Speaker 1: What up guys. Happy Monday to everyone out there listening
Speaker 1: to this week's episode of your favorite podcast, Cheeky's and Chill.
Speaker 1: You guys are seriously my favorite people in the entire world.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy you're here. Thank you so much for listening.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you more than you know. Okay, so it's
Speaker 1: no secret that June and July have been pretty big
Speaker 1: months for me. Shout out to all the cancers out there.
Speaker 1: I celebrated two major milestones, guys. I entered a brand
Speaker 1: new decade El Guardo, and I also celebrated my one
Speaker 1: year anniversary, my wedding anniversary. You guys believe it. It's
Speaker 1: been a year already anyway, and Medio and I wanted
Speaker 1: to celebrate the two in a really big way, so
Speaker 1: we packed up our things and flew all the way
Speaker 1: across the world. Before we get into all of that,
Speaker 1: let me tell you guys about my birthday celebrations, because
Speaker 1: that was exciting. I celebrated my birthday with my friends,
Speaker 1: very very intimate gathering. That was phenomenal. Have to tell you, guys,
Speaker 1: that's a whole other episode. We just had a great
Speaker 1: time that night with my friends and I stayed up
Speaker 1: till four in the morning, guys. So that was on Saturday,
Speaker 1: right before I left. And then on Sunday, Emio took
Speaker 1: me to go get a massage to get our nails done,
Speaker 1: and all while we were out, my siblings were at
Speaker 1: the house preparing. My siblings and Emilio's family. They surprised
Speaker 1: me at home with a pool party. It was a
Speaker 1: very chill barbecue. My sister Jenica made smash burgers and
Speaker 1: hot dogs and it was really cute. They saying happy Birthday,
Speaker 1: really really nice. The next day we flew out to Egypt. Okay,
Speaker 1: this flight, I've never been to Egypt. I had never
Speaker 1: thought about going to Egypt, guys, to be honest, like
Speaker 1: it wasn't really on my bucket list. I started getting
Speaker 1: into Egypt because of Emilio. He loves history and I
Speaker 1: love history too, but just in a different way. But anyway,
Speaker 1: we have watched a lot of documentaries. We love documentaries,
Speaker 1: and Egypt was like top especially for Emilia because he's
Speaker 1: been wanting to go to Egypt since he was five
Speaker 1: years old after one of his uncles went and brought
Speaker 1: him back a little mini mummy and it's like tomb
Speaker 1: he still has it, by the way, and so anyway,
Speaker 1: he's the one that got me into it, into the
Speaker 1: pyramids and the pharaohs and the whole thing, and I
Speaker 1: really did it more for him. I don't think he
Speaker 1: even knows this. I was like, okay, I was like,
Speaker 1: I do want to go because it's Africa, that's the
Speaker 1: motherland of the world. Guys, there's so much I just
Speaker 1: wanted to feel God's presence. To be honest, I'm like,
Speaker 1: where can I go. That's so much history and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. Of course Egypt and media has been
Speaker 1: wanting to go fitt I'm not gonna lie. I was
Speaker 1: a little scared. My brother Mikey was like, sister, please
Speaker 1: don't go. A war just started. I don't know, like
Speaker 1: where you guys are going to go to Charmel she
Speaker 1: because I have to tell you guys exactly all that
Speaker 1: is on the border. It shares a border with Israel.
Speaker 1: And I told the media I was like, look, I'm
Speaker 1: not scared because I'm like if I tomorrow, I know
Speaker 1: I'm going to Heaven. I am on first class to Heaven.
