This Trip Changed Everything We Know About Travel
well Trinity and I got on today is expected to be the busiest travel day and then here's another thing we dropped the ball on we look more different than they do have like key boox is hidden he got sick I got sick you need money to use the toilet we've made a ton of rookie mistakes this trip so I'm double cheing my packing list even though this is our RV packing list and this is not an RV trip per se I feel like that some of the stuff crosses over so do the kids need their Nintendo switches no is that a no cameraman no nope okay no switches uh sunglasses some of these things we just can't bring passports I've got deodorant underwear socks Chargers does everybody have Chargers charers yep we even got that converter got the converter this is going to be the biggest experiences over things than we have done yet this is excited our Christmas gift to the kids our Christmas gift to the family Christmas day is going to be epic and uh it's a big undertaking so we're going to take you along we're going to show you what it's like but we're going to also share tips and tricks and tours and stuff along the way CU we're going to be learning this is our first time traveling out of the country so we're going to show you where we're going what we're doing it's this is going to be an epic epic series that you don't want to miss yes so let's do this thing so this time we are going to get a different form of transportation to the airport this is going to save us about 40 bucks right versus taking our own vehicle so we're just waiting for the driver to get here y the one thing that I do like about like just the ride sharing apps like lift and Uber and stuff is like you can stay really updated on the app like even down to right with GPS you know location did you reserve this cuz I was a little worried like are they going to get us to the airport in time yeah I mean that's part of the reason too I wanted to leave earlier because I was watching like some of the news and they were saying today is expected to be the busiest travel day so I don't think getting to the airport's going to be as much of an issue as like security when we get there could be a fiasco I don't know so that remains to be seen but that's why we're just plenty of time building in plenty of time so that it's just not stressful yeah you got to have a good planner in your family all of our bags ready to go hi hi Uber will be here in 1 minute cool going to back in so we can put our bags in the back teaching to go to how to play Tetris all right Dad you're in the middle I'm in the middle yeah you're in the middle what 45 minutes to there for yeah 45 minutes all right the kids put me in the midle so at least they're separated so there's going to be no fighting [Music] [Applause] [Music] today he's over there try to hurry up [Music] no you're go ahead what are you looking for currency exchange so supposedly it says terminal a hold on let me call this place we're in terminal B we're in terminal B but Terminal A and B are connected it's Terminal C that's like the one that's not connected well hopefully we can get some currency we'll find out stay tuned so I think I think it's where this says cxi right over here it's the currency exchange okay we need to go we need to go get some Europe all right because you need money to use the toilet in Europe so if you could write down 41 us I have do Bill count it out for you okay we got 20 40 60 80 80 90 500 how much do I get just kid and I'm going to put those okay so I've got this gave me my money all right so we made it through security without any issues it was super fast like I am very surprised they stopped quick that was they stopped directly over my laptop this your back sir yes it is I'm going have to hand check it go ahead I have nothing to hide in my bag I'm scared for my life they always stop over every bro well no they were taking extra long and there were two people looking at it extra long em pocket knife we made it made it on the train barely it's like 80 should be oh right there right there first where are we going first here where the box of star I want a tall skinny sugar-free Decap soy vanilla latte extra hot whipped cream double sleeve no [Music] [Applause] [Music] cup so what do you do what what is this Cherry you don't French you don't want to what you don't want to say you don't say B hold on what did you say bagot trying to figure out how to sayag how do you say croissant croissant croissant croissant ah fragile it must be Italian well I think that says fragile honey oh yeah cuz I'm his mom I have well Trinity and I got on so I don't know how I look we look more different than they do have like stuff on and then I I have and we actually got on and they look we look different than crazy funny all [Music] right Amsterdam [Music] d a few hours later time to go get the lift well it's you don't want to use lift here from what I've been told so this is is called Bett transfer and I found out about it in 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sponsoring this video in their support of our channel so what does this say it says ENT to the driveway through the black gate not everybody told them go to the small brown gate towards the middle of the driveway after the garage the key box is hidden behind the gate accessible by leaning a little leaning a little find it there's a key box right there wait this is like a lock down C oh wow mhm see it's not that hard to break I mean it is hard it is okay so we made it we'll do a tour here in a little bit but we are tired it's the longest travel day of my life mhm and so like with with Paris and with just this whole area you have to remember that it's very old so like things are very small it's not like our big American whatever we think so it's a good thing that we have been living our V life for as long as we have been because It prepares you for times like this where you have a lot smaller space and it's all good and we're going to make it work yep and then uh I think right now almost want to take a nap but then I also am like well we