Speaker 1: We decided on It is definitely a party town, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to have both, like relaxing time, but since
Speaker 1: I was going with like a group of friends, I
Speaker 1: wanted to have some fun. So I'm very happy to
Speaker 1: say that despite that there were so many of us,
Speaker 1: the trip was drama free, psich. We had like quiet time.
Speaker 1: We had our little teas in the morning, we were chilling.
Speaker 1: It was like perfect because we had party, we had
Speaker 1: friend time, we had alone time.
Speaker 2: It was nice.
Speaker 1: What up y'all and happy Monday. I hope you all
Speaker 1: are having a great summer so far, especially my fellow cancers.
Speaker 1: Speaking of cancers, I'm a cancer. I'm actually a jum cancer.
Speaker 1: So my birthday was just a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and guys, I spent it in Greece.
Speaker 2: I had the best.
Speaker 1: Time, and I can't wait to tell you guys all
Speaker 1: about it on today's episode. So let's get to it.
Speaker 1: This is cheek and chill. Every year I try to
Speaker 1: take a really memorable birthday trip. Last year I went
Speaker 1: to the Dominican Republic with some friends. And this year
Speaker 1: I wanted to spend my thirty eighth birthday, Yes thirty eight,
Speaker 1: you guys, I know, you can't believe it in Greece.
Speaker 1: I had been to Greece before, but to Athens, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to do, you know, either Santorini or Mykonos,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to do both, but I didn't have
Speaker 1: enough time because I had to come back because I
Speaker 1: got to work, you know. So we decided on Miconos
Speaker 1: because it's almost like Vegas, Las Vegas of like Greece.
Speaker 2: And it is definitely a party town.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to have both like relaxing time, but
Speaker 1: also since I was going with like a group of friends,
Speaker 1: I wanted to have some fun, you know. And then
Speaker 1: I had taken like a rest from alcohol and you know, marijuana,
Speaker 1: you guys, it is as you know, I'm from California,
Speaker 1: so it is legoing can So I was taking a
Speaker 1: huge break, and I did it for my birthday so
Speaker 1: I could just like really enjoy myself. So I really
Speaker 1: wanted to like kind of party a little bit. So
Speaker 1: I was already like mentally prepared to have fun. And
Speaker 1: let me tell you, guys, I had so much fun.
Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit too much fun, because now I'm
Speaker 1: feeling it. The jet lag is real, y'all. It is
Speaker 1: freaking real. So anyways, I am a procrastinator when it
Speaker 1: comes to packing.
Speaker 2: I pack last minute travel vacation.
Speaker 1: I either pack of the day i'm leaving, like early
Speaker 1: in the morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I do.
Speaker 1: Because I was about to say maybe the night before,
Speaker 1: I like maybe pre pack or prepare a little bit,
Speaker 1: but no, I'm a packer like the day of.
Speaker 2: And I'm a heavy packer.
Speaker 1: I guess you could say I'm high maintenance because I
Speaker 1: take you know, I need my hair stuff, I need
Speaker 1: my skincare, I need my body stuff. I need like
Speaker 1: extra stuff just in case you never know what will happen.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, if I'm going to be there for eight days,
Speaker 1: you better believe I'm gonna take fourteen pairs of underwear
Speaker 1: because you just know you can poop on yourself or
Speaker 1: maybe your friend needs an underwear. So I always take
Speaker 1: extra everything. And I told myself this time, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to overpack. I'm only gonna take what I need.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try on all my clothes and my outfits,
Speaker 1: and I'm only going to take the amount of clothes
Speaker 1: that I would need per day. And then I was
Speaker 1: packing and all the outfits were so cute that I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I take this one too, this one
Speaker 1: just in case, you guys, Just for myself, I took
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I took two large suitcases and a
Speaker 1: carry on and a big ass bag and I even
Speaker 1: got some space on Emilios. I was like, can you
Speaker 1: take an extra like suitcase? So yeah, I am definitely
Speaker 1: like a heavy packer. And I was only there for okay.
