- [Chris] No, you don't take a bath.
- You wash your hair.
- [Chris] You don't wash your hair in there.
Keep your hair out of that.
(kids laugh)
- You put your bottom in it.
- [Chris] Yes!
(playful music)
Good morning everyone.
Okay, the next few videos are going to be pretty special.
Today, we are flying out of England and going to Italy.
- It's actually really exciting, because our friend Angelo
we went to college with is in Italy.
He was in theater with Christopher and I,
and we did shows together.
- He called us and he was like, "Hey, I founded
"and co-own this touring company called Live Italy.
"Would you like to come check out Italy,
and we'll show you all around and set you up
and make sure that you have a great time here."
We're like, "Yes, please. Absolutely 100%."
- These are all tours that they actually offer
through their company, so what we are doing
you can do too.
So they are giving us these tours for free.
We're very excited about it.
We're very excited that Angelo created a business.
I'm just so proud of any of my friends
who are running businesses.
So we're very very excited to try out
all of the tour experiences that Angelo is doing.
- So right now, we're under some scaffolding.
It's raining quite a bit, but it's not like too bad.
It's like really nice temperature, and it's just
sort of drizzling.
It's a good London goodbye.
What do you think?
- It's sad.
- (chuckles) sad.
(adventurous tune)
Okay, we are on our third train today.
How's everybody doing?
- Great.
- Good, we got up a little earlier than we are used to.
And it's fine.
I think we're fine, right?
- We're not even up that early, and Rome's gonna be
an hour later so we're gonna have to get used to
getting up even earlier.
- [Chris] You guys up for it?
- Yes.
- [Chris] Jacob's already asleep!
- [Intercom] The next station is Heathrow Terminal Four.
- This flight isn't very full, so Dunkin gets his own seat.
You get your own seat?
(baby babbles)
Yeah, you do.
You feel like a big boy?
(babbles)
You a big boy?
- [Intercom] Morning Ladies and Gentlemen.
On behalf of the captain (baby babbles) welcome aboard
this flight 211.
(adventurous tune)
- (singing) butter, oh butter!
Butter, butter, butter, oh butter!
- There's no in-flight entertainment,
because it's a short flight but Parker got a big stick
of butter and some bread.
So that's entertainment enough, really.
- Butter, it's so good.
Churn churn the butter!
- We have landed, we are here.
How's it feel?
- Good.
- Look at this cool car we're in.
Party time!
- What?
- [Chris] Party time!
- I didn't even know cars like this existed.
We have three people facing the other three, it's so cool.
Is this in the United States?
Is this a thing?
It's news to me.
This is our first time in a car in over a week.
We will be in cars a lot when we're in Rome.
That's part of how this touring company operates.
We're getting picked up at the airport right now.
And we'll also be doing golf cart tours,
so get ready for that.
- It's fun going backwards.
- [Chris] You like going backwards?
- Yeah.
- We didn't bring a carseat for Dunkin,
or a booster chair for Parker but they both need them.
So part of what this car service had as well
were seats for them, for their safety.
Which is great, because we didn't have to cart them
all around Europe.
Hey cool dudes, what do you think?
Yeah?
I am noticing that the carseat here is a little different.
I don't know if it's just how they are for one-year olds
in Italy, or if it's one that was maybe given to us
by mistake.
You can see it doesn't have the front thing here.
Also, in California now we have to have our babies
rear-facing until they're two.
I'm assuming it's different here because that's
kind of a new law for us so I don't know if everywhere
has adapted that, like I'd assume there are places
that are doing lots of different things.
So that's one interesting difference we've noticed already.
We're starting to get into places that are starting
to look at little different.
(relaxing music)
(chatter)
- Chris, the kids are trying to figure out the bathroom.
- [Chris] What is going -- uh oh.
Don't, that is not a sink!
- What is it?
Is it a potty?
- [Chris] Nope, potty's next to it.
- Is it a potty sink?
- [Chris] Kind of, it is kind of a potty sink.
It's called a bidet.
- Is it where babies go potty?
- [Chris] No, it's called a bidet.
- What's a bidet?
- Is it where you take a bath?
- [Chris] No, you don't take a bath.
- You wash your hair.
- [Chris] You don't wash your hair in there.
(laughs)
Keep your hair out of that.
- You put your bottom in it?
- [Chris] Yes! (toilet lid slams)
- Does it wash your bottom?
- [Chris] Yes.
- I knew it!
- Yuck! (laughs)
- I'm going in the other bathroom to test it out.
(kids laughing)
- [Mom] A bunch of bottom...
- See you guys later!
- [Chris] A bunch of bottom cleaners?
- Oh my goodness, that was terrifying (laughs).
So obviously, I'm super curious as to what this bidet
business is all about.
So I was going pee, and I was sitting on the potty.
I leaned over and I started fiddling with the things
to see what it did cause I don't know.
I thought it was like a squirty thing or something.
I don't know, but it started filling up and then
I couldn't figure out how to turn it off.
I was like turning all the knobs (laughs),
and it was like filling up, just like a potty.
Like a bathtub!
I didn't expect that, I don't know what it does.
