Speaker 1: Personally, its long feels than Happy Monday everybody over in
Speaker 1: the States. I am here with my best friend Julia Cole,
Speaker 1: and we are in Paris. Paris.
Speaker 2: Can you believe it? No?
Speaker 1: I cannot. I cannot believe the last forty eight hours
Speaker 1: in general that we've had.
Speaker 2: We're living a movie.
Speaker 1: It really does feel like a movie.
Speaker 2: Like there have been so many times that, like I've
Speaker 2: even just individually turned around and seen you just like
Speaker 2: looking at something or walking down a street and been like,
Speaker 2: this is straight out of a movie scene. It's like
Speaker 2: every single thing you pass is so gorgeous here, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Right well, and right now we're sitting in Paris, but
Speaker 1: we started in Brussels. So this whole thing came about
Speaker 1: because Julia and I have had a year twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four was so much fun, but it was also busy
Speaker 1: for both of us. We were traveling for work. I
Speaker 1: was traveling for a lot of weddings. You also work, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we were like, neither one of us has taken
Speaker 1: a trip for ourselves this year just to do nothing
Speaker 1: besides whatever we actually would like to do, right, And
Speaker 1: so we kind of on a whin we're like, let's
Speaker 1: go to Paris because I had been watching Emily in
Speaker 1: Paris and wanted to have like a rom com moment.
Speaker 2: Literally, I just finished that series too, and I didn't
Speaker 2: want to admit that. That's why I was like, yea,
Speaker 2: I've already been to Paris, when I'm down to go again.
Speaker 2: Literally because of the show.
Speaker 1: I love that it inspired both of us and we
Speaker 1: were both in the right moment, right time, and we
Speaker 1: just looked at each other like, Okay, are we doing this, Yes,
Speaker 1: we're doing it.
Speaker 2: And I feel like I have been to so many
Speaker 2: countries like this trip, I'm going to knock off my
Speaker 2: thirtieth country, but this is your first time in Europe,
Speaker 2: and like, there is nothing cooler than getting to watch
Speaker 2: somebody experience something that's that life changing. Because I remember
Speaker 2: when I like first went somewhere that I felt culture
Speaker 2: shock and it just made me realize how big the
Speaker 2: world is. Yes, and I don't know, it changed my
Speaker 2: perspective on everything.
Speaker 1: I've always been the person who loves experiences more than things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I've always been such a big advocate for traveling,
Speaker 1: even just in the United States, and so getting to
Speaker 1: experience this on like a multitude level of something I've
Speaker 1: never experienced before has been crazy. Like for you, what's
Speaker 1: it been like for you? Funny, non funny, just like whatever.
Speaker 1: To be with somebody who's never touched Europe before.
Speaker 2: It's incredible because, like you, when we were picking out
Speaker 2: our airbnbs, you sent me this one. You go look
Speaker 2: at the view out this terrace, I said, Morgan, every
Speaker 2: single terrorist looks like that, Like it's just that gorgeous everywhere,
Speaker 2: and you were just like couldn't believe it. And you
Speaker 2: see walking up and down these streets. I mean every
Speaker 2: building is like hundreds of years old and was built
Speaker 2: with such care and detail. It's so different than the
Speaker 2: architecture in America, which is built for more of like
Speaker 2: it's i don't know, it's more practical than it is
Speaker 2: gaudy and flamboyant. But everything in Europe is just made
Speaker 2: to be showy and flashy, and it was mostly done
Speaker 2: because of people were trying to flex their power hundreds
Speaker 2: of years ago and that was the only way you
Speaker 2: could do it. Basically, it was like having a boss building.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's lots of power and wealth in these
Speaker 1: like the history of them, which is really cool to
Speaker 1: see and just there's so much like you can't It's
Speaker 1: just like when you go to any city, you cannot
Speaker 1: consume and do everything you want. Besides Brussels. I do
Speaker 1: feel like we accomplished ninety percent of what we really
Speaker 1: wanted to see in Brussels.
Speaker 2: It's like one landmark we didn't get to.
Speaker 1: Yes, and like one little offshoot city that we could
Speaker 1: have gone to.
Speaker 2: You were there for only one day after an entire
Speaker 2: night of flying. So it was like the fact that
Speaker 2: we saw as much as we did on zero hours
Speaker 2: of sleep. I mean we had a forty eight hour
Speaker 2: day basically, Yeah, we still crushed it and we stayed
Speaker 2: out till the sun came up.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, we're gonna like start here with Russels. Because
Speaker 1: the thing that was so cool for me and this
Speaker 1: experience is that I had always been holding on to
Speaker 1: European travel, abroad travel for this hope that like I
Speaker 1: was going to meet my person and I was going
Speaker 1: to do it all with them. There was this piece
Speaker 1: of sorry point now listen, there was that part of
Speaker 1: me that was holding on to that like I had
Speaker 1: done and experienced so much in my life that this
Speaker 1: is something that I haven't, and it can be a
Speaker 1: first for me with them, not necessarily for them, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But for me, I didn't even know that,
Speaker 1: and I always had that feeling, so I kind of
Speaker 1: held on to it and just Julie, I haven't even
Speaker 1: flown on an airplane with a boyfriend ever, ever, Like
Speaker 1: I have traveled on road trips and I have gone
Speaker 1: to see them or vice versa, but like us together
Speaker 1: on a plane and like doing that whole thing never,
Speaker 1: so I just calling your bag through the airport, yes,
Speaker 1: like the gentleman's way. You never had that experience, So
Speaker 1: I kind of had held on to it, and I
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four was a year of a lot of
Speaker 1: releases for me, and I think I just finally let
Speaker 1: go of that. When we were talking about it, I
Speaker 1: just kept saying, to myself, what am I waiting for?
Speaker 1: What am I sitting here waiting for? I can't keep waiting.
Speaker 1: I cannot like wait for this moment to happen, that
Speaker 1: that may or may never come, and I have to go.
Speaker 1: I have to go and just do this for me
Speaker 1: versus waiting.