Speaker 1: We left the twenty fourth of June and we didn't
Speaker 1: get to Greece until the twenty fifth, because I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a long ass flat, you guys. So I was
Speaker 1: there the twenty fifth, the twenty sixth, twenty seventh or
Speaker 1: twenty six is my birthday, twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine.
Speaker 1: We came back on the thirtieth and then landed in
Speaker 1: La on the first. It was crazy, and my friend,
Speaker 1: one of my really good friends, who had just gone
Speaker 1: to Greece. I asked her for some tips because I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, I don't want to be jet lagged.
Speaker 1: I have a show on the second July second it's
Speaker 1: my mom's birthday. I was like, can I have a show?
Speaker 1: And I cannot be tired? And the crazy thing is
Speaker 1: I was totally fine. We landed pretty early on July first,
Speaker 1: and it was like around one. By the time we
Speaker 1: got home, it was four and all I did was sleep.
Speaker 1: I got home and I was like, I need a
Speaker 1: sleep because I have a show the next day.
Speaker 2: Or tomorrow, and I was fine.
Speaker 1: I think it just I'm barely feeling it now, like
Speaker 1: they say that jet lag like takes like two or
Speaker 1: three days for you to fill it when you're back home,
Speaker 1: and definitely I'm feeling it, but I'm happy because I
Speaker 1: got home. We celebrated my mom's birthday on the second.
Speaker 1: All my siblings were there at my concert. It was
Speaker 1: so awesome. And then on the third, my siblings did
Speaker 1: like this little like surprise birthday party. Well not really surprised.
Speaker 1: I knew that they were going to do something. I
Speaker 1: just didn't know what. But when I got home, because
Speaker 1: Emilio was like polted, like take me away for the day.
Speaker 1: So we left the house and then when we got back,
Speaker 1: everything was like decorated and Jenica was cooking because I
Speaker 1: love when she cooks for me, like it's my favorite.
Speaker 1: She made me some like green and chila las with
Speaker 1: you know aros Rojo, red Rice and my siblings were
Speaker 1: here and the kids were here and they got in
Speaker 1: the pool and it was just so beautiful.
Speaker 2: And then the next day it was July fourth, and we.
Speaker 1: Partied and I partied really hard, so I think that's
Speaker 1: why now my body's filling it. But anyways, back to
Speaker 1: Greece and Mikonos okay, so I went with It was
Speaker 1: a total of ten of us. So it was Vanessa,
Speaker 1: Michael Madre, and business partner Rose, who used to be
Speaker 1: my manager back in the days when I first kind
Speaker 1: of started my career. One of our really good friends,
Speaker 1: his name is Antonio. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: have ever heard of the Estrato twins, but they are
Speaker 1: amazing designers. So one of the brothers, Antonio, went with us. Helen,
Speaker 1: my friend Helen, who was also a singer we've had
Speaker 1: here on the podcast before. Her husband Brianna and her husband,
Speaker 1: they were actually celebrating ten years of marriage, you guys,
Speaker 1: so it was their first time in Greece as well.
Speaker 1: So they went for their wedding anniversary which was on
Speaker 1: June twenty ninth, so they were celebrating ten years. So
Speaker 1: we were celebrating a lot, and then Helen and JP
Speaker 1: they stayed and went to like I think Madrid. I
Speaker 1: don't know where else they went. So a few of
Speaker 1: them stayed, Vanessa stayed, a bunch of people stayed behind.
Speaker 2: I had to come back and work. Oh in Oscar
Speaker 2: from nilos por la muska.
Speaker 1: If you guys don't know, it's like an organization in
Speaker 1: Riverside and yeah, so I think that was it. I
Speaker 1: was not expecting you guys to completely disconnect. I had
Speaker 1: told even my manager, mister Bowle. Richard Bull was like,
Speaker 1: don't worry, go ahead and send me a message, email me.
Speaker 1: I'll be on my phone here and there. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be on as much, but I will be on.
