1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,640 What's up y'all? 2 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:12,320 Thanks for joining the Travel Tales and Talk podcast with Derek and Makayla. 3 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:13,320 I'm Derek. 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:14,440 I'm Makayla. 5 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:23,040 Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. 6 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:24,040 What's up y'all? 7 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:25,040 We back. 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:30,760 Today with us we have a special guest, our daughter, our oldest child, Aliyahna. 9 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:31,760 Hey Aliyahna. 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:32,760 Hey. 11 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:33,760 Hey, what's going on? 12 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:35,240 Finally got you on the show. 13 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,840 We're going to talk about your trip and your mother's trip and London Rose's trip to Ottawa. 14 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,080 I didn't get to go because I had to work. 15 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,240 I never get to enjoy the fun stuff. 16 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:48,280 So today we're going to talk about y'all's trip to Ottawa. 17 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:50,800 And we always start off like this. 18 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:54,440 Why are we in Ottawa, Makayla? 19 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:59,520 Because Aliyahna, she loves all things plants. 20 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,080 And she found out about the Tulip Festival that they have there every year. 21 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,000 And so she wanted to go. 22 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:11,800 She literally got her passport so that she could go to the Tulip Festival. 23 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:13,840 Sounds like fun. 24 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:15,500 And you drove. 25 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:16,500 You guys drove. 26 00:01:16,500 --> 00:01:19,200 There was no flights I heard. 27 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:20,200 No. 28 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,400 Aliyahna, why didn't we fly to Ottawa? 29 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:28,000 Because I don't like planes and I'm afraid of heights a little bit. 30 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,920 It'll make the trip so much faster, though, because that's a long drive. 31 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,840 That's 12 and a half hours. 32 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:36,840 But it was nice seeing the sights. 33 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:38,840 What is it now? 34 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:39,840 At night. 35 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:40,840 At night? 36 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:41,840 At night? 37 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:43,720 OK, let's talk about these sights at night. 38 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:52,560 Now keep in mind, from our front door to the hotel in Ottawa should have taken us 12 hours. 39 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:54,360 It took us about 18. 40 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:55,360 We drove through the night. 41 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:56,840 And it happened to be the night. 42 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:03,320 Do you guys remember when we had the Northern Lights happening over the United States? 43 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,960 Yeah, it was that night. 44 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:10,200 Because when we left, it was still a little light out. 45 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:19,120 And as we were driving, we missed seeing the part that shone over our neighborhood. 46 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,040 I got some pictures from some neighbors. 47 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:26,760 We had some beautiful magenta colored Northern Lights over our house. 48 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,520 You talk about, man, wait a minute now. 49 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:31,880 I was at home and I missed it. 50 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:32,880 You could have told me. 51 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:33,880 I would have took videos. 52 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:40,880 I didn't know until the next day when in the group chat, they were posting all these pictures. 53 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,880 I was like, are y'all kidding me? 54 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:44,880 Yeah, look, right over your house. 55 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:46,440 Wow, thanks. 56 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:51,680 So I don't know what happened because clearly we drove through Ohio. 57 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:53,360 We should have seen something, right? 58 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:54,960 But no, we missed it. 59 00:02:54,960 --> 00:03:02,680 But what I didn't miss was seeing all the deer, all the deer in the road. 60 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:03,680 And there was one. 61 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:04,680 And skunks. 62 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:05,680 And skunks. 63 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:06,960 We could smell them. 64 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:11,720 And there was this one instance when I was going down. 65 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:12,880 I forgot the name of the... 66 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:16,360 I think you're on 75 North, maybe. 67 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,160 I was headed to Pennsylvania. 68 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:21,160 And I don't know. 69 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:22,800 I was doing the speed limit. 70 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,000 I was hitting about 70, 75. 71 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,600 And then at the last minute, I was just having a discussion with Aliyana why... 72 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:30,280 Were you watching Netflix? 73 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:31,280 I wasn't watching Netflix. 74 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:32,280 Stop it. 75 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,440 Get out of here with that. 76 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:40,800 And I do not watch my cell phone when I drive. 77 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:42,480 We all know that's not the truth. 78 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:43,920 Okay, you were driving. 79 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:49,760 And I was just having a conversation with Aliyana as to why I'm not going to let her 80 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:50,760 drive. 81 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:52,360 Because originally, I was like, I'm going to rent this car. 82 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:56,680 I'm going to put you on it so you can drive so I can sleep, blah, blah, blah, blah. 83 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:00,040 And then I was like, no, Aliyana, I don't want to risk it. 84 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:01,220 I'm just going to drive. 85 00:04:01,220 --> 00:04:10,200 And then as soon as I finished my thought, my sentence, I left out of the fast lane and 86 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:17,920 went into the next lane over, and the moment I moved over, a deer, boom, right through 87 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:18,920 my headlights. 88 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:19,920 It's about nowhere. 89 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:21,200 I passed it. 90 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,640 But the thing is, the deer was just grazing. 91 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:29,000 He was eating something or sniffing something in that fast lane. 92 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,720 And it was literally the moment that I moved over, it was when my headlights picked up 93 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:34,720 that deer. 94 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:39,760 So had I not moved at that exact moment, we would have hit that deer. 95 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:40,760 And that would have ruined your trip. 96 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:41,760 It would have ruined our trip. 97 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:43,080 Because the deer wasn't moving. 98 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:44,080 It had its head down. 99 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:47,560 And then there was a deer behind it as well. 100 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,920 And that deer looked up at our car. 101 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:50,920 And I was like, oh my goodness. 102 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:55,840 And I had just told Aliyana why I wasn't going to let her drive. 103 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:56,840 That was crazy. 104 00:04:56,840 --> 00:04:57,840 Wow. 105 00:04:57,840 --> 00:04:58,840 Wow. 106 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:01,060 Like literally a second had passed. 107 00:05:01,060 --> 00:05:02,060 But that was that. 108 00:05:02,060 --> 00:05:09,560 So that was, yeah, that was one of the crazy things that happened to us on our ride up 109 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:10,560 up. 110 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,360 And from that moment, we just pushed on. 111 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:16,680 Pushed on for about another two hours. 112 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,480 And then we had a little quick break. 113 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:20,480 Detour. 114 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:25,320 Detour because the folk in the car, all of a sudden they hungry. 115 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:26,320 They got to go to the restroom. 116 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:31,120 One thing about me is when I'm driving, I don't like to stop, period. 117 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:36,360 I remember when me and London Rose, we were talking. 118 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:42,320 My mom had her music playing and she was singing and me and London Rose were trying to get 119 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:43,320 sleep. 120 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:48,800 And we woke up and London Rose was like, mom, what she say? 121 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:49,800 Can you please be quiet? 122 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:50,800 Oh, she was singing. 123 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:51,800 My mom was singing. 124 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:52,800 Oh, she loves singing while she drives. 125 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:53,800 The singing was not good. 126 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:54,800 Oh, she likes to try to sing. 127 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:55,800 I'm sorry. 128 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:56,800 Wow. 129 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:57,800 It wasn't good. 130 00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:58,800 But you weren't saying words. 131 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:02,800 You were harmonizing, like making the noise of the music. 132 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:03,800 Oh, she loves singing. 133 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:10,080 She loves to try to harmonize with the song on her radio. 134 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:13,080 I'm like, baby, you sound so good. 135 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:14,080 No. 136 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,080 And London Rose was like, mom. 137 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:18,080 Can you be quiet? 138 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:19,080 I'm trying to sleep. 139 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:20,080 It was out of nowhere. 140 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:24,080 Me and London Rose, we were just dying laughing and we couldn't stop. 141 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,080 That's why I wasn't stopping to go to no restroom for y'all. 142 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:28,080 And we did have to use the restroom. 143 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:29,080 My mom just kept singing. 144 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:30,080 Show did. 145 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,200 See, I always do that when we drive. 146 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:33,200 We're not stopping. 147 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:34,200 We're just driving right through. 148 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,240 I've been holding this for six hours, woman. 149 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,640 Can I please get a bathroom break? 150 00:06:38,120 --> 00:07:00,120 terrifying movie. 151 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:40,640 You can hold a seven. 152 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:41,640 How about that? 153 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:42,640 How about that? 154 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:48,720 Well, they did eventually get their water break, their bathroom break, et cetera. 155 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:54,280 In the middle at this sketchy gas station next to... 156 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:55,840 It was in a terrible area. 157 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:01,760 It was horrible. 158 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:06,320 See how my mom left the keys in the rental car and I had to go after the car and the 159 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:08,320 keys were sitting right there in the front seat. 160 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:10,320 You didn't even tell me that. 161 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:11,320 Wow. 162 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:12,320 Somebody could have... 163 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:13,320 Is this throw my mom onto the bus day? 164 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:14,320 Somebody could have ran off. 165 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:15,320 We about to get robbed, I didn't go ahead and no car. 166 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:16,320 We in the middle of Ohio. 167 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:17,320 Where were we? 168 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:18,320 We were somewhere, not Canada. 169 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,320 Because it took us, like I said, 18 hours to get here. 170 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:22,320 Why did it take 18? 171 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:31,320 Well, part of the 18 hour trip is because I thought the route that I had to take was 172 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:36,880 going to take us through Toronto. 173 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:38,880 But somehow we ended up in New York. 174 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:39,880 I'm like, wait a minute. 175 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:43,240 Now we should have went through Detroit at some point. 