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hey guys samuel and audrey here and today we're taking you on a surprise trip
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so technically this was meant to be a surprise getaway for sam as a belated birthday celebration
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but there was just one little problem issue is i don't love surprises i was trying to throw sam
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off the scent with another supposed tiny house day but with his mounting questions
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and growing suspicions about my lack of grocery shopping and getting the car ready for this trip
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i ended up revealing the surprise the night before so i'm going to tell sam on camera because he's
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been pestering me for days now i have been about where we're going this is what we're doing this is
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a true story i found a luxury hotel in downtown toronto ontario that has a sale number one
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and number two is offering free room upgrades wow okay so we are going tomorrow yeah nice and
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when's the last time you were in the city three or four years ago now that the cat's out of the bag
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let's hop on the go train and make our way into toronto for a fun couple of days in the city
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oh that's a good price
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so
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well well welcome guys welcome back to toronto canada how many years has it been sam
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four years since we made it downtown you know the last time we came here i think was when we
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made our guide that would be embarrassing it's been a while that was before we like
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went to korea that's how long ago that was but anyways it was a really good ride
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from brampton what would you say like 35 minutes maybe yeah it was a short ride and yeah i mean
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it was hardly anyone on the train yeah it was empty so yeah like 10 bucks per person we're
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right downtown we arrived at union station now we're going to take you over to our hotel which
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is just two blocks away very convenient because it is cold out so let's get going let's do it
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well hello hello we made it we're here at one king street west welcome welcome that's the surprise
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hotel this is pretty awesome so the first thing i noticed when we came in here is the upgrade
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that you got for us the second thing that i really like about this place already is the view checker
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cool that is downtown toronto guys that's as downtown as it gets we are on the 27th
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floor yeah i'm pretty high up yeah wow it's just crazy to be back in the city after so many years
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room tour before we get the room super messy which always happens within seconds of our arrival i
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figured we give you the grand tour oh yeah we have an uncanny ability to yeah i know even with
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like a little carry-on suitcase you'd be surprised you'd be surprised so okay as soon as we step in
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we basically have this little kitchenette area we're going to be here for two nights but we want
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to hit up some really good restaurants so i don't see us cooking no but if you wanted to cook have a
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self-catered vacation you could because you've got the the elements up here yeah uh what's this is
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it an oven oh this washer oh wow a mini a mini dishwasher dishwasher that's really cool check
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that out wow i've never seen one like that it's got a microwave yeah sink oh a fridge look at that
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and they've got plenty of cutlery cups dishes plates whatever you could possibly need then if
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you follow me we've got the bed queen size yeah that's an ice cream sized bed we've got a large
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tv if you want to watch some movies chill out for a bit which we will be doing yeah yeah we
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should watch a movie something festive christmasy a nice little seating area over here and then we
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also have a desk actually for the first time ever we didn't bring our laptops on a trip wow
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get away look at us we should have he's connecting huh disconnected no disconnecting for the first
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time yeah and of course the views they are pretty spectacular you can see the whole city
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and let's not forget the bathroom i haven't even seen it yet oh cool sink large mirror they left us
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shampoo body lotion conditioner the works lots of towels a little shower there lots of towels
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yeah i'd say that's that's all we need for two days yeah and the plan is to eat eat
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eat we're going to be at restaurant eat and don't forget the most important part repeat
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repeat eat and repeat okay so this portion of the video is sponsored by glassesusa who have kindly
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sent us some glasses to try on they have sponsored our channel before so whenever you see us wearing
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our sunglasses or editing glasses that's where they're from so today they sent me two pairs
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sam and i actually placed an order for three pairs each but now with the holidays shipping
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is quite delayed so i'm gonna show you the two that arrived first which are mine so show and tell
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so yeah their service is super easy to use one of the things i like about them is that you can just
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upload a profile photo onto their website and then you can try on different glasses to see how the
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shapes and colors work with your face and then if you require a prescription which i now do because
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i went to the optometrist for the first time in a very long time but it is a small prescription
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so you can upload that and also customize your glasses based on whether you want bifocal mirrored
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polarized transition single vision you name it mine are just single vision nothing too fancy here
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but yeah the first pair i want to show you is the ototo valitudo which i have right here in my hands
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these i got um blue light blocking and i also put my new prescription on there
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so these are the ones that i use whenever i'm editing video which we're doing a lot lately we're
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catching up on edits so let me just come a little closer so you can see the frames i really like the
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the dark rim combined with the gold i think it's super cool and it's also got a bit of
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tortoise so that's really nice and then the next pair i want to show you is the ototo stefano
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these are my sunglasses and yeah i just thought they looked a little bit modern and futuristic so
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i thought i would try something different because i tend to go for like aviator style or more of
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like a round lens like john lennon style so yeah i thought i would try something different with these
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in black and gold and i think they're really cool so yeah that's this pair and since my third pair
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didn't arrive on time i thought i would show you my other pair of glasses i ordered earlier
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this summer which i have been using a lot so these right here are the muse brook line and these are