Speaker 1: But no, it didn't work out like that. The time
Speaker 1: zone was so different obviously, so I think we're like,
Speaker 1: what ten hours ahead over there? We were ten hours ahead.
Speaker 1: I just said fit. I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: my phone went black. I was like, I'm going to
Speaker 1: leave it alone. By the end of the trip, you guys,
Speaker 1: I had over three hundred messages and like a thousand emails.
Speaker 1: It was insane. I was so overwhelmed. But I needed
Speaker 1: to just be I just needed to be. We got
Speaker 1: an airbnb and it was a beautiful big house. What
Speaker 1: I love about Mikonos, you guys, is that everything is
Speaker 1: so close. I mean, you're on an island. Everything is
Speaker 1: pretty much walking distance. But I mean, of course we
Speaker 1: took like shuttles everywhere. But it was so cool. The
Speaker 1: food was amazing. The sunsets and the sunrises were great.
Speaker 1: I meditated every day when I was out there. It
Speaker 1: was just so nice and everyone had their own room
Speaker 1: and we had our own.
Speaker 2: Space, and the pool was really nice.
Speaker 1: And I loved it because I even, you guys, I'm
Speaker 1: not a huge runner, Like I don't really like to
Speaker 1: run like at all actually or like jog but Emilio
Speaker 1: and I took two jogs out there. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I was like, I feel like I want to go run.
Speaker 1: So it's like I feel like Mykonos made me want
Speaker 1: to become like a jogger.
Speaker 2: It's really weird, but I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: I was like in my little sports bra the sun,
Speaker 1: like I got a little bit of a tan. You
Speaker 1: can't really tell because I'm really like fair, but I
Speaker 1: got a little tan, and I don't know. It was
Speaker 1: really nice and Gomtandrico. You guys, like the food is Mediterranean,
Speaker 1: so there's like a lot of yogurts and tomato and
Speaker 1: goat cheese and it was just so delicious and the chicken.
Speaker 1: Everything was just so good. When I went to the
Speaker 1: American Republic, we had like a chef and that was awesome.
Speaker 1: The service was great. But this time we only had
Speaker 1: like a chef. I think the day of my birthday,
Speaker 1: on the twenty six, we had them make like a
Speaker 1: little bit of breakfast and then after that we would
Speaker 1: just go out on the town and you know, have
Speaker 1: lunch and have dinner and it was chill. We went
Speaker 1: to the grocery store. Of course, I went crazy and
Speaker 1: got all kinds of things and I cooked a little
Speaker 1: bit out there.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: I felt like for me in order to feel like
Speaker 1: on vacation. It's weird because like Vanessa said, what are
Speaker 1: you doing, Like why are you cooking? I'm like, it
Speaker 1: makes me feel good, like I want to feel like
Speaker 1: I'm at home. Like the only thing was I didn't
Speaker 1: have all my spices. I just I had to work
Speaker 1: with pepper and salt. But I made it work and
Speaker 1: I made everyone like you know, pasta and then I
Speaker 1: made burgers and what else did I make? I made
Speaker 1: eggs one day, like you know, with turkey, some like
Speaker 1: you know, eggs, sangwiches. I don't know, it just I'm
Speaker 1: on vacation and I want to cook, like I just
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel it made me feel good
Speaker 1: this time because in Dominican Republic, I was like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want you know, they come and they would bring
Speaker 1: us out like little fruit plates while we were at
Speaker 1: the pool, and we didn't have that. But I didn't
Speaker 1: miss it either. It was like it was different. It
Speaker 1: was just this vacation was just different. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was because like I said, we were
Speaker 1: ten hours ahead over there that it was just so
Speaker 1: weird for me to get on Instagram and do my
Speaker 1: god mornings. I just felt like very I guess out
Speaker 1: of my element in a way, you know, And I
Speaker 1: was like I couldn't like I couldn't find myself. So
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I'm just going to stay off.