176 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:44,240 We didn't. 177 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:51,240 We ended up in New York and the route that it took us happened to be a route where our 178 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,240 Aunt Betty lives, Watertown. 179 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:54,240 Watertown, New York. 180 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:55,240 And I was like, wait a minute. 181 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:56,240 We're going through Watertown? 182 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:00,400 Let's see if Aunt Betty's at home. 183 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:05,320 I haven't seen my Aunt Betty since Ali Yano was six months old. 184 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:06,320 I asked to go see Auntie. 185 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:07,320 I said, are we going to go through Watertown? 186 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:08,320 He was like, no, we're not going to go through there. 187 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:09,320 We want to go another way. 188 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:10,320 And then we ended up going. 189 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:11,320 Yeah. 190 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:16,720 Because the way through Toronto was a little faster. 191 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,720 But somehow, I don't know, we had divine intervention. 192 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:25,440 I think what happened was when you click on GPS, you get multiple options. 193 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:29,560 You may have clicked that second option, which took you through New York. 194 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:30,560 Yeah. 195 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,600 Because when I saw that we were headed that direction, I was like, oh, wow, wait. 196 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,200 We're going to go past Niagara Falls. 197 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,160 That was another route. 198 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:46,360 And I was like, hey, Ali Yano, would you like to see the sunrise over Niagara Falls? 199 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,640 And she probably said, I don't know what happened, but we ended up not going there. 200 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:52,800 And I was like, hey, we can go see Aunt Betty instead. 201 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,320 And so we went and visited Aunt Betty. 202 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,920 It was really, really good seeing her. 203 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:07,120 And she lived maybe an hour outside of the gate, the border patrol between Canada and 204 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:08,720 the United States. 205 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:14,400 So after visiting our aunt, we made it to the border patrol. 206 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,840 And that's where Ali Yano comes in. 207 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,240 Wanted to know about her stamp. 208 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,880 You want to explain about the stamp, Ali Yano? 209 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,600 What did they tell you about the stamp? 210 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,760 That basically they didn't do stamps anymore. 211 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:35,360 I would only get a stamp if I was basically a criminal or somebody that they needed to 212 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:38,760 keep track of coming from America into Canada. 213 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,600 Which is crazy, because if you're a criminal, you can't get a passport. 214 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:43,880 I don't understand that one. 215 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:51,480 I guess under suspicion, if you were suspicious of something, but not yet enough to call you 216 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:52,960 a criminal or something like that. 217 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:54,200 I call cap. 218 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,400 I feel like they could have just gave us our stamp. 219 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,240 But the guy was like, yeah, we only stamp the passports of the people that we need to 220 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:02,240 watch. 221 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:03,240 We were like, what? 222 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:04,240 How you know tracking stamp? 223 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:05,240 I don't know. 224 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,400 And when we got to the window, I was recording. 225 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,440 I already started recording. 226 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,240 Then my mom asked, hey, can we record you? 227 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:16,400 And I think the man said no. 228 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:18,160 He said sure. 229 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:19,160 And then you put your phone away. 230 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:20,160 I looked at you like, oh, okay. 231 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:21,160 Because I had already started recording without his consent. 232 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:22,160 That's messed up. 233 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:23,160 You're a criminal. 234 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:24,160 You should get a stamp. 235 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:25,160 Right. 236 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:28,160 You're breaking the law. 237 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,240 That's nuts. 238 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:31,240 Yeah. 239 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:36,440 So once again, we were headed to Ottawa, which is in Ontario, Canada. 240 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:38,040 So once again, I didn't make this trip. 241 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:39,640 I have a question. 242 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:42,400 How far is Watertown to Ottawa? 243 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:43,920 It's about an hour. 244 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:44,920 Really? 245 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:46,920 It's like hours and change. 246 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:47,920 Yeah. 247 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:48,920 Okay. 248 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:49,920 So she's literally on the border. 249 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:50,920 Oh, yeah. 250 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:51,920 She's very, very close. 251 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:52,920 Gotcha. 252 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:58,000 Because the moment we got into Canada, I told my mom, I said, I want to take a picture, 253 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,000 like the sign, you know, like welcome to Tennessee. 254 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Welcome to Missy. 255 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Like one of those signs. 256 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,000 And it was pouring down raining. 257 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:04,000 And I got out. 258 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:05,000 And I was like, okay, I'm going to get my jacket. 259 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:12,000 And I left my jacket in New York at my auntie's house so I didn't have a jacket. 260 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Yeah. 261 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,880 And I was really, really close to turning around and picking up her jacket. 262 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,280 It's like, oh, it's only about 45 minutes and an hour. 263 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:19,280 I thought about it. 264 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:20,280 I was like, wait a minute. 265 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:21,720 We got to make that same trip back. 266 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:25,360 And we are already in this darn car at that time, about 17 hours. 267 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:26,360 17 hours. 268 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:27,360 Yeah. 269 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:28,920 So I was like, yeah, we'll just have her send it. 270 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,960 So Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. 271 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:33,960 Fourth largest city. 272 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,840 And it is the fourth largest city. 273 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:37,840 Fourth largest metro. 274 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:38,840 Yep. 275 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:39,840 Fourth largest metro. 276 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:44,080 So we finally make it to the hotel. 277 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:45,080 And we- 278 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:46,080 You do what you do, baby. 279 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:50,880 Actually, you know, normally I just throw the bags in the hotel and we hit the ground 280 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:51,880 running. 281 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,880 But after those 18 hours, I didn't have it in me. 282 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:55,880 I had to take a nap. 283 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:56,880 That's so unfair. 284 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:57,880 I know. 285 00:11:57,880 --> 00:11:58,880 You don't do me like that. 286 00:11:58,880 --> 00:11:59,880 Nope. 287 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:01,880 We got hit the ground running when you- 288 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:05,760 When I'm with you, you just throw your bags in the hotel and then off to the races. 289 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:06,760 That's right. 290 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:07,760 You gave them a break. 291 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:08,760 That's weak. 292 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:09,760 And it was raining. 293 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:10,760 So? 294 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:14,760 You don't give a fuck when I don't care? 295 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:15,760 Anyway. 296 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:16,760 Keep it going. 297 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:17,760 Yep. 298 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:25,080 So our first stop was we went downtown to, what's it, Byward? 299 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,920 No, you went to Beaver Tales, is that what you guys told me? 300 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:28,920 Yeah, it was in Byward Market. 301 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:30,480 Oh, that's where it is? 302 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:31,480 Okay. 303 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:32,480 Yes. 304 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:34,760 So we went- Because I had to go get one of these beaver tail pastries I've been hearing 305 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:35,760 about. 306 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:44,720 So a beaver tail is basically like a flat cinnamon roll or think of like a donut that 307 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,920 wrapped around in the shape like a beaver tail. 308 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:50,200 I thought it was the way y'all told me. 309 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,320 It sounded like it was bread. 310 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:53,320 No. 311 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:54,320 You know what? 312 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:57,320 If you've ever been to Bucky's, Bucky's sell a beaver tail. 313 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,080 They don't call it a beaver tail. 314 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:00,080 They call it something else. 315 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:01,080 Okay. 316 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:02,080 I can't think of the name of it. 317 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:03,080 Is it like a donut? 318 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:07,080 Yeah, it looks like a cinnamon, like a flat cinnamon bun. 319 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,120 It's like pita bread with cinnamon and- 320 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,160 See, I don't like cinnamon buns, so. 321 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,000 No, it's not like a cinnamon bun. 322 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:17,440 It's like a breakfast pita bread. 323 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:20,240 You know like pita bread like flat but it's like a little thick. 324 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:21,240 I don't know. 325 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:24,040 It remind me of a donut, y'all. 326 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:25,040 Okay. 327 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:28,280 Cinnamon stick, soft cinnamon stick wrapped around. 328 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:32,960 It was good because the one that I got was just a plain beaver tail. 329 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,080 I just had cinnamon sugar on mine. 330 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:42,920 Alayona, you had one that had- Mine had caramel and Reese's Pieces on it. 331 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:43,920 What? 332 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:44,920 Was it good? 333 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:45,920 Yeah. 334 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:46,920 What did London Rose have? 335 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:47,920 She didn't want one. 336 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:48,920 I can't blame her. 337 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:49,920 No, she didn't want one. 338 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:50,920 She wanted a macaron. 339 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:51,920 Yeah. 340 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:52,920 And we didn't go because it was like- 341 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:53,920 So let me ask y'all this. 342 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:54,920 Is this like a French thing? 343 00:13:54,920 --> 00:14:01,920 Because I know Canada does a lot of French type stuff or is this like truly Canadian 344 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:02,920 type pastry? 345 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:12,840 I don't know anywhere else besides Canada and Bucky's, which is a beaver. 346 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:13,840 Right. 347 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:15,640 That sell these beaver tail snacks. 348 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:16,640 Gotcha. 349 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:17,640 Okay. 350 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:24,640 So after we got our beaver tails, we went literally across the street to the pizzeria 351 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:29,080 called the Grand, the Grand Pizzeria. 352 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:31,360 And it was delicious. 