apparently we're going to be  experiencing the coldest day of winter and snowstorm in canada

i'm going to create a path down to the  lake there's a frozen lake down there  

i can feel little icicles forming in my nostrils

all righty so we are ready to hit the road togooch  togi say hi to the people tagooch this is how togo  

travels in the back of an suv he gets half of it  togo is a very experienced traveler at this point  

we've taken him out to the rockies when we went  out west he's gone to the east coast he's gone  

to the cottage multiple times haven't you baby yes  you have yes you have so another adventure for you

so gucci

how exciting how exciting you  want to go in where are the keys

all righty so we have made it to the cottage  yeah we sure have hello hello hey hey we don't  

start things off without a little wine huh this is  wonderful happy 2022. 2022 it might be a few weeks  

before you guys see this video um but yeah that  was four and a half hours driving from toronto  

to the ottawa highlands so yeah welcome welcome it  is very cold here after the crazy snowstorm the dog behaved so well really  

we made it the whole trip without having to do a  stop i mean two or three years ago when we first  

took him out on a trip i mean we were stopping  every every hour on his first trip so he used to  

be a nervous traveler yeah he's a real pro  now and yeah we're just getting settled in  

my dad is starting a barbecue so we're gonna take  you out there in a minute would you agree our mood  

has improved about a hundred percent since leaving  the city yeah yeah and with a little bit of wine  

that also helps that helps a bit the red  element yeah okay the red liquid element  

the red wine boost things up a bit yeah yeah  and we got the grill going given the fact that  

we drove like almost four and a half hours yeah  we are really hungry because we didn't have lunch  

on the first day that we arrived at the cabin like  this one all we do is like some hamburgers some  

sausages sandwiches jalapeno burgers jalapeno  and cheddar cheeseburgers yeah we got hot italian  

sausages yeah the property here is 200 acres  like if you like the wilderness it cannot get any  

wilder than this right yeah we're in the middle  of the bush we'll bring you along and you're  

going to have fun and you're going to enjoy and  you're going to join us in all these adventures  

that we're going to have over here in the next  four days yeah that's it that's it let's go easy  

good morning good morning hello so first  morning here we're preparing breakfast  

i have the job of trying to unstick the  croissants that melted they thought out  

and re-froze again so they're not going to look  beautiful they're all glued together basically  

but it is great look at that yeah sorry for last  night we got so hungry we actually forgot to show  

the meal i filmed the time lapse yeah oh  you did you're welcome i didn't even know  

you did that yeah well breakfast dessert  breakfast what do we have at the table guys  

look at this aha yes i i did include some fruit  for you boys it's the healthy part everything  

else is pure fun we have some banana bread with  pecans yeah croissants in the oven coming out in  

a few minutes some nice looking bagels bagels  yeah today it's a continental style breakfast  

yeah keeping it easy first couple meals just yeah  easing into the country life here maybe tomorrow  

we'll go for the big bags eggs and bacon yeah  but it's so quiet out there we're in the middle  

of the bush right you don't have a sound here not  even the car engine all you can hear is silence  

you know the sound of silence yes i do no way  silence has a sound too and here you can hear  

the sound of silence when you're outside it's like  a calmness it's something like comes down like a  

like a blanket like a blanket of soothing you know  you know when you go to the countryside it's about  

what you have and it's also about what you don't  have to yeah and uh we're appreciating some of  

the things we don't have here as well you don't  miss this city let's put it that way no not at all

we got some more huh yeah hey buddy look  here you can see how much snow you came down

yes look i got a full arm  

a full arm of snow wow i wonder what the roads  are going to be like today that'll be interesting

come on

hmm

do

time for a little update from the vehicle yeah  so part of the reason for the strip i don't know  

if we've actually mentioned it but my parents  are house hunting house shopping they want to  

leave toronto behind it's time to say goodbye  to the city so we've kind of come to the ottawa  

area like north of kingston okay yeah so yeah  they're looking at a few places over the coming  

days and this is one of them we're in charge  of distracting distracting the dog who has  

extreme separation anxiety yeah that's putting it  mildly oh my god i mean it was a little tense for  

the first few seconds until they got into  the house and now he's calmed down a bit  

thankfully he was like crying he was ready to leap  right over the uh right over the seat in the back  

but yeah this is really interesting and it's it's  cool for your parents too because they've they've  

dreamed about retiring in the countryside they  want to have want to be out in nature they want  

to have a more simple life so let's give you a  little peek at the place i'll pass you the camera

check that out and then over here i don't  know if you can see well but there's horses  

the house doesn't come with horses no it doesn't  it does it doesn't come with the horses yeah but  

everything else right so yeah we've got togi's  little treat this stuff normally drives him  

crazy it's got duck bacon yeah but he's so  nervous and so anxious that even this isn't  

interesting yeah we can even often we can even  prevent him from barking at the mailman with  

this just give him one of these he's fully  intent on seeing your parents come out that  

that door so yeah that's the update for today we  are house hunting okay so we are getting ready to  

enjoy another lunch cheers that's from the hello  there the leftover chili and wine from yesterday  

yeah that was good wine huh oh yeah and today  we have a reinforcements we went and we got a  

yellow tail this one is australian whiskey  barrel aged so this this is uh this should be  

good what are we gonna eat the pasta i'm very  excited for this the water's boiling already  

ravioli with braised beef slow cooked braised  beef we got this from costco one of their new  

products apparently and then we have a rose  sauce and we're adding the leftover chorizo  

sausage hot italian sausage yeah from last night  so that's gonna be good and we have the cheese  