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basically my go-to glasses like i wear these every day when i'm in front of the computer doing emails
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or editing video that kind of thing i really like these black and gold i seem to be drawn
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to black and gold there's a lot of black and gold with everything i've shown you today but yeah i
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just think they're quite versatile they work with different looks and yeah they're just really fun
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so those are the three pairs of glasses i wanted to show you guys today so if you're interested in
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checking out some of the glasses that glasses usa have to offer we're going to leave a link
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in the description below so you can check that out and i'll also mention that they offer free
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international shipping and they also have a 14 day return and exchange policy no questions
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asked so for some reason the glasses don't work out for you you can always contact them and get
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that sorted so that's it for the little glasses fashion show i think sam is getting hungry so
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what do you think sam pizza time pizza time pizza time i'll see you later so sam this is the place
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i have in mind for what do you think holy mole in a bowl it's naples-style pizza yeah i can't wait
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to have that i mean my goodness we got to try some while we were in halifax and that was such a treat
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actually you didn't no you went out for pizza on your own on my own date night yeah
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yeah well you were doing something else and uh oh i can't wait to have some so yeah i agree so
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ready for this it's called pizzeria libretto university and it's just a few blocks away
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so we'll bundle up and head on over waddle on over scarf down some pizza sounds good to me
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so so we made it to pizzeria yes and the most fascinating part about this
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whole dining experience is we're doing it out here in the patio yes they've just
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basically blocked this off with a tent there is no heating in here guys
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we are braving the elements but has cut the wind considerably and we have this oh to keep our hands
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warm and toasty you've got your gloves on right now yeah so you're doing just fine but for me oh
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it's so nice i could almost roast a marshmallow this is this is date night during a pandemic when
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you can't dine in there's only takeout or we're eating at like a super strange hour too it's like
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just slightly after 4 p.m in between lunch and dinner so we're the only people here at the moment
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it's kind of cool so i want to show you guys the menu and basically they specialize in all kinds
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of pizzas pizza napolitanas so yeah naples style pizza yeah the margarita the barata marinara the
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pepperoni i ended up going for the diavola exactly which is spicy salami mozzarella can't wait to
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have that i'm fresh so hungry and you go you ended up getting the special oh a truffle pizza
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our server came over and told us about that truffle pizza and with all those good truffle
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experiences we had especially in croatia oh yeah greece and other places you're like you jumped
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on board that one yeah we're just we've placed our order we're waiting for the pizzas to arrive
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and we're enjoying outdoor dining in the basically a canadian winter day the pizzas are here and they
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look amazing i went for the truffle pizza with cremini mushrooms lots of cheese doesn't that look
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awesome yeah it looks so good i'm so hungry it's just weather i know it's basically the
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coldest day that we've experienced since you know winter from from earlier caramelized onions yeah
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how is that sweet cheese i'm just gonna i'm gonna go in with my hands here and they gave
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us the chili oil yes so good so good oh we're also warming up by eating this too
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it's functional wonderful um yours looks amazing oh my goodness look at this guys as much as i
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want to eat it for the taste i'm also eating it to warm up as well check out these giant slices
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look at all the different ingredients i have on here basil to the fresh onion to the tomato
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that is divine i am in my happy place like what could i want to be eating more right now than a
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warm pizza authentic naples pizza in toronto on a day when it's minus outside and we're
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eating outside this is awesome and because sharing is caring we're trying each other's
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what do you think of the the one i ordered yours is so good
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so spicy it's so spicy and i didn't realize mine has like a fig a fig jam wow so it's like really
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sweet yeah so this is a perfect contrast going from sam spicy to my sweet one it's
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almost like a dessert pizza so which one would you choose between the two you like them both
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yeah they're that good huh okay sam's gonna try mine i'm really excited to try yours when you
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talked about the jam feature oh yeah wow it's sweet tell me what you think we can do half and
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half if you like it yours is like a dessert pizza i know yours is really good wow i wouldn't have
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thought to order one like that i was sold on the truffles that's what got me truffles for the win
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oh it was cold oh my gosh i have no idea how cold it is outside
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we're just not acclimatized to winter yet we we had extended summer weather just a few days ago so
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but to console ourselves over this cold weather we stopped at a cafe so next door to the pizza place
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there's a spot called cafe land yeah um so we got some cappuccinos cheers
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and i thought i was getting like uh chocolate but it's a croissant with um nutella inside nutella oh
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i think sam's gonna want some of that and then we have carrot cake sam got a little bit of carrot
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cake with cranberries yes walnuts that looks very good and i think we're going to watch a movie and
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just chill get into our pajamas warm flannel pajamas and enjoy but it was a fun evening out
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it was it was a lot of fun it was so nice just to go for a walk to go have some pizza and chicken
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that was so legendary oh it was it was also nice to see that we we talked to the person
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who was serving us and they said they're doing a really good business with ubereats and other
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things yeah and they've also started selling their pizzas as frozen pizzas and supermarkets
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so it's cool to see businesses kind of like evolve and find new ways to get through these right
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because because no industry has been hit as hard probably as restaurants i mean yeah so it's really
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good to see that there's some restaurants that are able to enjoy this time we would be rolling