need to find the nearest sh grocery store Monoprix all of the things and it's probably better to do it before dark I don't know I don't know maybe not either way we have to get out our Apple Maps and yeah take a look at what's in this specific area and then oh I forgot to tell you I did look it up tomorrow is the loop okay so you'll have to uh figure out the whole subway system app tonight all right sounds good while I downloaded it and set up an account so give you a tour tomorrow [Music] yep what is that thing called I forgot it looks amazing it's just like chocolate something I don't know chocolatey goodness it's good all right well let me know what you think of it what' you get Saint-Tropez well they had a different name for it but this is St. Trapez this is what I used to get when I was a nanny at La Madeleine in Dallas which La Madeleine is a very like authentic like French Bakery Cafe that is in Dallas all right but that's that's what that is this morning Dakota's not feeling very good he got sick I got sick well you say you got sick you guys aren't feeling got sniffles yeah and uh charity went over to the pharmacy this morning it's Sunday it's Sunday and it's like Chick-fil-A in the US they're not open on Sundays they're not open on Sundays so I'm looking is that say Monday through Friday 8:30 to 8 I really hope that okay tomorrow's Christmas Eve Eve I'm like still trying to figure out what day of the week is like flying overnight and losing a day and then being 6 hours ahead and everything's got my head messed up majorly when it comes to like what day is it and what time is it and then the other thing here and it's similar to the US right but like Christmas like we know that A lot's not going to be open on Christmas which is why we scheduled to do Disney on Christmas Day because we wanted to like then not run into a thing like well we don't have a restaurant to eat at or something like that on Christmas day so that being said but okay so what's a plan for today uh we have tickets to the L tonight I shall add the louvre to my art collection so we are going to go explore the louvre and then she the Mona Lisa yes and then um I booked with an English-speaking guide so that we'll have somebody that speaks English but the other thing too that we've learned just in all of our research with the loop it's so huge that that's one of the places where if you don't have just days and days on end to just go and peruse and Muse around getting a guide is probably a better way or like or going with like a group tour because they can take you to the places like get give you the highlights because it's such a big place so that way we can make use of our time the tour is supposed to just last a couple of hours and then uh we'll see my biggest concern is with Dakota not firing on all cylinders how far that we're going to get today oh and then here's another thing we dropped the ball on eims don't let you make phone call anyway this is a whole another thing it's it's a learning curve this isar good thing I have a Google Voice so we can actually make some calls out if we needed to through my Google and I can forward my number to my Google Voice too actually I facetimed my friends last night yeah if they have an apple apple to Apple Works through you know let's say we needed to make a phone call to the doctor or to an emergency number we have to go find find somebody to use our phone or something yeah like that's a a big problem so we should have before we came gotten at least an international plan on one of our phones 10 bucks a day on Verizon and we tried to get it while we were here but then you have to verify via phone and then you can't get a phone call anyway so it turned into to be a big mess yeah I don't know unless there's like a Verizon store so lesson learned get an international plan before you travel internationally before you leave the US I have way to do all right we made it onto the train now to the L next time we'll go talk to the person right well we had a very nice local help us out yeah yep they are super nice so we're grateful to have them come in help us or else we wouldn't be we wouldn't be here right now if it wasn't for yeah they're understanding helpful people we are here and we need to go to here so we have two more stops to go [Music] we at the Loop and it's raining out oh it's so wet wow beautiful look at that all right kiddos we made it to the 2 pm tour despite what other people were saying I know just in the nick of time what time is it now it is40 146 [Music] this is the oldest part of the lube this is on the outside of the tower this is basically where they built a fortress to protect against England and entrance to Paris there's the cross so the Masons would Mark these with a cross or a heart and basically that's how they got paid and that's how they knew what group of Masons built each of these bricks oldest preserved Sphinx the Lou located in Paris France is the world's largest Art Museum and a Historic Landmark originally a medieval Fortress and a Royal Palace it now houses over 38,000 works of art including iconic masterpieces like the Mona Lisa this is that most important room it is zoom land and Venus Deo Milo the overwhelming feeling you get when walking from room to room in the Lou is hard to describe with words or capture fully on camera the Magnificent Palace took over 800 years to build and was the result of multiple construction campaigns by over 13 Kings created by Leonardo D Vinci [Music] [Music] all right so what were your thoughts of this today no this did not disappoint like this is a must seat now it's huge the tour in English oh my gosh if we hadn't done that we would have just been wandering around lost it was really really good it was shorter so it's was like you know an hour and a half 2 hours so it's good because then they just let you go do your own thing after that but it gives you the highlights like you know the mustsee stuff and then you can go figure it out from there so highly would recommend that I will put a link below how I reserved hours just for info what you think TR [Music] yeah