WEBVTT - Kendall’s Adventures Abroad 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:05.400 What's up bachor happy our listeners. I'm backa koufriend and 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:08.600 I'm Michelle Young, and we're excited to be back with 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.920 you this week because today we're catching up with one 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:16.040 of my girlfriends, one of the most lovely women I 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:18.160 have ever met thanks to the show, and that is 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:21.680 Kendall Long. We have so many questions for her. I've 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.880 never met her in person before, but I've only heard 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.400 great things. And we have her move to Germany that 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:32.360 we'll be talking about and her new fiance. She's an 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.960 engaged from a woman. Oh, I'm so happy for her 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:40.479 and her new fiance, Mitch. But before we bring her on, Michelle, 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:44.640 it's a big week because the holidays are here. Do 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.040 you have any fun plans for them? Are you going 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.640 to be going back to Minnesota for them? Yes, I 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:54.600 will be back in Minnesota for the holidays. I'm so excited, 0:00:55.240 --> 0:01:00.280 just because last year at this time it was so crazy. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.000 I feel like things are finally like slowing down a 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:07.200 little bit during the holidays, so just spending time with family. 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.720 I have two nephews now, so one of them it 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.440 will be his first Christmas, so that's going to be amazing. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:18.399 And just I don't know the usual, the food, the cookies. 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:21.960 I'm looking forward to it. What about you? What are 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.080 you and Thomas doing now now that you're engaged? This 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:29.280 is your first like holiday together engaged? Yes, yeah, we 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.000 had well, yes, we spent the holidays last year together. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:36.800 Obviously we weren't engaged at that point, so we're taking 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.720 it pretty easy. Last year we went back to Minnesota. 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.440 So this year we're going to stay here and celebrate 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.400 with his family, and then I'm planning on to Minnesota 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:50.000 and we'll celebrate with my family in January. So it's 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.440 gonna be pushed back a little bit, but I'm so excited. 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:58.760 Thomas's mom is the most incredible woman, and I truly 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.040 don't know how she does it, but she goes all 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.520 out for the holidays. We were just there last night 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:07.840 watching her setup the house and she has seven Christmas trees, 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:12.560 seven seven all around the house. She put one so 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:14.399 like Thomas and I will spend I mean, she only 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.880 lives a half hour from us, but she put so 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:22.280 we'll spend a couple of nights there around Christmas. But 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.040 she has a tree in every room. She has a 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:29.239 tree in our bedroom, in the guesthouse, like she goes 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:31.600 all up because so this is something that I have 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.520 yet to experienced. This will be my first time experiencing 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:40.240 the ideology Jamboree. Apparently it's this massive holiday party that 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.560 they've had for years, but because of COVID and then 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:48.079 last year their house actually flooded and was under construction 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.000 so they couldn't host it. So this is the first 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.720 year that I will be able to witness it for 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.720 the first time. This is one of the things I 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.239 give you not I think on Thomas. In my our 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.480 first date that we had, he told me about this party, 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:05.880 so it has been a long time coming. I'm so excited. 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.919 I just I can't wait, just to eat, drink, be merry. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.120 I already have the dogs ugly Christmas sweaters too to 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.200 wear so they can match us. But yeah, it's just 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.200 gonna be fun. I mean, his family is so so, 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.520 so incredible. I already feel like I'm part of their family, 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:31.920 so I'm thrilled to be spending it with them. Yeah, 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.639 and then no plans for New Year's Eve. I'm like, 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.480 whatever happens happens. I don't want to plan anything big 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.080 this year because I feel like, do you ever feel 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.640 like this where if you plan too much or like 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.720 hype up something too much, it never lives up to 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:48.840 the expectation. Always. I just had this conversation with one 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.360 of my friends about New Year's Eve, and it's just 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.560 from as far back as I can remember, it's always 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.960 been like the stress of what are we gonna do? 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.640 Like you feel like you have to do something special. 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.560 It's almost like if you don't do something big and 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:06.680 that's how you start your year, then that's how your 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.120 year is gonna go. I don't know if like that, 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.120 if that's where the pressure comes from, but it's so 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:17.200 so much, and so it's like, no, I'm going to 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:22.600 plan to not plan to do anything. Im coming from 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:28.080 the girl me. I had a panic attack on New 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.960 Year's Eve last year. I had such a bad anxiety 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.080 attack that I literally cried in Thomas's arms for like 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.680 two hours as the ball was dropping, because I was 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.440 like convinced something bad was going to happen. I was like, 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.000 something bad and terrible's gonna happen in twenty twenty two 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:45.679 and so far it's been like one of the best 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.960 years I've ever experienced. Knock on one. We still have 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.160 a few days left. But I'm like this year, like, 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.400 no plans as long as I'm with Thomas and our 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.880 dogs or friends or family, like, it's just gonna be 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:02.599 low key. So I'm looking for forward to not worried 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:06.680 about that, and then hopefully it just exceeds expectations exactly. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.000 All of my New Year's is like, well last year. 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:13.159 Last year was all right, yeah, I guess you are right, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.200 so I thought, but you were going through so much 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:20.160 at this time last year it was finale. I was 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.880 so exhausted. And then I remember I got COVID right 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:24.479 after I like writing in the New Year, like the 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.040 two days after I had COVID, I swear me too. 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:32.560 Um yeah so yeah, and then the like I also 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.400 remember we'll back in Like the year after college, I 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.640 got cheated on on New Year's by my boyfriend at 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.159 that time, Like New Year's is like everyone's like New Year's. 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:50.000 I'm like, yeah, board up the house, talking nobody. I 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.440 will treat this night like any other night. I will 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.960 eat a big thing of pasta and be in bed 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.240 at nine pm. That's a new hopect Like all I 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.920 gotta remember is to write twenty twenty three as my instead. Yeah, 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.680 like that's my biggest worry. But I think this year 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:08.760 we Rachel and I might go to Mexico and just 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:12.000 like Carbo and just my unpluck. Yeah, because it's funny 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.880 year for both of us. Yes, okay, as we should 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.760 go relax, get off the grid for a little bit. Um, 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:20.200 and when I talk to you next, I can't wait 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:24.400 to year about this trip. No, there's no expectations, No 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:28.120 what trip. Watch, it's gonna it's gonna blow everything under 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:29.720 the water. You're gonna make this is the best trip 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.640 I've ever had. Um. That'll be fun though. That sounds 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.720 like a perfect way to bring in another year. Um. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.200 And speaking of bringing in something, I think it's time 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:43.400 to welcome our guest Kendall to Happy Hour. Let's do it. 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:49.600 We got my girl Kendall all the way from Germany, 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.479 and before before we even ask how you're doing it, 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:59.000 show us that rock please. Good for anyone listening, I'm 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:03.520 looking at a massive of stunning oval with two side diamonds. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.760 She's beautiful. Wow. Okay, so now I'm gonna ask, how 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:12.560 the hell are you? I'm doing very good, Um, a 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.920 little chaotic. There's a lot going on currently. This is 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.400 our first week in Germany. But overall it's it's been 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:23.440 an adventure. Yeah, it's been great. Okay, we have so 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.960 much to catch up on. I I know you and 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:30.880 Michelle have never met, so welcome Michelle and Kendall meeting 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:36.080 for the first time. I know, I feel like being 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.320 in this family, like you kind of know everybody, so 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.760 it feels like we've met before, but we actually have not. 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.480 I know, right. I think I saw you at an 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.640 event one time and I was like, oh, I have 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:47.400 to say hi, but you know how those are. It 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:52.480 was like, all, there's so many things going on, Michelle. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.520 For a little refresher for you. Kendall and I were 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.360 on our season of The Bachelor back in the day. 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.720 We also did Paradise together last year. Kenda, you're the 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.360 reason why I said yes. You're one of the reasons 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.800 like why I said yes to Actually, it's a very 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.520 fun thing to go on again. So Kendall and I 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.680 were out to dinner. We were at sushi with one 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.120 of our friends, just drinking wine. I think we had 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.720 some sake and we were like, Okay, are we going 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.880 to do this? Like and it was literally like the 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:21.760 day before we're supposed to fly down, like do we 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:23.600 say yes, like, do we sign the contracts? Do we 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.480 do this? I was like, I'm in in Fiorian and 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.360 so we did it together. Yeah we hear sake to it. 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:32.360 So yes, yes, it was good. Um. Yeah what wild times. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:36.040 It feels like lifetimes ago. Um. Okay, so much has 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.880 changed in your world within the past couple weeks. You 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:45.360 recently got engaged. So so happy for you, Midge. Thank 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:49.080 you is such a gem. You are both so cute together. Um, 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.360 but catch us up just on your life. You're not 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.679 living in Germany. How is that transition? It's a it's 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.120 really crazy. It's a crazy transition. Um. Germany does things 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:04.200 a lot differently. Um. So it's just adjusting to that. Um, 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:06.960 learning the language. I know how to say I don't 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.080 know how to speak much German, so that sud to me. 