Hello, hello from beautiful Gran Canaria, Spain
Today is actually my birthday- I turned 28 years young
and Robin surprised me by bringing us out here to this island.
I had no idea that we were coming here until we arrived late last night
because even when we were getting onto the plane
I didn't know what the sign said. So it's a very pleasant surprise.
I have no idea, obviously, what's planned for today,
I haven't looked anything up, so he's got an itinerary,
we're just going to explore some of the island
and I actually recently did an Instagram story...
question, asking you guys
what kind of videos you wanted to see more of and I was kind of surprised
to see that vlogs was the most frequently requested thing
and think it's surprising for me
Just cause... ahh, I don't know, I've never really seen myself as much of a vlogger
But I also love watching vlogs of the youtube channels that I'm subscribed to.
It helps me feel like I'm more connected with that person so I can understand it
And I'm up to the challenge. I hope you enjoy this vlog of us here exploring this beautiful place.
Look at this mountain
The mountains straight up looks like something out of Jurassic Park.
Hey you're not keeping it straight, it's like at an angle
It's going to make people dizzy
Robin: So tell me what you're feeling when you see this
You know what I'm feeling? I'm feeling like *that* is going to be my future house
Can you see it? That's going to be my future house.
Glass windows all along the side, epic view of the mountains
We, uh, said that we came to this island for my birthday,
but really we came house hunting
for
our little vacation home
because apparently we're rolling in the 'moolah'
(whispers: we're not)
A girl can have dreams...
Oh, hi, I didn't see you there, are you gonna come visit our house?
Oh my gosh, let me show you, I'll take you up right now
Welcome to MTV Cribs. This is my home!
If you take a look over here you're gonna see this beautiful mountain range
If you just do a little bit of, like, a 180 here
you're gonna notice we've got a beautiful view
of the ocean there, the water,
just unobstructed, kind of
it's obstructed a little bit isn't it...but anyway
I'm going to bring you into our foyer, if you just follow me right this way
We've got this beautiful, beautiful cacti here
You try to purchase this back in the Netherlands, I can tell you
from experience it costs about 500 euros..
Here, it just grows like that. Nature... lovely.
So this is where we like to host all of our friends, you know all the Hollywood.. *laughs*
the Hollywood stars, the A-list singers, all that kind of jazz
Just little, can you imagine, just having like a little champagne up here
and you're just.. there's like live DJ
live jazz music, just playing and...
This is the life. Right?
Robin: You out of gas? C'mon, keep going. Sadia: *laughs*
Keep going? I can't, I can't make up
Robin: What's the conclusion?
What's the conclusion?
I can't afford this place. That's what the conclusion is.
I'm just feeding false hope... Robin: Also because it's a museum. Sadia: *laughs* it is a museum..
Pretend like this your place but it's not
Pretend you came to this fancy place to enjoy a cocktail
But it's just a museum you entered for two euros...
Wow...
Wow, wow, wow, wow
We just spent like two hours driving through
these really windy roads, and it was like the most beautiful
thing I've ever seen... I think I'm not kidding,
I was joking about the little house tour earlier
but literally, I think I might consider
coming here for a month or two in the winter and just working
on Pick Up Limes from this place, it's just...
look at this
It's so beautiful
And this boys and girls is why you should skip the straw
skip it
Cause this ends up in the.., ooh
Sadia: in the OH-cean
First order of business when you go traveling is always to find a supermarket
and load up on
some fresh fruits and veggies so that we have snacks when we're on the road
Look at this..
I love this, look it's like irregularly shaped
cause it comes from the trees here
*music*
It's a good orange!
So Robin has to periodically honk because we are going on a
really windy road, and there's like mountainous terrain
so we keep turning and turning and turning and you're like on
the edge of a cliff and you have no idea if there's cars coming around the bend..
eeeeh
* nervous laughter*
Um, let me show you
*honks*
Sadia: here we go, good job good job good job
It's so tight- tight curves, only enough for like one car
but look at this view
So mister Robin loves to fly his drone
and we've reached this beautiful, epic location:
No cars, no people. Okay let's see what you can film
So we're apparently going next to see this big rock
on a mountain, it's supposed to be huge
But before we do that, we want to eat some lunch
Sadia: So I want to try something on the menu called
boiled potatoes with a spicy Canarian sauce, and I've heard about this and I've looked it up
Really want to give this a try
Is it possible to get a bowl
of green olives?