Speaker 1: But then you stay off and it's great while you're there,
Speaker 1: and then you come and you're like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: I felt so like backed up with everything, but then
Speaker 1: I had to remind myself.
Speaker 2: I was like, just breathe.
Speaker 1: I had to tell myself a lot of times out there,
Speaker 1: you guys, well, I was meditating and it helped me
Speaker 1: so much that I was meditating and taking that time
Speaker 1: in the morning before I went and partied to just
Speaker 1: like breathe and remind myself everything can wait. If I
Speaker 1: don't have my phone right now, it's okay. If it's
Speaker 1: an emergency, God forbid. I just would pray for my siblings,
Speaker 1: for their children, for everyone. I was like, I put
Speaker 1: them in your hands God, And I was like, if
Speaker 1: they need me, they'll reach out to either to any
Speaker 1: of us, to Emilio, you know. Like I had to
Speaker 1: really work on just completely disconnecting, and I'm glad I did.
Speaker 2: And I had fun.
Speaker 1: For my birthday. We went to this really cool, like
Speaker 1: low key bar. There was no one in there. We
Speaker 1: were like looking through like the whole little town, like
Speaker 1: where are we gonna go? And we found this really small,
Speaker 1: chill ass bar. No one was in there. We got
Speaker 1: some hookah and that's how I burned my finger with
Speaker 1: the hookah. Oh my god, I don't know what I
Speaker 1: was doing. I don't know how my finger. Oh it
Speaker 1: was like half a second and it burned. It hurts
Speaker 1: so bad. It still hurts. But anyways, that night was
Speaker 1: so freaking fun. We danced all damn night. I don't
Speaker 1: Emilio dance. We were all having a great time. The
Speaker 1: music was fabulous. I even tipped the DJ. He was
Speaker 1: so damn good. But it was like the crazy part
Speaker 1: is like it wasn't like a place that was super
Speaker 1: packed or like super happening. It was just the place
Speaker 1: that we needed to be. It was so magical. That
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite nights. And you know, despite
Speaker 1: the fact that there were so many of us, I
Speaker 1: can proudly and happily say that it was.
Speaker 2: Drama free psych.
Speaker 1: When there are so many people, of course they're gonna
Speaker 1: be like little disagreement or little things, and especially when
Speaker 1: there's alcohol involved. You guys, and I'm not gonna say names,
Speaker 1: but there was a little bit of maybe discomfort between
Speaker 1: two people. It was fine when we first got there,
Speaker 1: and then one of the people, I'm gonna say a
Speaker 1: guy or a girl had too much to drink and
Speaker 1: they were being a little bit too touchy and someone
Speaker 1: else didn't like it. So it you know, but two
Speaker 1: days later the other person apologized and everything's fine now.
Speaker 1: But I was just I'm like, okay, what is happening here?
Speaker 1: But everything I think was pretty chill for the most part.
Speaker 1: And then Emilio and I, I'm trying to think, did
Speaker 1: we argue? Oh my god, yes, okay, you guys, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest. Okay, Emilio and I argued once
Speaker 1: the entire trip. Okay, we argued because my crazy little
Speaker 1: buzzedass felt that he was too nice to the waitress
Speaker 1: at the hookah bar, you know, because she was really
Speaker 1: sweet and she was very pretty. The girls there, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, let me tell you, guys, the people that
Speaker 1: are very beautiful, respectfully, the women and the men muypatasilo,
Speaker 1: mui wappos mu moherez like very beautiful people. So the
Speaker 1: girl that was helping us at the hookah bar, she
Speaker 1: was cute, she was very nice, very friendly, you know,
Speaker 1: she was sert like being really really like attentive with everyone.
Speaker 1: So we were leaving and Emilio I felt like Emilia
Speaker 1: went like way at his way to say bye, like
Speaker 1: he turned around and everything.
Speaker 2: We were already leaving, and I was.
Speaker 1: Like, okay, like he was like bye, like I'm like, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm like and I'm not gonna lie. I was like
Speaker 1: was that necessary? Was that really necessary? And we kind
Speaker 1: of got in like a little you know argument.