hey Mom Mom Mom m you would not believe how stuffy it is in [Music] there okay guys I found the perfect Cafe for us I spent about 5 minutes doing research looking wow a whole five minutes that's minut a lot of effort but you know what it's called how far is it not far viewers watch it be a 30 minute Vlog no directions it ising walking okay 10minute walk okay and what is it called it's called happy Cafe yes you cannot go wrong with that but did you look up the menu yeah look at the pictures okay well about Pi so if we walk our way over there we can go get some Happy food at the happy Cafe all right let's go get some Happy Food it says close at 10:30 p.m. perfect and has 4.8 Stars ready go going down the stairs all right guys welcome to the Happy C no no no oh no well no there's not actually food well you have to sit outside well that didn't work out too well that was very touristy I mean we're over by like a casimi CMI type of place where there's you know marle rounds and rides and that was our first cue of not going to this happy Cafe so we're going to find another happy Cafe hopefully it's a lot happier than that one so we're walking to a different place that is going to be safe and apparently it's a chain and the chain I like the gray here in Paris is supposed to have better quality food so we'll see 1 minute there's a cafe over there one minute one minute all right one minute that way all right all right hey can I show you and hopefully it's better than this other we have a plan B hey you know sometimes you got to have a backup we're hungry we want to get Dakota back [Music] all right we found a spot nice job this is the [Music] seats so that wasn't the happy Cafe but I think it was better than the happy Cafe it was but it probably was not as cheap so we're still trying to figure out I think the big thing and we actually learned this from another video but it was just one of those things where we were all hungry we have a lot of time yeah the closer you are to the major tour attraction right we stumbled across this Cafe that they packed him in so you knew it was good it was good and it was good it is definitely worth it so now to navigate back to the metro and then for the [Music] night pides all right let's go [Applause] hold on do you want to rece no none none [Music] stop go [Music] ahead all right thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] so I happen stance found a Christmas Market right across the street from the Eiffel Tower and we've got time for a change we're not pressed for time so we going go check that out and then come back for our little elevator ride all right going up to the [Music] top yeah that's cool don't take5 [Music] wow look at that look really good [Music] look at that all the different kinds of chees thank you Mercy Mercy oh my goodness smell it oh my I can't smell it I can't smell anything [Music] so we're at the top top top as high as you can go as high as you can go it's a long ways up there very long way what do you think Trinity [Music] I promised you a tour and I'm going to give you a tour so this is our Airbnb here in Saint-Ouen which is really looks like St Owen or o uen in English but uh we've been hearing it on the subway and everything then they pronounce it San so there you go come on in when you walk in actually up the first set of steps this is just kind of like your whole entire living area so Dakota's actually been sleeping here but this would be like a sleeping space slash couch which is not much different than the day beds that we have in the RV so that works this is your eating slash sitting space right here and then we have the kitchen so we have all of the Comforts of home we have a microwave this this is a separate freezer dishwasher refrigerator oven stove top so our wonderful Airbnb hosts have thought about everything we need so we've got pots and pans and dishes and things got our cups over here some of it's in the dishwasher clean at the moment you know funny thing about this like European dishwasher so when it's done it actually like pops the door open automatically to like let the air dry the dishes to to I was sleeping out here and it like freaked him out one night cuz it just came open out automatically he thought that was funny here's the deal this is basically like a three Lev flat so this is like your main floor with your living area I'm going to show you the downstairs and then we'll go upstairs so basically we've got like two I guess bedrooms if you will one up one down and then two baths same thing one up one down so let's go downstairs [Music] little stairs I guess I don't know if you could really even call this a bedroom it's just an area that is kind of separated but you have a single bed here Dakota did try this when we first got here he didn't feel like it was as comfortable as the bed upstairs so he's been sleeping upstairs we've just been using this to throw stuff on and then I put my clothes out of my suitcase here cuz the one thing again we're finding with like Europe in general you don't have a lot of space so like I don't have any floor space to like set my suitcase out and open things up so put my clothes over there and then in here is one of the two bathrooms we've got this bathroom in here shower here there's a washer but not a washer dryer unit looks like a RV washing machine now this is my guess maybe one of you guys out there is really smart and you know and you can let me know in the comments but my guess is is because like the dryers need to be vented and since this is like on a lower level anyway maybe there's like it applications with trying to vent things like a washer dryer combo so it's just a washer that's it and then we have to hang everything to dry but this little thing here this is like a heated drying rack and it's really nice you put your towel on it favorite when you get out of the shower it's nice and cozy or your towel before before you get in the shower then you get out of the shower and you have a nice warm towel but you can also use this to just dry your clothes as well as the rack that I'll I'll show you over