Bienvenidos a Miami

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I just arrived back in New York last week after having joined a few girlfriends for a long week end down in Miami (which actually turned out to be more like a week after delays due to snowstorms in NY on the day we were leaving!)

Having spent the majority of the winter months trying to survive the icy temperatures of NY (and with the only break being going back to Norway to even icier temperatures), it was not hard to decide whether to go or not…

Quick 2.5 hour flight later, I was in cab on my way to South Beach… I have been there briefly couple times before but doesn’t really count as have suppressed the memories for various reasons…

The following day we headed to the beach… having had no time to do any significant ‘beach-prep-work’, I felt that I blended in nicely with the white sand… I figured a few rounds with factor -2 Hawaiian Tropic coconut oil would sort me out in no time..

We were staying at the Gansevoort South.. if you know the one in New York, the south beach one is almost too cool for skool.. .

just for the record, Whilhelmina Model agency is based on the third floor, so I can tell you that I felt pretty peachy there I was capsized on a sun-lounger surrounded by a swarm of beautiful (mainly Brazilian) stick insects (with no name)…

Two of the girls had fiancés back home, one of us was 100% single, and the remaining one was in 20% single…we headed out to eat before ending up in Louis- which is the new place to be under the Gansevoort - cool place but the packed with majority of girls.. and more specifically bachelorette parties… we were literally blinded by zirconia-covered tiaras and implants in every shape and size imaginable…

My friend Mina met a couple guys who conveniently enough had a boat… so the next day he invited us girls to join him and some of his friends… as Mina loves glitter and glamour she naturally assumed the boat was of a yacht-like nature… I could tell she was picturing a white-clad deckboy pouring her a glass of champagne on the observation deck of a 80ft yacht whilst watching the sunset Miami-style…

So when we arranged to meet him at 3pm the next day, we had dressed up to the nines, all of us in silk-like dresses.. I was hesitant between ballerinas and heels but went with ballerinas.. (which later on I was so glad I did!)..

My friend had also gotten a great deal on a rental car, but only for first couple days, so by the time I arrived to Miami, she had downgraded to a Hyundai ….as the cool option was costing the equivalent of the GDP of a small country..

The valet brought up the car and our wonderful little bright red Hyundai ‘yalla car’ appeared among the black Range Rovers and gunmetal gray Maseratis parked outside the hotel…we all piled in and sped over to the guy’s house…well not before my friend had disappeared for awhile, then suddenly emerging with the business card of the bellboy and asking us ‘how much do bellboys really make as he said he bought his girlfriend the exact same David Yurman ring as mine..?’

We arrived at the guy’s house and when we all got out of the car, he looked slightly amused and asked if all Norwegians really dressed up to go ‘boating’…
We just laughed not quite knowing what he meant.. “the boat’s docked over by the marina so just go on ahead and we’ll meet you there’ he said as he went with our friend to park the car…

We sauntered over to the docks and peered around the corner… there were about 6 boats docked.. two rubber boats, couple of fishing boats.. and a wonderfully yellow-coloured motorboat with the word ‘Cobra’ scribbled across the side…
‘Maybe it’s not this dock’ my friend said voice trailing off as we realized there was no other marina..

Spending all my summers in south of Norway I practically grew up by sea and that was certainly not wearing sequins and heels! So there we were dressed like we were off to a swanky cocktail soiree but instead having to remove our heels to embark on the 15ft speedboat…. embarrassing doesn’t even begin to describe the feeling when seeing the amused looks from his friends..

As for the rest of the weekend, it was a whirlwind of mohito-fuelled few days and we met so many people.. including couple of ‘Canadian Bachelors’ .. when I arrived back to New York last week, the next day I received an email from one of the Canadians saying they were coming to visit in NY the next day… reason being they had too much fun with the Norwegians…I guess what happens in Miami doesn’t necessarily stay in Miami..

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