Speaker 2: He's like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: I was just and he's just very nice and polite,
Speaker 1: you guys, and usually I don't get like that. But
Speaker 1: I think it was just I hadn't drank in a while, okay,
Speaker 1: in my defense, and you know, I was like, hmm,
Speaker 1: and she's cute, you know, but it's okay.
Speaker 2: He just you know, he apologized, although.
Speaker 1: You know, between you and I, I don't feel like
Speaker 1: he needed to really apologize because I think I was
Speaker 1: just being silly, you know, and I think it was
Speaker 1: just the alcohol because then after I was like the
Speaker 1: next morning, I'm like, Emelia, I'm so sorry, Like that's
Speaker 1: just so dumb, like I don't know why, you know
Speaker 1: what happened. And he's like, no, it's okay. I understand.
Speaker 1: He was really understanding and let me just have my moment.
Speaker 1: I don't like to be like a jealous girl. I
Speaker 1: don't want to be that type of girl, Like, even
Speaker 1: if there are beautiful girls like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: be that girl where I'm just like se Losa and
Speaker 1: like I don't want him to feel like he's walking
Speaker 1: on eggshells. Like and I don't want to feel that
Speaker 1: way either, you know, because I'm friendly, you know, and
Speaker 1: I say hello and like, you know, but I just
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like now that I think about it,
Speaker 1: like it was just kind of like a little bit
Speaker 1: too much, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I'm like, okay, we're already leaving. But anyways, I
Speaker 2: got over it. We were fine.
Speaker 1: It was a little just a little argument, nothing crazy,
Speaker 1: but that was it didn't last too long.
Speaker 2: We were just we got over it. We're like, okay,
Speaker 2: let's talk it out. And that was that.
Speaker 1: The good thing is that we were all kind of
Speaker 1: like on the same page. Like the couples. We had
Speaker 1: a day where we were like, okay, let's just go
Speaker 1: do a couple things and go eat and just have
Speaker 1: more of like a chill time because I didn't want
Speaker 1: to party every single day too hard.
Speaker 2: I needed a break in between.
Speaker 1: And everyone just kind of did their thing, and it
Speaker 1: was like That's what I like about my friendships.
Speaker 2: We're very mature and.
Speaker 1: We're transparent and we're like, look, I don't feel like
Speaker 1: doing that y'all go ahead and no one gets hurt,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's what I liked. You have to
Speaker 1: be really careful with the people that you travel with,
Speaker 1: like you have to know who you're traveling with. And
Speaker 1: I feel like everyone everything was cool, like there was
Speaker 1: no pressure, no one felt left out, no one felt like.
Speaker 1: I think it was good, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And I think the amount of days together was enough,
Speaker 1: you know, because maybe a few more days we probably
Speaker 1: would have just choked each other out or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: AnyWho, the night life in Mikono's amazing. You guys so
Speaker 1: much fun. The bars are so cool. Like I didn't
Speaker 1: stay out till five in the morning. Some of my
Speaker 1: friends did, I did it. I honestly can't hang I
Speaker 1: think I probably the latest I stayed up was like
Speaker 1: three o'clock. Max, I was already kind of like by
Speaker 1: or two. I'm like, I want to go lay down.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to like not wake up early tomorrow
Speaker 1: because I want to see I wanted.
Speaker 2: To like lay out in tan and enjoy.
Speaker 1: And one of the mornings, Emilio and I everyone was
Speaker 1: asleep because they stayed up till like really late. I
Speaker 1: think him and I were by the pool. We woke
Speaker 1: up around I don't know, like nine am, and we
Speaker 1: were out by the pool alone, just him and I
Speaker 1: till like two pm, till everyone woke up. And it
Speaker 1: was nice because we had like quiet time. We had
Speaker 1: our little teas in the morning, we were chilling, took
Speaker 1: a nap. It was like perfect because we had party,
Speaker 1: we had friend time, we had alone time.