there but man in the US if you were in a cold climate this would be an amazing thing to have oh one more thing I wanted to show you is this little feature the small one is for number one big one for number two small messes big messes so the other spot that they have to just like hang clothes but I've been using this also to like dry clothes so hang stuff up here there's like a heat register here and then there is this fan over here so I just turn the fan on hang up the stuff to dry the heat register kind of helps and like I've washed our sweatshirts our jeans like heavy stuff and it's usually all dry by morning so um not having a dryer has really not been that much of an inconvenience per se there are also laundromats so there's a laundromat almost just across the street from where this little uh it's like we're in a little Alleyway exits onto the main street so you could always go over there if you wanted to like do laundry that way but I just do like a load a day here and and we've been keeping up just fine so in here now when we first got here Ben and I took the upstairs bedroom just cuz we figured okay we'll put one kiddo in here one on that side let the kids have the lower level Trinity was having a hard time because this bedroom so you've got these really interesting like screen things that come down so obviously you don't want this open at night and these are just like Cher curtains and so when you put this down it makes it Pitch Black in here and it was just too dark for her that way so um she was having trouble sleeping Ben and I were having trouble sleeping upstairs cuz I'll show you in a minute how light it is up there so we just flip-flopped after that first night took this bedroom which has worked great by the way and again the Airbnb host have fans in every room which totally helps with white noise now here's one thing double bed obviously you can't oh look at the kitty there's Kitty visitors you know what how to say cat in French oh not I don't know shot what c h a t shot shot H interesting yes I saw a magazine today down at the monoprix that was like the shot was funny but yes we've been seeing some cats too any so here's our view look at our wonderful view of the brick wall this is like part for the course now here's one thing I do want to say we kind of like stumbled on this by accident and I'm glad that we did it this way because we are not really imp Paris proper we're more like in a suburb here in St Owen and because of that there are really not very many tourists here so we are really immersed in the local culture we have found a few people that speak some broken English in the stores Google translate has been my best friend but we would have a completely different experience if we were saying in Paris proper and we've been taking the metro back and forth now here's the beautiful thing too like when we go into Paris it's so busy and crowded which is fine as part of the the culture and the life and then you come back here and it's it's quiet and it's less crowded and it just is like more peaceful so I'm really really glad that we ended up doing it this way and staying on the outskirts of the major city versus like in the city itself and with the Metro you could get any anywhere that you need to go so let's go show you the upstairs now all right guys why don't we go check out upstairs for Trinity s room it's clean I promise okay let's see come on up it's fairly clean it is clean it looks like a girls room it smells like a girls room too you know what I just noticed too there's like a skylight thing here so if you wanted to figure out how that works you could yeah right here you can get up there and have a romantic glass of go out on the roof I'm saying I think it's like a skylight got it that you can open up to have more light so double bed up here she's got her suitcase on the floor here I can come around it yeah everything's a lot tighter here's the thing there is not a lot of space to move around it's kind of like RV life like seriously I don't know how she's doing it it's easy like I'm going to have to crawl here hold on M parkour parkour and then you've got your bathroom in here so this shower in this bathroom is smaller than our RV shower so definitely tight quarters in here you have your toilet is they say here in France if you need to use the bathroom or you need to find a bathroom you ask the toilet and little sink thing over here now here's a little mistake that we made and here's a tip if you're going to travel internationally I brought one converter not enough we definitely needed more I a converter was expecting I'll tell you in a minute I was expecting USB right Universal USB no so you have it's a whole different electrical system over in Europe and then it's different in the UK it's different in a lot of countries so I will put a link below for the converter that I got on Amazon cuz it works in four different countries so that way when we go over to the UK next week we can use it over there as well but I should have got at least two I did find just a USB only one at the monoprix so I did pick that up to at least be able to charge like phones and our Apple watches and things like that but that was definitely a mistake on my part a rookie mistake we've made a ton of rookie mistakes this trip a crap ton so I feel like we will need another Europe trip at some point because now I feel like we've learned some things and we be better at it the next time around anyway there you go there you go that is the place doesn't take very long to give you the tour because it's not that big anyway it's time to jump on the Metro and we are going to head down actually into Paris proper for some more Adventures come along all right so we got a little girl day going on cuz Dad and Dakota are sick oh my gosh that's so cute okay we are at one of the top things to see in Paris and that Isis France not Texas so we've been in line for how long an hour and a half no two hours so Charities on the other side cuz her phone didn't work she set us up but she can't get across
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