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm not worried. Are you worried? And usually
Speaker 1: he's a little bit more cautious and he's like, honestly, babe, no,
Speaker 1: I've talked to my friends in Egypt, and you know,
Speaker 1: he knows a couple of people, and he's like, they're
Speaker 1: totally fine. They're a very very peaceful country. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, cool, let's go. This is like a day
Speaker 1: before we were like, okay, are we going to cancel
Speaker 1: or not? But anyway, we get on the flight and
Speaker 1: it was great. We stopped in Paris because it was
Speaker 1: a straight shot to Paris and that was like a
Speaker 1: I think like a seven hour flight, and then we
Speaker 1: had a layover in Paris for a few hours, and
Speaker 1: then from there we went to Egypt, which was another
Speaker 1: i think four hour flight from Paris to Egypt. So
Speaker 1: our first stop in Egypt was Cairo. We landed around
Speaker 1: three am. It was like two thirty almost three am,
Speaker 1: and I was a little nervous because I didn't know
Speaker 1: what to expect. You know, everyone was telling me cover
Speaker 1: your shoulders. They don't like tattoos. They're a very very
Speaker 1: conservative country. And I was like, okay, all my wardrobe
Speaker 1: was just that I was like, I'm going to cover
Speaker 1: up even if it's hot, and Emilio was a little
Speaker 1: nervous because he's like, I if I didn't have you,
Speaker 1: i'd be fine, But I'm like worried about you. But
Speaker 1: I'm never really scared of anything. Like it's weird. I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, cool, Like we'll freaking figure this out,
Speaker 1: Like that's been the model of my entire life since
Speaker 1: I was little. I'm gonna figure it out. But when
Speaker 1: we got there, everything goes smoothly, Like we went through customs,
Speaker 1: it was fine. They just asked Emilio if he smoked
Speaker 1: weed or CBD. I don't know why, because there was
Speaker 1: a bunch of people and they hand picked him. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming because of his tattoos, to be honest, That's what
Speaker 1: his friend told him later, It's like, it's probably because
Speaker 1: of your tattoos. And then some people told us while
Speaker 1: we were on our tours that he looked like a
Speaker 1: guy that smoked weed. I was like, how does a
Speaker 1: guy that smoke sweed look? We go to our hotel,
Speaker 1: We get to our hotel, very nice hotel, right on
Speaker 1: the Nile. Guys, it was so nice. I told myself.
Speaker 1: I was like, if I'm going to take this trip,
Speaker 1: I want to be comfortable. So we stayed it at
Speaker 1: the Four Seasons, and I wanted a four Seasons or
Speaker 1: a Hilton or something like that because it's something I'm
Speaker 1: familiar with. Just in case I didn't like the food,
Speaker 1: I knew for sure we would be able to eat
Speaker 1: well in the hotel because that's very important. Food is
Speaker 1: very important to me. So anyway, we get to the hotel.
Speaker 1: Everything's fine. By this time, it's like almost four am,
Speaker 1: and we check in and we're unpacking and we realize
Speaker 1: that we're missing one of Emilio's luggages, and he starts
Speaker 1: stressing out, and I'm like, it's okay, babe, it's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I remember, I know we have it. I
Speaker 1: just I don't know where it is, but I know
Speaker 1: that we brought it from home. That'll tell you. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we go back to the airport and we're looking all around.
Speaker 1: How they led us back into the terminal, I have
Speaker 1: no idea because obviously there's like a language barrier, but
Speaker 1: they let us beckon and we were looking everywhere and
Speaker 1: we did not find it. It was nowhere to be found.
Speaker 1: I started praying. I was like, God, this is where
Speaker 1: all his all his the chunk of his clothing is.
Speaker 1: I was like, he's gonna is this going to ruin
Speaker 1: our trip? I was like, God, please please help us.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, we're about to walk out,
Speaker 1: and then this guy whistles and he's like come here,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, they found it. And they found it, guys.
Speaker 1: The guy was like is it this one? And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: you are so good God, like I swear guys. I
Speaker 1: was like, I told him and I was like, don't worry.
Speaker 1: I was like, we're gonna find it. So I guess
Speaker 1: we forgot it. Once you get it off of like
Speaker 1: the little luggage band thing, and then we have to
Speaker 1: put it Like in Mexico they do this too. They
Speaker 1: put it through like another a secondary security detector, like
Speaker 1: the metal detector things, and someone was kind of rushing us,
Speaker 1: the person behind us. So I think we were just
Speaker 1: a little flustered and tired and we forgot one. And
Speaker 1: we forgot it there, sony who We go back to
Speaker 1: the hotel and we go to sleep. Around six am,
Speaker 1: the freaking sun was out, guys. And let me tell you,
Speaker 1: Cairo is a city that doesn't sleep. Telling you we
Speaker 1: landed around three am, we got to our room and
Speaker 1: it was party Central music everywhere, lights, it was freaking poppin'.
