twenty, twenty one, and FABULOUS!

Well, as you know...because we know you read our blog on the daily, we celebrated some biiggg events this week -- Gabrielle turned 20 & Gina Marie turned 21! And we still aren't done because we are about to spend 7 DAYS IN ITALY to continue Gina Marie's birthday celebrations!

First, Gabrielle turned 20 suchaaa babe she is BUT we had a classy celebration in Paris and then came back to Madrid on Sunday to have one more celebration! We get home and Concha gives Gabrielle a card with 150 euros inside, of course we had to spend every dollarrrr!  So we got all fancy, stopped at the chinitas for a quick pick me up and then off to the best American restaurant in town..HARD ROCK CAFE! And there we met a future lover of one of the hotties - not gina or gabby, but we still won't share ;) - JOE! After a round of drinks, bomb ass nachos, and some delicious fattyyy american food we left Joey boyyy a love note and started the party at this club Katy, our badassss waitress suggested. Serrano 41 -- GO THERE! SPANISH BASKETBALL PLAYERS & GHETTOO FAB PEOPLE! It was like the hella in Espana, we felt at home!!! We went dumb, had a dance off with some black guyss and then called it a night...seeing we had class at 9am the next morning. Don't worry! WORK HARD PLAY HARD little onessss, we got our cute bootey's up and went to see Saul for clase!

Now, 21st BIRTHDAY IN ESPANA!!! The night started with this scene:

and a Birthday Speech given by the besttiieeee, Gabrielle. It went something like this "I want to wish Gina Marie a happy happpyyy birthday. I couldn't get her a birthday present because I have been with her for the past 1 million hours because she is just the besttest friend and will always listen to me. She is absolutely gorgeous, some say her smile comes from within. HAPPYY BIRTHDAYY HOTTAYY CHEERS!" -- Best Speech, WE KNOW!

So we did some work in our bedroom, which you can't mistake because there are 2349 pictures of us on the front door. ANYWAY, dance party, shotssss, and picture taking began night 1 of being 21!! and that's all we can really tell you about that night....clearly, it was AWESOME.

Happy Birthday to US!!!!!!

xoxo, 

gabby and gina

Je t'aime Paris

Just got back from the city of <3333, PARIS!!! We had an absolutely amazing time and Paris was BREATHTAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL--we even got to experience some winter wonderland snowfall! How perfect, snowing in Paris -- getttt out i know!  

We left Wednesday night (ditched thursday classes--sorryyy bout it) and finally arrived to our hotel about midnight just in time to wish gabby a very happy 20th birthday!  We decided to stay in that night and rest up for the next days Paris excursions.  Rise and shine thursday morning AKA gabby's birthday and thanksgiving we layered on about 7 items of clothing and blow dried our socks and boots and were ready to hit the town.  We started heading towards the Louvre and then made our way to Champs Elysse from there.  There were adorable little christmas markets all lining the streets right before Champs Elysse.  Gabby introduced Gina and the rest of the hottiess to their first Crepe!! sooo yummm! After hours of shopping we finally made our way to a warm birthday dinner, back to the hotel to shower and get ready and then best of all the arrival of our hottiee, Kelly Lynn who we have missed soo much!!! Reunited all together again, FINALLY!!! As soon as Kelly arrived we head out to check out the Persian night life.

Champs Elysee

We headed to this part of town that we had heard was the best place to go out--which ended up being a lie but thats okay ahah.. we started to get in line for this club/bar when of course a very large group of european boys flocked to us and wanted to know what such beautiful girls were doing that night. We decided to leave that club and had the boys escort us to this other bar where the bartender decided it was a good idea to just go ahead and start making us some sex on the beaches--um k we didnt order those and when he slapped the fat bill of 45 euros on the bar we said seee yaaa lattaaa and ran outta there leaving our european boys inside.  don't get us wrong though, we were supppaaa sad to leave Roman, like the empire, and the rest of the IM: International Awesome Members at the bar. after running around up and down random streets still trying to find somewhere fun to go we decided to just call it a night since not much was happenin.  We called some taxis and headed back to the hotel--except for Emily and Kelly! when the girls got into their cab and began to drive away they spotted some French hottie walking the streets and naturally emily flashed a little smile and wave from inside the cab and the boy walks over and hops in the cab with the girls! So obvvss the night was not coming to an end for kelly and emily but instead he took them to one of his favorite clubs on champs elyssee! sooo awesome right!!??? who could resist those hotties, HONESTLY!

Alright so now friday we saw Notre Dame, toured the inside of the Louvre, and reunited with another one of our hotties, PEYTRA, our little HOOTAAYYYYY Perisian! Peytra took us to a little cafe later in the afternoon and then pointed us in the right direction to get to Galeries Lafayette--another fabulous shopping shop in Paris!  Galeries Lafayette was all decorated for Christmas with lights and trees--it was soo beautiful!  After the Galeries we finally made our way to, THE EIFFEL TOWER!  We headed to the top where we overlooked all of beautiful Paris!  There is no experience that can compare to being at the top of the Eiffel Tower, it is just tooo amazing!  

