Speaker 1: We're officially back. Hello, and I don't know of any
Speaker 1: days off in the near future other than like Labor Day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't. I have no
Speaker 2: vacation planned besides like weekend stuff where I'm not taking vacation.
Speaker 1: I have vacation, but I leave on Tuesday, a Tuesday,
Speaker 1: so I was able to do the podcast on a Monday,
Speaker 1: which is great. So welcome that vacation. Do you have
Speaker 1: in two weeks of going to a Kadia?
Speaker 2: Okay? I figured it was probably your National Park one,
Speaker 2: but I didn't. Yes, remember, I have one present for you,
Speaker 2: and I had intended on having two. It's not a present. Actually,
Speaker 2: I shouldn't have I shouldn't have started like that.
Speaker 1: Well, what the hell is it? An noise?
Speaker 2: No, it's just your rain jacket back.
Speaker 1: That is not a prize.
Speaker 2: I know. I don't know why I said it like that.
Speaker 2: I was trying to set it up in a different ways.
Speaker 1: I thought, you're on be a souvenir.
Speaker 2: No, okay, so here's your jacket back because I didn't
Speaker 2: want to forget. But I'm back from Icelands, and don't
Speaker 2: let me borrow her jacket.
Speaker 1: It smells grows does it.
Speaker 2: Because I did sniff it to see if I needed
Speaker 2: to like clean it somehow, and I didn't know. I honestly,
Speaker 2: we got really fucking lucky with the weather because we
Speaker 2: did not encounter much rain at all.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 2: It was really really crazy different weather than what I
Speaker 2: anticipated from everything I read about and heard from people. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I truly was going to bring you back at present.
Speaker 2: But here's the story. Okay, you told me about the
Speaker 2: cinnamon rolls at Broad and Co. And I go first day,
Speaker 2: have one text fallon. It was beautiful. It was like
Speaker 2: heaven in my mouth. As soon as I started eating.
Speaker 1: I'm always like, it's not like an American cinnamon roll.
Speaker 1: It doesn't a blaze, It's just a million times batter.
Speaker 2: It's just so good. It's very doe. It's great. So
Speaker 2: start the trip with that last full day there, we're
Speaker 2: back in I don't Reiki Vic. I can't even say
Speaker 2: it still Reaki Vic. So I'm like, hey, we got
Speaker 2: to go to Broad and Co. And it's like three
Speaker 2: in the afternoon, so I'm like, they're kind of closing students,
Speaker 2: so let's go to this one close by and in
Speaker 2: case they're out, we'll go to this other one. We go,
Speaker 2: they're out. I'm like, god darn it. So we go
Speaker 2: to the other one and we bolt it there because
Speaker 2: they're closing at four and it's like three thirty. And
Speaker 2: I get there and they had one left. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: Mama was hungry. I don't blame you it. So I
Speaker 2: ate it, and I'll be truthful. That one was on
Speaker 2: a scale of the first one being a ten out
Speaker 2: of ten, that one was only at about a seven
Speaker 2: at that point. I feel like they're so I feel
Speaker 2: like if I and that was Saturday, I wouldn't have
Speaker 2: gotten it to you until today, which is Monday.
Speaker 1: It would have been terrible.
Speaker 2: It would have been terrible, and so I ate it.
Speaker 2: But I really was going to bring you back since
Speaker 2: you let me borrow your jacket, I was going to
Speaker 2: bring you back one. And they had one left.
Speaker 1: A thought accounts Kaya, who used to be on the
Speaker 1: morning show k Wan Too, brought me back one and
Speaker 1: it was pretty quick, like I think, like literally the
Speaker 1: next day. And it still wasn't I mean, I still
Speaker 1: ate most of it, but I was like not going
Speaker 1: to complain. But it's kind of like a sweetmarth As cookie,
Speaker 1: like the I know some people don't like Sweet martha Is.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind I love them, yes, but when they're
Speaker 1: fresh and warm, they're amazing. But about two hours later, no, thanks, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't need them. They don't.
Speaker 2: They lose they lose something. No, and I feel the same.
Speaker 2: I do feel the same way about Sweet Martha's. But
Speaker 2: I was so sad because I intended on getting like four,
Speaker 2: because I was gonna definitely eat one right away, probably
Speaker 2: eat one later in the day.
Speaker 1: That's what Jake and I did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and bring like one other back for myself and
Speaker 2: one back for you. And I got there and there
Speaker 2: was one left.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, I kind of wish I had
Speaker 1: tried some other other pastries. They had so many, but
Speaker 1: I was like, I just want to go basic to try.
Speaker 2: I did get one of the other ones because they
Speaker 2: only had one cin mineral left, and I did eat
Speaker 2: that later in the day. But once again, I think
Speaker 2: because it was soaate in the day, I don't feel
Speaker 2: like it held up as well had it been earlier.
Speaker 2: But it was good. It was kind of some omens
Speaker 2: pastry of some sort, but it was pretty good. So
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I didn't bring anything.
Speaker 1: You are forgiven. It's totally fine. So with the trip
Speaker 1: back from Iceland, what were some of your highlights?