No? No olives at all? No? Okay, no problem
yeah, but just no straw if possible..
straw... *trying to show what straw means*
Waiter: ah!
It's interesting that they said that they don't have olives
because when I looked it up online
That was like the main reason why I was like, "Let's choose this restaurant!"
Robin: Yeah I don't think he understood exactly what you meant
Then maybe I should show him this picture
Sadia: Green olives
Waitress: Yess, of course. Sadia: Could you? Wonderful, thank you
Whispers: YES
That made my day, that really made my day.
So when we went on our
trip to Indonesia, we had ordered these coconuts and there was a straw in it
And some of the Pick Up Limes members were like,
"Why are you using a straw?" And to be honest it's not even something that crossed my mind
Um, but I appreciate that they mentioned that
Because, now..
We travel with little bamboo straws. But honestly, we don't even need
a straw at all
Waitress: They are spicy, okay? Sadia: YEs
Perfect, spicy, even better. Waitress: *laughs* enjoy.. Sadia: Thank you so much
Prost!
Oh my god,
Sadia: These are the best olives I've ever had. Robin: Yeah?
Thank you very much
Thank you
Oh that's really *really* good
I'm gonna order another one, this is SO good
Robin: There's already so much food
Oh my...the sauce I could drink it
This combination: potatoes, a good sauce to dip it into
and olives.
Sadia: *gasps* Is that the rock? Robin: Yeah
Ho-ly, that's huuuge!
Sadia: So, there's the rock structure we wanna go up to
and
There's Robin... *Laughs* Hi!
Robin: (distant) hi!
Robin: We're almost there, but we're actually racing against uh,
against the sun, to catch the last little bit
of sunshine here. The upside of being late
is that we can hopefully catch the sunset.
Sadia: Ah, that would be really nice
Robin: Oh, wow
Sadia: whaat?
This is insane! What?!
You don't realize how big it is until you see the little person on it for scale
Sadia: how, how, how?
How is this real?
I always feel like this is a morbid discussion that we're about to get into
But I've always felt like you know how sometimes you wonder
what's going to be your demise? How it is you're going to die?
Maybe it's old age, maybe it's some kind of fatal accident,
I don't know why but I've always felt like for me
it's going to be some kind of natural disaster
Robin: That's not gonna be it for you
You don't think so? What is it gonna be?
Robin: You're gonna, kill yourself accidentally
Accidentally... I am a bit clumsy
Think I'm gonna like walk in front of traffic or something?
Or like, fall off a bike?
Robin: or a cliff
Sadia: *stumbles* Oof! Robin: oops
This is the death that you were talking about
Robin: And I'm recording it, I've got the evidence. I didn't kill her
Robin: Just get- f*ckin'...
Robin: Ugh... Sadia: That made me a little nervous too
Robin: Did your life flash before your eyes?
No!
Robin: Did you see me?
No
Robin: no? *Sadia stumbles* whoah
Robin: Thanks
Sadia: What's wrong?
Sadia: You afraid of the heights? Robin: A little bit.
Sadia: *laughs*
Robin: Gonna sit here,
You go ahead. Sadia: No, go!
I've perched myself up in this little cave
with an epic view that I'll show you in a second
But I've coerced Robin into joining me even though he's so afraid of heights
Sadia: *soflty* good job, good job
Robin: Holy shit...
Sadia: *laughs*
This is great
Sadia: It's nice right?
You forget that I'm 50% Dutch
Sadia: Which means what?
Which means that we like flat land
Sadia: Little friend.... Hey...
Sadia: There's something super therapeutic about being up
in the mountains... This is...
So beautiful... So so so beautiful
I've never seen anything like this.
Sadia: So nice...
Robin: ...gonna eat this one?
Sadia: Yeah, why not? Look...
Robin: Wow, its, uh, its a twin.
Sadia: Exactly!
Robin: Siamese twin banana....
That's a first.
Sadia: Let's see, do they, do they prey apart?
Robin: Yeah. Sadia: Yesssss!
Sadia:There's two bananas in one! *laughs*
Super cool....