Speaker 2: I think you also don't give yourself enough credit for
Speaker 2: how hard you work and how much you're focused on
Speaker 2: your career, and I think that a big part of
Speaker 2: the reason that you haven't just gone off and done
Speaker 2: these crazy travels is because your schedule is heavily full
Speaker 2: of travel for work, So it doesn't feel like as
Speaker 2: much of a vacation for you or for me as
Speaker 2: for someone who never goes on a plane or never
Speaker 2: goes packs their bag and it's to go do photos
Speaker 2: in a new city they've never been to. We do
Speaker 2: that quite literally all the time for work. So traveling again,
Speaker 2: packing another suitcase, buying another ticket, it's it's not the same.
Speaker 2: And I know that you aren't giving that the credit
Speaker 2: that it's due here because I think it's more than
Speaker 2: just you waiting for someone. You've been really busy, working
Speaker 2: really hard.
Speaker 1: No thank you, but so view like that's again, that's
Speaker 1: the reason you and I both looked at each other
Speaker 1: and said we deserve this something. Yeah, we didn't know
Speaker 1: at the time it was going to end up being
Speaker 1: Paris and Brussels and Barcelona.
Speaker 2: But mine. So my traveling didn't start out because I
Speaker 2: just inherently wanted to travel. Like most of the countries
Speaker 2: I've gone to, I did a tour with the James
Speaker 2: Barker Band, where we hit thirteen cities in seven different
Speaker 2: countries in Europe. So that was a crash course in
Speaker 2: European travel. That was work for me. And then my
Speaker 2: best friend in college, she's been to like sixty five
Speaker 2: countries she was born and like she's literally everywhere, so
Speaker 2: she kind of opened the door to me going to
Speaker 2: more random places that aren't working. You know, there's not
Speaker 2: gonna be a country music concert on Mount Kilimanjaro in
Speaker 2: Tanzania and Africa, So she opened that door for me.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe one day, it's.
Speaker 2: Just not one day, yeah, just me and the porters.
Speaker 2: But it's it happened because of other situations in my life.
Speaker 2: It wasn't. Most of the travel I've done. My first
Speaker 2: solo trip ever was still because of someone's wedding. This year,
Speaker 2: I just went to another city other than the wedding.
Speaker 2: So this is the first trip that I was just
Speaker 2: like we're going, We're picking the cities we want to
Speaker 2: go to. I don't have to bring a guitar. There's
Speaker 2: no agenda, there's no meat and greet, there's no sound check,
Speaker 2: Like we're gonna go to cafes. Look at the.
Speaker 1: Eiffel Tower, eat as much food as we would like
Speaker 1: to dance.
Speaker 2: Then ioway drink all of the different Belgian beers, try
Speaker 2: seven hundred different chocolates.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's okay, okay, So let's let's start here
Speaker 1: with Brussels. So we have flown in. We met each
Speaker 1: other in Chicago and we had a direct flight from
Speaker 1: Chicago to Brussels. And guys, when we got to Brussels,
Speaker 1: we were there at nine am. We had crazy, crazy
Speaker 1: lines at customs for like two hours, but as soon
Speaker 1: as we got out of customs, we hit the ground running.
Speaker 1: We dropped off our luggage with our Airbnb host. Don't worry,
Speaker 1: we locked it. We were very pre cautious about everything,
Speaker 1: but we dropped it off and we're like, we have
Speaker 1: to go one. We can't sleep because the jet lag
Speaker 1: will catch up to us, which it did, just in
Speaker 1: a different variation, and we truly just like went off.
Speaker 1: And I had chosen Brussels, like for me, Julie has
Speaker 1: a different reason. But I had chosen Brussels because I
Speaker 1: studied French in college and one of my professors had
Speaker 1: told me, if I wanted to truly test my French language,
Speaker 1: go to Brussels, and if they speak back to you
Speaker 1: in French, you've nailed it. And if they don't they
Speaker 1: speak to you in English, then you have work to do. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, I never did that when I still had
Speaker 1: my French and fast. Ten years later, I finally have
Speaker 1: made it. And plus you know the chocolate, beer, cheese fries.
Speaker 1: That doesn't help. That's their favorite things. So I love
Speaker 1: all of those. Those are my four.
Speaker 2: Main food groups.
Speaker 1: So that was another reason. Yeah, and your reason for
Speaker 1: going to Brussels.
Speaker 2: I had work in Australia earlier this year, and I'm
Speaker 2: not just going to go all the way to Australia
Speaker 2: and only work and then go home like I was.
Speaker 2: If I'm going to the other side of the world,
Speaker 2: We're gonna have a little fun too. So my whole
Speaker 2: family came and a couple of my best friends and
Speaker 2: we did a sailboating trip around the wit Sunday's Islands.
Speaker 2: And there were other people on our sailboat and they
Speaker 2: were all from Belgium, and so they were just talking
Speaker 2: a lot about it and kind of got me excited
Speaker 2: to explore over here. And they were just giving me
Speaker 2: tips and saying how amazing it is, and so I
Speaker 2: don't know, it had never really crossed my mind that
Speaker 2: that would be one of the first places that I
Speaker 2: voluntarily was like, let's go there, but you start talking
Speaker 2: about beer and chocolate and I kind of can't say no,
Speaker 2: which is.
Speaker 1: What we did. So after we hit the ground, we
Speaker 1: walked around for a little bit, checked everything out. Do
Speaker 1: we do anything before we started our tour.
Speaker 2: We just ran around the like we went to the
Speaker 2: square that was like a it wasn't really the Christmas
Speaker 2: market yet, but there was like a Santa that was
Speaker 2: waving out of the window, and oh.
Speaker 1: We went to the Grand Palace Place, Grand Place, and
Speaker 1: we walked around, took pictures at the very where the
Speaker 1: giant Christmas tree was. And then at three pm, so
Speaker 1: imagine this. We had about three hours where we were
Speaker 1: just walking around kind of like gathering ourselves, and three
Speaker 1: pm we meet our tour guide to go on a
Speaker 1: chocolate and beer tour that lasted five and a half hours.
Speaker 2: We ate, I had muscles and brussels. We did.