Speaker 2: It's really hard to say, because I really think that
Speaker 2: every single day I had a fantastic time. My sister
Speaker 2: and I traveled so well together.
Speaker 1: It's so good.
Speaker 2: I mean, I was in charge of everything for the
Speaker 2: most part, and that's fine because that's my personality anyways.
Speaker 2: But just every little thing, like we ended up basically
Speaker 2: beating jet leg because instead of going to bed at
Speaker 2: a normal time, we stayed up till like two or
Speaker 2: three in the morning every day because the sun doesn't
Speaker 2: set there right now, and then we'd sleep in till
Speaker 2: ten am, and so we basically were on Central Time
Speaker 2: for the most part. That's awesome because we were. In
Speaker 2: other terms, it would have been going to bed at
Speaker 2: like ten pm and getting up at five am. So
Speaker 2: that was fun. And then when we would get up,
Speaker 2: it wasn't like this rush to get going or anything
Speaker 2: like we'd get up and start doing things right away,
Speaker 2: but we both like to put makeup on and so,
Speaker 2: and she took much longer in that aspect of things.
Speaker 2: But then I'd just start driving if she was still
Speaker 2: getting ready. So like the getting ready, time worked out,
Speaker 2: she was down to do every single thing that I
Speaker 2: wanted to do. I didn't really think ahead of the
Speaker 2: fact that, like, I'm very used to having someone with
Speaker 2: me on trips who was very adventurous like me, and
Speaker 2: so I did bring on some hikes that were terrifying
Speaker 2: to her. The first one we did on the first
Speaker 2: full day we were there, she didn't come all the
Speaker 2: way to the top. I just like literally started running,
Speaker 2: and I bought trail runners actually and ended up using
Speaker 2: those instead of my hiking boots the entire trip. And
Speaker 2: it was great because I literally did some trail running
Speaker 2: on this because if she didn't want to come, I
Speaker 2: would like kind of run and go much faster. And
Speaker 2: so there were a couple of hikes where she didn't
Speaker 2: actually come all the way to the top with me
Speaker 2: because she just has a fear of things. But and
Speaker 2: I also I am a very fast paced hiker and walker,
Speaker 2: so I had to like slow down a little bit
Speaker 2: here and there because she didn't walk quite as fast
Speaker 2: as me. And I know I walked fast because even
Speaker 2: when I hiked with some people on the North Shore
Speaker 2: a month or so ago, they even brought it up
Speaker 2: They're like, you're really fast, and I was like, man,
Speaker 2: I thought we were all going the same pace. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Like no, we were keeping pace with you.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, I'm a fast walker, but
Speaker 1: I'm not a fast hiker. But I can't slow down,
Speaker 1: so whatever my pace is, Like going with Olive kills
Speaker 1: me because I'm like, bro, if I slow down and
Speaker 1: take a stop every ten seconds, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: finish it. Like I let my mind ruin things, like
Speaker 1: I am not a mind over matter person, like I'll
Speaker 1: it'll ruin me. So I'm like, I'm not made to
Speaker 1: hike with children, but I have one.
Speaker 2: So yeah. But I mean, Iceland's just beautiful. It's like
Speaker 2: if you combined Oregon with Alaska with Colorado, like so
Speaker 2: many different landscapes in one And truly I didn't love
Speaker 2: a lot of the stuff that most people go to
Speaker 2: because we had traveled the country on the Ring Road,
Speaker 2: which goes around the whole country. A lot of people
Speaker 2: just do the South area and the Golden Circle and
Speaker 2: just the landscape in my opinion, in like the Northeast
Speaker 2: and the East Fjors, those towns and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: It was just so beautiful and I honestly felt like
Speaker 2: it was a little bit more beautiful than some of
Speaker 2: the other stuff that most people go to. But I
Speaker 2: mean still regardless, it's all amazing. No matter what you do,
Speaker 2: it's still amazing. So I yeah, we had such a
Speaker 2: great time, and I think by the last full day
Speaker 2: that we had, we were so drained because we had
Speaker 2: done so much, like every single day it was multiple things,
Speaker 2: if not multiple hikes whatever, and it was constantly driving too,
Speaker 2: So I definitely was very drained by the last day
Speaker 2: that we didn't do a whole ton and we were
Speaker 2: at our campsite by like five pm, and it was
Speaker 2: literally part of the camper van company that we rented from.
Speaker 2: They have their own little campsite because we had to
Speaker 2: be there at like six thirty the next morning anyways
Speaker 2: to drop the camper van off and get to the
Speaker 2: on our flight. So that was really convenient, but I
Speaker 2: felt like it was such a waste that we were
Speaker 2: just like sitting in the camper in this like camper
Speaker 2: van lot whatever. But yeah, stay in any hotels or anything, No,
Speaker 2: just did the van the whole tel okay, because you
Speaker 2: had mentioned maybe you would get a hotel, I thought
Speaker 2: I didn't know how my sister would do because obviously
Speaker 2: I have done camper van stuff for like a year now,
Speaker 2: so I'm very used to the small quarters and whatever.