Reunited under the Eiffel Tower <33

Saturday we took a train to the city of Versailles for the day to see the gardens and palace!  After Versailles we headed back to Paris to go to dinner with Peytra!  She took us to this really cool part of town near where she lives.  The restaurant was super cool and our waiter was soo hott we wanted to give him Peytra's number so they could date, but she wouldnt let us :(  Just imagine a hotter version of Robert Pattinson -- the perfect hair, skinny tie and white button up untucked from his straight jeans, AND he spoke english - SNAPS TO THAT! Ohhh and also the boy from Emily's Thursday night gave her a little call and asked her out on a date! shutttt upppp! so Gabessyyy, as we like to call him, came to the restaurant to pick emily up, meet the parents aka: US and then took Miss Emily out on a romantic date night in PARIS!! sooo jealouss!!! We told her, you have to  be home before we leave, and just like the angel she is...she came home, and snuggled right in between gabby and gina for a little nap (:

After a beautiful few days in Paris, we got up around 4am, cabbed it to the airport, and headed back to Espana! 

xoxo,

gabby and gina

6 Brilliant Strategies

You want to know what's great about being the only girl in your family? YOUR PARENTS MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY. So naturally, we get nonstop packages from our mommy's and daddy's -- thankkkssss!! Gabrielle's mama has been sending us every Cosmo issue and this November's had a particularly inspirational article called "Live the Life You Want." Gina read through it, highlighted the most important parts & then read it out loud. Because who highlights magazine articles? -- DEDICATED PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BE ON OPRAH, ahh yuppp!  We will give you the over view:


1. Think Backwards - when you set a goal, aka publish a book, build an empire, become a housemom, etc. you start with your end goal at the top of the list and work down! Our hottiieee roommate, Victoria, made one for herself -- so follow hers for an example: 

my (Victoria's) list:

1. be front row at gabby and gina's show on oprah

2. read gabby and gina's book

3. have my name mentioned in gabby and gina's book

4. have my name mentioned in XOXOgabby&gina

5. get fucked up with gabby and gina

6. befriend gabby and gina

7. meet gabby and gina

8. request gabby and gina as roommates

** Victoria has accomplished 5/8 things on her list, HOW FAR ARE YOU??

snappppsssss to VICTORIA! ***

Always making friends <3

2. Day Dream a Lot - well obbvviiiii!---for example: think BEAUTIFUL, RICH, housewife, married to BEAUTIUFL, RICH, HOTTIEEE--5 beautiful children and an over all FABULOUS life

3. Tap In to the Most Powerful Time of Day - 30 minutes before you go to bed, vision your goal because, "your mind is subconsciously conditioned to think of your goal not as a pipe dream but as an everyday reality that you can - AND WILL - achieve."

4. Reboot Your Brain - you know, with shots...tequila is preferred--LIKE

5. Be Like a Palm Tree - duhh, the west coast is the best. but really though, "a palm tree is strong yet flexible and that's exactly how successful people approach life."---CAL-I-FOR-NIA GURLSS, we're UNFORGETTABLE

6. Look Up for 3 Seconds - are bitches talking shit and you are rattled by it? look up for 3 seconds and negative thoughts will be cleared out of your mind!

we hope this was just as inspirational to you as it was to us!

xoxo,

gabby and gina

It wasn't over for me....IT STILL ISN'T OVER!

HEYYY HOTTTIEESS!!! MISSS USSS????? Sooo updatesss...well we have 34 days left until AMERICA; HOWEVER only 7 of which are actual class days! can you say SUCH. A. JOKE. ESPANA! soo awesome! as you can see classes have been prettty demanding..NOT!

UMM as for the puntoss umm well its been a little slow lately in the gabby/gina department--sorryyyy what can we say we just love/miss our American hottiess especially considering the last tally on the board for BOTH gabrielle and gina marie was for TEAM AMERICA hayyyyy..

What elseeee....

OHH soo we finally got the chance to ride boats in El Parque Retiro!  We have been dying to do this for soo long!  When Gabby's friend Shayna and her friends came to visit Madrid all the way from Budapest we of course had to take them to the beautiful Parque Retiro and ride some boats!  We split up with Miss Emily, Gabby, and Gina in one boat and the other three girls in another.  Obbvss we exchanged cameras so that we could take some gorgeous facebook prof pics of each other.. The boats were just too much fun and we literally laughed the entire time taking turns rowing and quoting super cheesey lines from the Notebook over and over and over and over!  "GET IN THE WATER! I'm sorry get in the water, BABY!" "Why didn't you write me? I wrote you 365 letters...I wrote you everyday for a year...It wasn't over for me...IT STILL ISN'T OVER!"