Speaker 2: It was nice. It was just something.
Speaker 1: I hadn't really like. I didn't know what it was
Speaker 1: going to be like, but it was perfect. It was
Speaker 1: a little bit of everything. Oh and then we went
Speaker 1: on a yacht the day of Brianna and Rob's anniversary,
Speaker 1: which was the twenty ninth. I got a yacht for us,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know what, she had never
Speaker 1: been on a yacht, and I wanted her to like
Speaker 1: enjoy It was like my birthday trip, but I wanted
Speaker 1: her to enjoy her anniversary because I feel like ten
Speaker 1: years of marriage, that's a huge accomplishment, you guys. And
Speaker 1: they're young, they're a young couple. They have three young,
Speaker 1: beautiful little boys, one of them is my godson. And
Speaker 1: I was like, I just want her to enjoy, you
Speaker 1: know and oh my god to see her just so
Speaker 1: happy and so free. She kept saying, She's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I never want to leave. She's like, I
Speaker 1: missed my boys. I love them. But she felt like
Speaker 1: I think like herself again, you know, like she's been
Speaker 1: in mom mode and wife mode, which is great, but
Speaker 1: I think she came back to like herself. And we
Speaker 1: were on the yacht and we got in the ocean
Speaker 1: and it was freaking The water was so clear. I
Speaker 1: thought the most beautiful water I've ever seen was in
Speaker 1: Boro Kai when we went to the Philippines, but I
Speaker 1: think this, like it was just so much nicer. El
Speaker 1: Maristaa Ramoso. It was so nice and cold. It was
Speaker 1: like a cold plunge and it was nice. I only
Speaker 1: got in it once. I was like, I'm going to
Speaker 1: get in because then I start thinking of like what's
Speaker 1: under me, and I just I get in my head.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, Okay, I'm going to get in for
Speaker 1: a little bit. I want to touch the waters here
Speaker 1: in great and then I'm gonna get back on the
Speaker 1: damn yacht.
Speaker 2: But it was fun.
Speaker 1: We had a great time and she was like so happy.
Speaker 1: So we did a little bit of everything, I'm telling you, like,
Speaker 1: the only thing that I was thinking was I feel
Speaker 1: like we didn't enjoy the house as much as I
Speaker 1: wish we would have, you know what I mean, because
Speaker 1: we paid I feel like a lot of money to
Speaker 1: stay there, although it worked out because we split it
Speaker 1: amongst all of us. But I felt like maybe one
Speaker 1: or two more days I would have been it would
Speaker 1: have been perfect, but I had to come back and work,
Speaker 1: which is fine. I wanted to celebrate my mother. But
Speaker 1: that's the only thing other than that it was. It
Speaker 1: was freaking It was freaking amazing. So one of my
Speaker 1: favorite memories of the entire trip was it was our
Speaker 1: last night and I told everyone else, like, I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily want to go out and like freaking get like plastered,
Speaker 1: because again I have to go do a show. But
Speaker 1: I was like, let's do a nice dinner. I want
Speaker 1: us all to wear white. I wanted to take them
Speaker 1: out to dinner because I was so grateful that everyone
Speaker 1: took the time to go so far to celebrate my birthday,
Speaker 1: you know. So I was like, now I want to
Speaker 1: give back to you guys. So I think what we
Speaker 1: did the yacht, that's the day of the yacht. We
Speaker 1: did the yacht during the day and then got back
Speaker 1: to the house and rested a little bit, and then
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, let's do a nice dinner. And
Speaker 1: after dinner, everyone's like, okay, should we go out. I'm like, honestly,
Speaker 1: like I really don't feel like going out. Let's just
Speaker 1: go back to the house. And we all sat like
Speaker 1: by the pool and we were just talking and just
Speaker 1: it was so cool because I was like, okay, guys,
Speaker 1: I started off the questions. You know, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: if God were to come down right now and tell
Speaker 1: you X, Y or Z, and I don't necessarily want
Speaker 1: to get into the details of like the questions I asked.
