TANGERINEYS! Oh my gosh!
Okay, well we have a lot of enthusiasm right now. We
originally were saying hello and the day was about to begin. We didn't actually
know what was going to happen today, like usual, and now we do, and man! This was a
total surprise to us! [Maddie's word vomit]
Speechless. Can't really speak words right now because we're just gonna have
to show you what's about to happen. Let's do it!
Laska where are we going?
Where are we going?
[Laska howling]
[Laska and Jordan howling]
I think you should go get her. Okay.
Oh my gosh! She's coming down the stairs for the first time!
Awe! You're almost down Laska. Laska, you're right here!
It's okay!
Here. I got your. I got. Oh, jeez!
Laska, Laska, you went down the stairs! Oh my gosh!
Oh great! [Laughter]
Laska, do you wanna go for a car ride?
Jordan: They're a ways away.
Maddie: Okay
Jordan: Just pull up forward here.
(In a British accent] So we want to merge in right here and we're gonna stay on
this road for 40 kilometers. 40 kilometros, okay!
Laska, are you excited?
Right now we're taking the short drive from Guadalajara to the north shore of
Lake Chapala to a popular retirement community in the city of Ajijic. And we'll
be staying there for a week. Aji-week. Over the next week we'll be showing you
some of the stuff there is to do there, the beauty of the lake and the mountains
surrounding it. It's quite a ways above sea level, I think it's 6,000 feet if I
remember right? We're about 15 minutes from our destination now and I cannot
believe how green it is here! Yeah, we've traveled here once before to the Lake
Chapala area on the north, and as I'm driving here I'm thinking are
we going the right way? Is this the same road that we took? But I'm pretty sure it
is it's just that there's so much more greenery! The plants, the trees, the grass,
Everything, everything is completely covered. So there is a rainy season in
Guadalajara and that must extend here as well. The mountains surrounding here are
absolutely gorgeous! Covered in trees. Totally green.
So many brooms!
Here's some artesanias on the side of the road just a few minutes away from ajijic. Laska what are
you doing? Get down! We got some snacks!
Oooh, watermelon! Furniture. We're going to talk in Spanish now and we're going to arrive in a few minutes.
8 minutes. A lot of traffic now.
There are so many cars!
Laska, are you freaking out? Are you excited?
Get your booty in your chair!
[Powerful laughter] She already loves it!
So is this one unlocked? This gate?
Laska!
Laska, do you like the yard? Oh my gosh, she's having so much fun!
Yep, I think she's very happy!
Okay, are you ready to go inside? Let me wipe your paws.
We are very polite and we are very clean and you will wipe all 4 of your paws!
And then you get to go inside.
What do you see?
And she's out! [Laughter]
Did you see everything in the house?
She explored everything there is to explore.
In the fastest way possible.
Wanna go play? Let's go play!
We will frolic! [Laughter] In the yard!
[Laughter] Oh my gosh!
Let's go! [Laughter]
[Scream] [Laughter]
So we just arrived to the house where we're going to be staying for a whole
week and I am freaking stoked! This is the most beautiful home I think we've
ever seen in all of Mexico! It is amazing! So where we're standing right now is a
little carport covered, gated, and walking in the front door here on the
left, a ginormous beautiful kitchen. Dishwasher. Oh yes, and a dishwasher. I
honestly don't think we've ever seen a dishwasher in all of Mexico. And as a
total treat to us a washer and dryer. We've had to take our laundry elsewhere
for pretty much the last three months or so. Downstairs we have dining area,
beautiful living room, the fireplace, and then out here is the yard that we were
just in. Another living area where you can also see out to the yard. Oh yeah!
That's the life!
Bedroom down here and then a bathroom. Downstairs bathroom
with a big gorgeous window for lots of light to be let in.
Coming around here we
have this staircase with more beautiful windows, and then if
you look up here, this brick lighting area with the smaller windows. I
think that is just amazing! And then this is the office area with access to this huge
second-story patio. [Laughter] Her tongue is flopping out everywhere!
Here is the master bedroom with
another absolutely gorgeous brick ceiling! I've never seen one sort of this
vaulted curved brick ceiling, so beautiful!
Look at this patio, it's huge!
Laska loves it! Do you loves it?
Then you have this mural here. Giant mural, very pretty.
Up here, I don't know
if it's gonna be hard to see cuz this is very far away, but the mountains you can
see are so green! And lots of... the clouds are hanging low or maybe that's fog
Perhaps my favorite part, I am so so so so so excited! We have the master
bathroom and a shower but that's not what I'm excited about. I'm excited to be
able to take my first bath ever in Mexico!
And then perhaps the biggest walk-in
closet I have ever seen. What do you think? I think how you how you described
earlier as a palace, a palace yes, is pretty accurate.