Speaker 1: We have muscles and brussels, and I had freaks, which
Speaker 1: is Belgium fries and yeah, oh French onion soup also
Speaker 1: specialty and then we went and got on our tour.
Speaker 1: This tour, we had so so much chocolate. Highly recommend
Speaker 1: doing a tour just because you try so many different
Speaker 1: variations of chocolate. And then like we were drinking the
Speaker 1: beer and we'd have like two or three in each place,
Speaker 1: and when we thought it was finally over, she's like, oh, nope,
Speaker 1: last time, we have two more drinks for your bags,
Speaker 1: and we're like, what is going on?
Speaker 2: I don't know what we were thinking when like we
Speaker 2: thought the tour was going to be maybe three hours,
Speaker 2: it was over five. Like it was like five and
Speaker 2: a half hours straight eating chocolate and drinking beer.
Speaker 1: There was no intermission, coming straight off of both of
Speaker 1: us getting maybe two hours of sleep on this plane
Speaker 1: that was a red eye flight.
Speaker 2: And not eating anything but muscles in Brussels own French
Speaker 2: onion soup and you didn't even touch your soup, basically
Speaker 2: no fries, because.
Speaker 1: I was like I was still like dealing with the jell,
Speaker 1: Like I had this insane cramp in my shoulder for
Speaker 1: like ten hours.
Speaker 2: You would have thought we'd be down bad, because we
Speaker 2: were like kind of down bad, but we still attacked
Speaker 2: the city like we powered through that way which is
Speaker 2: so Then we came off of that, ran back to
Speaker 2: our airbnb chained shoes, got a little bit warmer.
Speaker 1: And then went out to a bar where we met
Speaker 1: a whole group of Belgian men.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, and it was like, okay, here's another
Speaker 2: thing that's crazy. Everybody speaks English. Everybody, everybody, and like
Speaker 2: everyone we've had met so far, which we've met, we've
Speaker 2: probably talked and had conversations with like fifty people now.
Speaker 2: Because everyone's so friendly over here and outgoing. I think
Speaker 2: they hear our accent and they're like, where are you from? Like,
Speaker 2: so they come ask us and we're like the only
Speaker 2: blonde people we've seen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we definitely have a different look than what the
Speaker 1: norm is here.
Speaker 2: But everyone speaks like four or five languages, and it
Speaker 2: makes me feel so dumb.
Speaker 1: I know. And wherever you're like one one, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I have a do not speak fast.
Speaker 2: I'm all proud of my sixty day streak on duo
Speaker 2: lingo for Spanish and they're like, I'm sorry, I don't
Speaker 2: speak English very well and they're having a fluent, full
Speaker 2: conversation in English. I'm like, your their standard for language
Speaker 2: is insane. Over here.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. Like from I wish that was something that
Speaker 1: we adapted the United States, just to understand more languages,
Speaker 1: because I think that's really cool. But also like these
Speaker 1: and these men came from they were both We had
Speaker 1: some that were Dutch and and some that were French
Speaker 1: and some that were Armenian, so it was a mix.
Speaker 1: I couldn't say they were specifically Belgium, but they all
Speaker 1: lived there and they'd been living there for a while,
Speaker 1: and I mean, Julian I had just like this insane
Speaker 1: rom com type night.
Speaker 2: It were so fun.
Speaker 1: We never had met these people in our lives before,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden we were all friends and
Speaker 1: learning to speak each other's languages and sitting there like
Speaker 1: the guys would have conversations and then translate for each
Speaker 1: other to continue the conversations.
Speaker 2: Like some of them could understand some of the words,
Speaker 2: and then they would have to be like no, no, no,
Speaker 2: that's not what they meant. And even we were doing
Speaker 2: that for each other. I think that they're actually talking
Speaker 2: about the beer, and you'd be like, oh, I definitely
Speaker 2: thought they were talking about the painting or whatever, like.
Speaker 1: We just did not It was there was at one
Speaker 1: point where one of the guys was like, oh, you
Speaker 1: want to like stay up on it. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a night out. I want to dance and have fun.
Speaker 2: Said I said, Morgan, you need to say you don't
Speaker 2: want cocaine. He's going he's gonna find you some. It's
Speaker 2: not what you meant.
Speaker 1: And I didn't. I literally looked and I said no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no drugs, no drugs. I just I just meant I
Speaker 1: can stay up and like.
Speaker 2: Party now offering And she didn't get it. But for
Speaker 2: some reason, I like could some I don't know, we
Speaker 2: were like weirdly being able to translate different sentences. We
Speaker 2: were and you know more, I don't know any French.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I did pick up. I'd pick up on
Speaker 1: words that they were saying, so I could at least
Speaker 1: tell that they weren't making fun of us. But what
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell was like the complete understanding of what
Speaker 1: they're sing So it was like, oh, yeah, I got that.
Speaker 1: Oh didn't get that one. But it was just so
Speaker 1: funny because we like guys, the men in Europe whether
Speaker 1: and I would love to hear from a woman's perspective
Speaker 1: that is European, and maybe she's now in America, or
Speaker 1: maybe she was or is moved back. But the men
Speaker 1: in America don't approach you in the ways that men
Speaker 1: in Europe do. Like they talk to you, they want
Speaker 1: to have conversations, they want to know about They are
Speaker 1: not afraid of coming up to speak to you and
Speaker 1: say hello, this is me, and they'll do it while
Speaker 1: you're in the middle of a conversation with someone else.
Speaker 2: Yes, they don't care at all, which will straight up
Speaker 2: interrupt someone to be like no, no, no, what's your name?
Speaker 2: And you're like the other guys just standing there like
Speaker 2: what's happening?
Speaker 1: Which we will get to because I happened in Paris, Belgian,
Speaker 1: Like I think we had so many of them together
Speaker 1: that but they different ends. Yeah, And so we started
Speaker 1: at this bar where we had just like we had
Speaker 1: gotten a recommendation from our tour guide and we're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to this local spot meet these guys.
Speaker 1: We ended up in a random karaoke bar for like
Speaker 1: five minutes it was packed, and then ended up in
Speaker 1: this huge gallery arcade area that has like three thousand beers.
