FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (PLUS GIRL ON GIRL ACTION) pt4

my last post ended with russian sign language, this is us sporting the other popular - yet international - symbol, the one for "weed" despite being in search for a new signature hand sign for all my photos (it's like my photo face, i'm barney stintson) i have troubles with this gesture. somehow movement of my ring and my little finger is synched, they just wont let me part them too much haha!

so this was our last day - we feasted on yet another amazing breakfast at hotel metropol - blini, salmon and caviar for breakfast, omg

damn, i'm hungry now

there was a harpist playing at breakfast! and we loved the piano player in the lobby

i made a movie about it, it's a romcom



well the next destination lead to us following a stranger through kilometers of dark corridors

a russian friend had looked up a shop for hats on the internet for us - they claimed to be a warehouse for vintage hats so this is what we were looking for

and this is what we found: a girl in a tiny room running an online shop for russian telenovela dvds

daliah looked up what we were looking for again did not help

so we had to give up on the hat project and went for what seemed feasible: souvenir food! unfortunately salmon is not a very good souvenir choice

but vodka! yes, that works

before seeing the last shows we did a little tour around the center with everything right between our hotel and the fashion week location

like the bolshoi theater

the resurrection gate

kazan cathedral

and st.basil's cathedral

we felt it was our troublemaking obligation to kiss, right in the middle of red square this is the pic that leni took of us

this took about two minutes. enough for a crowd to gather around us and stare (see the video, it also features vodka, kitsch and the "fashion force")

then went to see the last shows and showrooms, like the crazy headgears by "masterpeace"

one of the highlights of mercedes benz fashion week russia was the big show by japanese designers they hosted

only because fashion was great, had nothing to do with the cute and fun model boys, no way, we're professional

target of our backstage photo attacks, another favourite collection - by bessarion

the video of both shows (and a shop window)

then we met russian teenfirstrowblogger kristen and friend of voguediary

last night out for da gang

went to the bessarion afterparty, where we danced with our newly found bfs vlad and beka

probably we should not have danced and drank that much, at the airport next morning after 90 minutes of night's sleep

was fine for me since i always wear my bed now

of course flight was delayed, gave us the chance to watch "the lying game" and eat some russian popcorn which we referred to as "kringel"

before bringing them to the lab i snapped the 42 film rolls daliah shot during all of our russia trip! she is currently spending all her days scanning 24/7

that's all folks closing with marianne faithfuls song about our russian experience "don't say it in russian, don't say it in german. say it in broken english" well, you wish they could