353 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:33,680 The pizza was really, really good. 354 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:42,440 And that's when I really had to think about the conversion rate from the American dollar 355 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:44,480 and the Canadian dollar. 356 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,960 So the exchange rate is only like 73 cents. 357 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:51,080 So one Canadian dollar is worth 73 cents of ours. 358 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,280 So our money's a little bit stronger. 359 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:58,160 So I was a little freaked out at first when I saw those prices on there. 360 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:00,840 Like, man, this is going to be some expensive old pizza. 361 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,600 Yeah, she thought you ended up paying like $100 for pizza. 362 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:04,600 I was mad. 363 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:05,600 And she was like, hold up. 364 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:06,600 Yeah. 365 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,200 I'm trying to be like the sweet parent. 366 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,040 Because this was Mother's Day weekend. 367 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:16,120 I'm like, dang, how am I spending Mother's Day weekend spending all my money on my kids? 368 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:17,120 What is this nonsense? 369 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:20,040 And that's when I, I'm trying to be discreet. 370 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,120 I'm in my phone checking my bank statements. 371 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,320 And that's when I realized, oh yeah, I forgot. 372 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:28,280 This is not American dollars. 373 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:32,000 I like this, the aesthetic of the place. 374 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,080 The centerpiece in the middle of the table was the soup can. 375 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:39,280 They repurposed the soup cans and left the paper on there. 376 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:46,360 And that's what they had, the like forks, spoons, napkins, straw, like what you need 377 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,200 for your meal inside of those cans. 378 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:50,200 It was nice looking. 379 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,800 And we sat like right there by the front door so we got to see like people walking by. 380 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:54,800 People walking by. 381 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:57,640 You guys didn't take photographs of this? 382 00:15:57,640 --> 00:15:59,720 Actually I really didn't. 383 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,400 I was truly, truly in the moment. 384 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,040 And I just took pictures of us. 385 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,040 Just us being together. 386 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:10,800 Because this was our first international trip. 387 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:11,800 Our international girls trip. 388 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:12,800 That's your MO though. 389 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:13,800 That's your MO. 390 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:14,800 Right. 391 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:15,800 To take pictures. 392 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:16,800 I didn't even have a picture of the outside of the building. 393 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:24,400 And it's a shame because the Grand Pizzeria was actually originally in the Grand Hotel. 394 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,880 Like the beautiful Grand Hotel in New York. 395 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,040 So it was one of those there. 396 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:33,720 And it's one of those where they repurposed the building, right? 397 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:35,080 They didn't destroy it. 398 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:36,080 Right. 399 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:39,240 They were real good about that repurposing buildings. 400 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:48,360 So you know the Grand Pizzeria opened up in 2009 and is really, really popular there. 401 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:49,360 So it's a really nice place to go. 402 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:50,360 How was the pizza though? 403 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:51,360 It was delicious. 404 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:52,360 Yeah it was good. 405 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:53,360 Tastes refreshed. 406 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:59,920 Yeah it was so good that the next day I actually ordered a pizza for pick up. 407 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:01,400 So I made, we made a trip. 408 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,280 And we know how much you love pizza. 409 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:04,280 I love pizza. 410 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,480 I didn't order one from there. 411 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,400 I ordered Little Caesar's because I wanted to taste the difference. 412 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:11,400 She did. 413 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:12,400 I thought about that. 414 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:13,400 Yeah. 415 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:17,640 And the pizza was like, their Little Caesar's pizza was like smaller. 416 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:18,640 You know what's so funny? 417 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:22,600 When we go, when was it Spain London Rose wanted Little Caesar's in Spain? 418 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:24,320 I'm like, you're not getting those. 419 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:25,320 No you shouldn't let her get it. 420 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:26,920 You gotta try, you gotta taste the difference. 421 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:27,920 They taste way different. 422 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:28,920 Yeah. 423 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:29,920 Really? 424 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,160 Like the pizza sauce, it probably wasn't even in the can. 425 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:35,560 It did take longer for them to make the pizza and like it wasn't like in the little hot 426 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:36,560 and ready oven. 427 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:38,680 Do they even have hot and ready? 428 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:40,560 No they made it fresh. 429 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:41,560 Everything was fresh. 430 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:43,320 Like the cheese, the pizza was smaller. 431 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:51,080 So maybe in America your pie might be 18 inches, but there the pizza was like 15 inches. 432 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:52,080 But it was, it was fresh. 433 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:53,080 It was fresher. 434 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,080 So we taste the difference. 435 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:57,080 Yeah. 436 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:58,080 I tell anyone that. 437 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:05,560 If you ever travel to a foreign country, it's okay to try an American restaurant just to 438 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:06,560 compare the food. 439 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:10,320 Now that I think about it, it's a franchise. 440 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:16,080 So they're just by the name and they can do their own thing when it comes to cooking them, 441 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:17,080 I assume. 442 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:18,660 But it's nearly a no there. 443 00:18:18,660 --> 00:18:27,280 So after we ate and you know, in the pizza, pizzeria, we walked around Byward Market and 444 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:33,680 because it's like full of different shops and restaurants and things that it covers 445 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,920 a couple of a couple of city blocks actually. 446 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:43,720 And it was beautiful because the tulips, they had tulips everywhere. 447 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:51,320 Just planted behind benches and under trees. 448 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:52,320 And people's front yards. 449 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:56,040 Front yards inside of people, business courtyards. 450 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:57,960 They're just tulips everywhere. 451 00:18:57,960 --> 00:18:58,960 Wow. 452 00:18:58,960 --> 00:18:59,960 Wow. 453 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:06,200 So from there y'all went to, what y'all go after this? 454 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:09,200 Well, is this all the same day or? 455 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,960 This was all the same day because we didn't have a lot of time there. 456 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:14,320 We were only literally there for the weekend. 457 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:19,880 So we hit the road Friday night and we returned Monday, Monday. 458 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:27,280 So we only had a full day and a half because remember we spent longer time driving there. 459 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,280 It's been 18 hours driving. 460 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:31,280 Yep. 461 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:37,120 So next we ended up going, you know how I do, I go on Pinterest and I look for places 462 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:44,080 to go and I saw that they had their Notre Dame Cathedral, Basilica there, just like 463 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:47,120 Notre Dame in France, right? 464 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:53,120 So I told Alayana, I said, hey, you know, you should go see this cathedral because you've 465 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:56,120 never been inside of a cathedral. 466 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:57,760 And she was fighting it too, boy. 467 00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:59,760 What you tell me Alayana? 468 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:07,840 I felt as if it was a little disrespectful putting somebody else's religion like on display 469 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:11,680 if that's not our religion or mine. 470 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:13,120 So she did not want to go. 471 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:18,720 I'm like, girl, you need to at least see the inside of this cathedral. 472 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,360 It is beautiful. 473 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:26,600 And I told her, I said, when you go in, look up at the ceiling, I can guarantee you there 474 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,000 is some ornate design up there. 475 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,960 There's always just beautiful detail up there. 476 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:39,200 And we get there, I finally get her, you know, to huff and puff her way on to the cathedral 477 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:44,600 and I be gosh darn it, the one time we choose to go was the one time they weren't accepting 478 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:45,600 any more visitors. 479 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:46,600 Right, they were having a private event. 480 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,600 Yeah, they were having a private event in there. 481 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:50,600 I was like, oh man. 482 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:54,920 So it worked out in my. 483 00:20:54,920 --> 00:21:01,240 So if you ever are in Ottawa and you want to see the Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica there, 484 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,380 it is free, but they do ask for donations. 485 00:21:04,380 --> 00:21:06,360 Donations are appreciated. 486 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:13,280 So the Basilica is the oldest and largest church in Ottawa and it is the seat of the 487 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:19,320 city's Roman Catholic Catholic Catholic Archbishop. 488 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:26,000 Is this stuff in walking distance or you guys are walking or you still driving? 489 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,800 Yeah, you could actually walk from Byward Market there, but we opted to drive because 490 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:31,800 it was raining. 491 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:32,800 Gotcha. 492 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:33,800 OK. 493 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:39,800 So it's right across the street from the cathedral is one of the largest art museums in North 494 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,840 America and it was the. 495 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,960 What is the name? 496 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:45,960 National Gallery of Canada. 497 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:50,400 Yes, the National Gallery of Canada. 498 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,000 And so I'm ashamed. 499 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,480 I actually didn't go there just to go inside the gallery, because like I said, we had limited 500 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:58,480 time. 501 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:04,080 So we went because they had this huge spider sculpture right out front. 502 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:05,280 That's nuts. 503 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:09,760 Yeah, you kept sending me those pictures of this massive spider. 504 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:12,080 I thought it was a joke. 505 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:17,000 Yeah, yeah, because because let me tell you, because we went to go take pictures like I 506 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:23,680 stood in front of the National Gallery and I want to take a picture of the cathedral, 507 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:28,520 which is directly across the street and have that shark that shark have that spider in 508 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:29,520 my picture. 509 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:33,040 But there were like two like people. 510 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:34,480 This is raining now. 511 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,520 This family is a family and these two women. 512 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:38,520 They would not move. 513 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:42,800 And when I tell you how we waited for almost 30 minutes, I kid you not. 514 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:43,800 It was pouring down. 515 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,800 And I'm like, yo, y'all ain't got your shot yet. 516 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,800 No, I don't even think that umbrella. 