santa i've been good this year and all i want for christmas is a little bit of snowfall because
honestly it does not feel like christmas the weather is just too nice here and so to be clear
they've done a great job with the decorations all along the streets really festive and really
beautiful especially at night because last night when the sun went down the lights came on
and the people came out and the streets came to life there was lots of action and happiness and
festivities happening seems like every street corner has a christmas tree on it we've seen
santa claus everywhere rudolph the red-nosed reindeer but we have not seen any snowmen
and i'm looking to try and capture the christmas spirit i don't feel like it's christmas it feels
like june it's so nice out here and i understand there's many different ways to do things
and the world is a big place and i'm not suggesting the brazilian christmas is less
valid than the canadian christmas but i just don't have the christmas spirit in me yet
and so with this in mind yvonne and i have come to this city which is known as a very european
city here in brazil you'll notice a lot of the buildings have that wood frame sort of like a
swiss chalet we did see the one restaurant with a german flag on it and they were selling bratwurst
so it's known as a christmas destination for local tourism here in brazil
you can see all of the decorations behind us and we've come here in search of
the christmas spirit so we don't know exactly why the european people seem to have settled here
it's like 85 percent or more white european people living here it's possible it's because this is the
highest city in brazil in terms of altitude so the temperature is a little bit cooler
but in the end it is true this is the christmas village here in brazil
and we are here to try and capture the christmas spirit so we came yesterday on a bus ride from sao
paulo was three hours to get here big shout out to the bus company because it was super nice bus
absolutely luxurious bus our experience traveling has been it's very easy to put a sticker on the
side of the bus that says wi-fi but it's very hard to make the wi-fi work on the bus so shout out to
brazil the wi-fi works there was a bathroom on the bus there was lots of leg room was a really nice
luxurious bus ride here from sao paulo and our good luck continued when we got here because our
accommodation which is a guest house one room in a house with a beautiful garden is so beautiful
the whole neighborhood is so beautiful it seems like a really nice garden and a really lush and
green community is all around us our room is on the top floor we've got a absolutely luxurious
bed the mattress must be ten thousand dollars a super nice bed big window private bathroom of
course and uh we're sort of overlooking the garden and i will say the main floor of our accommodation
i'm not sure if the lady who owns it is like an interior designer or what
but it's right out of a magazine it's so beautiful and well done and so festive and so christmassy
and we're hoping we can capture the christmas spirit because honestly it feels like june that's
right i feel the weather is so nice i think my favorite temperature is between 25 and 30.
and it's like 26 a little bit cloudy the sun comes and goes perfect weather yeah um where i come from
it's either good weather or it's christmas never both so we're hoping we can capture the christmas
spirit all right now what will we get up to there is a huge uh more than one actually
chocolate sellers chocolatiers yeah so maybe we can buy some christmas chocolates maybe we
can go find some christmas somehow our goal is to capture the christmas spirit so let's go let's go
all right first up a pink castle full of chocolate let's give it a shot chocolate chocolate and more
chocolate this is my kind of store and lucky for us the lady at the counter was able to gift wrap
the incredible amount of chocolate we bought because lucky for us we have been invited to a
local's house in sao paulo one of our subscribers named gustavo has invited us there and obviously a
good way to get in the christmas spirit uh outside of snow and cold weather would be spending time
with friends and family and exchanging gifts so we won't show you what exactly we bought but we
will show up to gustavo's place with a whole bunch of chocolates oh yeah maybe we'll get
a bottle of wine too or something uh starting to feel like i'm in the christmas spirit ivana
slowly but surely you know thinking of others and buying gifts and going to their house
i want to eat them now i must wait a minute it's only three days but big thank you to gustavo for
the invitation it should really help us have a christmas experience outside of just the two of
us you know all alone and a local experience too not just the christmas experience it's a