Speaker 1: We all were going around the table and just asking questions,
Speaker 1: just random questions, you know, just getting to know each
Speaker 1: other a little bit more. And that's how you kind
Speaker 1: of start like picking at each other's brain and like
Speaker 1: you get to know people you know. And I'm glad
Speaker 1: that we did that because we were there I think
Speaker 1: till like maybe I don't know, two in the morning,
Speaker 1: just talking and being silly and laughing, and it was
Speaker 1: like the perfect way to like close out the trip
Speaker 1: because some of them, like rose Antonio Vanessa. They left
Speaker 1: to like Abisa, I think, or they were going to
Speaker 1: a Madrid, so they were going to leave early in
Speaker 1: the morning. I wasn't going to see them in the morning.
Speaker 1: Then the next day we were able to wake up
Speaker 1: a little bit later and get ready because our checkout
Speaker 1: time was like at twelve, and then we had our
Speaker 1: last lunch there. The rest of us did a little
Speaker 1: bit of shopping, which, you guys, what I love the
Speaker 1: most was that I was able to buy brand name
Speaker 1: stuff over there because I haven't in a long time.
Speaker 1: I had told myself, I was like, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to spend my money on all this brand name stuff
Speaker 1: because it's just you know, I'm like, I'm not there.
Speaker 2: But it was like tax free, you guys.
Speaker 1: So I was like, Okay, I felt a little bit
Speaker 1: better about my purchase because then I went to the
Speaker 1: airport and then you give them like this form and
Speaker 1: then they give you money back. So I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, okay, it was a good It was
Speaker 1: like my birthday gift to myself, so that was cool.
Speaker 1: And then we went to the airport and yeah, that
Speaker 1: was I feel like the way back, I wasn't able
Speaker 1: to sleep on the way there because it was like
Speaker 1: a fourteen hour trip total. On the way back, we
Speaker 1: had like a thirteen hour layover in London. I had
Speaker 1: never been to London and we were there for thirteen hours.
Speaker 1: We just got there at night, went to go eat,
Speaker 1: went to a hotel, fell asleep, and.
Speaker 2: It was a little bit like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think that's what I think messed me up because
Speaker 1: I wasn't able to sleep on the longer flight, which
Speaker 1: is ten hours from London to la I wasn't able
Speaker 1: to sleep, and I was like, Okay, I'm going to
Speaker 1: keep myself up and then when I get home, hopefully
Speaker 1: I can like really sleep throughout the night and get
Speaker 1: a good night's rest.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I thought I was going to be completely fine, but
Speaker 1: now I'm feeling it. Like I said, the jetlag is real. AnyWho,
Speaker 1: I would definitely go back. I want to go back.
Speaker 1: Actually I thought we were going to be able to
Speaker 1: go on the ferry to Santorini, but people that had
Speaker 1: been said, you know what, it's not really worth it.
Speaker 1: Just maybe when we go back to Greece, take a
Speaker 1: few more days to be there. It's more of like
Speaker 1: more mellow. I guess in Santorini and Mikons is more party.
Speaker 1: But I definitely loved it. I would go back for sure.
Speaker 1: Emilia was showing me a picture the other day. He's like, look,
Speaker 1: don't you wish we can go back there. It was
Speaker 1: like a picture of our balcony, like from our balcony,
Speaker 1: like it was I think, I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was the moon. I'm assuming yeah it was the moon.
Speaker 1: It must have been the moon because it wasn't the sun.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was like a picture of just like
Speaker 1: the outside of the home, like from the balcony, and
Speaker 1: it was I'm like, oh my god, like.
Speaker 2: I kind of I don't know it was.
Speaker 1: You guys, if you ever have the chance, I think
Speaker 1: that definitely Greece's is a good place. And while we
Speaker 1: were in Greece, we were talking about where else do
Speaker 1: we want to go? And I really want to go
Speaker 1: to Bali, you guys, I want to go to Bali.