517 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,760 No, I don't think none of these in the rain. 518 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:57,720 Because you know, the family had like five, six people and they were, you know, mom and 519 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:02,320 daughter, mom and son, mom and I was like, oh, my gosh, combinations. 520 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,200 And I'm like, y'all realize it's raining, right? 521 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,880 And you know, you know, as I'm standing in the rain waiting for my shot, right? 522 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:10,360 The nerve of me, right? 523 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:13,120 But we finally got our you know, I couldn't wait anymore. 524 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:14,600 So I took my pictures. 525 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:15,600 So you pushed him out the way. 526 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:20,480 And then I sent these pictures to Derek and asked him to Photoshop these people out of 527 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:21,480 my picture. 528 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,600 And he said, why this man trying to Photoshop my spider? 529 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:28,680 I'm like, yo, I need the spider in the picture that's supposed to be in it. 530 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,400 I thought you wanted the building. 531 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:31,400 I did. 532 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:32,400 But the spider too. 533 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:33,400 It was part of the shot. 534 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,600 And then with the spider, I was thinking like, because you're terrified of spiders. 535 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,840 Every time you see a spider, that's what she imagines. 536 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:41,200 That's how large a spider is. 537 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,360 And you know, when she sees a spider, we're talking about this massive sculpture. 538 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:47,200 It has to be about 10, 12 feet tall. 539 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,200 No, it was way more than that. 540 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:50,200 It was huge. 541 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:51,200 It was like 20 feet tall. 542 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,560 And that's what your mama sees when she sees a spider. 543 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,560 That's how a spider looks at your mom. 544 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,560 I'm like, kill it with your shoe. 545 00:23:58,560 --> 00:23:59,560 But anyway, I digress. 546 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:00,560 Yeah, yeah. 547 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:05,200 I tried to Photoshop the spider out because I didn't know you wanted the spider in it. 548 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:14,040 So actually, Canada commissioned this spider and they paid $3.2 million for it. 549 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:15,040 Wow. 550 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:16,040 Somebody got over. 551 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:17,040 Somebody got rich. 552 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:18,040 What's her name? 553 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:19,040 Louise Bourgeois? 554 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:20,040 Yeah. 555 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:21,040 Bourgeois. 556 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:26,720 I'm sorry if I'm butchering his name, but he made a grip off of that spider. 557 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:27,720 French American. 558 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:28,720 Oh. 559 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,560 $3.2 million for that thing. 560 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,560 So after that, we... 561 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:34,560 Hold up. 562 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:40,000 Before we change the subject to the next thing, there was a street. 563 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:46,840 And I told my mom, I said, Mom, the street was called Parent Boulevard or Mother Boulevard. 564 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:48,840 I think it was Parents. 565 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,000 And I said, Mom, let's stop until you can take a picture. 566 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,000 It was the day before. 567 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,000 I was like, Mom, stop. 568 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,000 Let's take a picture with you under the sign. 569 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,000 She was like, no, I don't want to. 570 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,000 You take a picture in front of the sign. 571 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,000 I was like, no. 572 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,000 I thought it would be a cool picture to have your parent. 573 00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,000 It was Parent Street. 574 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,000 And I was like, just take the photo under the sign. 575 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,000 Did I do it? 576 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,000 No, you said no. 577 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,000 It was raining. 578 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,000 Oh, man. 579 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,000 You don't have to turn a photo up. 580 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,000 You don't have to turn a photo up. 581 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,000 I'm sorry, Aliyahna. 582 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,000 When we go back, I owe you that picture. 583 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,000 Yeah. 584 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,000 I thought it was cool for the street to be called Parent Boulevard. 585 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:19,000 It would have been really cool. 586 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,320 It was Mother's Day, so that would have been great. 587 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:26,520 I must have been half listening, not really processing. 588 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:28,800 Because it was raining. 589 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,560 And at that point, I was kind of ready to. 590 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,000 We had been driving for 18 hours. 591 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:40,280 So after we left there, we ended up driving by the Tulip Festival. 592 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,560 Because the Tulip Festival lasts all the way until the night. 593 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:47,280 So we figured, let's see what they got going on. 594 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:52,820 And we basically saw a lot of tents, people still walking around. 595 00:25:52,820 --> 00:25:55,360 But it was raining, and we decided not to get out the car. 596 00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:56,360 So we said, you know what? 597 00:25:56,360 --> 00:25:57,960 Let's come back first thing in the morning. 598 00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:58,960 Because I felt bad. 599 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:03,720 I felt like we kind of robbed Aliyahna of her experience. 600 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:08,400 I'm sure that you want to get out in the rain, Aliyahna? 601 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,480 I didn't mind. 602 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,280 Your mama did, though. 603 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,920 We had umbrellas. 604 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:20,120 So we ended up going back to the hotel. 605 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:21,120 And that's when I learned. 606 00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:24,120 Aliyahna, what did you teach me in the hotel? 607 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:27,200 What was facing your bed? 608 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,320 Oh, the mirror. 609 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:30,320 That. 610 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:31,320 OK. 611 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,360 I don't want to get shamed for this. 612 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:34,960 The black people, we don't like to sleep. 613 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,760 We're not supposed to sleep with mirrors facing your bed. 614 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:44,240 Because some people think that it opens portals. 615 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:50,560 Like while you're asleep, you can see shadows in the mirror or bad luck. 616 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,800 It's just like one of those superstitions. 617 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:53,800 I don't know. 618 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,800 And so my mom was like, what? 619 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:56,800 I've never heard of that. 620 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:01,440 She was like, at the house, we got a mirror in front of the bed, and in our bedroom, the 621 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:02,440 guest room. 622 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:04,920 I was like, oh my gosh. 623 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:05,920 You know, it was crazy. 624 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:07,080 I didn't think about it. 625 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,400 But a couple of weeks prior, we had stayed at our in-laws house. 626 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:16,520 And then one of our middle daughters had slept in the guest room before we had gotten there. 627 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,680 She was there like the weekend before we got there. 628 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:26,480 And when I went into the room, my mother-in-law was like, yeah, Jasmine has the mirror covered 629 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:27,480 up. 630 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,440 And I was like, oh, that's interesting. 631 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:34,440 I slept in that room before, and it never covered the mirror. 632 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,200 I never thought about it. 633 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:41,680 So when Aliyana mentioned it, I was like, oh, that's why Jasmine had the mirror covered. 634 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,640 But you want to know what's crazy? 635 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:50,400 Before me and my husband moved here, when we finally moved in together, his apartment, 636 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,280 he had his mirror facing the bed. 637 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:59,840 And I was like, uh-uh, and I put the mirror on the other side of the closet door. 638 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,400 And I said, oh, we just keep it in the closet. 639 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:09,080 So me and my mom, we took the sheet off the bed, the flat sheet, and we covered it up. 640 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,120 And it was a huge mirror, too. 641 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:14,720 It was like 10 feet tall mirror. 642 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,540 It was about a good five feet by three feet. 643 00:28:18,540 --> 00:28:20,360 It was a substantial mirror. 644 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:21,360 It was big. 645 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:26,360 And so we were up there on tippy toes, and you get this in, and trying to throw this 646 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:27,360 sheet on here. 647 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:28,360 It was right in front of my bed. 648 00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:29,360 I said, oh, we were asleep. 649 00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:30,360 You guys should have changed beds then. 650 00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:31,360 It was a whole- 651 00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:34,360 You think she was going to sleep in front of that mirror? 652 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:36,320 I mean, hey, let me tell y'all this. 653 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:42,640 She had me so spooked that when I came home from this Canadian trip, I took the mirror 654 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,600 out of our room and put it down behind the dresser. 655 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,760 Like I moved that mirror. 656 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:51,520 Because I also heard that you shouldn't have mirrors facing each other. 657 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:57,280 And in our bedroom, where the mirror on the wall facing our bed was, it reflects into 658 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:58,820 the mirror from the bathroom. 659 00:28:58,820 --> 00:29:05,400 So if you open up the beginning part of our bathroom, those two mirrors show each other. 660 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,040 So I was like, ooh, let's take this down. 661 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,560 And I Googled it just to better prove it. 662 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:15,600 And she was like, oh, no, we got to cover this up. 663 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:20,600 So if we have mirrors facing the bed, I like jump into a portal and go back in time. 664 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:21,600 How does this work? 665 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:22,600 Oh my goodness. 666 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:23,600 I don't know. 667 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:24,600 I'm serious. 668 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:25,600 How does this work? 669 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:26,600 I don't know. 670 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:27,600 It's the spooky things. 671 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:28,600 And it's time for us to change this up. 672 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:29,600 Okay. 673 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:30,600 Let's get back to these two looks, shall we? 674 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:31,600 Okay. 675 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:32,600 So day two. 676 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:39,560 And one thing about Makilah Sellers, she's going to get up and do a sunrise something. 677 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:40,560 Cracker dawn. 678 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,160 She going to be up. 679 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:47,800 The night before I was laying in the bed and I double and triple check when is the sunrise 680 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,480 and the location of where I'm at. 681 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,440 And that lets me know how long I can sleep. 682 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:53,440 So we got up. 683 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:54,440 Did she wake y'all up? 684 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:55,440 Yeah. 685 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:56,440 We got up to do our. 686 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:57,440 We did. 687 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:04,160 And we, me and London Rose, more so me, mom was like, go wake London Rose up. 688 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:05,160 I said, London Rose. 689 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,160 And I was like, doosh, doosh, doosh, doosh, doosh. 