Speaker 2: But we stayed at campsites, and I am going to
Speaker 2: give the exclusive of the sketchy shit that we did
Speaker 2: on this site on this trip that we couldn't have done,
Speaker 2: and maybe we'll be burned by it eventually. I have
Speaker 2: to check my accounts. So most campsites only have people
Speaker 2: working at them. From now I gotta do military time.
Speaker 2: What's eighteen to twenty two.
Speaker 1: It's twelve hours different, So eighteen would be six.
Speaker 2: Okay, so six to ten pm? Okay, So six to
Speaker 2: ten pm they'd have like somebody working in for you
Speaker 2: to go pay, and then again in the morning from
Speaker 2: like ten am to like noon or one or something.
Speaker 2: So we found that out the first night because we
Speaker 2: rolled in at like nine forty five pm, and then
Speaker 2: at like ten they closed up and other people were
Speaker 2: coming in and nobody knew how to pay whatever, And
Speaker 2: I was like, wait, shit, like so if we get
Speaker 2: here after.
Speaker 1: Jenny, we don't have to pay Jenny.
Speaker 2: And I only say this because my friend went there.
Speaker 1: How much was it to stay at it like you
Speaker 1: pay per person, okay, but it was anywhere from probably
Speaker 1: like already five to fifty dollars for like total sorry
Speaker 1: for two people, and which I know in the grand
Speaker 1: scheme of things, isn't that expensive.
Speaker 2: But the way we were traveling, we literally were getting
Speaker 2: in after anyone was working, right, and sometimes we were
Speaker 2: leaving before. And so of the nine nights, yeah, three
Speaker 2: of them we did not pay. Oh okay, And so
Speaker 2: I think the thing honestly, yeah, yah, there's only one campsite.
Speaker 2: I'm a little bit nervous we're gonna get a fine
Speaker 2: appe because did you guys go to It's called like
Speaker 2: Stoked Stokesnis Island. It's got like like a Viking village,
Speaker 2: but it's this like black sand beach with these mountains
Speaker 2: that overlook it. I did one of my pots. They
Speaker 2: have like a.
Speaker 1: Viking burial there. We went to one they were we
Speaker 1: went to. I felt like definitely black sand beaches. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's that one. It's not that one, okay.
Speaker 2: Anyways, It so that one people just like go and
Speaker 2: they pay to go to the look at the Viking
Speaker 2: village and the beach and these mountains and stuff, and
Speaker 2: we went and explored at like twelve thirty am that night,
Speaker 2: and we got into the campsite at like midnight, so
Speaker 2: everything shut whatever, and we go and explore, get up
Speaker 2: in the morning and we leave and I go to
Speaker 2: this coffee shop and my sister was just like hanging
Speaker 2: out in the van at that point, and I just
Speaker 2: wanted to like chill and drink coffee for a little bit.
Speaker 2: And it was more of a restaurant, so I go
Speaker 2: and sit up at the bar and I'm talking to
Speaker 2: this guy who's working behind there for a while and
Speaker 2: he goes, yeah, I mean, you guys are really lucky
Speaker 2: you didn't get shot. And I go what. He's like,
Speaker 2: you can't, like you can't go there after hours, And
Speaker 2: I'm like, I saw so many people walking down there,
Speaker 2: like they put a gate up. Yeah, and You're like,
Speaker 2: so you can't drive down there anymore. But people had
Speaker 2: been walking back and forth so when the gate was up,
Speaker 2: so I thought it was okay. But when we went
Speaker 2: there was no one there and he goes, no, that's
Speaker 2: like privately owned. That guy's like known to be a
Speaker 2: little bit crazy. And then he tells me the story
Speaker 2: about how his friend's grandma used to own it, which
Speaker 2: is so wild to think this beautiful landscape is like
Speaker 2: rightly owned. And his friend's grandma used to own it.
Speaker 2: She was kind of like having dementia on her deathbed,
Speaker 2: and this guy got her to sign it over to
Speaker 2: him and so now he owns it. And so some
Speaker 2: Iceland tea drama for you. And so that was one
Speaker 2: thing that we probably we didn't pay for the campsite
Speaker 2: at that one. So yeah, that's the one where I
Speaker 2: think we're gonna get knocked on if we get a fine.
Speaker 2: In case there's because there's cameras everywhere in Iceland. They
Speaker 2: get you for everything if you don't pay the parking fees,
Speaker 2: which was the one thing I didn't do enough research on.
Speaker 2: I had no idea you had to basically pay it
Speaker 2: every single waterfall to park.
Speaker 1: Yes, I guess I don't remember that, but yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to.
Speaker 2: And so by the end, once we got to the
Speaker 2: Golden Circle area, we kind of ended up skipping most
Speaker 2: everything I had pinned because I was like, we've seen
Speaker 2: so many waterfalls. I do not care about paying for parking.
Speaker 1: Again, Like I remember, before you left it, go you
Speaker 1: kind of get to the point where like, oh, like
Speaker 1: I've seen I'm good on waterfalls. When we just drove
Speaker 1: up North Jakes, you want to stop a Gooseberry falls,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't. I don't care. I feel so bad.