Speaker 1: I want to go to Jamaica. I want to go
Speaker 1: to Egypt, Thailand, like I love anywhere Asia. And also
Speaker 1: we talked about the Maldives. We talked about Bora, Bora,
Speaker 1: like there are so many places in the world that
Speaker 1: I want to see, and I just pray that God
Speaker 1: gives me work so I can continue to do these
Speaker 1: things and health because when I was sitting on the
Speaker 1: balcony meditating every single morning, and I would open up
Speaker 1: my eyes because like I was like in such deep
Speaker 1: state of meditation that when I would open my eyes,
Speaker 1: it's almost like, oh shoot, I forgot where I was at.
Speaker 1: And then it just takes you back into this moment
Speaker 1: of like thank you God, thank you that I'm able
Speaker 1: to take these trips, that I'm able to see the
Speaker 1: sunset here, to smell and feel the air, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like it's just you can't.
Speaker 1: I don't like to take those moments and those things
Speaker 1: for granted because and that's what we kept saying, like
Speaker 1: how grateful we need to be while we were there
Speaker 1: at dinner and stuff. It's like, you guys, like we
Speaker 1: have to stop and really just think and live and
Speaker 1: be in the present because there are people that aren't
Speaker 1: able to do that, you know what I mean, aren't
Speaker 1: able to travel or you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: it's just like a part of me wishes that I
Speaker 1: could have because I didn't take a lot of pictures
Speaker 1: or video at all. There were times that I would
Speaker 1: just leave my phone at the house or I wouldn't
Speaker 1: take it out of my purse. It was crazy. It's
Speaker 1: the first time I do that, like really do that,
Speaker 1: Like mind you. I've taken trips with the media to
Speaker 1: like Zion or to Yosemite or whatever, and I don't
Speaker 1: really am not on my phone, but when I'm on.
Speaker 2: Vacation and with my friends, I like to like.
Speaker 1: Capture and take videos and take a bunch of pictures,
Speaker 1: Like I have very few pictures, and I just had
Speaker 1: them send me stuff. I'm like, you, guys, send me
Speaker 1: whatever it is that you took, because I just feel
Speaker 1: like I didn't capture enough of it.
Speaker 2: And I wish I would have been.
Speaker 1: Able to like show a little bit more through social
Speaker 1: media and what we were eating and stuff, because I didn't,
Speaker 1: and I don't know how to explain it.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 1: So a part of me is kind of like, damn,
Speaker 1: I wish I would have been able to show you
Speaker 1: guys a little more through through social media, through like Instagram,
Speaker 1: but I was just in the moment. I don't even
Speaker 1: know how to explain it, and it was so unexpected.
Speaker 1: All right, well, guys, that was my trip. I wanted
Speaker 1: to just share it with you guys and apologize as well,
Speaker 1: because I was just completely disconnected and didn't share enough.
Speaker 1: I feel I wish I would have shown you guys
Speaker 1: a little bit more like the water and the sky
Speaker 1: and the nighttime and the bars out there, because it
Speaker 1: was just so magical. But I think I'm going back
Speaker 1: to Miko nos and Santrini. I don't know when, but
Speaker 1: very soon, god willing, and I will show you guys more. So.
Speaker 1: I am just grateful for a new year of life,
Speaker 1: and I came back ready to kick some mass and
Speaker 1: work because the rest of the year is going to
Speaker 1: be very busy, and I am grateful. I'm grateful for
Speaker 1: those days that I had to rest and now at
Speaker 1: ravaja and yeah, I'm really looking forward to this next
Speaker 1: chapter in my life and I'm happy. So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and cue the music for this week's quote before
Speaker 1: we close out this episode. The quote is trust the weight,
Speaker 1: Embrace the uncertainty, Enjoy the beauty of becoming when nothing
Speaker 1: is certain, anything is possible. That is a quote, you, guys,
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Speaker 1: like I went back and forth, but I just had
Speaker 1: so much to tell you and I wanted to share
Speaker 1: my experience. And I love you guys, and I will
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