hi my name is Josie if you missed the last video something really big and emotional happened
let me catch you up after 13 months of traveling through southeast Asia taking in some incredible
sights smells sounds tastes and cultures we've returned to Australia in a bit of a rush we
found ourselves facing some difficult family news and had to cut our travels short so that's
why we're coming home but we're grateful to be back home surrounded by loved ones we spent
the last week reconnecting with our families
and of course spending quality time with our best mate Cappy say hi say hi we're adjusting
to life visiting Australia and we're excited to share with you what it's like it's expensive
here in Australia and we'll be taking you along as we try some of our favorite Aussie
foods that we've been craving and then I eat the top and sharing our experiences with you
every step of the way so sit back relax and join us as we ReDiscover Australia and navigate
what it's like to be back home for now let's get started so it takes about two hours to
get down to Mom's house yeah we don't have long so I know she's busy tonight so it's
going to be a really short what
when you're in Australia and you have leather seats in the Sun yeah you get burnt we've
been back for a few days we got in on Tuesday night and now it's Thursday afternoon so we
were going to get a rental car drive from the airport to my mom's house and see her
and then drive to Michael's parents house the rental car was sixteen hundred dollars
so I haven't seen my mom yet so I'm gonna surprise her and see her for the first time
in over 13 months Michael's parents house to my mom's house is about a two-hour Drive
in Australia it is super common to just drive two hours to get anywhere basically
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so we're at my mom's now and I'm gonna surprise her it's gonna be funny I thought she doesn't
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hello hello
what you doing just saying hi did you just come down for a drive you just say hello so
my mom's having the rest of her shower now we caught her off guard but look you come
into an Aussie household and what's the first thing I see
come here oh still get me
hi Mom see how are you good how are you I spent the next week at my mom's house spending
much needed time with her we went down to the shops together and I had all of the Australian
food I was missing you're in Australia and you feel like Chinese or something well I
always get honey chicken it's my favorite Chinese dish if you're having Chinese Takeaway
in Australia after a week Michael came down to pick me up again and brought Cappy for
a sleepover before heading all the way back up to Newcastle
that one out of bed time to get up come on out of bed one two
good boy
kill him good morning
hey buddy so we are just getting ready to leave mom's place now we've got a new Castle
so Bye Mom bye Josie yep good one
all right see you soon see you in like a week all right nice to see you soon so we're about
to take the specific Pacific Highway we're about to take the Pacific Highway from Sydney
to Newcastle this is actually a 7-Eleven so I know that you've seen me at a few 7-Elevens
around the world but ours is a little bit different and not as fun or exciting just
for reference as well if I was to get a I don't know let's say a Coke Australian expensive
and normally on like a hot day you'll come and get like a slushie in Australia and they
have like a sugar-free option sometimes but this is a lemon lime bitters I don't really
feel like that 10.
and it's good yeah thank you so much thank you that was 119 I'm trying to put it into
perspective for you guys but I put some prices on the screen Michael's going to wait in the
car with the dog he can't leave obviously a dog in the car on a hot day like this so
I'm gonna go in and get us some sausage rolls and meat pies which is such an Aussie tradition
so I'm excited to show you sort of what we eat here in Australia and I didn't see this
anywhere when we went overseas in Southeast Asia so I'm excited to have one again um could
I do you have uh like a bacon and cheese or something I do I'm just waiting for them to
come out the oven I'll just check I will wait for them please my baby all right so here
is an Aussie sausage roll with tomato sauce for Michael and a Aussie meat pie for me with
barbecue sauce it comes a time in your YouTube career when you just know you're gonna get
roasted all right this is my time if you're from Australia I'm a little bit embarrassed
but I eat pies a kind of different way than most Aussies would eat pies I put a little
bit of the sauce on the top eat the top bit off oh it looks so good and then I eat the
top and then what I do is put some of the sauce on the inside so then I eat the filling
then I use the rest of the sauce and then I eat the pastry delicious and if you ever
wanted to know Australia doesn't have the death penalty for anything except for that
Abomination I've got a sausage roll which is locally termed in Australia as a rat coffin
so it's yeah they call them rat coffins because it's like a rat inside a coffin that's a rat