Speaker 1: He's like, cool, there are other cool things. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I just don't care about seeing a waterfall right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But anyways, so yeah, I feel like there was
Speaker 2: I took like some notes because I feel like there
Speaker 2: was something I wanted to bring up on here, but
Speaker 2: I don't really know. The only other thing I'll say
Speaker 2: is if you go to Iceland in the summer, and
Speaker 2: what time did you guys? What time of the year
Speaker 2: did you go.
Speaker 1: I want to say it was in August, but I
Speaker 1: can't remember because we got married in September and we
Speaker 1: went before our wedding.
Speaker 2: Okay, which, by the way, Fallon brought me back a
Speaker 2: hat from that trip, and I wore that like the
Speaker 2: entire trip, a winter hat. Yeah, you got me a
Speaker 2: winter hat and it's like a nice ill wear, yeah,
Speaker 2: like wool hat. I literally wore that most of the trip.
Speaker 1: Oh, what's that like getting a souvenir from Iceland?
Speaker 2: Jenny, I'm sorry, No, the only thing I'll say is
Speaker 2: that there was one hike that was very highly recommended
Speaker 2: from so many people to this like hot thermal river
Speaker 2: and it was one of the worst things we did because,
Speaker 2: oh no, why they have things called biting midges and
Speaker 2: it is like flies that just fucking attack you. And
Speaker 2: so you can see all these marks on my Oh yes,
Speaker 2: the mosquito bites kind of they are so they don't
Speaker 2: have mosquitoes, but they have these biting midges basically in
Speaker 2: like June and July or something. And it was so
Speaker 2: weird because on the way up there's was a decent
Speaker 2: amount of elevation on this hike to get to the river,
Speaker 2: which was like two and a half miles to get there,
Speaker 2: and on the way up it was so bad. My
Speaker 2: sister like she gets frustrated. I think a little bit
Speaker 2: easier than I did. But she was like super chill
Speaker 2: the entire trip. That was the only time I think
Speaker 2: I saw her, yeah, get frustrated because they would not
Speaker 2: leave us alone. At one point, we're sweating our asses off.
Speaker 2: It's actually a nice day. I put this like zip
Speaker 2: up I had over my face trying it because they
Speaker 2: were going into our ears like everything and so we
Speaker 2: get to the river. It was fine when we were
Speaker 2: in the river, but then on the way down, I
Speaker 2: was like, we're literally going to run down this trail
Speaker 2: just now, I'm not dealing with these butts. No, But
Speaker 2: on the way down it was like, I don't know
Speaker 2: if it was because the wind, it was the opposite way.
Speaker 2: But the bugs didn't bother us on the way down,
Speaker 2: but we still saw the people coming up swatting at things.
Speaker 2: It was so weird, even though they were two feet
Speaker 2: next to us but going in a different direction. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: be aware that something called biting midges exists in Iceland.
Speaker 2: You don't have to deal with mosquitoes, but you might
Speaker 2: have to deal with those if you ever go in
Speaker 2: the summertime.
Speaker 1: Did you like the wild Icelandic courses?
Speaker 2: Yes, they were great. I think we went up to
Speaker 2: like a few that did come up to us right away,
Speaker 2: but a lot of them kind of ran away. Yeah,
Speaker 2: when we would like get too close.
Speaker 1: Did you notice I think it's like the sheep are
Speaker 1: in threes always.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I believe that when a mother has a baby, she
Speaker 1: always has two or something like that. Because someone explained
Speaker 1: why they're always in threes, and I think it was
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 2: Oh you know what I mean. I don't think I
Speaker 2: noticed that until you brought it up. I would see
Speaker 2: three at a time. But now that you bring it up,
Speaker 2: that makes sense, because yeah, it was usually always like
Speaker 2: three rolling around on the side or like walking on
Speaker 2: the side of the road. So yeah, that was Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was fun.
Speaker 1: Did you see wild goats? Like she like, I'm like,
Speaker 1: honey in the mountains.
Speaker 2: Or I might have seen we I think we did
Speaker 2: see some goats. Honestly, at the top of one of
Speaker 2: the hikes, my sister didn't come all the way up.
Speaker 2: There was probably like another one hundred or two hundred
Speaker 2: yards that she didn't make it to. But at the
Speaker 2: top it was like this pretty like a very steep
Speaker 2: drop off of this rock formation. So you're sitting up there,
Speaker 2: you're getting your pictures. This girl starts face timing. She's
Speaker 2: by herself, and I'm by myself, and she starts face timing.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get a video of me with the
Speaker 2: background or whatever. I hear her scream and I'm like,
Speaker 2: what the heck because this bird just flopped right next
Speaker 2: to her on this rock and where she was sitting
Speaker 2: she is like so lucky because she was facetiming too
Speaker 2: at the same time that she did not fall. And
Speaker 2: I so those birds because then I get down to
Speaker 2: where my sister is and then my sister points at
Speaker 2: this bird and she goes that thing scared the shit
Speaker 2: out of me. And I was like, dude, that thing
Speaker 2: just did that. Did the girl up there and she
Speaker 2: almost fell.
Speaker 1: Off the edge?
Speaker 2: Uh huh no, pass, Yeah, that's about it.
Speaker 1: Well, welcome back. We missed you.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I mean you went on adventures too. I
Speaker 2: didn't know you were gonna go to the North Shore
Speaker 2: and that looked fine.