Oh my gosh, this is gorgeous! I love that there
are so many windows everywhere! Like these these cute little windows right
here. Skylights, this huge window next to the bath. These little windows around
stairs, and all those cute small ones down here as well more ornate windows. And I
don't know if you guys realize this but they may have done tangerine accents.
This place is so big we already lost Laska.
It's so spacious! This is a strange thing to say but I think it has a really great
movement of energy through it because the doors are parallel to each other
letting light in and out all around. We forgot to mention before that in
addition to all of the things that we've shared so far all the water in the house
is filtered, so we won't even have to go buy water. I didn't even know that was
like a thing that you could do. It even comes with personal service that will
take your luggage upstairs for you. Thank you!
Thank you for this great help and
At the greyhound racetrack, they have a fake bunny that goes around the track and all the dogs chase the fake bunny.
[Laughter]
Laska, this isn't a toy!
This is for cleaning.
And one last thing about this place that I forgot to mention as well, before we
leave to explore, is it's quite secure. Around the entire place there is an
electric fence and alarm system for Hakuna Matata.
(Singing) It means no worries, (humming the song).
And out here, thug cactus, fuzzy cactus, chubby cactus, alto cactus, flower cactus.
And then the road, like most places in ajijic and
Lake Chapala area is like this cobblestone-type bumpy road so buckle up. Hello!
As we were coming into town, we noticed all along the streets people were
selling fruit, furniture. We don't really know what's out there right now but it's
Sunday and we are going to explore!
How are you? How much is horchata?
10 pesos. 10 pesos?
I'd like a glass. You want a little glass? Yes, please.
Thank you! Just one glass?
Thank you! Very well. Thank you!
We didn't even make it out to the main road before we found some horchata. 10 pesos.
As we're walking down the street and sort of taking in this Ajijic area, I'm really
surprised! A lot of people talk about this as if it's...totally Gringo-ized?
Yeah! Because it's such a huge prominent retirement community and a lot of expats
live here, you would expect it to be a lot like Puerto Vallarta where they're
trying to adapt and accommodate to people from the US or Canada or wherever,
and the customs sort of changes, the culture changes, but here it's not really
like that, you still have the. We can't say that yet but our very first impressions. Yeah,
that's true, that's true, first impressions. And from when we were
here before, it doesn't really feel like it's lost that charming Mexico
small-town vibe that a lot of towns have. We still have these little tiendas (stores), the
restaurants have authentic homemade furniture and things like that. But even
down to something like a family selling food and horchata in front of their
house, it's very classic typical Mexico. So I feel like if that were gone and all
it was is commercialized-type stores, then maybe I'd be thinking differently.
And in the handful of blocks we've walked in the last few minutes we've
seen mostly Mexicans, few gringos. [Laughter] Yeah.
Okay so after a brief sesame seed
disaster at the first restaurant that we tried, we're now here
at Fonda Doña Lola. [Laughter]
Which looks like an adorable classic mexico canteen,
Cantina? Yeah, so we have these pigskin chairs and of course these woven tablecloths. Really good food!
We're sipping on some 30-peso margaritas right now. This place seems
really affordable. Yeah, really affordable!
Like a bowl of fruit starts at 27 pesos.
And I got a side of refried beans for 20 and then something that has mushrooms garlic
and some other type of peppers for 60 pesos I believe. You can get something like
chicken fajitas for 115 pesos or somewhere around there. Margaritas are
really good! We're enjoying this place. Behind us right now, all the windows
are open, so we've got this great breeze coming through. We have a nice view of
the mountains which I cannot, I can't stop looking at them. They're so lush, and
green, and the clouds are hanging low over them, it's beautiful. Oh my gosh, I'm
so excited we're gonna be here for a week! I'm actually really shocked at how
much food this is!
Yeah, this has got to be like
a pound of mushrooms I think. And it came atop garlic bread, which
thankfully, I have Jordan the gluten eater to eat for me.
And he's very happy with that! And then this side of refried beans is humungous
probably double the size of most you get at a restaurant.
Especially for 20 pesos.
(Maddie singing) Working at the carwahs! Whoa whoa yeah yeah yeah. The carwahs? At the carwahs, yeah yeah yeah!
So after being here for a little while, being here for the day, we're kind of
wondering if we should reconsider things? We're sitting here like, maybe this has
reignited our travel bug? Maybe we should reconsider our plans? We had originally
said we're going to stay in Guadalajara for four more months. We had just said
that actually in our last video, and now we're like, are we gonna stay here? Are we
gonna go back there? Are we gonna travel to other places? I don't know! I really
don't know! It's all up in the air. So, in the meantime, we are gonna be here for one
full week, one exact week. So if you have any video requests for us, something you
would like to see while we are in Ajijic and Lake Chapala area, just let us know
down below. Let us know in the comments for recommendations for us. We really
appreciate when you have those from experience, or things that you think that
we would love doing, or that other people would love seeing. Also let us know in
the comments! We may even do our very first all-Spanish video, with subtitles
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