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.679 And UM, yeah it's been it's definitely been an adjustment, 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.120 but it's been really cool. I decided to come here 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.080 during winter, which is a great idea because it's like 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.160 snowing and freezing and I've never lived in the snow before. Um, 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:28.199 but it's just so beautiful here during the holidays and 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.640 and yeah, it's just been a whirlwind. And I'm excited 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.680 to fully get to know more about the German cultural 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.800 and really immerse myself into it. And I'm with Nich 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.240 so it's been a fun little intro to being engaged. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.160 Like this is the first time we've been living together. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:52.520 It's a completely different country. Yeah, yeah, what would you 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:56.120 sort of love right there? But honestly, home is where 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:57.600 the heart is? Is Is that is that how it goes? 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.040 What would you say is like the biggest difference. You 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.640 said that there's so many things that are different in 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:08.600 Germany that you've learned or that you've noticed. So far. 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.280 Everything is paper bay based, so we've been doing a 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:17.720 lot of paperwork. We have to change our phones, and 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:19.800 in order to get a place here, you have to 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.679 order to get a license here, you have to have 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.720 your landlords sign off and say that you officially live here. 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.760 So everything's by the book, very structured, and so that's 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.719 been interesting to get used to because I'm very much 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.000 like all over the place, and I'm not used to 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:38.160 having to reset my life because I've just broke up 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:43.199 in La my entire life. And they take they take 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:48.960 holidays very seriously, like Christmas is so festive here, and 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.160 the weather is very different. So just dressing that, preparing 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.720 for that, and I'm going to put out a park 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:58.800 on thick boots. Well, I didn't know that warm stocks 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.520 or a thing like, I've never had to really dress 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.720 incredibly warm. I've been to New York during snowstorms, but 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.200 living here is a lot different than visiting or like 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.959 a vacation, So you got to get those cozy cabin 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:16.400 socks going. I've seen people literally with jackets that look 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:20.199 like uh, sleeping bags. Their whole body just just covered 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.400 and like they have these thick socks and it. You know, 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.520 I'm just I'm like taking notes, like these are things 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:32.360 I must ask sounds Yeah, the two exactly. They had 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:36.840 these codes nowadays that they actually like they're not electric, 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:41.280 they're safe, but they heat up like like a heating pad. 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.160 But the park but it's probably got one of those actually. 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.400 So but it's so we're shipping. So I shipped all 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.880 of my clothes, um, well a lot of my clothes. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.720 I sold basically everything, um, And so I'm shipping things 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:57.840 here and so I will get that probably in a 0:11:57.840 --> 0:11:59.720 month or two because it takes a while to ship 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.360 thing here. So I'm kind of living out of a 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.000 couple of suitcases until then. But I did see I 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:07.880 got that coat, and my mom was the one that 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:09.559 suggests to get that to me if you're going to 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.880 need it. Yeah, that I'm here, I'm like, yes, this 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:16.559 is perfect. Mama knows best. So it was Mitche's job 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.920 that brought you both there, correct, Yeah, okay, okay, and 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.440 you'll be there for two about two years, that's the 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.480 plan right now. Do you think there's a chance you'll 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.840 stay longer or do you already have plans like you'll 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.360 do the two years and then come back to California. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.840 It's it's it's such a crazy adjustment to move to 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:37.160 a different country. But I think after we do it, 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.559 we already talk, we're already talking about different places we 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:43.480 might live after this. But our goal is to go 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.720 back to where our family is in California. Our family's 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:50.840 families live so close together, and so that's the ultimate goal. 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.360 This is more so like an adventure before we settle down, 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:57.040 have kids and do all that. So, yeah, knock it off, 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.800 check it off the bucket list. Oh yeah, what does 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.160 I do that brought you to Germany? Um? So he's 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:07.760 an aerospace engineer and so he is working for Yeah, 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:11.200 so he's working here in all the things, I'm not 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:15.880 exactly about to know it you picked one. Oh yeah, 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.040 he's incredibly intelligent. The one thing that I fell in 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.480 love with him it's like his mind, Like his mind 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.400 is just a he's a beautiful brain. So well, and 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:29.000 you also have a beautiful brain. It's so creative and 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.080 unique that I feel like you needed somebody that was 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.240 going to be able to stimulate you. You know, it's 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.480 like you. I feel like you both are very even 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:39.360 for each other. I was telling I think maybe just 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.360 mentioned this to Michelle before you popped on Weirdly enough, 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.760 So we met Mitch, Well, I met Mitch at Thomas's 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.280 thirtieth birthday. That's where you brought him. Well, no, we 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.199 went him before. I guess that on the tour, but 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.200 oh yeah, but not really getting to know yeah yeah ye. 