Speaker 1: We loosely talked about it. I was we initially was like,
Speaker 1: let's go for the Fourth of July weekend and Jake,
Speaker 1: we have a bow, like, let's actually and I was
Speaker 1: in a grance, like I didn't want to pay for
Speaker 1: a hotel and everything is We're going on our Akadia
Speaker 1: trip in a couple of weeks. So we yeah, we
Speaker 1: just went. We drove up Toby's is Jake's mess stop
Speaker 1: spot always has been since we've like gone up there together.
Speaker 1: I had never been to the Black Sand Beach, but
Speaker 1: it became it's like one of those Tiktoks I saw
Speaker 1: probably four years ago or something, and I saved it
Speaker 1: and just have never gone. And I was going to
Speaker 1: go to the Iona one to the Pink Rock Beach,
Speaker 1: but we didn't stop at that one because at that
Speaker 1: point where the kind of worn out. We did the
Speaker 1: day hill hike to go see the Split Rock and
Speaker 1: it was so foggy you couldn't see it, which is
Speaker 1: also like it was a very foggy day we chose,
Speaker 1: but we always go to New Scene and Cafe. It's
Speaker 1: our favorite restaurant. And then we stopped at a coffee
Speaker 1: place called like Cedar something Theater coffee company. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a local. I follow a handful of local other than
Speaker 1: Jetty of course, local bloggy kind of travel people. And
Speaker 1: one girl is like liz An Lately and she had
Speaker 1: posted that it was like a really great one. But
Speaker 1: when I went there, I was like, I am ninety
Speaker 1: nine percent positive I have been here before, Like I.
Speaker 2: Don't forget it because it's kind of in a woe
Speaker 2: yeah woods area.
Speaker 1: I'm ninety nine point nine percent positive I've gotten coffee
Speaker 1: there before. Yeah, So anyway, it was good. It was,
Speaker 1: you know, a fun full day with the family. Water
Speaker 1: was obviously way too cold to get into. Knew that
Speaker 1: was going to be the case, but yeah, so it was.
Speaker 1: It was good. We had a good Fourth of July.
Speaker 1: I decided I don't hate fireworks. I just don't give
Speaker 1: a shit about them. Yeah, I don't think I will. Ever,
Speaker 1: I didn't do it this year for this reason. I
Speaker 1: don't want to stay up late. I don't want to
Speaker 1: drive somewhere and park and deal with crowds. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be around mosquitoes. And it's always the same.
Speaker 1: If I knew someone, and this has been the case before,
Speaker 1: whose house was just right there with the fireworks, you
Speaker 1: could just sit on their lawn, I would go, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I do not, And so I just I do
Speaker 1: not care about fireworks enough. I get to hear them
Speaker 1: all night. Congratulations, you know what I mean. Like, I
Speaker 1: don't know. That was because we went last year to Excelsior.
Speaker 1: I was just eaten a live by Mosquitos the whole time.
Speaker 1: Traffic it was chaotic. I'm like, no, it's not worth it.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've enjoyed them living in the Twin Cities. However,
Speaker 2: growing up, when my parents were together, we had a pool,
Speaker 2: so we actually that was like the one thing a
Speaker 2: year we did was throw a Fourth of July party. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and we my dad would always put on a firework
Speaker 2: show and nothing crazy like we didn't get the ones
Speaker 2: that shoot up high in the sky, but he would
Speaker 2: spend like a few hundred dollars on fireworks. And so
Speaker 2: I think I really enjoyed stuff like that because of
Speaker 2: my childhood. And then my sister lived on the lake,
Speaker 2: which they always do the big firework show in my
Speaker 2: hometown from the lakeside park. So then I've done that
Speaker 2: where I've like kayaks out and watched it from the
Speaker 2: lake and stuff from her house. But in the Twin Cities,
Speaker 2: I do not seek out fireworks.
Speaker 1: That must see what it is, because we say growing
Speaker 1: up my ann Barbara, uncle Raymond had a big farm.
Speaker 1: They would host a fireworks show. It's like a huge
Speaker 1: all day thing. And then I've even hosted Fourth of
Speaker 1: July parties like at my house like since living here,
Speaker 1: but it never involved fireworks. So I like a Fourth
Speaker 1: of July gathering. But that's where I drovel. I just
Speaker 1: don't care yeah about fireworks enough, and I've I made
Speaker 1: the declaration this Fourth of July and let my family know.
Speaker 1: Jake was very sad and disappointed. But he was sad
Speaker 1: and disappointed because he realized. He was like, I'm taking
Speaker 1: the boat out. We're not going to excel se or
Speaker 1: it was a nightmare to get back through the channels.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: But he's like, we're gonna go to the one amound
Speaker 1: and he looked it up and realized it's like this
Speaker 1: weekend the fireworks they have. It was not the fourth
Speaker 1: of July week Never mind, we are not going. Because
Speaker 1: he was like, we're gonna go at nine They're at
Speaker 1: like nine fifty. And Hannah, his sister, and I were like, no,
Speaker 1: we're not. I go. You feel free to go. I
Speaker 1: Am not going to the fireworks, no chance. But we
Speaker 1: had a lovely weekend. We got a ton done. I
Speaker 1: watched every possible thing in my house, pillows, betting. I
Speaker 1: like that being done. Yeah, did a lot of pull
Speaker 1: time at Lifetime yesterday just really you know, got it
Speaker 1: in so good times.
