today is absolutely nuts the stress levels are very very high we're going to fill you guys in
on what's going on throughout the course of this video but basically we are leaving the dominican
republic today this came out of nowhere we got invited to go somewhere which is across the world
like literally the other side of the globe so this is this is nuts oh my goodness totally totally
freaking out and trying not to panic there's a lot happening there's a lot happening we're
gonna fill you in throughout the video of all the various crazy stuff that's going on we don't even
know if we're gonna get on a plane today yeah well more on that in a second not even sure if
i'm gonna be able to close that at this point it's looking like a big little no at the moment
but for those of you that started to panic with us saying that we're leaving the dominican republic
we will be back the plan is to be gone for a couple of weeks if we can even get on the
plane we've run into so many issues over the last little while so that's the reason we're not quite
telling you where we're going yet because we just don't know if it's going to happen have we ever
had this happen we've never had this going to an airport and not even know if you can
get on the flight so i mentioned already we are going to be getting on a flight to fly across
the world saying that out loud i just can't even believe it so this side of the world has kind
of been dropping restrictions and protocols to fly the other side of the world is just
starting to open up and because of that we had to jump through a lot of things to even attempt to
get on this flight today i'm a little bit nervous about my bag situation here it's packed pretty
high pretty tight right now and i have to get that camera in there so that's well that's going to be
something so some of the things we had to do this week just to even attempt to board this flight is
of course we had to go get a pcr test and that's never fun we also had to get our photos printed
for a visa so finding a spot to do that in this little town that was quite interesting and then we
had to fill out a lot of paperwork and we had to get it printed as well and we're still about to go
to this airport and not even know if we can get on the plane i'm not sure why i'm trying to roll two
bags at once but so far so good there hopefully the wheels aren't broken on that that would just
be another fun thing to add to this but you might be wondering why we're so nervous about not being
able to get on the flight other than the pcr test which is obviously a big deal as well
but essentially we got invited by a third party to this big event that's happening on the other
side of the world and they've done all the organization for the booking of the flights
and getting the visas and essentially what they did is gave us a official letter saying that we
can we have special permission to get a visa on arrival but we went to go check in to our flight
yesterday within the 24 hour period it wouldn't let us because we require a visa number in order
to check into the flight and we don't have a visa number hopefully at the airport everything will
go fine and they can just look at the letter and be like you're good to go but we don't know if
they're going to be like you need a visa number to get on this flight and then what are we going to
do so there's a good chance we'll be coming right now not a good chance don't say a good chance
but we could come back through this door in a couple hours i hope this video doesn't end with
us coming back through those doors in gears so one positive thing is that we have this apartment
rented for a couple of months so at least we didn't have to pack up all our things we only
needed to pack what we require hopefully we have everything oh i'm so nervous we keep saying that
we have something nice to come back to but i will say one thing that's not positive was our
covic test so we're good with the pcr test they just arrived we're both negative so at least we
have that on the not so great side uh or we keep getting emails that our first flight is delayed
if we can even get on it going back to that if we didn't even get on it it's now delayed some couple
of hours something a little lighthearted this is the first time i have worn pants and i think you
have had pants on in a very long time well i would sometimes wear these but it's the first time you
have worn pants since like six months all right our taxi is coming for the airport here we go
okay we made it to the airport it was only about a 30 minute drive it does not look too busy in
there which is definitely a good thing hopefully you didn't just jinx us we are we were told that
because we have a priority pass we can actually do some sort of vip thing so we need to look for
guys in red ties and apparently they will like uh put us to the front of the lines and stuff like
that we'll see if that actually works sounds too good to be true i've never actually heard of such
a service so well let's see so we found the vip service you want to look for the guys in the red
lanyard they took us right to the checking counter ahead of the entire line sorted out
our visa situation and got us tickets for all of our connecting flights and they even took us down