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.679 And such a small world. Mitch is cousins with one 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:00.160 of Thomas's good friends from high school, and so he 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.080 kind of like already I felt like he was like 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.400 already part of the group and like welcomed. And he's 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.920 not only smart, he's obviously very handsome, but just such 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:14.719 a nice, fun guy, like very down to earth. So okay, 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:16.960 I want to talk a little bit about Germany and 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:18.840 then I want to get into obviously the engagement. But 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:24.040 you mentioned that Germany takes the holidays very seriously, and 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:28.600 I have seen the holiday markets that you have attended 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.320 in these past two days. Yea more for any of 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.880 our listeners who maybe didn't see your stories on Instagram. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.600 Talk more about these holiday markets, but also please elaborate 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.960 on I think you posted it yesterday. I like this 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:49.000 scary Christmas man, like like he had like sticks and 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.360 he was like spanking someone with yea, so those are 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:57.360 birch branches. So Acrompus is kind of like a Christmas demon. 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:01.160 He works with Saint Nicholas and he'll capture bad naughty 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.560 children and take them back to his layer. Will he'll 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.880 torture them, like hitting them with like birch branches or 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:10.000 eat them. It's like very much a nightmare. I'm really 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:14.520 curious about because I'm a like teacher everything, and so 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.720 in education you can't I mean, you don't really celebrate 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:22.360 you felebrate winter, but you can't really celebrate Christmas and 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.720 just different things. You kind of keep those out of it. 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.440 But in family, I just know that there's so many 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:32.080 families that use like elf on the shelf and um 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.400 and what else is it? And just like coal and like, oh, 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.440 you're not going to get any gifts, like as a 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.160 threat for a spres But like in Germany, do they 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:45.000 threaten like this person's going to come and take your 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:50.080 vegetables if you don't need your vegetables everywhere in Germany. 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.680 I think it's certain districts, in districts in Germany because 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.040 um so, the guy who owns the airbnb that we're 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.600 staying in currently, he didn't even know about the crampas 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:04.000 test and he was raised in stuke Guards, So I 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.160 think it might be just to certain areas. But the 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.480 kids seem to love it. When we were at the festival, 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.080 they were all like all the kids that were in 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:13.720 the front was getting picked on and they were just 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:21.920 laughing and it was scary this crumpus. Yeah, but like 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.040 I saw this video and I was like I would 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.560 be traumatized as a child to see this. Oh, their 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.560 masks are so cool, like they so they handmake or 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.480 homemake their masks and it looks like they carved them 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:38.080 out of wood and they get these crazy wigs. It's 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.880 just it's so elaborate, and I thought they were really 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:45.600 beautifully done. Um terrifying. Yeah, but I think each area 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.640 might have had their own, um I guess type of 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.800 crampus that they were representing, because they'd have these signs 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.200 that would say like a town or a location, and 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.760 they a group of them together and it was in 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.480 the middle of the Christmas festival. So there's really pretty 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:07.920 gingerbread looking houses with gluvine and all this like pretzels 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:13.560 and everything, and then it's crazy, What a fun time 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:15.680 to move to a new country. I feel like that's 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.120 like the best way to immerse yourself in the culture 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.760 is just like being here around the people, around the food, 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:26.359 around their festivities, in the traditions. Speaking of food, because 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:30.240 you mentioned the pretzels, talk talk a little bit more 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.640 about the food. Do you like the German food better 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:34.879 than the American food? Like what's in your favorite thing? 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.040 I'm such a foodie, so I need to know everything well. 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.840 At first, I was worried that I wouldn't really like 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.840 the German food, because you don't really I never really 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:47.280 personally heard about Germany's food culture. I knew there was 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.240 a lot of potatoes and pretzels and stuff. But their 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:54.680 food is really good. They have a big Italian community here, 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.520 so Italian food's great. They have there's a sushi place 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:02.120 around the corner from where we are. Um, yeah, so 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:06.560 they're the big Asian influence here. So we we've tried, 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:08.200 Like the first week we are here, we had to 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.080 go out to eat all the time, just because you know, 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.919 we didn't have anyhere else to go. And yeah, it 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:17.120 didn't disappoint. It was very interesting, like certain things where 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.480 like I've never tried it before, but yeah, I love 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.920 I feel like that's my favorite part of traveling. Yeah, 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.280 making around food. But now that y'all are in Germany, 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.480 do you have like what are your plans for the holidays? 