Speaker 1: So at six am when we get back to the room,
Speaker 1: people were barely I feel like going to sleep, and
Speaker 1: so were we. I was so jet lag though, I
Speaker 1: was so exhausted. I didn't even know what day I
Speaker 1: was living, what day of the week it was. We
Speaker 1: woke up around one pm and Media was like so
Speaker 1: excited to go out and just see something. He had
Speaker 1: a whole day planned for us, and I'm like, babe, honestly,
Speaker 1: like I need a date to get acclimated, Like I
Speaker 1: just need to like really figure this out. He's like, okay,
Speaker 1: but we can't sleep all day because if we sleep
Speaker 1: all day, then we're going and we're not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to sleep at night. So I forced myself to
Speaker 1: get up and we went to have lunch in front
Speaker 1: of the Pyramids. Guys, it was so beautiful. I posted
Speaker 1: a TikTok on that because it was just I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it. I'm like, oh my gosh, it's so it
Speaker 1: looked fake and the food was good. I did not
Speaker 1: eat anything bad there. Everything is so clean. It's Mediterranean, food.
Speaker 1: So we had like a lot of what looks like
Speaker 1: peda to us, it's called Egyptian bread or Lebanese bread,
Speaker 1: a lot of hummus tahini, a lot of chicken. It
Speaker 1: was really really good. The food was not a problem
Speaker 1: for me. Egyptian food or the food at the hotel.
Speaker 1: Everything was great. And then we went on our tours
Speaker 1: the next day. So Egypt was a little bit more
Speaker 1: of not so vacation y because I'm used to waking
Speaker 1: up at home at five in the morning, and that's
Speaker 1: basically what I was doing in Egypt. So that was
Speaker 1: a little hard for me because I'm like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm on vacation. I want to sleep in I don't
Speaker 1: want to put on an alarm. But then I was
Speaker 1: very grateful. Once I was on the tour, we had
Speaker 1: our own personal tour guide who spoke perfect English and
Speaker 1: was really really good. The first day we went to
Speaker 1: the pyramids and just to see like they were just
Speaker 1: so I don't even know what the word is. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was impactful or overwhelming with like
Speaker 1: energy going to those pyramids and walking into a pyramid
Speaker 1: or down, because you're basically walking into a tomb. And
Speaker 1: one thing I want to say, because a lot of
Speaker 1: people have said who made the pyramids? Who built them?
Speaker 1: Were they the aliens, etc? Or were they slaves? Our
Speaker 1: tour guide said that definitely they were people. They were
Speaker 1: not slaves. These people basically for twenty five years, that
Speaker 1: was their life purpose for them. It was I was
Speaker 1: born to build this pyramid for the king because it'll
Speaker 1: get me closer to God. That's kind of the whole
Speaker 1: gist of it. So he's like, they were never slaves.
Speaker 1: Everyone was happy to do it. It was their passion.
Speaker 1: So that kind of made me feel a little bit
Speaker 1: better because I'm not gonna lie. I went They're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe aliens did make the pyramids, you know, but it
Speaker 1: was beautiful how they explained it, and just to see
Speaker 1: how intelligent they were, like even the dialect, like I
Speaker 1: wonder what it sounded like, you know, but because it's
Speaker 1: all in hilogriphics, you know that that's how they expressed
Speaker 1: themselves and told all these stories and left their book
Speaker 1: on stone. Guys, it was just insane. And again, they
Speaker 1: didn't have social media, they didn't have telephones or televisions
Speaker 1: anything that kept them from focusing on anything other than
Speaker 1: their faith and the stars. They were so connected to
Speaker 1: the stars, to astrology and imagine, like I would close
Speaker 1: my eyes, I'm like, oh my gosh, like just imagine
Speaker 1: how there was no pollution. The stars were probably like
Speaker 1: so bright and so clear. This guy was so clear,
Speaker 1: like of course, because yes, the pyramids are aligned to
Speaker 1: the stars and certain, you know, Emilio knows more about it.
Speaker 1: I wish I had him on this episode, so he
Speaker 1: can't tell you, guys, but oh my gosh, you should
Speaker 1: have seen a medio space. He was in heaven, guys.