to security and put us in front of the entire line as well we went through immigration they
let us stop at a money exchange and then took us on our way to the lounge itself so this service is
incredible we're now in the lounge which is small on a smaller side but very very comfortable and
it's not too crowded at all has everything that you need i got myself a beer very important before
free flight especially on such a stressful day but going back to that visa issue didn't seem to
be a problem at the check-in desk i don't really know what exactly happened we just handed her her
passports and all our papers and then like 20 minutes later we were ready to go so she didn't
even blink an eye or like say anything weird about it so yes also if you were wondering this was all
this whole experience could happen to priority packs yeah not sponsored by priority pass but it
is something that's part of our credit card and just highly recommended if you're somebody that
travels a lot having access to lounges in general is great but why don't they have the service at
every airport it's amazing honestly so i'll touch on immigration quickly so technically when you get
to the dominican republic as a canadian citizen you have 30 days in the country we've obviously
been here for over six months and a lot of you have been asking like how that works how does
the fines work technically so the way it works is you just come to the airport here on your way out
of the country you just pay a fee i just think of it as an extension fee we paid 8 000 pesos for two
people for a little over six months which is about 140 or 150 us dollars we paid with the credit card
there's no questions asked it's just an overstay fee they don't ask you any questions at all and
they welcome you back in the future we still can't tell you where we're going because believe it or
not we're in the lounge here dealing with forms and paperwork huh i can't get over the amount of
paperwork i feel like i i don't even know what what i'm existing in right now it's so bizarre
so we have to fill out all these forms so now there's a medical declaration do you think canada
so if we get all this sorted we will definitely fill you in when we get closer to the gate i think
you're hungry or hangry honestly my head is in so many places that i don't feel hungry but i'm sure
i am i probably need to eat something because i'm probably really hangry and i don't even realize it
food to the rescue i ordered a chicken wrap so here in the lounge they don't have a whole lot
of food options just really a bunch of snacks but you can order food from the restaurant they
bring it directly to the lounge here to you i don't think i've ever experienced that so we
got a chicken wrap some french fries kudos to all the people that manage to eat really well
when they're traveling because that's never us no this is gonna be a lot of plain food and the
question is i mean usually plane food isn't the best that's way better than i expected it to be
especially for airplane or airport food which is never exceptional but this is really yummy there's
some good sauce on there there might be some cucumber something was really crunchy and fresh in
there chicken is grilled not fried that's a bonus for us because we do have those french fries on
the side and there's just some tomato in there but whatever the sauce is really yummy if you guys are
wondering i got the same thing down here so yeah that's how it's going to go today all right the
time in the lounge was great i always loved going to a lounge on long travel days yes hopefully
there'll be more lounges in our future because well we're going to board soon we've got three
flights ahead of us i think almost 40 hours 40 hours of travel of travel ahead of us today so
we've been kind of letting you guys wonder where we're going intentionally because we weren't sure
if we can get on the plane pretty sure we can now so should we tell you i'm feeling
pretty good yeah you ready are you guys ready let's kind of pause for a second if you have a
guest leave it now we'll wait a second all right who wants to do it we are going to
vietnam first time first time so excited that's right we're flying across the world to viet nam
we cannot wait to get there you can probably tell we're really excited we just have there's a lot of
hoops to jump through to get there but we're going to be there still more hoops to come here yeah
so we found our gate not that it's that big of an airport but they're boarding already actually
i'm a little surprised this is happening quickly that's good hopefully it means we'll have enough
time on the other end to catch our next flight but if you want to watch a 40-hour travel day maybe
watch us run through an airport to try to get our gate we're not quite sure yet hopefully we're not
oh god that's gonna be all in the next video all right this is happening way faster than
we thought we're gonna have to go get on that plane as anna just said you'll be able to pick
us up in the next video and see if we make it across the world
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helps us out but for now we gotta go catch a plane all right guys that's it
from dominican republic and we'll be back wishing you delightful travels see you soon
now you