Speaker 2: I was pretty proud of myself because when I landed yesterday,
Speaker 2: I had to do some work on the morning show,
Speaker 2: and then I took a quick little nappy because I
Speaker 2: had been up like I didn't sleep much the night before,
Speaker 2: but then I literally did unpacked every single thing, did
Speaker 2: all of my laundry from the trip, mowed the lawn,
Speaker 2: returned things I bought for the trip that I didn't
Speaker 2: use or need, and then grocery shops and did like
Speaker 2: some organization in the house. But one thing is when
Speaker 2: I pulled up in my uber to get dropped off
Speaker 2: after the airport, I just forgot that I owned a
Speaker 2: house for a while. And as I rolled up and
Speaker 2: I saw the grass needed to be caught. The big
Speaker 2: sections of the grass that got ruined by grubs is
Speaker 2: still not fucking growing and it's driving me insane and
Speaker 2: I don't get it. I am trying like everything I can.
Speaker 2: And I also forgot that I started demoing my kitchen
Speaker 2: before I left, and then I have a whole ass
Speaker 2: project in my kitchen. I'm mid doing it. And I
Speaker 2: really have to say, owning a home and living it
Speaker 2: in by in it by yourself is pretty fucking exhausted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I.
Speaker 2: Really, truthfully, I took care of things on the inside
Speaker 2: of the house, Andrew took the care of lautside. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and so then now having to do all of it,
Speaker 2: it just becomes really draining sometimes, And granted I put
Speaker 2: myself in the position of all these house projects, I
Speaker 2: get that, but uh yeah, I just kind of came
Speaker 2: home and was slapped into reality really quickly. Well.
Speaker 1: Also, it's been raining NonStop, so even though like we've
Speaker 1: been keeping up on mowing, it didn't matter, like three
Speaker 1: days later you have to moan again. It's been out
Speaker 1: of control. So I can only imagine how tall year
Speaker 1: grass was for being gone away.
Speaker 2: It was and half horrible because I was so nervous
Speaker 2: about that because I had intended on mowing at the
Speaker 2: day I was leaving, but it had been raining all day,
Speaker 2: and it had rained the two days prior, and I
Speaker 2: had I don't know, I hadn't mowed it too long
Speaker 2: before that, so I really didn't get it mowed. I
Speaker 2: don't know, it probably had been like two and a
Speaker 2: half weeks. But yeah, the only thing that I don't know,
Speaker 2: I feel like I don't talk about this stuff a
Speaker 2: lot anymore because I think I've like I'm not moved
Speaker 2: on from everything that's happened in my life. But towards
Speaker 2: the end of the trip, I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I just spent all of this time with my sister,
Speaker 2: and I had a good time with her, and it
Speaker 2: was so fun. And I know how much I love
Speaker 2: my alone time, but it was so nice to have
Speaker 2: a person with me. Yeah, like pretty consistently. So towards
Speaker 2: the end of the trip, I started getting like the
Speaker 2: vacation blues, like sad it was ending, like yeah, going
Speaker 2: back to reality. But the main thing was that, like
Speaker 2: I was so sad that I was going home. God,
Speaker 2: I get so mad at myself for getting upset, but
Speaker 2: I was going home to like nobody, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: And it was like one thing that hit me for
Speaker 2: the first time in a while of like emotions of
Speaker 2: like this is the first time I've ever experienced that
Speaker 2: or not ever experienced it, but I haven't experienced something
Speaker 2: like that in a while. So it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: you want to go home and tell everyone or tell
Speaker 2: someone like everything you did. And I was going home
Speaker 2: to like an empty house.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And that was like, honestly like the harder part of
Speaker 2: being sad about ending a vacation versus like I was
Speaker 2: like I was excited to get back to a routine
Speaker 2: and stuff. Yeah, And I was honestly exhausted from all
Speaker 2: the shit we did on that show that I was
Speaker 2: ready for like just not doing five million things a day.
Speaker 2: But I really was like, man, I at this point
Speaker 2: in my life, I am I am really sad to
Speaker 2: not live close to family, Like, yeah, it makes me
Speaker 2: like really realize that. I mean, I miss out on
Speaker 2: so much stuff, and I just like, I don't I
Speaker 2: have like a support system of great friends here, but
Speaker 2: I don't have that family support system here. And that
Speaker 2: was like kind of a big realization I had on
Speaker 2: that trip, was like my family all can see each
Speaker 2: other at any given moment, and I just do not
Speaker 2: have that living in the Twin Cities. But I also
Speaker 2: will never move back to fund Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: I know that this is like an outsider's perspective, and
Speaker 1: I don't know like what your emotions were during the trip,
Speaker 1: but one thing I actually thought of with you on
Speaker 1: that trip is I was like, she would never ever
Speaker 1: have experienced this time and these memories with her sister
Speaker 1: had you not been broken up. Yeah, I genuinely don't
Speaker 1: think you ever would have done a trip like that
Speaker 1: ever with your sister period for life. And I was like,
Speaker 1: and I literally thought about your sister. Also, you brought
Speaker 1: this up off the podcast earlier. But I was, I
Speaker 1: literally said to Jake, I go, Jenny's sister two years
Speaker 1: ago had a stroke. I bet every single one of
Speaker 1: these like things are things she never thought she'd do again.