local brazilian christmas experience yeah it's just nice so stay tuned for our next
video where we will be in gustavo's aunt's house i believe yeah with the whole family and friends
and learning about brazilian christmas all right the hunt for christmas spirit continues let's go
super nice decorations in here wondering what iceland is uh
not sure do you know what iceland is maybe like a skating park or something maybe some
sort of skating park so this is actually another chocolate shop and restaurant that we've wandered
into just to admire the decorations we're not intending on buying anything but everywhere you
look so well decorated for for christmas all the cakes with the noel here so nice
uh the decorations here five star cannot beat it so lots of live music
people are cheering for this particular singer but interesting that they're not seeming to sing
christmas songs they're playing like top 40 hits and i just realized there must be
brazilian christmas songs that don't mention the snow right so many of my christmas
songs i'm thinking of walking into winter wonderland jingle bells dashing through the
snow there must be uh there must be brazilian christmas songs that are like sunglasses on
going to the beach hey it's almost christmas i would love to hear a song like that actually i
think most brazilians spend christmas on the beach christmas on the beach the beach would
be full off local celebrating christmas so if anyone knows a brazilian christmas song maybe
i'll follow along on the translated lyrics i'd love to hear a song about how the weather is so
nice not a cloud in the sky my wife's got that beautiful skirt on hey it must be christmas
what an interesting song idea it's obviously that it must exist but i never thought of it till now
but as you guys can see this place is just awesome i mean you can just walk and walk here uh tons of
live music playing your favorite songs buildings look at that yeah so nice with
the uh old clay tile roofs sort of this european wood frame uh style and just music echoing out
and at night all the lights makes this place mad yeah at night it's super duper magical but even
during the day quite nice and maybe it's time for a cold beer ivana sounds good ivana says thumbs
up oh good answer all right let's do it i think it was meant to be guys never in my life have i seen
a christmas beer so i'm a little nervous because i don't really like flavored beers
as a general idea uh what would the flavor be in canada we would have like a honey glazed ham for
christmas i don't think it's ham flavored beer i think it's more cakey or sweet we would also have
like a turkey i don't think it's turkey beer candy cane hopefully it's not sweet beer i was hoping it
would be like a cinnamon pumpkin pie pumpkin pie kind of beer that would be something i could go
for and this is like a local brewery local brewery yeah we only came to this particular restaurant
because it's totally full most restaurants are almost empty it's like noon or so but this one
is full so we thought let's go here we look at the menu christmas beer uh without further ado cheers
tastes like regular beer to me what yeah i don't think it's bad i think it's quite
good but there's no christmas flavor oh that was disappointing i filled it up too much in my head
it's good beer yeah it's good but it's not cinnamon or pumpkin pie or something
cranberry sauce beer um darn yeah i was really excited for some cinnamon beer
well there you have it i will say uh i feel more christmas spirit now than i did this morning shop
for some gifts hanging around all the decorations all the christmas trees it's slowly going on santa
everywhere yeah i hope when we see gustavo and his family we will show up with christmas spirit in us
i want to show there in in the vibe but uh big thanks to him for inviting us in a couple days
so stay tuned for that vlog and interestingly enough brazilians do christmas on christmas eve
yeah i think so in canada we do the 25th in the morning we'll be seeing gustavo the 24th at night
yes good for them a day early we're half a day early come back to us so with that maybe we'll
finish our beer and maybe we'll wait for the sun to go down and we'll come out tonight and see if
we can have some more exploration tonight it's really lively at night so maybe tonight we can
find some christmas spirit all right kind of disappointed in this beer it's not bad
beer but it's just regular beer nothing doesn't taste christmassy i was excited
for candy cane it's just beer yeah it's good beer but just beer anyway see you tonight
oh my goodness look what we got here for dinner yo this is gonna be a new christmas tradition for us
yeah look at this one meter sausage first things first cheese inside with cheese inside yeah
one meter sausage for the sausage because we just tried this amazing beer saucy
