Svalbard Florida ︱ WE MADE IT TO MIAMI
[Music] good morning we are not on Svalbard we are in Miami on vacation yep that's right it's me Cecilia usually reporting to you from the dark corner of the world on Svalbard but we have swapped out the beautiful dark polar night for bright beachy days when January comes around we've lived in darkness for over two months so it's a great time to travel to see some daylight and work on regaining a normal daily rhythm today is a bit of a windy day but you know what I love it you know what's the biggest thing so far with except the sunlight that has hit me is the noise like I don't mind this now because it's kind of why we're here you know to get a different vacation and everything but the real world is kind of loud but yeah so let's get some gear on I was going to say I don't need gear here do I I'm going to put my workout quates on and we're going to head on [Music] out good morning [Music] Miami I really like this hotel room it looks exactly like what I booked but this has been super comfortable you to put okay I think we're going to do green even though I it maybe enhances my non-existing tan a little bit but you know what also shorts today might be a little bit of a stretch but again I'm on vacation I want to feel the heat the Miami winter heat on my legs maybe this per perfect look what I bought there's one thing that I wanted for a really long time and it's these sharing lululemon bags and they're better than I even thought I bought the big I think it was like $34 love it I love it so much I bought this and the big and then the white and small oh y look at me look at me little bit of lip exciting exciting my younger sister lived in Miami for over 3 years and used to live in this neighborhood so for me it's like coming back to something very familiar since Miami has a mild winter it felt like the perfect destination for for us since we really wanted a sort of summer vacation well you know summer to us I know it's winter to all you Floridians seeing as our life on Svalbard is very quiet and wintry it's really nice to visit something that is the complete opposite getting here was quite the wild ride though and it took us in total 3 days our first flight out of Longyearbyen ended up getting cancelled and delayed for over a day due to some plane issues causing us to miss the rest of our flights but everything got sorted out in the end and I never get too stressed or mad about things like that because it's just the way it is things can happen and most of the time you get to where you want to go at the end and as you can see we made it we're here since Miami is 6 hours earlier than sard I have been living my absolute morning person dream life we have been getting up early every morning we're talking like 6:00 or 7 to start the day with a coffee and go for a walk down to the beach morning morning morning the winds are pretty warm they are warm time for coffee on the beach it is so windy oh my gosh about you might also be wondering what Grimm is up to while we are awake and he is on a village vacation with the amazing dog sitter Signe in Longyearbyen she treats him like an absolute princess so we know he is having a good time the other day she went to pick up her grandchild at the school and when she arrived there was a queue of 10 kids waiting to meet Grim how cute can you imagine how loved Grim must feel so we know that he is in good [Music] hands [Music] I think since I'm so used to living in polar night and in that kind of extreme situation I forget just how much it does affect my body coming here back into the daylight and waking up to a sun shining bride I feel myself so energized a feeling that I've really missed and it makes me look forward to the sun returning to sard even though polar night is one of my favorite Seasons too much of anything can become tiring and by the end of it I am ready for brighter days so going on a vacation in January always feels so good like a true love luxury I didn't think my body would readjust to a regular daily Rhythm so fast but it's almost like it has been you know longing for a normal routine waking up to the sunlight and winding down as the sun [Music] sets [Music] [Music] [Music] Health man we're just here cuz it's so tasty notna liece super super nice thank you you're [Music] welcome look at this the coffee's here and these sa bowls like it's so beautiful the wind what on Earth the wind took my foam we also have a bagel coming because you know a it's very windy right now I am very much a breakfast person I want to eat breakfast foods for all meals for the rest of my life so I'm in heaven here there are bagels and as bows in all directions I'm also definitely averaging like five lattes a day and I love it so much I really like sitting at a cafe like this and just kind of watching the world I'm not a person to visit the mustsee sites of a place I more like to immerse myself in the everyday kind of Life Christopher having traveled a lot in his life is the same our days are not jam-packed our schedule mainly left open for whatever we feel like doing that day while here our main focus is to be outdoors a lot and enjoy the warmer climate enjoy thank you yeah so good the breakfast was absolutely incredible as always it's also just right across the street from our hotel so it's the easiest but we've tried many of the other places as well especially some of the old places that were here when my sister lived here like an old beach stro and everything is still really nice but we love the food at Pur so now as you saw before Christopher was wearing my cap that we bought at uh Bass Pro Shops no Outdoor World shop I think it's something like that and in the store he's like no I don't like that for himself and I'm like I love it I'm going to get this and now he has been trying to steal this he has been speaking about my cap for 2 days how we should go and get him one so we're going to have to go and get him one uh now it's his size but it's a really nice cap I loved the color so we're going to go and buy him the same one so we can match it looks really good on on him as well so that's going to be just a short car ride away and I think it's going to be good because then I think the wind's going to die down a little bit for our Excursion Adventure after this so we're just going to drive and do that now we're going to bring you guys we're going all of us you ready I'm ready perfect I'm going to need my little bag you okay down there I look ready to go my hair here by the way like the quality of the water here is so unlike the one the water quality we have so my hair is just coarse and just not not very happy yeah look at this T this one maybe peach mango okay and this we can go darling okay so first we need to I have to run around with two phones because even though these have the same carrier this is telen in Sweden this is telen in Norway the Sweden one gives you free internet in America and Asia and very many places extremely good but so I have to hotspot to this phone or to Christopher but it works really well doesn't it yeah to have free internet cuz if I would be paying for internet on this one it would cost so much how much was it like 20 bucks a day yeah it was for 5 GB or something it it was quite the yeah I have unlimited on this one so that is is life hack now we're going to put this one on [Music] navig [Music] [Music] on this is without a doubt Christopher's favorite store