690 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,920 Because our mom does this thing where she wakes London Rose up in the morning to let 691 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:12,880 the dogs out or go feed the dogs. 692 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,160 So our mom was banging on London Rose door like the five o. 693 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:16,160 Like she the police. 694 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,560 And I was like, wow, mom ain't got a bang on the door with London Rose. 695 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:20,560 So I was like, London Rose. 696 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,560 And I was like, doosh, doosh, doosh, doosh, doosh. 697 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,560 Faking like I was banging on the door. 698 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:25,560 And London Rose was like. 699 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:26,560 Like you wake up the SWAT team. 700 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:27,560 That's how she wakes London Rose up every morning. 701 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:28,560 Like she the SWAT team. 702 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:29,560 Doosh, doosh, doosh, doosh, doosh, doosh, doosh. 703 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:30,560 London Rose open the door. 704 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:38,560 So, but yeah, we woke up real early so we can get there and get a parking spot. 705 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,160 Because we couldn't find nowhere to park. 706 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,480 We went to scout the area out the day before. 707 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:44,480 Yeah. 708 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,160 So a little bit about the Tula Festival, you guys. 709 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,880 So the Tula Festival is the world's large. 710 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,380 It's actually the world's. 711 00:30:51,380 --> 00:30:55,440 The Ottawa Tula Festival is the world's largest festival. 712 00:30:55,440 --> 00:31:02,400 It lasts three days and it celebrates the seasonal flowers beauty and its historic ties 713 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:09,880 to Canada's capital and Holland. 714 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:10,880 The Netherlands. 715 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,360 Ah, the Netherlands. 716 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:17,560 So it is held in the commissioners park, right? 717 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:18,560 Yeah. 718 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:19,560 So, okay. 719 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,440 So a story behind that. 720 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,360 Actually Derek did a little research on this. 721 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:25,360 You want to share? 722 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:26,360 No, no, no, no, you tell it. 723 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,360 You know it more better than I do. 724 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,840 I'll jump in. 725 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,040 It was held. 726 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:39,200 So you told me that because of World War Two, the Queen of the Netherlands, she was pregnant 727 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,240 during this time and she had a child. 728 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:48,320 So what happened was in order for her child to maintain her Dutch citizenship, they had 729 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:52,960 to make Ottawa, was it extra territorial? 730 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:57,200 Which means that you can have this child in Canada, but you'll still maintain your Dutch 731 00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:58,200 citizenship. 732 00:31:58,200 --> 00:31:59,200 Okay. 733 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,480 So she can be the queen. 734 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:02,480 Right. 735 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,760 So the queen came over with her two daughters. 736 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:14,480 She was pregnant and the hospital that they were in, they made that land temporarily part 737 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:15,480 of the Netherlands. 738 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:16,720 See, I told you you knew about that. 739 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:24,480 So that the princess, when she was born, could maintain her Dutch heritage, her Dutch citizenship. 740 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:25,480 Okay. 741 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:33,960 So, and she went to Canada for safety because you know, World War Two. 742 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:34,960 To escape the Nazis. 743 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:35,960 Right. 744 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:36,960 Exactly. 745 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:47,400 So to say thank you, when the Dutch royal family went back to the Netherlands, they 746 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:52,760 sent over 100,000 tulip bulbs to Ottawa. 747 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:54,160 Okay. 748 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:59,080 And so after that, this became a yearly tradition. 749 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,080 Right. 750 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,360 So every year since then, and still to this day, they send tulips. 751 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:09,240 Now it grows from, there are numbers where they sent 85,000. 752 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:14,560 There are times when they send 100,000, but some, looking up some data, it says they can 753 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,760 send up to a million tulip bulbs a year. 754 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:22,960 So every year they send these tulips in gratitude to the Canadians. 755 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:23,960 Yep. 756 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:24,960 Ever since then. 757 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:26,960 And this was in 1943. 758 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,640 1941 is when it started. 759 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:30,640 When it started. 760 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:38,680 And so the princess that was born was Princess Marguerite, and in 2022, she actually came 761 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:45,840 back and spoke at the Tulip Festival, which was pretty cool. 762 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,840 And she's actually, Marguerite is the- 763 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:48,840 She's the reason. 764 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:49,840 Right. 765 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:56,880 She's the only royal family member to ever be born in Canada to this day. 766 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:57,880 She's the only one. 767 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:09,200 But to chime in really quick, before we went to the Canada trip, I was actually gifted 768 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:14,360 two different flowers during two different occasions in time. 769 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:24,400 I might butcher the name, but a Marylis or a Marylis flower bulb and a daffodil bulb. 770 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:30,200 And inside of them, they had the actual bulbs that grow underground. 771 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:34,600 And so that was my first time ever dealing with plants that grew from bulbs. 772 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:40,120 So I was excited to see and hear that this trip that we were going to go on, they did 773 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:41,120 bulbs. 774 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,000 They shipped bulbs. 775 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,680 So that was very interesting. 776 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:50,120 And I was actually looking high and low to find some bulbs to bring back to America. 777 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:57,440 But we know how border patrol and how you can't bring certain flowers and plants and 778 00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:58,440 food back over. 779 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,440 That way you could have been a criminal. 780 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,440 Oh, you would have got your stamp. 781 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:03,440 Yeah. 782 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:08,720 Because they'll tell you, you cannot bring anything that grows. 783 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:09,720 Yeah. 784 00:35:09,720 --> 00:35:10,720 Or food. 785 00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:11,720 In certain cases, food. 786 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:12,720 Yeah. 787 00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:13,720 Animals. 788 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:18,880 So, because Aliana, you asked about bringing the bulbs and they told you, yeah, you can 789 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:19,880 bring it if- 790 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:20,880 If it wasn't in dirt. 791 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:21,880 Yeah. 792 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:22,880 We were like, wait a minute now. 793 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:23,880 How am I going to bring it? 794 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:24,880 If it wasn't in dirt. 795 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:25,880 That's the seed, right? 796 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:26,880 Yes. 797 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,400 Because you can't bring soil back either. 798 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:34,520 But when you go to these box stores, Walmart, Home Depot, and you want to buy the bulbs, 799 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,560 they actually sell the bulbs in the bag. 800 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:41,080 Just a bag with holes in it for air and no dirt. 801 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:46,800 But I think they have maybe some kind of moss type something to protect the bulb. 802 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,160 But the bulb doesn't have any dirt. 803 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,040 It's just a bulb in a bag. 804 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:55,160 So, we were looking to find some, but I think they used all of them for the festival. 805 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,640 Yeah, because they had like black tulips. 806 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,600 That's when we saw so many tulips. 807 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,480 Because we had a full blown photo shoot going. 808 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:05,480 Like immersion experience. 809 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:06,480 Yes. 810 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,480 I was wondering why you hadn't bring any tulips back. 811 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:09,800 Yeah, we could find it. 812 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:14,120 Because Derrick wanted us to bring back blue and orange, but we couldn't find a single 813 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:15,120 one to buy. 814 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:16,120 Right. 815 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:17,120 That's nuts. 816 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:18,120 There's something new every day. 817 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:27,240 So, y'all had the Tula Festival all day or was it just a couple of hours? 818 00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:31,720 Even though the Tula Festival lasted all day, they had different events. 819 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:34,040 They played movies. 820 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:39,560 But we ended up wanting to go see other things in Ottawa. 821 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:52,160 And we found this sightseeing adventure at Canada's Aviation and Space Museum. 822 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:58,160 They'll take you in the sky on planes for you to tour the city from the air. 823 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:02,320 So, I wanted to see Parliament from the sky. 824 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:09,200 And we found this company that gave biplane tours and also tours in Cessna. 825 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:10,480 And so we did that. 826 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:17,640 So I was very pleased to hear that Aliyahna, she who was afraid of flying. 827 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:18,640 Hello, let's stop here. 828 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,640 At first I was supposed to fly anyway. 829 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:21,640 Yeah. 830 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,640 I think deep down you want to be a pilot. 831 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:32,200 Because every time we go somewhere we get into a plane or something. 832 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:33,200 Well, okay. 833 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:34,200 I love to fly. 834 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:41,760 However, I did pilot a plane once by myself. 835 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:48,800 And it was a very stressful experience for me. 836 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,840 It was fun and everything. 837 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:56,920 But I don't know if I took it too seriously. 838 00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:02,520 Because I got in my head, I was like, oh my goodness, if I mess up, I could kill everyone 839 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:03,720 in this plane. 840 00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:04,920 I can kill my instructor. 841 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,800 Because at the time I had London Rose in the plane with me because she was learning how 842 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,640 to fly as well. 843 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,600 And she actually did better than me. 844 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:20,160 She did so well that I ended up giving more than half of my flying time to London Rose. 845 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:21,160 Gotcha. 846 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:25,200 And she actually flew us from Lexington all the way to Georgetown. 847 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,960 But it was stressful trying to keep. 848 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:33,960 Because there's this little round thing. 849 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:38,080 It's like the thing that tells you which way to go, was it? 850 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:39,080 The compass. 851 00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:40,080 The compass. 852 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,960 You got to keep the compass thing and whatever. 853 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,720 And it was just me constantly looking at the dial, making sure the plane was straight. 854 00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:48,120 I just couldn't do it. 855 00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:49,120 It was too much. 856 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,480 But anyway, y'all drove to Canada. 