Speaker 1: And these are like I just thought about, like the
Speaker 1: beautiful like memories you guys were creating together for like
Speaker 1: for you, you this was a trip you planned when
Speaker 1: you were still together, but you never knew if he
Speaker 1: was going with you because he never had committed but
Speaker 1: to this trip for like work reasons, but you were,
Speaker 1: you know, in a different headspace yep. And how like
Speaker 1: I don't know it was. I felt like it was
Speaker 1: seemed very as someone who knows you and knows like
Speaker 1: inside stuff. It seemed like something really special that you
Speaker 1: did in spite of things for both of you and together,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was really like.
Speaker 2: Lovely, And I agree, I am so so happy that
Speaker 2: we did that together because it is something that like
Speaker 2: we'll both remember for the rest of our lives. And
Speaker 2: it was so great. And I told Vallanes already, like truly,
Speaker 2: I did not spend a ton of time hanging out
Speaker 2: with my younger sister growing up, because she was the
Speaker 2: younger sister and my older sister and I were a
Speaker 2: year apart in school and we just had like mutual
Speaker 2: friends almost, and so like we spent a lot of
Speaker 2: time together. And when you're a kid, you know, you're
Speaker 2: eight year old sister and I'm twelve and my older
Speaker 2: sister's thirteen, Like that's a that's a big life difference
Speaker 2: at that point, so you just don't hang out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and so it was just nice because now we're both
Speaker 2: adults and it was nice to have that time with her.
Speaker 2: And I agree, I like, you know, there's a lot
Speaker 2: that has changed in my life in the last few months,
Speaker 2: and a lot of things that are different that would
Speaker 2: I know, I wouldn't be doing if it wasn't for
Speaker 2: the situation that I'm in. But yeah, the the trip
Speaker 2: really was great, and I'm I had so much fun
Speaker 2: and that was true. Really one of my things is
Speaker 2: when I became single, like I was so sad did
Speaker 2: not have like this person who I went on all
Speaker 2: of these trips with and had so much fun all
Speaker 2: the time because we had traveled so well together. I
Speaker 2: was like, what if I never find someone like that?
Speaker 2: Because I'm pretty aggressive when I go on trips with
Speaker 2: the planning and like the amount of adventures I want
Speaker 2: to do, and Katie was literally down to do every
Speaker 2: single thing that I was down to do. And was
Speaker 2: she scared on some of the hikes, yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I felt bad because I literally didn't even think
Speaker 2: twice as I'm like running up these mountains and yeah,
Speaker 2: on like a ledge area, and she like I had
Speaker 2: to hold her hand on a couple things, and I
Speaker 2: was like, I'm like, oh my god, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: Like I it didn't cross my mind when I was
Speaker 2: planning certain things that she might be scared to do whatever,
Speaker 2: but she still did literally almost every single thing.
Speaker 1: Also, not being close to family is such a real thing.
Speaker 1: I'm very lucky, Like I have Jake Sanley and I
Speaker 1: like them so much, and then obviously my mom is here,
Speaker 1: but cult who my radio partner. He talks about that
Speaker 1: a lot, Like he gets he'll like be like, what's
Speaker 1: to like having a family around? Or he'll go a
Speaker 1: step further, what's to like having like a family you
Speaker 1: like being around? You know, you could have a family around,
Speaker 1: but you don't actually enjoy hanging out with them like
Speaker 1: we genuinely enjoy Jake's family and stuff. So much that
Speaker 1: like we actively like look for things to do with them,
Speaker 1: you know. And I just yesterday sent I am the
Speaker 1: Jenny of Jake's family, and I sent yesterday our full
Speaker 1: itinerary for Acadia to the entire family group chat. But
Speaker 1: they're just I don't think any of them would plan
Speaker 1: a single thing if I didn't plan it. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if they would have. I think
Speaker 1: the trip would have just got been canceled. I don't
Speaker 1: think they would have even booked a hotel.
Speaker 2: And the thing is, the people that are like that,
Speaker 2: they don't care about doing a million things like you
Speaker 2: and I do, so like they are still going to
Speaker 2: have fun on the trip even if they don't have
Speaker 2: an itinerary. But I think that we just have these
Speaker 2: expectations of trips and if you don't do your research,
Speaker 2: you're going to miss out on like they're really fun things.
Speaker 1: Well, the one thing I don't have, we don't I said,
Speaker 1: we don't just stick to the itinerary. We can change
Speaker 1: things around, especially like weather depending But like, the thing
Speaker 1: I don't like is going on a trip and you
Speaker 1: don't have any ideas, so you sit around for two
Speaker 1: hours being like where should we go for dinner or
Speaker 1: what should do for an activity? And also the good
Speaker 1: thing with his family and like how he kind of
Speaker 1: explained Katie, they're down for literally anything, and I have
Speaker 1: like other friends or family that are like really indecisive
Speaker 1: and like it would just be kind of a nightmare.