Speaker 1: He was in ecstasy the entire time we were in Egypt.
Speaker 1: He just had all the energy in the world. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. It's so hard to get him out
Speaker 1: of bed here because he's not an early bird like me.
Speaker 1: And over there he was like ready to go, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my gosh. And me I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I just want to sleep a little bit.
Speaker 1: But then when I was on the tours again, I
Speaker 1: was fine. It was so freaking hot. I got such
Speaker 1: a nice tan. Everything was amazing. Like the tours were long,
Speaker 1: the days were long. So by the time we got
Speaker 1: to our room. I was super exhausted. We were in
Speaker 1: Cairo for like five days. We went to Alexandria and
Speaker 1: had really really beautiful monuments there, and you know, the
Speaker 1: history was just amazing. It's so much better than reading
Speaker 1: it in like your history, but because you have someone
Speaker 1: like speaking to you and giving you a visual it's
Speaker 1: just I was so into it, it's crazy. And then
Speaker 1: we went to Luxer. Luxer for sure had to be
Speaker 1: my favorite. Cairo's awesome. It's very city, very lively. We
Speaker 1: didn't party or anything in Cairo because we were tired,
Speaker 1: but for my birthday we had a really nice like
Speaker 1: dinner and stuff, but it was more really just to
Speaker 1: sight see and just see the history and feel the
Speaker 1: energy there in Egypt. And then we went to Luxer,
Speaker 1: and Luxer for sure for me was beautiful, like it was.
Speaker 1: I mean, the colors, guys that we saw in these
Speaker 1: tombs that have been there for over three thousand years
Speaker 1: and they're still vibrant because again these tombs are underground,
Speaker 1: there's like no sunlight, so they preserve. And just to
Speaker 1: see how like how it all was done and why
Speaker 1: it was done. And I learned about so many you know,
Speaker 1: and of course, we all know about King Tut you know,
Speaker 1: the boy king, and about Cleopatra. But I learned about
Speaker 1: a pharaoh and her name was Hat ship Suit, Hat
Speaker 1: ship Suit. The reason I remember that is be like, okay,
Speaker 1: just remember hat and then a ship and then a suit.
Speaker 1: So hat chip soup. And she was actually the first
Speaker 1: female pharaoh guys before Cleopatra. And she took the throne
Speaker 1: from her nephew slash step son. So I'm assuming she
Speaker 1: married her brother and she took the throne from her
Speaker 1: nephew slash step son. And she was a very first,
Speaker 1: very powerful. She ruled Egypt for I believe it was
Speaker 1: seventeen year seventeen or twenty five, I can't remember. I
Speaker 1: learned about so many different furrows, but for sure she's
Speaker 1: my favorite. She is buried in the Valley of Kings,
Speaker 1: the only woman that is buried in the Valley of Kings,
Speaker 1: And you know, that's that's what I'm all about. I
Speaker 1: was like, ooh, this girl was breaking freaking barriers and
Speaker 1: she would go out into like the public and dress
Speaker 1: as a man. I'm assuming a lot of people whom
Speaker 1: she was a woman, but I think the public did
Speaker 1: not know, so she would disguise herself as a man.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I thought she was very interesting. So AnyWho,
Speaker 1: that is a little bit about the history and what
Speaker 1: I learned, so I will tell you people were nice.
Speaker 1: I never felt scared, to be honest. I started feeling
Speaker 1: more and more comfortable as days went by. Again, I
Speaker 1: thought that I was supposed to go and not show
Speaker 1: my shoulders or anything like that. And I was fine,
Speaker 1: of course, like showing too much cleavage or being too
Speaker 1: provocative and having too much of like tight clothing is
Speaker 1: a little frowned upon. But then I saw other girls
Speaker 1: and that I for sure were turists and they were
Speaker 1: like in booty shorts and the whole thing. And people
Speaker 1: do stare a little bit more and you draw attention
Speaker 1: that you don't want. So I was happy to kind
Speaker 1: of just I just want to show my shoulders littleit
Speaker 1: because it was hot as hell, guys. It was so hot.