857 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,080 Then you get to Canada and then you start flying in Canada. 858 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:56,080 It don't make sense. 859 00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,040 It don't make sense. 860 00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,480 But Aliyona, you want to talk about your experience? 861 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:02,200 So we woke up that morning. 862 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:03,600 My mom was like, oh, we're going to do this. 863 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,600 We're going to go flying on a tour. 864 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:14,200 And so my stepdad, Derek, bought tickets for my mom and London Rose to do the tour. 865 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,640 But then I was like, well, I'll give it a shot. 866 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:17,640 I'll give it a try. 867 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:18,640 I was going to be scared. 868 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,080 But I was like, I'll at least try for the experience. 869 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,720 So then my mom calls Derek and says, hey, Aliyona wants to go. 870 00:39:24,720 --> 00:39:25,720 She wants to try. 871 00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:28,440 We could try to get her a ticket. 872 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:33,720 So boom, we got to the Aviation and Space Museum. 873 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:40,880 And my mom talked to the instructor guy and told him this is what we were going to do. 874 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:46,080 He proceeds to say, well, we were over like, it's like a weight limit of what, like 250 875 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:47,080 or something like that. 876 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,080 But me and my mom together, it's more than 250. 877 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,760 Not calling you fat, but we were over 250. 878 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:53,760 Dog. 879 00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:59,880 So my mom was like, she'll just go on a separate flight. 880 00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:02,720 And then London Rose and my mom's going to go on a different one. 881 00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:03,720 But then we get to the plane. 882 00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:07,400 And my mom was like, oh, that's not the plane that I thought that I was going to drive. 883 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,160 I thought we were going to ride in this specific plane. 884 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:16,600 It was a plane like the Red Baron and Charlie Brown flew, the one on Bob Plane. 885 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,800 You had a little scarf hanging from the neck with the goggles. 886 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:21,840 You had a crank up with like a pull cord. 887 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:26,160 You get what I'm saying, like in my brain, I thought I was going to be flying the Red 888 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:27,160 Baron plane. 889 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:28,160 With the one propeller in the frame. 890 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,680 Yeah, because that's what they advertised on the website. 891 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:32,680 So you know what it is. 892 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:33,680 They going to show you. 893 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:34,680 Because I wasn't the only one. 894 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:39,160 Another family came up, was like, hey, you know, like this false advertisement stuff 895 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:40,160 is for the birds. 896 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:41,160 Right. 897 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:42,160 So basically she was mad. 898 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:43,160 She was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 899 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:44,160 no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 900 00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:52,140 no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 901 00:40:52,140 --> 00:40:53,160 no. 902 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,700 I don't know. 903 00:40:55,700 --> 00:40:57,760 I didn't, I didn't. 904 00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:02,640 So she was like, well, Alacknna London-Rosa going that way. 905 00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:06,920 So I basically gave Alacknna my Mother's Day present. 906 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,960 That was Derrick's Mother's Day present to me through London-Rosa. 907 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,920 So I was like, this man done told me no. 908 00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,120 I'm all in close to tears. 909 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,800 But it was another thing about the money conversion. 910 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:19,620 Yeah. 911 00:41:19,620 --> 00:41:20,880 She was like, hold up, it's gonna be that much? 912 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:22,440 And it was like $250. 913 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,080 She was like, oh, that's too much. 914 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,640 But it was actually like the Canadian, the US conversion. 915 00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,800 So it ended up being, 916 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,640 cause I was sitting there wallowing in self-pity. 917 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,200 I was really disappointed. 918 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:37,520 Y'all don't understand. 919 00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,600 I love my husband. 920 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,720 A lot of times he is very indulgent, 921 00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:46,120 but when he puts his foot down, I don't know how to act. 922 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:48,760 And I'll be like, I'll be trying to be a good wife 923 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:50,000 and be grateful. 924 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:54,940 But at that particular moment, I was very disappointed. 925 00:41:54,940 --> 00:41:57,360 And so I'm sitting there, you know, 926 00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,240 Ollyanna and London Rose are up in the sky 927 00:42:00,240 --> 00:42:01,080 doing their thing. 928 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,480 And I'm on my phone and I look at my bank statements. 929 00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:05,880 Oh, wait a minute. 930 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:06,720 I forgot. 931 00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:09,360 It's in Canadian dollars. 932 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,200 I can afford this on my own. 933 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:12,280 I don't need that. 934 00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:14,160 I did say that. 935 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:15,000 I don't need that. 936 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:15,840 I know you did. 937 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,800 I can get my own ticket. 938 00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:22,680 And so I ended up booking me a flight and- 939 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:24,040 I think the times were different. 940 00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:24,880 The time was different. 941 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,840 I was hoping I could have went right up after them, 942 00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:30,040 but they were like, no, you need to come back at 2 p.m. 943 00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,640 So we had like hours in between. 944 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,600 So Ollyanna, you want to tell a little bit 945 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,000 about your experience in the sky? 946 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,720 First off, I was too short 947 00:42:38,720 --> 00:42:39,840 to really hop in the plane. 948 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,720 I had to like get on my knees 949 00:42:41,720 --> 00:42:44,560 and like literally crawl into the plane 950 00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:45,400 because it was so high. 951 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,240 They didn't have like a step ladder 952 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:48,320 for me to like get in there. 953 00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,960 So I felt as if I was climbing in my husband's, 954 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:53,920 his work truck, his little, 955 00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:57,440 what is it called? 956 00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:58,800 Pickup, not pickup. 957 00:42:58,800 --> 00:42:59,640 It's semi. 958 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:00,480 Eighteen, semi truck. 959 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:01,320 Yeah. 960 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,600 And I was like, I feel like I'm climbing in a semi truck. 961 00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,000 But anyway, I got in the back 962 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:06,240 and London Rose sat in the front 963 00:43:06,240 --> 00:43:10,200 to even out the weight distribution in the plane. 964 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:14,080 We took off and I was like so scared and it was loud. 965 00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:14,920 I was like, ooh. 966 00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:17,880 What's the scariest part though? 967 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,560 Is it the taking off or the landing 968 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:23,680 or just being in the air? 969 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:24,840 I think both. 970 00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:26,600 Really all of it. 971 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:30,760 I was very nervous, like very, very nervous in there 972 00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,680 and I felt a little lightheaded and stuff. 973 00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:36,400 So he gave me a throw up bag if I needed to throw up. 974 00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,240 But tell them about what London Rose did. 975 00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,600 We were flying in the sky. 976 00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:47,400 I was just enjoying the sights recording left and right. 977 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:51,600 And one before we get to London Rose, we hit a rain cloud. 978 00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,080 So we were like driving through the rain clouds 979 00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,480 and I got to see like the rain and stuff hitting the windows 980 00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,440 from up above. 981 00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,680 And we saw Parliament from the sky. 982 00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:02,760 I think that was like a Parliament tour. 983 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:04,360 So we flew over there. 984 00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,880 We were turning left and right, doing little stuff. 985 00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:11,600 And I was like, ooh, I'm more nervous. 986 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,920 London Rose, I smelled something. 987 00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:18,440 I was like, I said, ew, what's that smell? 988 00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,800 And I see London Rose turning, looking at the window, 989 00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:21,920 covering up her mouth. 990 00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:25,280 See that one go. 991 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,520 You know, like when you know you did something, 992 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,080 but you don't wanna like draw attention. 993 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,040 So London Rose looking at the window. 994 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,920 And I was like, I said, London Rose, did you fart? 995 00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:35,400 And she didn't even say that. 996 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,160 She just shook her head no. 997 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,200 And just was covering up her smile. 998 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:40,640 Was she nervous? 999 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:41,600 I think she was. 1000 00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,280 Cause we were doing like, we weren't doing tricks. 1001 00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,320 We were doing like little turns and like little fun stuff. 1002 00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,400 And so I was like, did you fart? 1003 00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:49,960 And I said, yeah, you stink. 1004 00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,160 And I said, we can't even open up the window. 1005 00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,040 And the man that was driving the plane, he was laughing. 1006 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:56,480 He said, I've smelled worse. 1007 00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,960 He was like, he was like, he was used to it. 1008 00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,520 And I'm like, we're in this little plane 1009 00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:05,400 that was like a one by one cabin. 1010 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,920 I'm like, oh my gosh, London Rose. 1011 00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,400 And I was a capsule. 1012 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:10,240 That's crazy. 1013 00:45:10,240 --> 00:45:12,000 I know when London Rose hopped off the plane, 1014 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:13,640 she ran to me. 1015 00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,360 She was like, mama, he didn't, 1016 00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,840 mama, he didn't even let me fly the plane. 1017 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:21,040 She thinks she's supposed to fly 1018 00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:21,880 every time she get on the plane. 1019 00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,160 I said, baby, I'm sorry that you couldn't pilot this time. 1020 00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:26,840 We saw a beaver. 1021 00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:27,680 You did? 1022 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:28,520 In the air? 1023 00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:30,840 In the field next to, like as the plane landed 1024 00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,040 and was driving back to the terminal, 1025 00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,240 we saw a beaver in the field. 1026 00:45:35,240 --> 00:45:36,080 Oh. 1027 00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:37,840 And I was like, is that a beaver? 1028 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:38,920 That is bananas. 1029 00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:43,240 So we left there and we went to Parliament 1030 00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:45,600 because I wanted to see Parliament from the ground. 1031 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,200 And Parliament is beautiful, by the way. 1032 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:51,840 It is, it is a beautiful building. 