Speaker 1: I think. Yeah, so I was going to tell you too.
Speaker 1: I know we're getting close to time here, but I
Speaker 1: was talking to a friend and it was like I
Speaker 1: just wanted to share it on the podcast because I
Speaker 1: thought it was like, she's you look like younger than me,
Speaker 1: but I always think she's like very, very wise. And
Speaker 1: we were just talking about like a breakup and like
Speaker 1: work stuff and different things, and she said a couple
Speaker 1: of things to me and I was like, I hadn't
Speaker 1: really thought of them like that, but but basically she
Speaker 1: was like, I believe you have two types of decisions
Speaker 1: you make. You've sold a decisions and you have ego decisions,
Speaker 1: and which in reality, maybe you've thought of it like
Speaker 1: that before. She's like, but she's like talking about a
Speaker 1: job and she's like, this one would be ego based, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this one is soul based. Sometimes there can be a
Speaker 1: little bit of crossover, but we were going in depth
Speaker 1: and like I can't go into details because she'd probably
Speaker 1: kill me, but with also relationships and stuff, and she
Speaker 1: was talking about timing and how timing seems to just
Speaker 1: always work out the way it's supposed to write, and
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that bad things don't happen, and things
Speaker 1: like that. But it really did have me thinking because
Speaker 1: I've made a lot of decisions in my life on
Speaker 1: the ego side of things, right, especially when you're younger,
Speaker 1: and I think as you get older, you do get
Speaker 1: better most people, some people can never grow out of it.
Speaker 1: I think you do get better about making the soul decisions.
Speaker 1: And it's like maybe it's not as flashy of a
Speaker 1: title or like a company, or maybe it's not like
Speaker 1: this or that, but like does it fulfill you in
Speaker 1: a deeper way or make you happier overall or different things?
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people have tough decisions
Speaker 1: they have to make, And I would just say, my
Speaker 1: wise friend recommended to look at it truly objectively and
Speaker 1: are you having a hard time based on ego or
Speaker 1: based on soul? And that the timing can work out perfectly.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to pass that along because I
Speaker 1: was like, I had been thinking about that a lot
Speaker 1: lately for various things in my life, and I just
Speaker 1: really I was like, I really appreciate it, Like that
Speaker 1: was like we weren't even talking about me in this moment,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to apply that to my life. So
Speaker 1: anything else. No, did you watch the Alex Cooper documentary? No,
Speaker 1: it's only like two episodes. I watched it. I thought
Speaker 1: it was pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I just read the I mean I
Speaker 2: think on like some of the Dave Stirt stuff on
Speaker 2: the show. Yeah, just about how other teammates were like
Speaker 2: basically saying like they didn't have any issues with the
Speaker 2: she brought up. That's the only thing I really know about.
Speaker 1: I feel bad, Like I'm glad she shared that for
Speaker 1: her peace of mind. That was the least interesting part
Speaker 1: of her documentary because I care about her career part,
Speaker 1: because the career is a similar alignment to like hours,
Speaker 1: just on obviously much grander scale in the fact that
Speaker 1: it's been like five years and she's already this huge
Speaker 1: that is literally wild, literally wild.
Speaker 2: So I'll watch it though, Yeah, that sounds good.
Speaker 1: It was only two episodes. I just and the first
Speaker 1: one was a lot about the soccer team college thing.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I really just got into Love Island. But
Speaker 2: I'm still chanting. I know, I'm still only on episode
Speaker 2: like ten or something. I'm so far behind, four.
Speaker 1: Hundred behind now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that, which I didn't realize is going
Speaker 2: into it. What a commitment it is every day of
Speaker 2: your life. So I that's the only thing I've committed to.
Speaker 2: But I think I need to like take it easy
Speaker 2: this week on because I did. I think the month
Speaker 2: of June I had myself like overworked in certain like
Speaker 2: house project stuff and getting ready for this trip and
Speaker 2: all this other stuff. And the only thing I care
Speaker 2: about this week is kind of like honestly resting because
Speaker 2: that wasn't exactly a relaxing vacation, and getting some content
Speaker 2: out on my blog, which watch out, because if you're
Speaker 2: interested in stuff that we did in Iceland, I'll have
Speaker 2: that up. I'm shooting for by like Sunday to at
Speaker 2: least have a couple blogs up just about like our
Speaker 2: itinerary and how we did camper van life there and stuff.
Speaker 2: But I'm going to try to put quite a few
Speaker 2: things up about Iceland because I had so many questions.
Speaker 2: So that's my week. So maybe I'll sit my ass
Speaker 2: on the couch and start watching a lot of TV.
Speaker 2: I'll like work on stuff at the same time. Am
Speaker 2: I going to need to really pay attention to Alex
Speaker 2: Cooper's documentary or could maybe work.
Speaker 1: A little bit at the same time work? Okay, it's
Speaker 1: really short. It's literally, like I said, two episodes. That's
Speaker 1: not I was like, oh I could have used more.
Speaker 1: So yeah, anyway, but okay, well we're happy to back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for listening. Have a wonderful week.