Waking up in Finland

Kate Perry sings about waking up in Vegas and shaking the glitter out of your clothes. Waking up in Finland - no glitte to shake off yet - I do have it in my make-up bag.

We took the boat over, so I really fell asleep out on open water and woke up in Turku, Finland. But before falling asleep, we were dining in the Buffet and singing karaoke... Amy sang "I kissed a girl" while four or five of us where supportive dancers... I think we might REALLY have shocked the rest of the people at the bar.

We like to call the boats that go between Finland and Sweden "the Fuckboat" and they are cheap and usually people are really drunk. Since our reason for going to Finland is to play a bout (well, not me, I'm running line-ups) no one was drunk and we all went to bed early... Yeah... Exciting life of rock stars like us!
Today is quite a bout day in the Scandinavia (yes I know that Finland is not a part, but if everyone else does include I will too) Stockholm B-team is playing in Tampere, that's where I'm heading right now in Flukes fast car, an Gothenburg is playing Nidaros (Norway) while Crime City B-team in Malmö are hosting Oslo and Helsinki B-team... Exciting day for Nordic derby!

Can't wait for tonight! It's gonna be exciting!

Waiting for the boat to leave Sweden

Kahavi (coffee in Finnish)

Hm, this was found on the boat

Fluke by his sweet ride we took to Tampere

On my way to Helsinki

SwedeVix and CrimeCity have been eating my time latly, not that I mind at all - but the truth is that I do also have other obligations. Tomorrow I'm coaching two separate teams in Helsinki, two mixed teams of girls that have never met each other before - well most of them have not. I am going to MayDay in Hell, something I've been signed to do for over 7 months. AND I get to see Wile from FastGirls, who is one of my best friends, we usesd to skate together on the SockitWenches and the Allstars when I was on RatCity!! 
But this means I am missing the UK Invades Crime City tomorrow - and I am sad I will not be able to be there ans support the CCR girls who are playing their first and second bout, not my beloved Loony who gets to play her third bout.

So here I am on an airport, like o many other times, trying to figure out if any of those other girls at the gate are derby girls... I'm easy to spot since I HATE checking my skates, so I am always dragging my pink skatebag full of derbystickers around, and on top of that, my helmet is hanging off it.. So I am probably an easy derbygirl to spot.... well, I am really looking forward to meeting a whole lot of girls that are skating all around Europe... YAYAAA for European derby! So hot right now!

Leaving NYC for Berlin

There is always a new destination on my road, I am always heading somewhere new, but leaving NYC I do with a very heavy heart! I love Bunny, OMG, Bonnie, Fisti and Justin here... they are just great people... not to mention my old Manhattan Mayhem teammates and all that!

I do also miss my friends in Seattle and my friend in LA, Chicago, Denver and yeah... all those increadble girls I have gotten to know via derby! But most of all miss my girl in Copenhagen, she is quite grand!

 Yesterday I hung out at Five Stride, and now I'm a proud owner of a pair of PURPLE Moxi skates, a five stride hoodie, gumball toestops and I also finally got those DARN Stingers... I cannot wait to try them out at Malmös next practice, but first I have a stop in Berlin, to attend EROC.

Day TwentyOne

Going to Sweden, traveling back to the homeland... yepp, falling asleep over the ocean waking up and it will be Day TwentyTwo

Work out: I am recovering from the past weekend...
Derby: Hard to skate on a flight... just sayin'

Breakfast: Coffee with milk
Snack: Bagel with Cream Cheese
Lunch: a salad at the airport
Snack: Herbalife Vanilla Shake
Dinner: Whatever the airline decides to serve me out of a little box