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.400 Do you plan to combine You're like holiday traditions make 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:38.159 new ones. I'm definitely already planning to get a Christmas 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:42.320 tree and to decorate things. Um it's it's sad. It's 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.960 hard because I'm so close with my family. Mitch is 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.760 so close with his family, so being away from family 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.680 during the holidays, it's going to be incredibly difficult. Um. 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:54.159 Niche's birthday is actually the nineteenth, so we're going to 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:58.639 be celebrating his birthday first, and then Christmas is shortly after. Um, 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:02.120 but I'm like excited. I'm excited to have my first 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.399 Christmas with like with Mitch, and you know, we're newly 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:07.639 engaged and it's gonna be really cute and get like 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:11.520 a little tree. Um. But because last year we our 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:16.120 first date was the day after Christmas. Really yeah, oh 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:28.320 my gosh, circle, I'll look at that. Does any of 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.919 your family have plans yet to come out there and 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.160 visit you two? Yeah, so I have a girlfriend who 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:38.760 already booked her ticket for um, I think March, and 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.480 then my parents were thinking of coming probably around April May, 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:46.520 like around springtime. There's a spring festival that looks really fun. 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.159 So my brother's also going to be coming around that 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:52.919 time because he's visiting visiting friends in London, so they 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:56.840 have no options but to come visit right where they have. Yeah, 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:58.680 we're getting a place at the couple rooms, so we're 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.480 hoping that that'll like entire people to come. YEA. How 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:04.480 close are you this is totally a topic. How close 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.879 are you to the Rhine River? Um? Is that the 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:11.280 river that's a munich? I believe I think so, so 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.840 I'm pretty sure. Actually, I might be there at the 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.680 beginning of June, so if you really are in town, 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:20.120 I'll we'll talk obviously after this, but I'm like, um, yeah, 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.280 I'm doing a river cruise with my mom and sister 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:27.720 and I need to see you if I'm there. If 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:29.760 it's a Munich. I think it's a Munich. That's only 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.399 about two hours away, but you can cut it with 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:37.960 the autobod, so it's about okay, Okay, Well, we'll talk 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:41.000 after this. I definitely want to see you Uma, for sure. 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:44.760 I just catch up and eat all the German pretzels. 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:48.920 Oh yeah, definitely eat a German pretzel. I haven't had 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:57.040 one yet. Really, there aren't so many cool things to try. 0:20:57.040 --> 0:20:59.240 I'm like, I tried a pretzel before, obviously I haven't 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:01.680 had a German one, so yeah. Or beer. I haven't 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:06.320 had beer here either, so let's yeah, you got time, 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.520 you got time together. Yes, you're gonna dip the pressl 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.560 the beer. And now I don't know were you the one? Okay? 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:15.280 I think I learned this about you when we were 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:18.720 traveling meat. I want to say to Paris on our season, 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.240 because that was the first international area we went to. 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:26.040 Were you the one who said, um, and correct me 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:28.440 if I'm wrong, you would only eat meat when you 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:33.040 would travel? Correct, Yeah, yeah, okay, yes, And so now 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:35.040 that you're traveling for two years, are you able to 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:39.560 eat all the meat there? I've actually already started me. Okay, okay, 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:42.400 So whatever I post about eating meat because I thought 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:46.119 you were vegetarian, I don't know. I mean, I feel 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:50.439 like there's so many interesting things to try and un't 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:51.760 it was a cool part of my life to be 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:56.679 able to. I was vegan, then vegetarian, then Presbyterian, um, 0:21:57.160 --> 0:21:59.679 and I just really really paying attention to where I 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:03.560 get my meat from. And in Germany they are just 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:05.840 so much better with food in general. Like you can 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:08.440 see that things are a lot fresher, there's a lot 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:11.560 more regulations on what they can serve, what they can sell, 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:15.359 so you're getting really good quality stuff, and um, you 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:19.520 can feel it. Like people who have gluten intolerance. Um, 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:22.520 of course everyone like people see the actor or whatnot. 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:26.920 But people who have gluten intolerances in America usually won't 0:22:26.960 --> 0:22:32.200 have them in Germany. I've seen that actually all over recently, 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:37.440 about like them eating like pasta anything like that can 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:44.520 eat straight up bread when they can't tolerant in the US. Yeah, 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:47.080 and in years. I feel like just from like the 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:49.400 couple countries that I've been to, everything like you said, 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:54.200 is homemade, fresh, like minimal ingredients, which I appreciate. It's 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:58.439 like just the basics. You don't need all these add ons, additives, 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:01.640 whatever you call it. So I guess that makes sense. Yeah, 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:04.040 I know it looked at me talking like I'm a doctor, 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:07.000 like I know, or like a nutritionist. I have no idea. 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:09.719 Don't listen to me. I'll go back and see how 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:13.679 I feel after a couple of years. You know, I 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:15.560