it's amazing that this one is called golden and the other one was called christmas yeah this one
tastes so much like christmas so much it's a bit of a christmas miracle ask and you shall receive
we wanted a christmas beer we got it by accident and we also got one meter of sausage
oh i cannot wait this is fantastic listen it's a christmas miracle the heater for us
oh good point they got the heaters on the sweater on i tell you what guys the christmas spirit is
alive and well in the tropics i think so i feel it i'm super excited to go to gustavo's in a few days
we got this cinnamon flavored beer and we got a meter of sausage and the lights are on behind
ivana looking like a million bucks wow i cannot believe this beer five stars five stars oh yeah
christmas beer i got this christmas spirit all in a glass christmas beer it's kind of like it
tastes like the mold wine of beer yeah because it's got a cinnamon flavor it tastes like mulled
wine if it were beer yeah all right yvonne eat this sausage and let's go look at this little
little party we got here cheese inside provolone cheese inside a one meter sausage
yo the christmas spirit i am i am vibrating with christmas energy i am bursting at the seams dude
we did it ivana we got some gifts for our friends we're going to gustavo's in a few days we got the
christmas beer and we got a new tradition yeah one meter sauce christmas lights surrounding us wow
what a place yeah you did it we absolutely did it okay let's eat up and then let's go explore the uh
night market one more time fantastic high five christmas is alive and well in the tropics
who says you need snow to have a christmas so i'm sitting here you know i'm eating sausage
and mustard and bread and i'm thinking of our days in romania right shout out to meech and i
was sort of reflecting on the whole year we've had last christmas we were in malaysia with ken
and greg and julie and just this epic adventure we've been on for three years now and i dare say
the whole concept of this vlog was a little bit off it's my fault the idea was we were in search
of the christmas spirit ivana the christmas spirit has been right in our hearts all along
no but really i think um i think i wasn't missing the snow so much i think i was missing my
family yeah family and friends and friends and just what's familiar to me for christmas
and let's be clear my family has not magically appeared here but i think they understand that
we are on this journey making these incredible memories last christmas the whole trip in
pakistan this year was amazing romania was a super highlight albania was a super highlight serbia was
a big surprise uh i think i think they understand and i think that uh christmas spirit was in our
hearts all along oh you're right steve who am i bill shakespeare i want to kill him over here
so uh yesterday we were here and i didn't have the christmas spirit i was a little bit
sad you know we couldn't make a vlog yesterday right but today over the course of the day
my mood has improved and i've got a big glass of holiday cheer yeah and i think i think
christmas is a success fell is not palsy feliz natal and in two days christmas eve
we will be with our new friend gustavo making more memories oh there you have
it you're missing your friends but you're making by making new friends so there you have it guys
uh we were looking for the christmas spirit little did we know it was in our hearts all along
and uh although we still miss canada we will be back one day and it won't go anywhere as
we're gone and now ivana is looking for some mulled wine as a shout out to our last year's
christmas in malaysia where our friend ken abroad made some mulled wine for us
the smell is unbelievable uh stuff floating in it oh it smells so good the smell kind of
makes me want one but i'm gonna pass but it smells like christmas it smells like christmas is right
good or bad it's good it's good it's hot no it's hot it's warm it's good for this cold
weather that we're having tonight listen it's christmas season here ivana we're down to like
16 degrees oh it's so good there you have it cinnamon cloves orange apple
all the best stuff in the world there you have it guys thanks for watching our christmas vlog
oh my gosh this town you guys you have to face it yeah uh overall i would say it's a great visit
from sao paulo three hour bus ride and the bus was super nice a great escape from the concrete
jungle from sao paulo and the weather here it's nice it's a good escape from the heat too nice
european christmas village there you have it guys all right thanks for watching give me cheers ivana
see you guys in the next vlog from uh gustavo's house on christmas ooh it's hot it's nice
it's actually so good it's actually so good it's piping hot but it's so good
definitely so satisfying what's missing is just eggnog
eggnog anyway we're making new holiday traditions this year