I did not use it, I was just trying to figure out
how it was working and I still don't know how it works.
Like I have no idea what it was supposed to do.
I guess maybe you're supposed to lower your business
in there I guess, which I didn't expect that .
I started doing that...
And I don't know what that's supposed to do (laughs).
(water gurgling)
and then so I did that
Anyway, something that happens to me often in life,
it's happened to me with the fireplace too,
is that I turn a knob to turn something on,
and then I get so freaked out that I can't remember
which way I turned it to turn it on (laughs).
So, that's what happened.
And it was like, going up higher and higher
and I was like whoa!
I thought I was gonna flood the bathroom
cause I'm so ridiculously lame and don't know how
to use this thing, and I had no idea.
I thought it was gonna be like a fountain,
like a squirty mechanism.
I'm gonna watch some Youtube tutorials and figure this out
cause I'm fascinated right now.
- [Chris] On a diagram.
- We're Googling.
- [Chris] Dry your skin.
- Okay, dry your skin?
- Some bidets have a built-in air dryer
that you can use.
I don't think so.
- What? It's really important to be dry here.
I wasn't expecting that.
- Rinse out the bidet.
- Rinse out the bidet?
This is a lot of work!
- Once you are off the bidet, run the jets at very low
pressure for a few seconds to rinse the basin
and keep the bidet fresh.
- Okay.
- Wash your hands, wait I feel like...
- What's going on?
- I feel like we skipped some things.
Well, we've got some diagrams.
- It is -- Whoa!
Wait, is that the potty or is that a bidet?
- No, that's the potty.
- You use the potty first, okay?
- (reading) the purpose of the bidet is to help
clean off after toilet use.
You can use the bidet in conjunction with toilet paper.
Or you can use the bidet on it's very own.
So there you have it.
Step two: Find the bidet.
- Find it.
See, they act like it's really simple.
They're like, "Come on, all you have to do is
"go to the potty then find it."
but I was on the potty and I found it,
and then I almost flooded the bathroom.
See, all I want to know it -- whoa! (laughs loudly)
She is using it!
You know, this is not hygienic.
Like, the whole point of this --
I wouldn't sit on that thing.
- Oh my gah! (laughs)
- What are you doing, are you squishing the water
with your hands?
- I think you just let it run, and you let it pass over you.
- Look at this thing!
It just goes straight into the basin.
You can't get in there, it's deep.
The water's coming out like deep inside.
You can't get your business down in there,
or else you'll be like on the actual basin.
It's not flowing out like that.
- I think I've figured it out now.
(reading) Some bidets simply have a faucet that fills
the basin, much as you would fill a sink basin.
- Yeah, that's what was happening.
- In this case, you'll need to use your hands
to manually clean yourself.
- What? I do not understand the purpose of this.
Just get in the bath!
Take a shower.
I don't get it, I thought it was gonna be cool.
I was ready to be like, yeah I get this.
- [Son] Did you try using it?
- No, I didn't.
I tried turning it on, and I almost flooded
the whole bathroom.
That's what I was expecting.
I was expecting a squirter, that's doing work.
So it's a pot of water that you're supposed
to lower your nethers into.
Then you put your hands in it?
You put your hands in this dirty water?
- I guess so.
- I'm not putting my hands in potty water!
And then putting the potty water on my business?
That's protected business.
Just rinsing the thing out with the first flush
is not enough, you don't give it a rinse --
- You fill it up, and then you splash yourself.
- You give it a heavy bleaching, and then maybe
you can put your business in there.
- The nice things about toilet paper is that
there is a barrier between your hands and everything else.
- I feel like this is basically like taking a toilet,
sitting in it and splashing around in the water.
- Well, after you flush it.
- Right.
Unacceptable.
- We have two rooms that connect here.
The ceilings go up for like a mile, I don't know.
It's so much space!
- (laughs) The highest ceilings I've seen in my life.
- In a hotel, yeah.
- Not even a hotel, I think we're in like an actual palace.
- Two beds pushed together here.
- [Mom] I love the floors, look at the floor.
- [Chris] Wow, look at that. Hardwoods floors.
- [Mom] They're beautiful!
- [Chris] And these beautiful rugs.
- My bed.
- [Chris] This is your bed?
And then two more closets and we're in the other room.
Similar layout.
This opens up. (squeaking)
Now we're in this like, courtyard area.
Like, what? Just beautiful.
- This is unbelievable, wow!
So in London, there really weren't any outdoor spaces.
We walked to Hyde Park, and that was the only time
the kids got really like outside, aside from just
walking on sidewalks.
To have a little space outside feels like such a luxury.
This place is unreal, this is such a cool hotel.
Such a neat experience, I can't even handle it right now.
It's raining, and I love the rain.
This is so magical.
- [Chris] So I've noticed this in a couple places
here in Europe, but the beds.
These bigger beds are actually just
two beds pushed together.
So that's what this is, and the one in the other room.
I wonder why that is.
We're from California, and we made our own super giant bed
called a California King there.
We didn't, but there is one that exists.
So we're used to just big beds happening.
Here, they push two little beds together to make a big bed.
- [Mom] Can you get Daddy?