Speaker 1: It was like in the hundreds. The sun hit different,
Speaker 1: like so different. So I for sure was just happy
Speaker 1: to like breathe because there was no way. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be covered the entire time, and media
Speaker 1: wanted me to put like a little scarfer on my head.
Speaker 1: And he just thinks it looks really cool when they
Speaker 1: have there And I don't know what e Medio knows
Speaker 1: that I forgot the name of them, but when they
Speaker 1: cover their hair and their eyes and stuff, I didn't
Speaker 1: know what to expect. I was going out there with
Speaker 1: like an open heart and an open mind, and I
Speaker 1: just now see the world differently, Like they're very nice.
Speaker 1: They're actually very respectful. Emilio's friend who lives out there,
Speaker 1: I met his wife and their child, and they were
Speaker 1: so nice, like he would say hello to me with
Speaker 1: a handshake. They're not allowed to touch other women, which
Speaker 1: I think is kind of cool, you know. And his
Speaker 1: wife was covered and she was just so sweet and
Speaker 1: you think, oh, they're submissive, but in reality, like no,
Speaker 1: she was very like just normal, I guess, you know.
Speaker 1: And again I don't know. I didn't know what to expect.
Speaker 1: And now I'm like, oh my gosh. They just they
Speaker 1: love their religion. And a lot of people would tell
Speaker 1: me like, Okay, don't tell anyone that you're American out there.
Speaker 1: Mind you A lot of the stuff that's happening here
Speaker 1: in America is one thing, But they actually love Americans,
Speaker 1: Like I thought, Okay, they don't like Americans and this
Speaker 1: and that, like I'm sure there are a handful of
Speaker 1: people that don't, but everyone was really nice and they
Speaker 1: love Mexico as well. And everyone, not everyone, but a
Speaker 1: good percentage. I want to say at least twenty or
Speaker 1: thirty percent of the population speak Spanish. Like Spanish is
Speaker 1: huge out there, Like I Meanio kept saying, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: they speak better Spanish than I do. So it was.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. The food was amazing. I felt like
Speaker 1: I debloated. It's crazy because I was having so much bread,
Speaker 1: so much rice, so many carbs. Guys. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's because I was walking a lot or because
Speaker 1: they don't have a lot of preservatives and additives in
Speaker 1: their food, But I felt like I just felt good.
Speaker 1: I felt like I ate all these things that I
Speaker 1: usually don't eat out here, and I felt really nice,
Speaker 1: like my tummy was doing well like I and I
Speaker 1: drank like water there and I was fine. It was
Speaker 1: an amazing experience, guys. And then we went to Charmel Shake.
Speaker 1: We ended our Egypt trip there at the Red Sea. Guys.
Speaker 1: Just FYI, you know the Red Sea is not red.
Speaker 1: Just kidding, It's the bluest freaking ocean see I have
Speaker 1: ever seen in my entire life. It was so beautiful,
Speaker 1: Like I just close my eyes and go back there.
Speaker 1: It was so amazing, guys. The water was salty as heck,
Speaker 1: but so clear, and I got lost. I was snorkeling
Speaker 1: and I would just get lost and looking at all
Speaker 1: the fish, so many different colors, so many different like types,
Speaker 1: and just to see like it literally is another world
Speaker 1: down there, like in the sea. It was just so beautiful.
Speaker 1: I was like my favorite because then I didn't have
Speaker 1: to put on I didn't have to put on an alarm.
Speaker 1: I slept in, We slept in. It was phenomenal. The
Speaker 1: way Emilio planned it, because he planned it for us,
Speaker 1: was great. Like all of our tours. On our first tour,
Speaker 1: I will say I wrote a camel. I will I
Speaker 1: feel a little bit better about riding a camel than
Speaker 1: like an elephant. Even like the horse carriages, I feel
Speaker 1: worse getting on those, like in New York than the
Speaker 1: camel because I feel like that's kind of what they're
Speaker 1: made for. They and I made sure that I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: do you feed your camel? I asked his name was.