what are we looking for today caps everything we're going to go home with I think two extra bags but you know what it is worth it we do one of these kind of hauls when we are in America or when we're traveling but this kind of amazing stuff we don't have in Europe no especially the brand worldwide Sportsman this one is it is so good they have so many good things and everything fits Christopher so well and I want to get well we have to get the cap for him as well so he has a matching one with me shopping can be fun guys especially when it's outdoorsy stuff like this in a massive [Music] store there it is and I let's [Music] see our friend studa he has been helping us so much with our cabin now that we've been gone because it's been so cold so I think we're going to buy not this size but this one for studa together with a cat here as a thank you for him being so nice and helping us out with our cabin we can explain a little bit more later because Christopher has had quite the field day with trying to have our cabin stay warm it has been likeus 47 4 5° effective temperatures it's been so cold and I think it was likeus 30 in base temperature so he has been saving us so we have to of course get him some gifts as a huge thank you so I think this color for you Su if you're watching is going to be nice it's kind of like a whitish brown together with a hat we're going to buy [Music] you [Music] that was successful Christopher didn't get the jacket cuz he just wasn't feeling it no that's all right but we got some caps Tractor Supply is for when we go on further up here you don't go to Tractor Supply you know what I mean here you go to worldwide Sportsman stuff and fishing things I feel like it's nice to have different Vibes for different [Music] places [Music] when my sister lived here we did this and I think it's the perfect kind of activity in the middle of Miami don't you think Christopher yeah not so bad it's like you just go into to the little mangrove trees it's very quiet in here as well and now what's cool though is we're going to come out into the waterways and you can take these C Kays to all the way to the sandbank if you want which is really cool oh my God Christopher no no no no no no absolutely not take me out of here thank God it's not banana spider season I am okay with polar bears and and absolutely no bugs but this is too much nature for me look stop hello racon is there's so many raccoons do not let them hit your ride cuz they are destruction Bears we'll get rabies and D it's a Miami polar foes Miami polar foxes indeed look at this that's not okay so we're coming out now to the Open Sea okay Christopher take us away I'm going to show these ladies and gentlemen it's a lot of boats oh we are now out on the open ocean well not really we're inside here but I feel like a lot more can happen in here there a lot more movement in the water oh my gosh there are waves here which means we need to control this little ship of hor this is a good workout a very good workout for arm and core according to Christopher's walk we are doing three knock guys three knock come on we are now going against the wind and we we realize that we have to work hard and start to prepare kind of returning because if we stop paddling we drift so far they didn't do the canoe rentals today because of the wind being too strong but I don't think this is too bad at all it's actually quite a bit better to be in a kayak than in a canoe because you have a lot more momentum there's a lot more cruising in these and it's also really nice to have a double paddle cuz then he can just you know he can take over if I want to film but it's really nice out here lots of boats playing music very Miami but I think this is a really cool thing to do you know just a nice little day adventure what they do that what do you think I nice okay paddle come on padle padle fter come on how are we going to get only have one horsepower it has one gear let low gear oh my gosh we are we're going to have to hold on to our hats and paddles we have now made it back to where you leave everything and we've decided that we're going to do I don't know if this year but we're gonna see when we can do it we want to do a kaying trip in Norway on the fjords can you imagine how much fun and also how much fun to film there's a rogue Kayo should we take it with us I think we should look at us being Heroes that was so much fun oh it's very dark in here but I am soaked from sitting so now I'm going have to change these to another p that was a really nice activity it's actually not that warm today I think this is one of the colder states that we have but it's for us the perfect temperature but I think I could have taken this off and gotten a bit of a tan but I didn't now I am in dire need of a [Music] coffee [Music] oh the hotel we were staying at had a very good gym which was great because it meant that I didn't have to go far to get some exercise in I have made it an even bigger priority this year to move my body in order to make it stronger and more able on today's schedule was legs and I actually used to do a lot more heavy lift days before but now I have added some more Mobility type of training to my schedule as well I've also started to add a lot of more stretching which is something I should have started with a long time ago but there is no time time like the [Music] [Music] present [Music] one thing that I always do when I travel is to stock up on things that I don't have access to on spard or are really difficult to buy online and one thing like that is workout shoes so it was basically one of the main things on my shopping list for this trip I have really been looking for a good pair of shoes that I can use for both gym workouts but also for bit of cardio and I had heard really good things about these from Lululemon because they're made for women so I picked up a pair the first thing I did and let me tell you they are incredible they work perfectly on our long walks but also work really good for the gym sessions like these ones so I highly recommend [Music] them [Music] after the workout we popped over to our favorite Cafe for the third time for that day I think they think we're a little bit crazy to pick up another coffee but also a post-workout smoothie and some sort of a raw bite very tasty one of the things I like the most with traveling is the access to food and different types of restaurants I love buying myself a night nice beverage or a snack I think I could easily live off of like Cafe food for the rest of my life okay going into the supermarket to buy fresh berries and fruit and things like that is such a luxury and something I look forward to on these [Music] trips on this trip we really didn't want to do a lot of of fancy dinners so we put most of our food emphasis on our daytime meals so this day we just went back to the hotel showered and then we headed down to our local flanigans without a doubt my favorite restaurant here in Miami if you haven't been you have to go and just try their firecracker shrimp it is so good it has been incredible to get a change of scenery to do so many fun things with Christopher and to just kind of relax in next week's video we will be back on S again enjoying the slow Return of the beautiful light and also the peace and quiet of our Arctic life thank you so much for being here and for watching and I look forward to seeing you next week love you [Music] bye
2024-02-05 20:45