Oh, ah! Oh my goodness, Dunkin!
Dunkin, that was so good!
- [Chris] You got this.
- [Mom] Big boy!
We are going to be her for around 10 days.
So we are going to have a whole series on Rome.
There is a reason we are doing this.
There are actually two reasons.
Number one: We want to show you guys that it is possible
to happily travel with your families.
A lot of people say, "Make sure you travel before
you have kids!"
and yes, it's wonderful to travel before you have kids.
But if you're able to also travel with your children,
it can be a totally incredible experience.
There are absolutely differences, but it's possible.
And it can be wonderful.
So I really hope we can inspire you,
and show you some awesome ways to travel with children.
The number two reason is if you can't travel
with your children, like if you do not have the financial
means, if it's just not possible, we hope to show you
what Rome is like and to educate you as much as we can.
We made these videos in large part for ourselves.
They're our family memories. (kids playing)
They're the things we can show our kids, or ourselves
when we forget what happened when we were on that trip.
It's also something we can pass down to the next generation
and these are our legacy.
But, we also make them so we can share them with the world
and so that you guys can experience these places
that you may never get to experience.
Also to help you if you're about to experience these places.
If you're about to go to Rome, what a cool thing
to watch these videos and to see what you want to do
and maybe to learn something about the places
you're about to visit, so that you can appreciate them more.
They're the whole purpose behind this series.
I am so excited about it.
We have been dreaming of doing something like this for years
This is a really big deal to us.
We're also going to be going to Florence and Pompeii,
so that's part of this trip too.
So it's not just going to be all Rome.
- [Chris] And Naples!
- And Naples! We're in Italy.
We're going to share Italy with you, let's go!
Okay, seriously what is going on with this hotel?
Are we staying in an actual museum, or a palace?
This is the fanciest place I've ever been.
I don't even know how -- everything's marble.
The whole land is marble and velvet.
It's an actual palace.
Look at this giant lion.
(playful music)
Casual lion stairs.
What is this magical palace?
We are about to meet up with Angelo.
We haven't seen him in over 10 years.
We get to go have dinner with him!
We're so excited to see Angelo, he's wonderful.
Ha! It's Angelo!
- Hey! (chuckles)
- Yay, I'm so excited.
It's so good to see you.
- Yeah, it's been 12 years?
- Uh, yeah.
- 2006.
- I don't know, I just kept saying over ten
cause I didn't want to do the math.
- (laughs) Nobody wants to do the math.
- No (laughs).
Well, we're gonna go have dinner and have a wonderful time.
Angelo just brought us a care package,
and in it are a lot of the things that we will be using
for the week and Parker has discovered these.
- What is it?
- [Mom] Wow Parker.
- It's to make -- you have to build a --
- [Mom] I like that, that is a look.
- How do I build it?
- [Mom] That's what everybody in Rome wears,
it's the style.
- Now you need a second ingredient, which is the phone.
On your Colosseum tour, you're gonna see these ancient ruins
with lots of stone and rock and it's gonna be kind of
hard to figure out what it looked like back when
it was actually utilized.
So we created these virtual reality reconstructions.
To show you how it used to be 2,000 years ago.
(children laughing)
So that's where the gladiators used to fight.
You're where the gladiators used to fight
for blood and life.
- It was super cool.
You can't see the phone though.
- [Mom] What'd it look like?
- Colosseum.
- [Mom] (laughs) Colosseum-y?
- [Jacob] I did it!
- Nice.
- Did I?
- [Angelo] Yep, you certainly did.
- [Mom] Oh looking good!
We just finished dinner.
Christopher and I had two very authentically Roman dishes,
and Angelo will have to tell you what they were called.
- Me too, me too!
- So did Jacob, he had a baked kid dish.
He wanted to try something new, I was very proud of him.
Bailey had beef carpaccio which is raw beef.
Angelo is going to tell you what we ate,
because I can't pronounce it, and when he pronounces it
it sounds incredible so here you go.
- (laughs) Alright, well you had the cacio e pepe
and then the boys had the matriciana.
- [Boy] Cacio e pepe?
- Cacio e pepe, it's like cheeses and pepper.
- And I loved how he described it, because he said
that it's not an Italian dish, it's a Roman dish because...
- We try and make sure the food does not travel
many kilometeres, and so Rome is famous for four
pasta dishes which are cacio e pepe, matriciana,
carbonara, and gricia so we had two of them tonight.
- I love that concept that food doesn't travel very far.
Very neat.
- Hi. Let's talk about what we learned today.
(guitar strumming)
We learned that a stick of butter is entertainment enough.
We learned not to wash our hair in the bidet.
And finally we learned that if you want to impress Jessica,
all you have to do is install a casual lion at the end
of your staircase.
Thanks for watching, everybody.
We'll see ya next time.
(baby giggling)
- [Mom] I think they want to count em.
Jacob wants to count em.
- I wanna count em, I wanna count em!
- [Chris] You wanna count em?
- Can you hold my seed for me?
(laughter)
- [Chris] An apricot pit?
What is that?
- It's a apricot.
- [Chris] And there are the splits on the Spanish Steps.
(counting)