well it's meat meat wrap meat well it's no it's probably horse meat or something
yeah babies yeah yeah the reason they obviously call this the pie in the sky is because of
this amazing view and the mountains here are literally stunning so
we are on this long Highway and there is a boat ramp or like a little picnic stop or
something down there and it's such an Aussie thing to do to get your boat out or your jet
ski out and like go out on the water and like just make it like a family day sort of thing
so a lot of Aussies do that every weekend which it is right now um and just take their
boat out fish all that kind of stuff we're on this highway now and it's all the way up
to Newcastle and what they've done to make this road which I found pretty interesting
is that they basically just cut through this rock so you can see and sometimes you drive
through the inside of what used to be a big rock kind of like this see like the rock face
here and on this side it's just literally been cut foreign
pretty far away up the highway at the moment um but there's one thing that you can do and
one thing I absolutely love well there's a lot of things I love about Australia but one
is that you can get drive through coffee at macca's McDonald's basically anywhere and
it looks like a normal macca's and we've had macca's all around southeast Asia but Australia
is the only one that does coffee at a drive through and to this quality as well so what
was that just a hot latte with no sugar what size medium Place full cream milk yes please
is that everything um can we get a just an ice cream cone as well is that everything
that's all thanks yeah I tried to Cheers that's right yeah cheers
she doesn't get these all the time by the way everybody
whoa there we go okay
what we'll do is we'll go we'll go back [Music] foreign [Music]
good boy
so we are here at Michael's parents house um but when we left we basically put all of
our stuff in storage or um in the house and Michael's brother's been living in Michael's
house while we're gone so we can't stay there we're at his parents so we don't have a bed
so we're just on kind of a mattress on the floor at the moment but um Cappy actually
has something wrong that we've noticed so we're gonna take him to the vet now I'll quickly
show you what it is hi hi if you're like squeamish or don't like seeing it's not bleeding or
anything and it's not like a gaping hole or anything it's just a little lump but look
off for the next 10 seconds five seconds hey thing there I don't know if you can see that
but it's a big big red lump you're okay and um we just came back and noticed it and um
Michael's brother who's been looking after him just let us know that it's not um like
going away or anything he's had antibiotics so he's going to take him to the vet today
and see what to do the grease title going around in circles okay let's go see what you're
doing I might have to drop you and find a park okay
yes good boy
a little bit late coming back often those aggressive skin ones if that's what it is
if we can get it out with margins which is in a good price for that yeah yeah that's
not what we like no gentle potential a little bit over here I'll see you in the morning
we'll see you then thank you so much say goodbye okay so basically she didn't really like that
it was growing that fast um there was a cancellation for surgery tomorrow morning so we're dropping
him back tomorrow morning and picking him up tomorrow afternoon early arvo and he's
gonna get his lump removed and just the area surrounding cancerous they do think well she
didn't say that she's just a little bit worried about it so it could be skin cancer we'll
see you tomorrow it takes about a week to get the results so
after another thing with us right now isn't it that word is worth this week
okay all right oh bye then see you then
thank you all right so we just dropped cap off so yeah he's in he's in there now he's
going to have his surgery today to get his lump removed and then they're also going to
send it off and see what kind of lump it is um as well yeah so we have to come pick him
up when they call us later on today so since we just dropped Cappy off um I don't know
I think we both feel a little bit lost and we have really nothing to do until we pick
him up um and my boyfriend's feeling a little bit I think overwhelmed about everything um
you know the reason why we're back here and then also dropping Cappy off for our surgery
it's it's a lot but I think we're both a little bit worried and like maybe a little bit stressed
about Cappy like you know we've come home obviously we're meant to come home at this
time I know it's really windy here but it's an obvious sign that now is when we're meant
to come back with everything that's going on with like a family and then Cappy happened
as well and um I think we better go get some food for dinner what do you reckon so we're
actually on the way home right now but we came over the Crest at bar Beach and I saw
these parrot gliding all like parasailers and there's like I don't know one two three
four five there's heaps of them and I can see them like surfing with the wind and on
the waves and everything I just wanted to show you it looks so stunning it's really
