speech as tradition says.

With stomachs full we went to Julie's party.

At the stroke of midnight we jumped into the new year hand in hand and a lot of the others went outside the set fire to the massive amount of fireworks that the hosts had bought. I stayed inside in safety, haha.

We played around with some sparklers I'd brought along.

Everyone looked so pretty ! And Rasmus found the table bombers to not be quite in his tastes, haha - it was a party of 15 girls and 2 blokes.

Goofing around is part of the festivities!

Stuffing our mouths with chips, yes. And one of my xmas presents was this caviar nail art kit - so I tried it out for the first day of '13.