1033 00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:56,800 It is the federal legislature of Canada seat. 1034 00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,080 It's on Parliament Hill in Ottawa 1035 00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,800 and it is composed of three parts. 1036 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:06,800 You have the King, the Senate, and the House of Commons. 1037 00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:08,360 So the King. 1038 00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:09,200 Yes. 1039 00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:11,760 The way their government is set up, 1040 00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,720 I think they still use some type of monarchy. 1041 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:18,520 I haven't found out what the King is, 1042 00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,240 but the Senate, of course, is the Senate 1043 00:46:20,240 --> 00:46:22,040 and the House of Commons would be 1044 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:23,760 like a House of Representatives. 1045 00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:24,600 Oh, wow. 1046 00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:27,320 So that's very interesting that we have that president. 1047 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:31,040 Okay, so we didn't go in, but you could go, 1048 00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,080 we just didn't have reservations. 1049 00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,120 We just did not have the time. 1050 00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:39,360 And while we were there, they were doing construction on it, 1051 00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:43,720 but they also had all the tulips planted out front. 1052 00:46:43,720 --> 00:46:46,720 So through some creative photography, 1053 00:46:46,720 --> 00:46:51,040 I was able to get a beautiful picture of the Parliament 1054 00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,320 with tulips coming out the bottom of it. 1055 00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:54,680 It was real beautiful. 1056 00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,360 But while we were there, there was a protest going on. 1057 00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:02,400 I think Aliyahna talked with some of the people. 1058 00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,000 Do you remember? 1059 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,880 I do, but I wanna backtrack real quick 1060 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:11,120 about remember when I told you about the pizza there 1061 00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:13,760 that we went and ate, Little Caesars? 1062 00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,840 We also went to McDonald's, was it before? 1063 00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:18,440 I think before we went to Parliament. 1064 00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:19,920 So we went to McDonald's there. 1065 00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:21,200 There at McDonald's. 1066 00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:22,040 It's different. 1067 00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:24,000 It tastes like real food. 1068 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:24,960 It's different, yeah. 1069 00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:26,880 It tastes real. 1070 00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:28,640 Their McDonald's was different. 1071 00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,680 They really didn't have like a cashier. 1072 00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,560 Like everything was done from the kiosks. 1073 00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,360 And my mama London Rose got their food 1074 00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:39,680 like almost immediately, but my food took 30 minutes. 1075 00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:42,120 So I had to scarf down my food. 1076 00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:43,480 What'd you get? 1077 00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:48,120 I just got a chicken sandwich fries and drink meal, 1078 00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:51,400 but it took like 30 minutes because like the kiosk. 1079 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:55,560 So the food most definitely tastes way different 1080 00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:57,800 than American food. 1081 00:47:57,800 --> 00:47:59,160 Like it almost tasted healthy. 1082 00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,880 And I was like, wow, I'm eating healthy McDonald's. 1083 00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:06,880 So that was that, but to talk about the protest. 1084 00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:13,880 Yeah, there was men out there protesting 1085 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:16,700 for us to sign a card. 1086 00:48:16,700 --> 00:48:21,420 And so I asked about why am I signing a card? 1087 00:48:21,420 --> 00:48:26,060 And he said, a detective was fired. 1088 00:48:26,060 --> 00:48:29,660 A woman detective was fired because she was protesting 1089 00:48:29,660 --> 00:48:34,660 on behalf of I think four mothers that baby died, 1090 00:48:35,060 --> 00:48:36,860 I guess in the care of the hospital 1091 00:48:36,860 --> 00:48:39,740 or something along those lines. 1092 00:48:39,740 --> 00:48:43,520 And the government turned a blind eye to it 1093 00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:47,740 when the detective wanted to look into the cases more. 1094 00:48:47,740 --> 00:48:48,900 But the government was basically, 1095 00:48:48,900 --> 00:48:51,260 it's not like just stay out of it, whatever, however, 1096 00:48:51,260 --> 00:48:53,820 but the woman didn't wanna let it go. 1097 00:48:53,820 --> 00:48:56,020 She wanted to seek justice for those mothers. 1098 00:48:56,020 --> 00:49:00,500 So she was fired and she's going to court 1099 00:49:00,500 --> 00:49:05,500 and these men were out there trying to get petition signed, 1100 00:49:06,580 --> 00:49:08,820 Mother's Day cards for the lady 1101 00:49:08,820 --> 00:49:13,820 and just best wishes for her in her, I guess, fight 1102 00:49:16,660 --> 00:49:17,500 versus the- 1103 00:49:17,500 --> 00:49:19,500 So the protest was your job back pretty much, right? 1104 00:49:19,500 --> 00:49:21,180 Yeah, pretty much. 1105 00:49:22,220 --> 00:49:25,140 So yeah, because the man had a stroller 1106 00:49:25,140 --> 00:49:27,180 and I'm like, this man has a stroller, 1107 00:49:27,180 --> 00:49:30,540 they have cards and send best wishes and all that. 1108 00:49:30,540 --> 00:49:31,860 It's symbolic. 1109 00:49:31,860 --> 00:49:35,660 Yeah, yeah, so they literally had like baby gear 1110 00:49:35,660 --> 00:49:38,180 to like better support the protest. 1111 00:49:38,180 --> 00:49:40,780 And he talked to us, asked us where we were from. 1112 00:49:40,780 --> 00:49:41,620 I was hesitant. 1113 00:49:41,620 --> 00:49:43,460 You know, I'm from out of the country. 1114 00:49:43,460 --> 00:49:44,740 I'm like, I ain't gonna tell you where I'm from 1115 00:49:44,740 --> 00:49:46,740 so you can come kidnap me. 1116 00:49:46,740 --> 00:49:49,620 But he was very, I felt he was very genuine 1117 00:49:49,620 --> 00:49:52,280 and we told him we were from Kentucky. 1118 00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,380 I don't think we told him where exactly. 1119 00:49:54,380 --> 00:49:55,220 Yeah. 1120 00:49:55,220 --> 00:49:56,060 Getting to get to where we live. 1121 00:49:56,060 --> 00:49:57,900 So I was like, uh-uh, he finna, 1122 00:49:57,900 --> 00:49:59,660 what's that movie about the man? 1123 00:49:59,660 --> 00:50:02,180 Taken, yeah, that's a movie Taken. 1124 00:50:02,180 --> 00:50:03,980 I'm gonna have to come find y'all. 1125 00:50:03,980 --> 00:50:05,300 I will find you. 1126 00:50:05,300 --> 00:50:07,300 And I will get you. 1127 00:50:07,300 --> 00:50:11,180 So, yeah, so that was a nice experience. 1128 00:50:11,180 --> 00:50:15,060 And I also left a best wishes card 1129 00:50:15,060 --> 00:50:18,420 and they wanted me to sign where I was from. 1130 00:50:18,420 --> 00:50:21,980 And I didn't sign my name, once again, Taken Things. 1131 00:50:21,980 --> 00:50:24,020 I was like, um, so I just said, 1132 00:50:24,020 --> 00:50:26,020 from your friend from America. 1133 00:50:26,020 --> 00:50:26,860 Gotcha. 1134 00:50:26,860 --> 00:50:27,700 So. 1135 00:50:27,700 --> 00:50:29,000 It's so silly. 1136 00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,980 Okay, so after I got my daughter 1137 00:50:31,980 --> 00:50:33,640 out of that sticky situation, 1138 00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:38,640 we ended up going back to the Aviation and Space Museum 1139 00:50:40,260 --> 00:50:45,260 and so I can do my flight tour in my one propeller plane. 1140 00:50:47,180 --> 00:50:52,020 And so it was just like Charlie Brown's Red Baron. 1141 00:50:52,020 --> 00:50:53,780 There's no cap over it. 1142 00:50:53,780 --> 00:50:57,380 So all you have is a big like windshield. 1143 00:50:57,380 --> 00:50:59,380 So you had a chance to get on the biplane. 1144 00:50:59,380 --> 00:51:00,220 Yeah, I did. 1145 00:51:00,220 --> 00:51:01,060 I was on a biplane. 1146 00:51:01,060 --> 00:51:01,880 With London Rose. 1147 00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:02,720 And London Rose rode with me. 1148 00:51:02,720 --> 00:51:05,820 So we got the goggles, like the classic flight goggles. 1149 00:51:05,820 --> 00:51:07,340 I didn't have a scarf though, but. 1150 00:51:07,340 --> 00:51:08,820 Amelia Earhart. 1151 00:51:08,820 --> 00:51:10,380 Basically, yeah. 1152 00:51:10,380 --> 00:51:12,420 And it was windy. 1153 00:51:12,420 --> 00:51:14,060 It was loud. 1154 00:51:14,060 --> 00:51:18,100 And, you know, all I remember the guy was like, 1155 00:51:18,100 --> 00:51:20,340 don't hold your phone now, the wind will take it away. 1156 00:51:20,340 --> 00:51:21,680 You know? 1157 00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,340 So I'm sitting there holding my phone with two hands. 1158 00:51:24,340 --> 00:51:25,180 I knew you was gonna do it. 1159 00:51:25,180 --> 00:51:26,460 You're so hard. 1160 00:51:26,460 --> 00:51:30,060 But real quick, London Rose had to go with my mom at first 1161 00:51:30,060 --> 00:51:30,940 because the man was like, 1162 00:51:30,940 --> 00:51:33,220 oh, you have to have two people. 1163 00:51:33,220 --> 00:51:35,660 So that's why she was acting mad. 1164 00:51:35,660 --> 00:51:36,540 She was mad again. 1165 00:51:36,540 --> 00:51:39,060 She was like, I got to pay for another person to go. 1166 00:51:39,060 --> 00:51:39,980 I just want to go by myself. 1167 00:51:39,980 --> 00:51:40,900 London Rose already went. 1168 00:51:40,900 --> 00:51:42,180 So London Rose went on. 1169 00:51:42,180 --> 00:51:44,900 But the pilot was so, he was rude. 1170 00:51:44,900 --> 00:51:46,140 I felt like he was so rude. 1171 00:51:46,140 --> 00:51:47,780 And I was trying to take pictures, you know, 1172 00:51:47,780 --> 00:51:49,060 film and record my mom. 1173 00:51:49,060 --> 00:51:51,740 But I was like, he seemed, like his energy seemed. 1174 00:51:51,740 --> 00:51:53,700 Like he was angry and mad. 1175 00:51:53,700 --> 00:51:55,220 And he was like, well don't put your phone. 1176 00:51:55,220 --> 00:51:57,460 Like before my mom then left the house, 1177 00:51:57,460 --> 00:51:58,780 he was like, don't put your phone at the window. 1178 00:51:58,780 --> 00:51:59,620 It's gonna go by. 1179 00:51:59,620 --> 00:52:00,740 But my mom was like, hmm. 1180 00:52:00,740 --> 00:52:02,900 So I looked at my mom and I was like, 1181 00:52:02,900 --> 00:52:03,940 I bet she thinking like, okay, 1182 00:52:03,940 --> 00:52:05,420 so how can I record my journey? 1183 00:52:05,420 --> 00:52:07,900 So I found a way. 1184 00:52:07,900 --> 00:52:12,560 Oh, I got my shot. 1185 00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:13,740 I got my shots. 1186 00:52:13,740 --> 00:52:14,980 I got to see Parliament. 1187 00:52:14,980 --> 00:52:16,340 I got shots of that. 1188 00:52:16,340 --> 00:52:21,340 It was a really, really nice experience. 1189 00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:23,660 I was very, very glad that I did that. 1190 00:52:23,660 --> 00:52:25,500 I don't know. 1191 00:52:25,500 --> 00:52:26,940 I couldn't smell it. 1192 00:52:26,940 --> 00:52:29,420 All I was worried about was a bird coming through 1193 00:52:29,420 --> 00:52:30,500 and hitting our windshield. 1194 00:52:30,500 --> 00:52:32,180 That's all I was caring about. 1195 00:52:32,180 --> 00:52:34,740 So after we finished our flight, 1196 00:52:34,740 --> 00:52:37,420 we decided to go back to the hotel 1197 00:52:37,420 --> 00:52:40,500 because we had to get on the road and go back home. 1198 00:52:40,500 --> 00:52:45,500 And instead of us going again through that Toronto tour, 1199 00:52:46,780 --> 00:52:50,100 I chose to go the route to go see Niagara Falls 1200 00:52:50,100 --> 00:52:51,980 because Aliyahna's never been. 1201 00:52:51,980 --> 00:52:56,280 And I thought it would be a great experience for her 1202 00:52:56,280 --> 00:53:01,280 to see the sunrise over Niagara Falls. 1203 00:53:01,300 --> 00:53:05,420 So Niagara was about a five and a half hours away 1204 00:53:05,420 --> 00:53:06,980 from Ottawa. 1205 00:53:06,980 --> 00:53:09,260 Sunrise was at 5.38. 1206 00:53:09,260 --> 00:53:10,460 Hey, Em. 1207 00:53:10,460 --> 00:53:11,300 Hey, Em. 1208 00:53:11,300 --> 00:53:15,620 So we had to leave around midnight. 1209 00:53:15,620 --> 00:53:17,700 So we had to get back home, 1210 00:53:17,700 --> 00:53:20,220 well, back from the hotel from our flight. 1211 00:53:20,220 --> 00:53:21,540 And I went straight to bed. 1212 00:53:21,540 --> 00:53:23,060 See, I left the hotel at midnight. 1213 00:53:23,060 --> 00:53:24,300 We did. 1214 00:53:24,300 --> 00:53:25,140 We did. 1215 00:53:25,140 --> 00:53:30,140 We made it to Horseshoe Bend just in time. 1216 00:53:31,300 --> 00:53:35,180 Like we had enough time to maybe spend like 20 minutes 1217 00:53:35,180 --> 00:53:38,580 finding a place to park to see the sunrise. 1218 00:53:38,580 --> 00:53:41,820 And Aliyahna, what did you think of the sunrise 1219 00:53:41,820 --> 00:53:43,420 over the Niagara Falls? 1220 00:53:43,420 --> 00:53:44,580 I thought it was nice. 1221 00:53:45,540 --> 00:53:48,660 That's all I can really, really pretty much say. 1222 00:53:48,660 --> 00:53:51,500 I like to look at the falls, 1223 00:53:51,500 --> 00:53:54,620 saw the water and the seagulls. 1224 00:53:54,620 --> 00:53:55,700 I don't know. 1225 00:53:55,700 --> 00:53:59,100 I felt like I was more interested in watching the seagulls 1226 00:53:59,100 --> 00:54:00,780 than the waterfall. 1227 00:54:00,780 --> 00:54:02,880 I guess because, you know, being from Memphis, 1228 00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,340 we don't see seagulls in Memphis. 1229 00:54:05,340 --> 00:54:06,380 That's like a beach thing. 1230 00:54:06,380 --> 00:54:10,180 So yeah, I was just more interested in the birds 1231 00:54:10,180 --> 00:54:13,100 and the water, but I like this look at the falls. 1232 00:54:13,100 --> 00:54:15,260 But there was a lot of seagulls, 1233 00:54:15,260 --> 00:54:18,420 like woman's standing right next to us 1234 00:54:18,420 --> 00:54:19,620 as we're trying to take a picture. 1235 00:54:19,620 --> 00:54:20,540 It didn't move. 1236 00:54:20,540 --> 00:54:21,380 I'm just like. 1237 00:54:21,380 --> 00:54:23,680 Take your lunch, cause that's what they do. 1238 00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:25,740 They take your meal from you while you're not watching. 1239 00:54:25,740 --> 00:54:27,220 Well, I'm glad we didn't have a meal. 1240 00:54:27,220 --> 00:54:31,320 Yeah, so it was raining when we went. 1241 00:54:32,340 --> 00:54:34,120 So this may be one of the first trips 1242 00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:36,260 where the weather didn't cover it. 1243 00:54:36,260 --> 00:54:39,540 No, the first time London Rose and I went to Niagara, 1244 00:54:39,540 --> 00:54:40,380 it rained. 1245 00:54:40,380 --> 00:54:41,200 It actually rained. 1246 00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:42,500 Like we had to have a, 1247 00:54:42,500 --> 00:54:45,540 like it was blowing our umbrellas and everything. 1248 00:54:45,540 --> 00:54:46,820 And she was not having it. 1249 00:54:46,820 --> 00:54:50,160 She was like, she had on her rain shoes, a raincoat. 1250 00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:51,280 She was ready to go. 1251 00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:56,280 So some regrets, cause then we drove home. 1252 00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:59,560 The ride home was pretty easy. 1253 00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,160 It was just an additional eight hours. 