Speaker 1: He was so nice. His name was Happy, the guy
Speaker 1: that helped us, and the camel. His camel was named Charlie.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget because his voice, the way he would say,
Speaker 1: He's like, okay, Charlie, come on, Charlie. So anyway, it
Speaker 1: was very nice. It was a great experience. It was
Speaker 1: very scary. I don't think I ever need to do
Speaker 1: it again, just because to get on and get off
Speaker 1: of the camp you're literally like facing down, like you
Speaker 1: can fall on your face, and like it's a pretty
Speaker 1: freaking they're high, they're freaking tall. But it was a
Speaker 1: nice experience and eMedia rode one and it was nice,
Speaker 1: and I I was a little worried about sharing it,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, I don't want to lie either. You
Speaker 1: know what else? I think those are the things. I mean,
Speaker 1: just seeing all the artifacts. We brought a bunch back
Speaker 1: I spent. We spent a lot on the artifacts. We
Speaker 1: literally just opened them this morning. And Media opened these
Speaker 1: two big boxes that we got shipped of like kink
Speaker 1: tut and all these things that we bought because Emilia
Speaker 1: wanted he wants a whole room of just Egyptian stuff,
Speaker 1: which I'm supporting him. One hundred percent. So yeah, there
Speaker 1: was no way I was going to be able to
Speaker 1: pack that in my luggage because of course you're girl
Speaker 1: packed and overpacked. I told myself, I wasn't going to
Speaker 1: do this, guys. I told myself. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I know how many days I'm going to be there.
Speaker 1: I usually like to take two changes a day, and
Speaker 1: I probably took like four for each day. I don't
Speaker 1: know how and why that happened, to the point where
Speaker 1: I had three luggages, Emilio had two, and then we
Speaker 1: had a little carry ons. Okay, so it was pretty
Speaker 1: crazy and they were all very heavy, and I had
Speaker 1: to leave a luggage with Kim, an extra luggage just
Speaker 1: for Paris that was going to be sent with my
Speaker 1: docufollow because they met us out in Paris and don't
Speaker 1: get to that right now. But I did overpack, and
Speaker 1: there was no way these artifacts were going to fit
Speaker 1: in any of my bags they were so heavy. So
Speaker 1: it all worked out. It was amazing. And if I
Speaker 1: can give anyone advice is if you're going to go
Speaker 1: on tours, get a tour guide because there is a
Speaker 1: lot of hustling out there. And what I mean by
Speaker 1: that is they will be very nice, and we experienced
Speaker 1: this and it was very disappointing. Towards the end of
Speaker 1: my trip, I started getting very frustrated and I was
Speaker 1: being vocal about it because I didn't really feel like
Speaker 1: they see women as less. To be honest, they really
Speaker 1: like respect women, and there are places where women are
Speaker 1: not allowed to go. That's just part of their religion
Speaker 1: and I understand that. But I never felt like I
Speaker 1: shouldn't talk. And media was a little worried about me
Speaker 1: talking to certain men, but with time, it just didn't
Speaker 1: feel like that, Like I didn't feel like I couldn't
Speaker 1: and that's not really me. So I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna be myself. I'm not doing anything wrong. Some
Speaker 1: men wouldn't look at me in my eyes when I
Speaker 1: was talking. They would just like direct themselves to a medium. Again,
Speaker 1: that's all part of the religion, and it's more of
Speaker 1: a respect thing I think towards the other man, not
Speaker 1: necessarily like, oh, we look down on women. But anyway,
Speaker 1: the hustling. Back to the hustling, because hustling was a
Speaker 1: big turn off for me. You give them ten pounds
Speaker 1: and they're like, no, this isn't enough. I need more.
Speaker 1: I need I want dollars. Like they'll tell you I
Speaker 1: want dollars or they'll be like, oh, we'll help you,
Speaker 1: and we're like no, no, we don't need any help.
Speaker 1: It's finely like no, no, no, no worries, I don't
Speaker 1: want any money. That's exactly what they say. And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they help you and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: give me money, and we're like, well you just said
Speaker 1: you don't want we don't have any money. They're like,
Speaker 1: well you need to go go go to the ATM,
Speaker 1: like this is too little, or like they did that
Speaker 1: to us at the airport. It was pretty frustrating. I
Speaker 1: had to tell the guy when we were going to Paris,
Speaker 1: the guy, the guy that was helping us at the
Speaker 1: counter even in the airport, we gave him money and
Speaker 1: he's like, no more, I want more, and I said no,
Speaker 1: I'm not giving you more. No, this is your job,
Speaker 1: like I'm not doing that. Like I'm all about tipping.