a petal parmesan yeah so yeah i'm gonna start  putting that in because it's ready to go we are  

hungry it is afternoon at this point yeah 2 10. we  had to go out for a while today and we just got in  

the sun is coming out so this afternoon  we're going to try to go and make some  

trails with a snowshoe yes to see if we can get  to the actual trails because there is so much snow after the snowstorm   

there that everything is covered up so we're going  to see if we can do that and it's going to be a  

quick and easy lunch yeah right not lunch pasta  lunch yeah it's our lunch supper yeah we had a  

bigger than normal breakfast so yeah we did lots  of croissants were consumed today so well as long  

as we have something to wet the whistle and uh  something to put on the dish on the table we are  

okay but we're having a good time so far so good  yes we really like this area cool opens the mouth

we need to drink it yeah

oh gucci

yum yum yum yum yum yum

a little wave

post ravioli walk you have like more snow  on your beard than the dog does on his

face dog in the snow are you eating as much snow  as togo maybe he just is about as much he's uh  

he's enjoying the game so he is so yeah i mean  going for a little afternoon walk because sunset  

is probably in like what 45 minutes yeah it's a  thing you kind of when it hits the afternoon you  

got to start planning these things otherwise  yeah postpone it to the next day so that's  

probably quarter to four or like 4 p.m right now  so a little winter stroll nobody out here nobody  

absolutely no one knows and the temperatures have  gone up to zero you know zero degrees this is warm  

i'm almost gonna put on my shorts and t-shirt  right yes it's getting balmy over here guys

good morning let's go down

there we go

come on

a who is afraid of the big bad wolf big bad wolf  big bad wolf who's afraid of the big bad wolf  

certainly not me certainly not toge  good morning samuel good morning so  

our second full day here and we are starting  off with a hearty breakfast decided to go for  

bacon and eggs reason being it's going to get as  cold as what uh minus 38 today minus 38 tonight  

and we're going to be barbecuing at -38 yeah  yeah so we we're gonna we need the calories today  

and we're also planning on breaking some trail  in the backyard with the snowshoes so we need all  

the energy we can get we're going for the hearty  country breakfast breaking eggs bacony and all the  

good stuff and we like it nice and crispy you know  yep not chewy it has to be crispy there you go

okay it's time for a little show-and-tell this is  our room this is where we're staying if you guys  

ever wondered what it's like to be in a canadian  basement in the winter yes check out the snow  

levels here's our window here's the top of the  snow that's crazy that's what we're gonna be  

breaking trail with the goal here is if we break  trail from the top of the house the main entrance  

if we can get it down to the basement maybe we  can lure the dog down here because he's too scared  

to walk down the steps so yeah that's the plan  so the funny thing about togo you guys some of  

you may know this already if you've been watching  the videos for a while but he is afraid of stairs  

going downstairs yeah um so yeah we've been  trying to lure him down to the basement because  

that's where we have like this beautiful like  wood-burning stove and it's so cozy and he refuses  

to walk down and for instance he's never been  to the basement and your in your parents house  

never he's missing out he comes down he looks  down he's like there's a whole there's a whole  

world under there just don't have the courage to  waddle down i know i feel so bad for him yeah but  

yeah this is a room it's where we're staying  the snow actually was even higher yesterday  

we've had sunshine yeah for a solid day now so it  has started to melt and kind of like compact down  

but yeah the other morning like the whole window  was covered in snow yeah it was basically massive  

st snow storm before we came yeah a day of kind of  pause and then quite a bit yesterday and then it  

looks like we've just got sunny days the rest of  the time yeah so pretty lucky gonna go snowshoeing  

okay so we're getting ready for our  little morning adventure and look at this  

so it snowed so much that our host explained  that they weren't able to groom the trails  

because the amount of snow was just astronomic  and instead she left us two brand new pairs  

of snowshoes look at those which is amazing  like no wonder this lady is a super host  

she thought of every super need we'd have  yeah including the desire to snowshoe after the crazy snowstorm  

yeah and break your own trail yeah because like  my sister owns snowshoes but because she lives  

like an hour away we just didn't have enough  time to hey gucci i know it's exciting so hyper

these are really cool ones because they're  all size fits or they're one size fits all  

yeah they have an adjustable back so yeah  we're gonna be breaking them in two pairs  

so excited for that and we we saw like  deer footprints and like a deer trail  

like the snow is this deep right now but  we can see that a dior is out there so  

maybe we'll we'll encounter some wildlife  this morning who knows oh that'd be awesome

thank you samuel that's about it  we are officially ready let's go  

okay hopefully we don't trip down the  stairs hopefully not being very canadian

lead the way

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it's

i can feel little icicles forming in my nostrils  

anyone else no i'm not cold  but like my nose so i'm leading

deeper than togo's height look  at this wolf look at this wolf  

i didn't touch

here we are opening trail around  the back side of the cabin  

so tago can also come into the basement and not

going to create a path down to the  lake there's a frozen lake down there

come on togi sam's heading down  

we're going to take togi in how exciting  togi this trail is just for you just for you

look you can go in and it's carpeted  so you don't have to be scared  

mom and dad are coming oh you found  the ball oh that's more interesting

he found a little ball to play with of course  

i don't know if you guys can see but i had just  showered so i've got little icicles in my hair

he's like this is all for show all for  show poor togi you're not a showdog

so audrey you tried using the oppa the fancy  opener what did you think effortless i didn't  

even have to do anything you just put it down  it's too easy put it back up and it's too easy  

done so we're having an argentine wine tonight  i'm keeping the cork for my collection yeah i am a