Speaker 1: I'm taking shots of what is it?
Speaker 2: Absent?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I told them you can keep that. You take two.
Speaker 2: I'm doing the whiskey and were like, they were like, no,
Speaker 2: you have to do this. I was like, I know
Speaker 2: me with Texas girls drinking whiskey. I'll have your little
Speaker 2: absinthe moment, and we did.
Speaker 1: I had I had one and that was it. Yea yeah.
Speaker 2: But and guys I was watching, it was I've never
Speaker 2: seen anything like it. I thought I was watching The Bachelorette,
Speaker 2: Like straight up. Morgan had this whole group of guys
Speaker 2: trying to dance with her at the same time. They
Speaker 2: were like taking her from the other and they all
Speaker 2: knew each other, so they were like all fighting over
Speaker 2: her basically, and she was just dancing and spinning around
Speaker 2: and then the next would spin her around and I
Speaker 2: was like, again, this is when I was saying I
Speaker 2: was watching a movie. It was like in these beautiful
Speaker 2: streets of Belgium with the Christmas lights dangling between on
Speaker 2: terraces being spun around. I mean, it was like on
Speaker 2: the cobblestone roads. It was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It was wild. I have never felt like it is.
Speaker 1: I have dated for so long in America, I have
Speaker 1: never felt like that in the years that I've gone
Speaker 1: on dates, and in one night, I felt like more
Speaker 1: even if it was just meant to be fun and
Speaker 1: casual and whatever, Like, they make you feel wanted and
Speaker 1: they want to pursue you and they want to do things,
Speaker 1: and they follow up like they were all messaging me like, Okay.
Speaker 2: What are we doing.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I left, I'm no longer there.
Speaker 2: We're literally in a different country.
Speaker 1: Yes, Okay.
Speaker 2: Tell me if this is me being like pessimistic about it,
Speaker 2: because like, I have this little question in the back
Speaker 2: of my head. But part of me is like, well,
Speaker 2: if they're like that so openly and so easily, does
Speaker 2: that mean that they probably like cheat more or they
Speaker 2: they're like they're just approaching girls all the time. So
Speaker 2: is it that you're like and I mean, this whole
Speaker 2: group was like fighting over you. But I wonder is it, like,
Speaker 2: are they like that every night? That's Is it because.
Speaker 1: We're American because we're blonde? Is it they do this
Speaker 1: to European? Like, yeah, what is the situation?
Speaker 2: Guys?
Speaker 1: If you're listening and you're European, we need your answers,
Speaker 1: We need the actual situation because either way, like I
Speaker 1: don't care.
Speaker 2: I don't care because it was still fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like we had the best night.
Speaker 2: I'm curious if it's like, like does every girl in
Speaker 2: America that's struggling with like the boyfriend's situation there just
Speaker 2: need to.
Speaker 1: Cross the pond and we're solid, find them out here,
Speaker 1: bring them back. So we need to do are they
Speaker 1: just are they all just want a green card?
Speaker 2: Maybe to come?
Speaker 1: Also possible there is.
Speaker 2: I don't only say that because my sister married a
Speaker 2: Swedish guy, so it's funny in our family.
Speaker 1: There's so many possibilities here. So I am curious just
Speaker 1: perspective from anybody else that they haven't. But we had
Speaker 1: so much fun out It was three am. Guys, at
Speaker 1: this point we had pulled an all nighter, we had
Speaker 1: been up for twenty four.
Speaker 2: Were sagging Morgan to go home.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at I'm like, why are we going to go?
Speaker 2: And she's like, literally no, And I'm like, if I
Speaker 2: leave you here, I will never see you again. You're
Speaker 2: coming home with me?
Speaker 1: Yes? I was like, you're right, I don't feel they've
Speaker 1: been not here by myself, but we should stay and
Speaker 1: we did. We stayed until four am, and we got
Speaker 1: back to our We gotta looked at each other. We're like,
Speaker 1: holy crap, it's four am.
Speaker 2: We stayed up for another hour, just like talking and
Speaker 2: looking through videos and photos because it was so fun.
Speaker 2: We couldn't believe it had just happened exactly.
Speaker 1: And then the worst part though, was like listen, I
Speaker 1: was about to get up at eight thirty am, and
Speaker 1: I was gonna go ride on a bike with the
Speaker 1: Belgian man.
Speaker 2: But I told her, you feel what you want. I'm sleeping,
Speaker 2: and you were.
Speaker 1: And you were gonna sleep, and then I was gonna
Speaker 1: come back and wake up. Well, I had my alarm sets,
Speaker 1: all right. We both woke up that alarm clock got
Speaker 1: turned off and we continued sleeping until two pm.
Speaker 2: Well it was the first time we had slept in
Speaker 2: forty eight hours, so I was upset about.
Speaker 1: But we were supposed to be checked out by one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, we the airbnb host was a saint.
Speaker 2: He was letting us just he he was like, y'all
Speaker 2: are so late, like because he was banging on the door.
Speaker 1: Like that's what woke me up because we didn't have
Speaker 1: another alarm set, no, because the only one until the
Speaker 1: sun went down. Yes, and I heard like a door knock,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I feel like that is our door.
Speaker 1: And when I woke up, I looked at my phone
Speaker 1: and I was.
Speaker 2: Like what I said, Oh that the clock must not
Speaker 2: have sank yet, like it must be on American time
Speaker 2: or something, which also didn't make any sense because it's
Speaker 2: backwards in America.
Speaker 1: But like then we looked on the door and it
Speaker 1: was light two pm. It was one, which then I'm
Speaker 1: like panicling, pat panicking because I'm like Julie, we have
Speaker 1: so much to explore, we only have this is our day,
Speaker 1: and then we leave at five. We're taking to train
Speaker 1: to parents, so we like panic. We get ready in
Speaker 1: thirty minutes. Our airbnb guy was so great, it's like
Speaker 1: take an hour, I'll be back. He was awesome, and
Speaker 1: then we were like grabbing ourselves together. We still managed
Speaker 1: to see everything, Like we went and we had waffles
Speaker 1: in the most amazing last and hot chocolate at Mason
Speaker 1: Dany Yes, and also we got more Belgian fries with
Speaker 1: truffle mayonnaise next door Dan boy right, Dan Dey, Dan Doy,
Speaker 1: Dan Dey. We're learning and what else do we do
Speaker 1: in that? Like? Oh, we also went and explored the gardens.