Speaker 1: I love tipping, but if you give me good service
Speaker 1: and also don't like, don't be that way. So I
Speaker 1: was pissed. I'm not gonna lie. Media was like I'm
Speaker 1: glad you said something because the media is very nice
Speaker 1: and very patient, and so am I. But also I
Speaker 1: don't like to be like pressured into things. So that's
Speaker 1: one thing for sure. Take a tour guide, someone from
Speaker 1: a company, someone that you know is going to help you,
Speaker 1: because the guides do help with the other hustlers out
Speaker 1: on the streets. So before we go to Paris, I
Speaker 1: will tell you that I got recognized in Egypt by
Speaker 1: an Egyptian guy. We were at the airport heading to Paris, actually,
Speaker 1: and I hear someone say, cheeky's mind you. I had
Speaker 1: been in Egypt for two weeks and no one had
Speaker 1: noticed me. Nothing. And then this guy starts putting like
Speaker 1: a little he makes a little heart with his hands.
Speaker 1: He's like cheeese and I'm like, oh hi. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know me and he's like, yeah, I follow you
Speaker 1: on Facebook. I love everything you do. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: you understand what I'm saying, like in Spanish. He's like no,
Speaker 1: but I follow you. I'm like, are you Egyptian? And
Speaker 1: he said yeah, I was born and raised here and
Speaker 1: I was tripping out guys for me. I was like
Speaker 1: a It even made my eyes water because I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, like someone knows me. In Egypt, it
Speaker 1: was the craziest thing. And again I had been there
Speaker 1: for two weeks and just to hear someone say cheeky's
Speaker 1: it was just the weirdest and craziest thing. But anyway,
Speaker 1: now we're going to fly to Paris. So Paris was
Speaker 1: my absolute favorite. I loved Egypt. They're so different night
Speaker 1: and day. But I love Paris. You guys, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I fell in love just to see how present people
Speaker 1: are and how engaged they are in conversation. Again, people
Speaker 1: were like, oh, people from friends are very very rude.
Speaker 1: There are rude and grumpy people all over the world.
Speaker 1: I didn't experience that. Maybe a couple people, but then
Speaker 1: you just smile at them and it's fine. Everyone is
Speaker 1: just so present, Like I don't even know how to
Speaker 1: explain it. I would sit there and just people watch,
Speaker 1: like I would just watch everyone, and it felt like
Speaker 1: everyone was in a movie, like they were having, of
Speaker 1: course their own conversations, and people were just so happy.
Speaker 1: And it was eleven o'clock at night and there were
Speaker 1: girls walking by themselves smoking a cigarette looking so cute.
Speaker 1: The fashion is everything out there, guys, Like the food
Speaker 1: was phenomenal there. I felt like there was a little
Speaker 1: bit more of like a language barrier, because they would
Speaker 1: speak to me in French and I would just because
Speaker 1: all I knew was bonjol merci, which is thank you,
Speaker 1: excuse a moan, which is excuse me, and that's it.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if it's because people thought I
Speaker 1: looked French, because I got that a few times, but
Speaker 1: I would just look at them like I have no
Speaker 1: idea what's going on, but they all kind of spoke English,
Speaker 1: and again we managed. But it was awesome, guys. The food,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the cafes, the bread, everything was just
Speaker 1: so good. The pasta, oh my gosh. I'm not a
Speaker 1: huge pasta person, and oh my goodness, that's another place
Speaker 1: where I was just carving it up and I did
Speaker 1: not feel bad about it at all. The butter was
Speaker 1: so perfect and so soft, and the coffee. Everything was
Speaker 1: just delightful, delightful. The only thing was the very last
Speaker 1: day and we didn't wanted to take me to a
Speaker 1: very romantic dinner right next to the Eiffel Tower. The
Speaker 1: Eiffel Tower was great. I can't wait for you guys
Speaker 1: to watch Chiky Seinfiedro because you guys are going to
Speaker 1: see something special that we did. We went in, we
Speaker 1: were in the Eiffel Tower, but I can't say too
Speaker 1: much about that, you guys have to wait. But for
Speaker 1: this last dinner we had, we were right next to
Speaker 1: the Eiffel Tower and Amelia wanted to surprise me. And
Speaker 1: everything had gone great, amazing, every dinner, every lunch, everything
Speaker 1: was amazing up until this dinner. The view phenomenal. We
Speaker 1: took amazing pictures with the Eiffel Tower super lit up.