1254 00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:06,160 And my in-car companions were very generous. 1255 00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:10,200 They didn't ask to stop and eat, but once. 1256 00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:11,280 But once. 1257 00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:13,680 One time. 1258 00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:15,020 And I let them do that. 1259 00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:19,440 But we got home and it was great. 1260 00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:22,840 So, but some regrets that I have 1261 00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:25,760 is that we did not go to Gatineau. 1262 00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:29,920 So Gatineau is the town, the city, 1263 00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:34,800 that is directly across the river from parliament. 1264 00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:36,740 Like from Ottawa. 1265 00:55:36,740 --> 00:55:41,360 And Gatineau is another French speaking city. 1266 00:55:42,240 --> 00:55:45,480 Cause how we heard about Gatineau 1267 00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:49,520 was the attendant that helped us on the planes. 1268 00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:51,840 She was a black woman with an accent. 1269 00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:54,200 I was like, oh, you know, where are you from? 1270 00:55:55,240 --> 00:55:58,080 Well, she told me, she says French is my first language. 1271 00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:00,080 And I was like, oh, where are you from? 1272 00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:01,360 She was like, I'm from here. 1273 00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:02,960 Well, she says, I live in Gatineau. 1274 00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:03,800 I was like, huh? 1275 00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:04,640 Right. 1276 00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:08,640 Cause I don't think she's gonna say, you know. 1277 00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:09,480 Ottawa. 1278 00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:11,680 You know, or like Africa somewhere. 1279 00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:13,880 Cause she was clearly African. 1280 00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:17,680 And she was like, no, I'm born here in Gatineau. 1281 00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:19,240 She says she liked our accent. 1282 00:56:19,240 --> 00:56:20,920 She's like, I really like y'all's, 1283 00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,360 like when we were talking, like she would, 1284 00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:25,800 this was what she wanted to hear, just us talking. 1285 00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:27,360 And I'm like, we like to hear yours. 1286 00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:28,720 Right, right, you talk. 1287 00:56:28,720 --> 00:56:29,560 Yeah. 1288 00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:31,520 So, and then she was like, oh, it's just right here. 1289 00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:33,320 She's like, I live in Gatineau and I drive here every day. 1290 00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:35,840 I was like, man, I've never heard of Gatineau. 1291 00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:38,200 And sure enough, it was literally right across the bridge. 1292 00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:39,380 Like right across the bridge. 1293 00:56:39,380 --> 00:56:42,120 Cause all you hear about is Montreal, Montreal, Montreal. 1294 00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:44,360 I think Montreal was like an hour ride. 1295 00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:48,520 Cause I was considering going to Montreal, you know, 1296 00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:49,520 that day. 1297 00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:53,640 And, you know, we, you know, decided not to. 1298 00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:55,680 I was like, man, gotta know. 1299 00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:57,080 I gotta put that on the list. 1300 00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:59,380 So that is a regret of mine. 1301 00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:02,480 Aliyah, do you have any regrets? 1302 00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:09,000 Anything you regret not doing while in Canada? 1303 00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:10,960 Nope, I got me a shot glass. 1304 00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:14,200 Cause I like to collect shot glasses from the states 1305 00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:15,040 that I go to. 1306 00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:16,480 But even though it was Canada, I was like, 1307 00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:18,440 still need to get one. 1308 00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:19,280 So. 1309 00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:20,960 You got one with Ottawa on it? 1310 00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:25,000 Yep, it's like a frosted shot glass 1311 00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:29,280 got from some little tourist shop in a mall. 1312 00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:30,640 I don't remember the name of the mall. 1313 00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:32,840 I just Googled shot glass and near me, 1314 00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:34,400 I told my mom where to go. 1315 00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:36,600 She literally dropped me off, told me to get out 1316 00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:37,440 and kept driving. 1317 00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:38,280 Dang. 1318 00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:40,640 Like she kept driving. 1319 00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:41,960 I was like, I'm not gonna find a place to park. 1320 00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:43,600 I'm just gonna drive around until you're ready. 1321 00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:45,400 When she kicked you out, did she even stop? 1322 00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:46,680 She just kept rolling. 1323 00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:48,000 Cause she was like, we gotta hurry up 1324 00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:49,960 cause I'm gonna miss my tour for the airplane. 1325 00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:51,360 She was worried about the airplane. 1326 00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:52,200 Get out. 1327 00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:53,200 She didn't tell me to get out. 1328 00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:54,040 Hey. 1329 00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:55,600 But that's what I felt like. 1330 00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:56,840 Oh, and you know what? 1331 00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:57,680 Back to the airplane. 1332 00:57:57,680 --> 00:57:59,480 That's when we realized, 1333 00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:02,400 that's when I had an aha moment that, 1334 00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:06,360 you know how we get fascinated when we see foreign currency? 1335 00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:08,440 That was my first time speaking with someone 1336 00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:11,280 that was fascinated with our currency. 1337 00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:14,760 Cause in the gift shop of the airplane museum, 1338 00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:18,680 the guy was like, hey yeah, you can pay. 1339 00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:20,920 We accept American dollars. 1340 00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:24,640 And however, there is no change. 1341 00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:26,480 So we recommend you paying with a card. 1342 00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:27,760 I was like, oh no change. 1343 00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:28,880 Then it hit me. 1344 00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,160 He was like, yeah, because you're gonna give us 1345 00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:32,240 your American dollars. 1346 00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:34,120 We ain't gonna have your change for a minute. 1347 00:58:34,120 --> 00:58:36,280 Then he started talking about the money that he saw 1348 00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:38,080 and then we started talking about the $100 bills 1349 00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:40,520 and I was hit. 1350 00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:42,520 Then I was like, oh I have some money on me. 1351 00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:43,800 Then I started pulling out my money 1352 00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:47,040 and they were like so amazed at our money. 1353 00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:48,240 Like wow, you know? 1354 00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:50,120 And I was like, all our money is the same color 1355 00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:53,920 and we just started really adding color to our money 1356 00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:56,600 in the past few decades, you know? 1357 00:58:56,600 --> 00:58:58,600 And things like that, it was really interesting. 1358 00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:01,600 And they have a black lady on one of the bills. 1359 00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:05,600 It's on my phone, but they have a black lady 1360 00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:07,440 on one of the pieces of money. 1361 00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:09,640 And I was like, wow, we don't have that in America. 1362 00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:10,480 No. 1363 00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:11,300 Wow. 1364 00:59:11,300 --> 00:59:12,140 Yep. 1365 00:59:12,140 --> 00:59:12,960 A black woman. 1366 00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:13,800 You didn't tell me that. 1367 00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:15,400 Yeah, I meant to do some research on it 1368 00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:18,400 and I just forgot about it until Aliyana mentioned it 1369 00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:20,760 right now, but he talked about her. 1370 00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:22,400 Like I was like, wow, you know? 1371 00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,240 Like they know, like it was, you know, 1372 00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:26,920 very prideful speech. 1373 00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:27,840 I was like, man. 1374 00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:32,480 We went to Canada, Canadian Dollar Tree, 1375 00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:34,640 in Canadian Walmart. 1376 00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:36,560 Because I was like focused on like, okay, 1377 00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:39,040 I want to go to American type stores 1378 00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:41,120 to see like what it looks like. 1379 00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:43,820 And where did your sister beg to go? 1380 00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:46,520 Where did she beg to go? 1381 00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:47,560 Are you serious? 1382 00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:48,380 I forgot. 1383 00:59:48,380 --> 00:59:50,600 All she talked about was going to Ikea. 1384 00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:52,600 I went with the Canadian Ikea. 1385 00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:56,280 Why does this 11 year old have a fascination with Ikea? 1386 00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,280 She wanted their hot dogs. 1387 00:59:58,280 --> 00:59:59,280 Did she get a hot dog? 1388 00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,120 She got some out of the cafeteria. 1389 01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:02,600 She didn't go there for the first. 1390 01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:03,440 She didn't eat. 1391 01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:04,280 You ate. 1392 01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:05,120 I ate. 1393 01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:07,800 She just wanted to walk around Ikea. 1394 01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:09,680 And they had French, like they had American 1395 01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:10,520 and they had French. 1396 01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:12,000 So everything was like an American. 1397 01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:12,840 And French. 1398 01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:13,680 And French. 1399 01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:14,520 English and French. 1400 01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:15,760 I said American. 1401 01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:17,080 Why is she fascinated by Ikea? 1402 01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:19,520 I have no idea, but she kept begging the whole time. 1403 01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:21,040 All day. 1404 01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:22,120 The whole time. 1405 01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:23,520 Ikea, Ikea, Ikea. 1406 01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:24,360 I'm like, what? 1407 01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:26,760 She's been to Ikea several times. 1408 01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:29,040 Man, but she really wanted to go. 1409 01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:30,400 Like that was her one. 1410 01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:32,960 And she was like, mom, you guys go everywhere you want to go, 1411 01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:34,880 but no one's taking me to Ikea. 1412 01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:38,920 I looked at her like, we ain't finna burn up our time 1413 01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:42,560 in Ottawa to go to no ding dang Ikea. 1414 01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:43,600 But we went. 1415 01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:45,720 And then we enjoyed ourselves. 1416 01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:47,680 When we left, she says, mom, aren't you glad 1417 01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:49,280 you went to Ikea? 1418 01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:50,800 I'm like, girl. 1419 01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:51,640 Get outta here. 1420 01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:59,200 All right, so that is the trip to Ottawa. 1421 01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:01,160 And we'll see y'all next time. 1422 01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:06,160 Ooh, if you made it this far, you are the true champion. 1423 01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:09,280 You could have been anywhere, doing anything, 1424 01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:11,680 but you instead chose to spend your time with us. 1425 01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:13,680 And for that, we say thank you. 1426 01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:14,520 Thank you. 1427 01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:15,360 I'm Derek. 1428 01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:16,600 I'm Akilah. 1429 01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:18,520 Rate, like, and subscribe. 1430 01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:20,960 Do good, be good. 1431 01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:31,960 Until next time.