Speaker 1: There was some pretty gardens and some structures, and then
Speaker 1: we hopped on our train to Paris, and from there
Speaker 1: we also did not continue sleeping. We got to Paris,
Speaker 1: got to our Airbnb, dropped our stuff off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we obviously don't have this is not our
Speaker 2: official list review of all the amazing places we went
Speaker 2: because like restaurants, chocolate shops, like the names of these places.
Speaker 2: I remember Elizabeth Mary's, Mary's Chocolate.
Speaker 1: Shop, vander something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was like the official chocolateeer of the
Speaker 2: royal family, and I don't know. It was like we
Speaker 2: have from the tour we did. We know the names
Speaker 2: of all the places that we went, but it was
Speaker 2: it's so hard for me to pronounce most of everything
Speaker 2: that I can't retain it in my head because even
Speaker 2: the first time reading it, I'm like, how do I
Speaker 2: say that.
Speaker 1: I'll put a little like highlight on my Instagram of
Speaker 1: everything that we went to, because all the locations are tagged,
Speaker 1: so you can go to little locations and find what
Speaker 1: looks good to you. And it really much.
Speaker 2: It was so fun. What was your favorite chocolate of
Speaker 2: all the little flavors?
Speaker 1: I feel like it was a salted caramel that we
Speaker 1: both had at the very end, and I sure where
Speaker 1: we were.
Speaker 2: My favorite was from Elizabeth's and it was the dark
Speaker 2: chocolate whiskey ball, so like it was so funny. They
Speaker 2: were like, do not bite into this, like if it's
Speaker 2: outside of your mouth, like put the whole thing in
Speaker 2: your mouth before you bite it. And I was like,
Speaker 2: I thought it might just be flavored with whiskey or
Speaker 2: like a little bit in there. It was a shot
Speaker 2: of whiskey inside this ball of chocolate, and I was
Speaker 2: in heaven.
Speaker 1: And that's your favorite.
Speaker 2: That's what I like sometimes when I come home or
Speaker 2: like whenever I'm with my family or my dad and
Speaker 2: I are on the back porch and we're drinking bourb
Speaker 2: and like he's smoking a cigar, I'm eating chocolate.
Speaker 1: So that's like my favorite. Little I'm weird, but you're
Speaker 1: not weird. And now you're gonna bring them back, and
Speaker 1: you guys gonna do that together with little falls of
Speaker 1: chocolate from Belgium. It's gonna be so fun that you
Speaker 1: bought those are yeah, the chocolate. You don't listen to
Speaker 1: this because you're not supposed to know. I have those
Speaker 1: for your birthday. That is a surprise. We both have
Speaker 1: multiple bags of chocolate that we're bringing back over our family.
Speaker 2: We spent over one hundred dollars together, probably one hundred.
Speaker 1: Fifty two different shops we went. The two places we
Speaker 1: bought chocolates for that we really loved were Elizabeth and Mary's.
Speaker 1: Both were the two places.
Speaker 2: And we've made these decadent boxes of like all the
Speaker 2: assorted ones that you could just pick out one by one.
Speaker 2: But now we're not gonna know which one we're eating
Speaker 2: whenever we open the box. So it's gonna be yes please,
Speaker 2: Chocolate Roulette.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be perfect. Yeah, Okay, So once we train
Speaker 1: our train was like an hour and a half to Paris.
Speaker 1: We got to Paris, dropped off our bags with the
Speaker 1: new Airbnb, which is in this super cute building and beautiful.
Speaker 2: This building is probably I don't know, three hundred years
Speaker 2: old or something like. Yeah, gorgo. The elevator is so tiny.
Speaker 1: I mean our little airbnb that we're sitting in right
Speaker 1: now is also so tiny. Our bed is lofted in
Speaker 1: this Yeah, it's like a bedroom. Yeah, the bed is
Speaker 1: the top bunk and the kitchen is the bottom bunk.
Speaker 1: Literally and there's like one toilet and a little mirror.
Speaker 2: But it's beautiful, like inside the bathroom and even the wall,
Speaker 2: like look at the designs on the walls.
Speaker 1: It's done so the lear Yeah, it's very pretty. Because
Speaker 1: we dropped it all off and we went in after
Speaker 1: scouring the internet for somewhere to eat. We ended up
Speaker 1: eating a loulouse, which was amazing pasta in a museum
Speaker 1: in a museum, and then I walked outside. I got
Speaker 1: to see the Eiffel Tower for the first time, which
Speaker 1: in this moment of recording, I have not actually seen
Speaker 1: the Eiffel Tower up close yet tonight yet we are
Speaker 1: going tonight.
Speaker 2: Your first time seeing it when the lights are all on.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's just gonna be cooler than seeing
Speaker 2: it during the day when it's kind of cloudy and
Speaker 2: it's dark.
Speaker 1: This is true, but we will see. I have made
Speaker 1: a point today, I have to see it in the
Speaker 1: daytime and at nighttime.
Speaker 2: That was your second impression. First impression is going to
Speaker 2: be literally sparkling and twinkling like a star. It is perfect. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be perfect.
Speaker 1: So we have that tonight. But after the LOUI went
Speaker 1: to I had found this jazz like cave that was
Speaker 1: in La La Land from TikTok, and I was like,
Speaker 1: we have to go there. I know it sounds weird,
Speaker 1: We're gonna try it. We can leave whatever. We go
Speaker 1: there and this place is insane. You literally like walk
Speaker 1: in it's like a normal dive bar, and then you
Speaker 1: go down the steps and it's a literal cave and
Speaker 1: they're insane jazz music and everybody's just like swaying with
Speaker 1: each other. It's not any dancing I've ever experienced in
Speaker 1: the States before. It's like you just swaying side to
Speaker 1: side with each other, and I'm like, this feels weird.