Speaker 1: Just all of the Instagram pictures right that I still
Speaker 1: haven't posted. I still need to post everything. But the food,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. We had the choice between a five,
Speaker 1: a six, and an eight course meal, and of course
Speaker 1: I chose the eight because they had like oysters just
Speaker 1: on the eighth on like the eighth course one right,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I really want the oysters, babe.
Speaker 1: So he's like, okay, I'm not really hungry, and I
Speaker 1: don't think this bace is going to be good because
Speaker 1: I could just already tell. And then the guy's like, okay,
Speaker 1: you both have to get the same like, so he
Speaker 1: was just like really annoyed about that. But Oh my gosh, guys,
Speaker 1: the food was not good at all, and it was
Speaker 1: super expensive, and I think they just take advantage. It's
Speaker 1: for sure a tourist trap. And I'm like, why can't
Speaker 1: they just have good food, because even if you're a
Speaker 1: local and you have this view, I would keep coming
Speaker 1: if the food was good, Like, I'm never going to
Speaker 1: go to that restaurant ever again. So Amelia was saying,
Speaker 1: He's like, we started off rough and then we ended
Speaker 1: off rough, but everything in between was amazing. Our freaking
Speaker 1: trip was great. Three weeks. Had never taken a trip
Speaker 1: this long, you guys. I spent a lot. I definitely did.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, this is my fortieth this is
Speaker 1: my first year being married, my first year anniversary. I've
Speaker 1: never been married for a year. I was like, so
Speaker 1: I'm going to celebrate this. But it was just worth
Speaker 1: it. It was worth it, and I never felt homesick. My
Speaker 1: friends kept asking me, because they know me for years,
Speaker 1: They're like, are you homesick? I'm like no, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's because my home is a media and I know
Speaker 1: that sounds so like cliche, but I did not feel homesick,
Speaker 1: like I started missing my routine. Towards the end, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I want to go to the gym, I want to
Speaker 1: wake up, I want to do my you know, my
Speaker 1: ice face dunk that kind of stuff, and that's what
Speaker 1: I missed and my fu. I really wanted fuh Asian food,
Speaker 1: but we got some Asian food in Paris and it
Speaker 1: was freaking phenomenal. But yeah, it was great. It was
Speaker 1: three weeks a little too long, but then again, because
Speaker 1: we were moving from city to city, it was fine.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I want to move to Paris, Guys, like,
Speaker 1: I want to move to Paris. I already looked into
Speaker 1: like I made friends out there by the way, and
Speaker 1: I looked into apartments and they're not that crazy expensive,
Speaker 1: So it is something I'm really thinking about. Like it
Speaker 1: was just so enchanting, that's the word for Paris. Enchanting,
Speaker 1: Like people, the fashion, just the energy, guys, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: it was just every street was so cute and adorable.
Speaker 1: Like it was just so nice. And then I could
Speaker 1: eat all the carbs I want and not gain weight.
Speaker 1: It's perfect for me. But anyway, guys, that's it. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna wrap it up here because I know this
Speaker 1: is a very long episode. But I just kind of
Speaker 1: wanted to give you guys a gist of what my
Speaker 1: trip was like and how amazing it was. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure I'm missing so many different details, but as I remember,
Speaker 1: I will mention everything on at least one or two
Speaker 1: or all of the episodes on Cheeks and Chill, because
Speaker 1: this is a trip I'm never going to forget ever.
Speaker 1: And I think we want to go back for sure
Speaker 1: to the beach part of Egypt, Sharmel Chic, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to Paris for sure. I want to go back
Speaker 1: in September for fashion Week. By the way, they invited me,
Speaker 1: what bitch, I'm excited. Okay, guys, So that's it. I
Speaker 1: hope you guys have a beautiful day. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 1: I love you, I appreciate you, and again, thank you
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