I have blisters on my feet, my achilles is now officially messed up and my abs are aching but all that for a fabulous weekend of getting together with blog friends.

On Friday night I went to the Decor8 Meet & Greet in Amsterdam where I got to meet Holly and a whole bunch of other great bloggers. At 20:00 people slowly started to drop in and by 21:00 we were with a group of 20 from The Netherlands, Australia and Sweden. It was a great lingo of Dutch, German, English and Swedish - Germduswedenglish. I got to talk to so many great designers and to the fun people of 101 magazine and got the opportunity to shower them with compliments how fantastic their magazine is.

It was special to meet Holy in person. As we do some back and forth e-mailing you never really get to know the person until you meet them and that wasn't a disappointment.

I also met Nina and I've missed her 5 minutes of fame so I hope I get to see that soon. We dropped her off at home and we got some time to do some chatting and complimenting the work of her boyfriend over at Omroep Brabant - yes we are OB hooligans.

Thank you for such a lovely evening. And add; there's good food at de Kroon.

On Sunday I went to Paris for the day to meet up with Kathleen of Liquid Sky Arts and PaPaYa. It's been 4 years since we last met in new York so it was time we got to see each other again. The Bo dropped me off in Brussels and from there I took the Thalys to Gare de Nord and one tube stop to Kathleen. We had a French breakfast in this cute cafe and walked down to the Seine because we both wanted to tour on a boat and see the Eiffel tower. That was basically our only mission: see the Eiffel tower, be on a boat.

We had ice-cream under the Eiffel tower and decided that we wanted to go up, all the way up!! As we stood in the lift to go to the first floor we both cried because it was such a special moment for the both of us as Kathleen told me that she asked her husband "if I die before I've been to the top of the Eiffel tower, you have to scatter my ashes there". The top was fantastic, because it was cloudy the clouds were so dramatic from up there and the wind and the cold ... just beautiful.

Because Paris is the most romantic city I couldn't resist posting this photo of two girls who wear glasses, met on the internet, cried in the Eiffel tower lift and are still friends after all these years.

Yay for bloggers!!!