Speaker 2: I gotta like find my vibe. It was almost like
Speaker 2: a jazz mosh pit. Yes, like everybody was like kind
Speaker 2: of being thrown around, but everyone had smiles on their faces,
Speaker 2: so it wasn't like.
Speaker 1: Pushing enjoyable mashpit. An enjoyable mosh pit, like a classy
Speaker 1: mash pit.
Speaker 2: But it was jazz music. And she was speaking English,
Speaker 2: even though like all the songs were in English, and
Speaker 2: I don't know where the singer was from. We've got
Speaker 2: a debate going. One of the guys that was standing
Speaker 2: next to us I was like, this she Irish, she
Speaker 2: hav a Scottish accent or something like, because I couldn't
Speaker 2: tell when she was talking between songs and he was
Speaker 2: he like came upstairs. We were talking to other people
Speaker 2: upstairs at the bar later, and he like literally walked
Speaker 2: over just to tell me I talked to her she's
Speaker 2: from Spain, and then left. And I'm like, first of all,
Speaker 2: I don't believe him that he actually talked to the
Speaker 2: singer who was on stage. The second of all, she
Speaker 2: could be from Spain. I can't tell anything, because like
Speaker 2: everyone's accents are different. Oh, and this is something so cool,
Speaker 2: which I don't know if you've like picked up on
Speaker 2: it yet, because I didn't learn this until my sister's
Speaker 2: husband and his family and I like spent a lot
Speaker 2: of time together. So Martin and his sister Latta there
Speaker 2: they speak Swedish as their first language, but when they
Speaker 2: speak English, he learned from a British teacher. She learned
Speaker 2: from a Scottish teacher. So when they speak English, even
Speaker 2: though they're brother and sister, he has a British accent
Speaker 2: and she has a Scottish accent.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: It's crazy, so I've never heard that. I don't speak
Speaker 2: to them in you know, Swedish, so I only hear
Speaker 2: them in English and they literally sound like they're from
Speaker 2: two different countries.
Speaker 1: Well, and we were making that comment about how how
Speaker 1: many different countries and places have English as their first language,
Speaker 1: but it's different variations of English. Like I was talking
Speaker 1: to a guy last night and he's about to go
Speaker 1: to Australia. He's like, I can work on my English,
Speaker 1: so I'm like, you can. But also they use words
Speaker 1: that like we don't use, so you'll be able to practice,
Speaker 1: but you're also going to pick up some slang vocabulary
Speaker 1: and the spellings.
Speaker 2: Are different in like British English. It's like color is
Speaker 2: colo you are?
Speaker 1: Yeah? My phone always cructs that, so you know, I'm
Speaker 1: crushing British English whenever I text people. It's amazing, But
Speaker 1: we isn't. We're at this place and once again guys
Speaker 1: are talking to us.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's let's tell it how it is. We're standing
Speaker 2: there and Morgan has this gorgeous Greek man walk up
Speaker 2: to her and immediately just like ask he like literally
Speaker 2: just asked you to kiss you and you said no,
Speaker 2: but he just he didn't even like you had had Okay,
Speaker 2: we had, we had talked a little bit.
Speaker 1: There was probably like she.
Speaker 2: Put the said no, but it was still just she
Speaker 2: came up to me and told me that it happened,
Speaker 2: and I was like, what he just asked you?
Speaker 1: Let me break this out a little bit. So we
Speaker 1: were standing there and we were we were vibing to
Speaker 1: the jazz. You had started talking to this guy who
Speaker 1: was like standing there and he had all kinds of
Speaker 1: information to share. And then somebody I think who was
Speaker 1: also one of his friends, was around and I talked
Speaker 1: to him for a little bit. But then this Greek
Speaker 1: guy we had met in line via other guys that
Speaker 1: we were talking in life, guys, everybody talked to each
Speaker 1: other here like you think when you go to places
Speaker 1: and bars that's in America. We were just making friends
Speaker 1: and it wasn't even like a like flirting, No, you
Speaker 1: were just making connections with people. We stood in line
Speaker 1: talking to people for ten minutes while we were waiting
Speaker 1: to get in. We hung out with them inside and
Speaker 1: then they left. They're like, great to meet you, guys. Like,
Speaker 1: we talked to so many people beyond just these connections.
Speaker 2: Girls too, Yeah, and she there was one of the
Speaker 2: girls in line that we were talking to. She like
Speaker 2: doesn't really speak English, but she was trying so hard
Speaker 2: to still communicate with us. So when she understood that
Speaker 2: we were kind of saying, oh, it's cold, she was like, oh.
Speaker 1: My gosh, yes, like it is cold, Like she was
Speaker 1: just excited about how to talk to That's the one
Speaker 1: thing I've noticed, like at least in the culture of bars, clubs, restaurants,
Speaker 1: that you have people wanting to communicate and connect with
Speaker 1: each other versus I feel like in the States that
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. And again, maybe it's because we are foreign
Speaker 1: and it's like we're the shiny thing. We come in
Speaker 1: and they're like, they're American, let's talk to about.
Speaker 2: There have been a few times where you've been like
Speaker 2: the French don't like us.
Speaker 1: That has also happened. It's been the French stranger stone.
Speaker 1: That's why I say, though bars and clubs, like everybody's
Speaker 1: friendly and they want to hang out, they.
Speaker 2: Want to yeah that yeah, versus like when I'm trying
Speaker 2: to think of But there was that one guy in
Speaker 2: line in front of.
Speaker 1: Us, who he was not a fantasy.
Speaker 2: Made fund interesting how even when you can't speak the
Speaker 2: same language as someone, you know, when someone's talking shit.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we thought that one.
Speaker 2: I was like, I was like, oh, okay, sir, we were.
Speaker 1: He was like trying to, you know, talk about his
Speaker 1: French rappers versus the French music that we had been
Speaker 1: listening to. Yes, and Julia like said something just kind
Speaker 1: of like hit her arm, and I was like, he's
Speaker 1: not a fan. It's not like that.
Speaker 2: It's okay though.
Speaker 1: So I do think they're part of that for sure.