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hanging out back in the room are we in the frame we are in the frame yeah we forgot to bring the
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tripod rookie mistake right there well we've got your glasses case acting as well as a rest
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pod there you go well you know what was one of my favorite things about today pizza aside from the
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pizza which was amazing was just getting back into the warm building because i was so underdressed
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yeah i mean sam went out with like a flannel it's like minus eight outside i'm like sam are you
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sure that's gonna be enough in all fairness it's a wool shirt and some people call it a shirt jacket
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but when it dips to like minus eight minus ten yeah not quite enough not quite not quite enough
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i wasn't it wasn't quite teeth shattering chattering chattering you know you go like that
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it wasn't quite at that level but it was getting there it's getting there yeah but you know what
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before we left for the restaurant i turned on the heat like i put it up by five degrees so when we
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got back it was nice and toasty and yes i borrowed a flannel so yeah we're nice and warm in here
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just to have those cappuccinos and a little bite to eat and we've just been chilling and it's been
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a lot of fun i'm really glad we did this we've kind of just been cooped up in basements and
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small little rooms this year and so you know this wasn't like a a big trip or anything
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brampton is part of the the greater toronto area we live in the greater toronto area we're just
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downtown right now but it is like a different world here yeah and it's nice to be able to
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support some industries and businesses that are are really struggling in a responsible way right
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now yeah generally i mean like just to be you know wearing your mask to be social distancing
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but at the same time to sort of be out in the world a little bit
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i feel like at this point i i'm okay with doing a bit of that yeah and one thing i've noticed
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is that people are so appreciative when you go to their restaurant you go to their cafe
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it's like you can tell that they're so thankful to have customers after like months of yeah just
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yes i i i i feel like this year has uh has humbled just people and businesses to their to their core
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not only that but i think that there's just there's you know people are in the mind frame
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right now that there's just there's a lot of gratitude just for you know just for being able to
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to exist and to be able to continue your business yeah in a time like this a lot of people haven't
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made it through so yeah anyways that's uh not not to be uh depressing or anything but i i just feel
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like it was a trip that i'm really glad that we did good yeah i'm glad you're happy to be here
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because it is so hard to like convince sam to go into toronto that's why we haven't been here in
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years because the idea of downtown you're like no well you know the thing is it's like when we
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are in brampton it is i think we've explained this in other videos or maybe even this one we're like
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we've already completed a big trip so we're like getting caught up on rest editing yeah work on
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just everything you can imagine getting caught up on uh so but it does remind me that like sometimes
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i feel sometimes it it it's harder to get motivated to do something that's so close because
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you take it for granted you can always do it you can do it next weekend you can do it tomorrow you
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don't feel that sense of urgency and that that you know i can actually relate to that because
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i remember moving to edmonton and i lived there for five and a half years and
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the first time i went to west edmonton mall there's this incredible water theme park there
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and i'm like oh i've got to go there i've got to do this and somehow i managed to put it off so
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much that i never actually went the whole time the whole time i lived there i didn't make it to the
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to the water theme park so yeah it was just it was always available i could do it tomorrow i could do
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it next week i could do it the week after it just never happened never in five years yeah unless
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you have a date and a time and you turn it into a priority yeah it doesn't doesn't happen you know
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that's actually one trip that i really want to do with sam that we've kind of been talking about
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i'd say for the past year and a half or two going back to alberta and like just reliving your life
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there what like 15 years ago yeah i mean gosh i left in 2005 okay it was a little while ago
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i feel a little old right now yeah no but like i love to see like where you live where your old
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apartment was where you went to university where you worked i can tell you that my
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my time in edmonton was it was the place the the city that kind of exposed me to the world and to
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the idea of traveling and to trying new foods it was the first place it was the first city where i
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tried sushi where i tried thai food where i tried indian food all kinds of different cuisines korean
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it's just like uh it's a phenomenal foodie city like i i don't just mean that like as a as a small
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compliment like it might be one of the best cities for food i've ever been to you could eat whatever
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you wanted basically there was a great chinatown as well too i remember having this like amazing
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ginger beef where i would like jog 30 minutes just to go get it going yeah it was that good
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anyways yeah be cool to go to edmonton and also nearby edmonton we never made it to jasper we
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never made it to places i like how you're saying we and i wasn't even a part of the picture
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15 years ago oh no but i mean i mean i'm actually talking i'm talking about our trip we did a year
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and a half ago oh okay we didn't we didn't we didn't get any further than uh than banff
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and um there's plenty to see as you go north of banff getting all the way up to jasper in fact
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some people say that's the nicest part of alberta so if we get the chance we will go there we'll
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also go to calgary too there's plenty to see in alberta and i'd love to show you more of bc my
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home province because i actually haven't done that much on the mainland yeah i like studying
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how this has turned into like a travel planning session and hey since we enjoyed nova scotia so
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much let's go visit the annapolis valley and the south shore yeah i know there's a lot and
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newfoundland too while we're at it yeah so that's just that's just like the wanderlust in our brains
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basically yeah honestly we we did not expect to be in canada this year at this point in the year