windy right now but look at them
all over here
flying
so we have quite a fair bit of produce here in like Coles or woolies in Australia lots
of things are pre-packaged like there's just like pre-packaged um apples pears or just
put in bags for you and wrapped in plastic so I guess that's not really great for the
environment good on Australia but you can get them without there's red pears apples
oh I see one fruit let me know if you know what this is I think this might be only like
an Australian thing or like a New Zealand Australia thing so tell me look I'll show
you so it is hairy kind of small it's a little bit soft and it's got heaps of little hairs
on it I don't know if you can see that what is this fruit called leave me in the comments
below I could do sausage I'll have a sausage yeah yeah so I got some good ones I got regular
ones for dads Because that's plain so then what we normally would do is grab like some
bread and just pretty much put the snag in the bread snag your sausage so we're just
gonna find some bread now to put it in they're only crusty ones there no I don't like the
Crusty ones you're in luck two of the regular soft ones soft and then crusty for me and
Dad
look at these these look familiar I've seen these in like Malaysia everywhere
which is about four times the amount sorry for a little bit of bread a little bit of
meat and like two two snacks and some onions it was 37 so I'm Gonna Leave the conversion
on the screen um to might be relevant to your country but yep it's expensive here in Australia
okay so we just got the call that Cappy's ready after surgery to pick up so we're gonna
go he's doing okay came through surgery okay he's like alive he's they had to cut quite
deep into his belly yeah because she wanted to get all the surrounding um around the lump
it just
down calm down oh wow he's like oh beautiful he managed to um
okay thank you hey hi you can do it
yeah I think we'll end up with a fine wine in about two seconds probably on the way home
this is a very typical Australian afternoon that you normally hang out by the barbecue
I don't know it's not really Sunset yet but it's about to be it's quite late Actually
it's seven o'clock at night so it's usually during daylight savings still pretty light
and then you come out normally with a beer and cook your dinner on the barbecue outside
very Australian so good way to end the day usually foreign
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debate barbecue or tomato sauce you have this delicious this is a Australian delicacy this
one sausage sandwich it's been too long without one of these just as I remembered it she's
users this thing you're so he's like happy but he's so out of it struggling he's so out
of it he's super high he doesn't know what's going on he is gone he doesn't know what's
going on his eyes look so vacant how are you feeling I'm exhausted yeah he doesn't he doesn't
rest or stop unless you're constantly touching him or patting him so everybody's coming off
he's a lot calmer without it but we just have to make sure he doesn't lick it at all times
so you're like constantly watching him after feeding water
so we got another cone for him it's working a lot better he finds a little bit more comfortable
he can kind of use it as a pillow and yeah hold on I'll show you because it's kind of
really cute you want to showcat oh show everyone in your cone show everyone your cone yeah
and I think we just have to probably stay with him the next couple of days make sure
he doesn't go in the grass make sure he doesn't jump anywhere make sure he doesn't do anything
um because he just had his surgery so lumps all removed and we just have to wait for the
results now how do you feel about it I'm very upset that he's in so much pain yeah but I'm
glad that it went all right I know I've just wait a week and see if it's spread to any
other organs or if it's just a skin cancer that's I hope that it's just that cancer and
it's gone and obviously you guys know why we came back to Australia so it's a little
bit tough on both of us um I think uh to have all of this happen at once but I just wanted
to say thank you to all of you guys for your support and your patience with my uploads
I know they've been a little bit less common or less often than usual for me and I just
want to also thank all of my channel members I also haven't been posting as much stuff
for them obviously because of what's happened and trying to spend as much time with my family
as possible so thank you all my channel members for being so patient and lovely and supportive
of everything that's been going on lately but I'm gonna see you in the next one like
I said we're going to show you more of Newcastle more of Sydney in the next couple of videos
coming up so make sure you do like and subscribe and anything else to say thank you for all
the lovely things you said about my mum in the last video guys I really appreciate it
and she really appreciated it as well if you don't know on the screen right now is the
video explaining why we had to come home go watch that one and you're all caught up up
to date ready for the next videos see in the next one