Speaker 1: But I think at least in general, like bar when
Speaker 1: I go out in bars and stuff in America, I
Speaker 1: can't tell you the last time a guy has October.
Speaker 1: That was the one time, and I went up to
Speaker 1: him really like, that was the last time. And beyond that,
Speaker 1: I don't know that men go up to people, or
Speaker 1: even strangers go up to other strangers just to make conversation.
Speaker 2: They do, but it's usually it's like you have to
Speaker 2: wait until so much later in the night. That's the
Speaker 2: thing that I feel like has been my experience. It's
Speaker 2: a little bit different. It's like in America, the bar
Speaker 2: scene doesn't get super social where you talk to people
Speaker 2: outside of your group until after everyone's already been.
Speaker 1: At the bar for hours and had alcohol and had alcohol.
Speaker 1: But here it's like immediate, immediate.
Speaker 2: And like the second we walked in, we hadn't even
Speaker 2: gotten a drink or anything. And that guy, like I
Speaker 2: don't even know if he could speak English. He was
Speaker 2: just like, you want to dance, and he like put
Speaker 2: your coat on the side and just started spinning you around.
Speaker 2: And then that other guy that started talking to me,
Speaker 2: he was his friend, so he was like, oh, is
Speaker 2: that your friend. That's my friend. They're dancing. I was like,
Speaker 2: they are.
Speaker 1: We were. This guy took like this little cave and
Speaker 1: there's this little section of the cave that had stairs
Speaker 1: that you would go and sit in a little table,
Speaker 1: and he just pulled me over there he goes we
Speaker 1: spin it. He kept telling me to be loose. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I am in a corner in a cave. I cannot
Speaker 1: be loose.
Speaker 2: She had a two foot like radius, and he literally
Speaker 2: kept be like he's like no, and he kept trying
Speaker 2: to get me to be loose.
Speaker 1: I was like, I am, but I can't. In this moment. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm about to fall downstairs. I have my person, I'm
Speaker 1: going down the store.
Speaker 2: Like during spinning you he would like step down the
Speaker 2: stairs and walk back up them. I was like, this
Speaker 2: is dangerous because Morgan has fallen over like fifteen times
Speaker 2: today already.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Julia has learned that I'm very, very clutchy. It's
Speaker 1: just a thing. I've knocked over things.
Speaker 2: She now has permanently hot chocolate flavored mittens.
Speaker 1: I spilled like three different on my gloves.
Speaker 2: They smell good. I guess they won't tomorrow.
Speaker 1: They smell like chocolate. It's perfect. So this is this
Speaker 1: is where.
Speaker 2: We are at.
Speaker 1: Oh Greek man. Yeah, he was lovely and we did
Speaker 1: talk for like ten minutes, and your husband and we
Speaker 1: kind of on life. He's actually lives in New York visiting.
Speaker 2: PhD yes and but he don't science.
Speaker 1: He asked, he goes, can I kiss you? And I said, cirta, no,
Speaker 1: we're not there yet. And I never saw him again,
Speaker 1: except he did follow me on Instagram, so whatever, he's
Speaker 1: already asked you had to dinner. Anyways, that is where
Speaker 1: we are. We are here, and then today we explored
Speaker 1: and walked all over Paris and saw the sites.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're like, that's been the whole trip. But we
Speaker 2: We've already gone to the Louver, and we went to
Speaker 2: Notre Dame and walked through the gardens there. We went to.
Speaker 1: Christmas Market at I don't remember what's the mall. We
Speaker 1: just went too Cold Galleries Lafayette.
Speaker 2: Galleries Lafayette, and I'm obsessed with like the whole I
Speaker 2: love like the history of designers, and so We've got
Speaker 2: to go and go through all the Christian door and
Speaker 2: chanel shops. And I'm going this way.
Speaker 1: Juliette was in her element element in this gallery and
Speaker 1: meanwhile I was standing there taking papers of the giant
Speaker 1: tree in the middle. So we are. We have such
Speaker 1: different energy on this trip and it makes it perfect.
Speaker 2: Well, I've already been here, so like I've already seen
Speaker 2: all of the touristy monument I tying to take you
Speaker 2: to a new place. You had never been to the
Speaker 2: Layette and that's where I was.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to go because with the Christmas tree,
Speaker 1: that's like giant. And yeah, I took you because I
Speaker 1: knew all the desire brands are there.
Speaker 2: No, I'm very excited, especially I already told you this.
Speaker 1: But Daylight in a buck short, that song that's about
Speaker 1: to come out, Like I.
Speaker 2: Literally talk about door in the song, except it's in
Speaker 2: a super country way. But I'm like, this has gotta
Speaker 2: be a door moment. I gotta make a little video
Speaker 2: of this song here. It is seems like it's a
Speaker 2: word trip. We get to write this whole bad boy off.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's actually true, but we are both working.
Speaker 1: We're literally recording the podcast in our airbnb in Paris.
Speaker 1: There are worse places to be, There are much worse places.
Speaker 1: And I'm very very thankful, very feeling very grateful and
Speaker 1: just very excited for where I'm at in this moment
Speaker 1: of my life, and like, this is amazing.
Speaker 2: I think you're just excited because you know we're about
Speaker 2: to go drink wine at of baby bottles at some
Speaker 2: restaurant you're making and go to.
Speaker 1: This is also true. And I'm also gonna get to
Speaker 1: see the Eiffel Power Sparkle because I love sparkles.
Speaker 2: Okay, wear your cute dress.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we gotta I gotta figure that out. Okay,
Speaker 1: last thing we're gonna end on before we wrap this up.
Speaker 1: Favorite part so far, Like one moment, why are you looking?
Speaker 2: That's like hard?
Speaker 1: I wish i'd prepared in this specific moment. Don't think
Speaker 1: about it too hard because it can change in twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: But in this specific moment, favorite moment so far you
Speaker 1: go first, Okay, you go first, Let me think, Okay,
Speaker 1: I think so far. Mine was making those friends in
Speaker 1: Belgium because it just added a twist to all of
Speaker 1: it that was unplanned. Everything was totally unprompted. We hit
Speaker 1: two of the like drinking spots that were on my list,
Speaker 1: and we made just great friends who maybe someday we'll
Speaker 1: see again or maybe we won't. But it was cool
Speaker 1: connections and it like reminded me how we may have
Speaker 1: different languages, but like the basis of us humans is connection,
Speaker 1: and that's all we want to do. Regardless of where
Speaker 1: you live and who you are and where you come from,
Speaker 1: all we want to do is connect.