OH! we have also found a new obsession for being obnoxiously annoying on the metro, because that is what we, AMERICANS, are...loud, obnoxious people and we now could care less about what people think of us because as it was explained to Gabrielle in Ireland from some drunk South African man America is like this: "if the whole world died & america only exist, America would be perfectly happy." and all we got to say is DAMNNN STRAIGHT WE WOULD. GOD BLESS THE USA

XOXO,

gabby and gina

ps: enjoy some Notebook you tube videos here:

"I wrote you everyday for a year!"

"GET IN THE WATER!"

And now, I miss everything about you

Loviess <33

Colbie Caillat on constant repeat along with a bunch of other sappy crap, OC Season 1 re-runs on DVD, stocking facebook photos...I guess we are a little homesick :(  We knew it was coming.  We are absolutely LOVING Espana and having the most fabulous time here, but we just really really really miss home!  We have spent a lot of time lately telling each other lists of all the things we miss the most so we compiled them all together (almost all of them) <333


Well of course we miss our mommys, daddys, baby brothers, and doggys the most and then....

USD

watching the OC after a night out

Watching CMT every morning

Olin Hall--especially your BLUE COMFY COUCH!

Cuties

American DOLLAA BILLSS

the BEST dinner before alchy

cowboy boot fridays or everydayy

CALIFORNIA BURRITOS

HOTTIES

TWO HOTTIES-perf

Our Alpha Chi Hotties

AMERICAN BOYS

Mission Beach: bayside runs, bike rides, roaming around your beautiful streets late at night, walking home, beach, sunsets...EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU

I got PATRON in my cup...

DYING for some Subway!

Livermore--HELLAAA

chocolate chip pancakes, egg whites and avocado, and some sour dough toast PUUULEASEEE!

AMERICA WE MISSS YOUUUU!!!!

XOXO,

gabby and gina 

For the Camels

You are going to die when you hear this, but we took a trip to AFRICA this weekend! I know, GET OUT, who would have thought we would be vacationing in Morocco? But we read the trip itinerary and saw "CAMELS" and we knew that we absolutely had to ride one of those precious animals! 

beautiful Moroccan coast

  

cute staircase in Chefchaouen!

so we arrived in tangiers on a rainy day and met our tour guide, Rashid, translated: Slave to the Ladies. IYYY!!! he asked us where we were from, we gave the usual response - California! - and he yells "CALIFORNIA?!! gag me with a spoon!" He just had the funniest lines and at the hotel he made gabrielle try on his moroccan dress, duhh she looked damn good in it! We explored Tangiers later that day and figured this entire trip was going to be such a culture shock for us, but in a good way!

Next day, we woke up and thought today is the day - CAMELS! but we get to breakfast and hear the news that today is not camel day, so back to the room to change our outfits because of course there is a specific outfit for riding camels. Instead we took a trip to a nearby town called Chefchaouen. It is such a cute little town and famous for its pretty blue walls and narrow streets!

Obvious

a house in California, Tangiers

then, monday came..THE BEST DAY EVER!!! We woke up to clear skies, the only  day it did not rain in Morocco, and perfect weather! we put on our camel riding outfits and once again, our fabbbb tour guide Rashid - "in america you have john travolta, in morocco we have rashid" - took us to where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediteranean Sea, such a gorgeouss site! Then we passed through what they call the California of Morocco with big mansions and palm trees -- ahh how much we miss those palm trees in san diego! this day we didn't feel like we were in Morocco, it was practically a paradise here!


We anxiously waited the bus ride and then FINALLY, we made it to THE CAMELS!!!!!! The camel ride made the whole trip! The man who was in charge of the camels, fell in love with gina - naturally as old men always do - and even said good bye to her when we left! we almost cried when we had to say buh  byee to the camels, they were just....de punta madre! OH! and our badass roommate, victoria, made friends with this sickkk moroccan man. he absolutely LOVEDD her and was trying to sell us hats and jewels. and then he sang to us, "MONEY MONEYY MONEYY HONEYYYY!!!" we wanted to take him home!  This day was hands down the best day because we got to see the pretty places Morocco has that made us feel not totally sketched out and we never ever wanted to leave the beach! It was even hot enough to lay out in, but we had to go see some caves after and took some lovely gayy photos -- as usual!  after a moroccan dinner filled with belly dancers and some haterrssss we went back to the hotel for some prime pillow talk, shared some good laughs and went to bed...but gina still wouldn't cuddle with me!!!

Morocco was definitely something different then what we are used to. we are happy we are back in Madrid though, ALIVEEE!!! and have now officially ridden came on the beach, such an awesommeee experience!!!!