Speaker 2: And it can tell kindness to depend like whatever language
Speaker 2: someone's speaking in, like you can tell when someone's being
Speaker 2: kind and when they're not, which is something interesting that's
Speaker 2: like it really is body language, so much of it.
Speaker 1: And we connected over dogs, so also everybody loves dogs.
Speaker 2: They're puppies everywhere and they're gorgeous. A little one they
Speaker 2: go go what's the target dog called? I don't know
Speaker 2: what his name is, No d It was like, I've
Speaker 2: never seen a dog like that in person. Like, what's
Speaker 2: the craziest thing you saw in Paris? Yeah, my favorite part.
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna go with the chocolate shops because,
Speaker 2: like you know, I'm I'm a super chocohol. Like I
Speaker 2: don't go anywhere without chocolate in my bag and I'm talking,
Speaker 2: I don't go to the studio without it. I don't
Speaker 2: go on a airplane without it. Like I always have
Speaker 2: some multiple bars and usually like dark kind of like
Speaker 2: nice chocolate. It's not M and M's. It's not like
Speaker 2: a Hershey's bar. It's like nice dark chocolate. And so
Speaker 2: this was like an experience of really seeing a handcrafted
Speaker 2: delicacy and something that I already loved so much. And
Speaker 2: I know that's probably basically like.
Speaker 1: It where it comes from. So even the stuff, like
Speaker 1: the chocolate we're getting in the States, a lot of
Speaker 1: it is imported from Belgium because Belgium is the I
Speaker 1: don't think it's the capital of chocolate, if you will,
Speaker 1: but it's the city that is known for it. So
Speaker 1: that you were getting the original chocolates. Yeah, that even
Speaker 1: like transfers the border to us.
Speaker 2: And there is this one moment that I'm going to
Speaker 2: bundle all into like one section because it all happened
Speaker 2: so close. It was within twenty minute proximity basically, or
Speaker 2: I guess maybe thirty minutes. We went from the chocolate
Speaker 2: shop where we went from Mary's, where I had already
Speaker 2: opened up my dark chocolate covered orange pieces, so I'm
Speaker 2: like eating dark chocolate with oranges. We're walking to Mason Dandy.
Speaker 2: We're waiting in line to get into Mason Dandy, and
Speaker 2: you're like, let me go get some fries you come
Speaker 2: back with. We're waiting in line. I had just had
Speaker 2: the chocolate. We're dumping or dunking these gorgeous fries in
Speaker 2: a truffle Mayo Mayo while we're in line to then
Speaker 2: have the best cafe latte.
Speaker 1: And waffle waffles of my life.
Speaker 2: And that all happened in a span of I'm telling you,
Speaker 2: like walking from one place to the other, waiting in line.
Speaker 2: We had all of those like delicacies in the same
Speaker 2: moment that that's my best moment.
Speaker 1: Well, now I want that to be my best moment.
Speaker 2: It was very Belgium. The only thing we didn't have
Speaker 2: in that moment was beer.
Speaker 1: That's true, but we had.
Speaker 2: I had two of those cafe lattes, like back to
Speaker 2: back because you you wouldn't let me sleep at all
Speaker 2: on purpose, so then we accidentally slept the whole day
Speaker 2: we did.
Speaker 1: Okay, I know maybe a part two will come, maybe
Speaker 1: it won't, but for now, this is where we leave
Speaker 1: everybody and we're about to go adventure somewhere.
Speaker 2: Oh and don't forget, we're going to spend New Years
Speaker 2: in Barcelona. So regardless of if there's a podcast on it,
Speaker 2: there will be many stories.
Speaker 3: And lots of follow us at Julia Cole Music, at
Speaker 3: Webgold Morgan, also the podcast at Take This Personally, all
Speaker 3: of them, lots of and plenty of content.
Speaker 1: I will make a cute little teaser video where you
Speaker 1: will see me having lots of random dancing, lots of
Speaker 1: random dancing, random people, lots of random people.
Speaker 2: But they're been so cute.
Speaker 1: Everybody's so cute. Also, like, if you're an American girl,
Speaker 1: come to Europe, do it. It'll really boost you.
Speaker 2: Gout drop whatever you're doing.
Speaker 1: Catch up. This is your sign, just like I needed one.
Speaker 1: This is your sign to book the trip, okay, when
Speaker 1: it's on sale, so you can get it for really
Speaker 1: freaking cheap and come out here and live your best life.
Speaker 2: And you can even check for like what places your
Speaker 2: city more easily flies to if you haven't really traveled
Speaker 2: a lot of places, and don't you want to narrow
Speaker 2: it down. You can narrow it down that way, like
Speaker 2: where can you go in Europe for the cheapest flight?
Speaker 2: And then just start there because it's really easy to
Speaker 2: get around once you're over here.
Speaker 1: So much. Catch train, catch it the flight subway in Paris.
Speaker 1: And if we can do that, I promise you can
Speaker 1: book the trip.
Speaker 2: Our little metro. We're little metro girlies, now we are.
Speaker 2: That's like also a different term. I think we ride
Speaker 2: the metro.
Speaker 4: Okay, well we meant that very innocently. Okay, everybody, goodbye.
Speaker 4: Oh I should say a good night, but it's good morning,
Speaker 4: good times?
Speaker 1: Roll? Is that Spanish?
Speaker 2: No, it's French? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is that the only thing?
Speaker 2: Family from Louisiana?
Speaker 1: Okay, that's the one thing we got.
Speaker 5: No, I haven't learned that here. Oh yeah, and uh yep, oh,
Speaker 5: excuse him, we learn in Paris.
Speaker 2: Don't pretend we learned that here I learned that in
Speaker 2: French class, okay that was beyond learned from Emily in
Speaker 2: Paris okay o