hello bloggineers we are at santa ana
regional transportation center and today
we're taking the metro link to oceanside
this will be our first time on a
metrolink train during the pandemic
we're going to show you all the safety
protocols on the train and things to do
on this trip we're entering the station
and face masks are required
we're going to get our tickets now from
the kiosk and there's a special deal on
the weekends where you can ride 10 round
trip
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and here's our ticket metro link from
santa ana to oceanside this adult ticket
was 10 but that's all we need because
kids ride free on weekends make sure to
not pass this yellow line especially you
little kids plus
if you ever go down there the train is
coming
you could get dead here comes the train
there's a hand sanitizer station here
for your safety all aboard
we're going to be riding four stops to
san juan capistrano there's tustin
irvine laguna and then our stock and
we're gonna get off at a few points
along the way to oceanside i have a
speedometer up which tells me how fast
we're going
80 miles per hour now it's 70. this
thing goes pretty fast
though
you pushed it out
oh 77. it's gonna get back to 80. oh
maybe that's when i hear often it was
80.
oh now it's 84.
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and we're walking around i'll try to
race the train
we have an hour here assuming that our
next train is not delayed our first stop
is hidden house coffee and we're getting
breakfast here which is their almond
croissant we had this many years ago and
i remember being like one of the best
almond croissants in the world so
hopefully it's still good the moment of
truth
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all right it's good but it's not as good
as i remember
so
for the price i wouldn't get it again
but if you do come here
it's a it's a pretty decent almond
croissant
they also have a lot of other pastries
like a regular croissant and a bunch of
muffins
now it's around 9 20 so we have 40 more
minutes to kill and we're gonna kill it
by
checking out a little garden festival
thing
yeah go for it
okay that's a good one
all right
candy
this place that we're at is by the
reserve at rancho mission viejo
and they have a really cool fox thing
but also information about the cycle of
the butterfly because this is a
butterfly festival yes oh there's a mana
right
yeah monarch
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we actually didn't plan to do anything
in singapore so we just
happened upon this butterfly festival
and
we've seen pretty much everything now
the train should be arriving shortly and
when it does arrives we'll be meeting
some of our friends adventure of an
average dad and his kids
and they're already on the train so
we're just gonna hop into the car with
them
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we just got on the train at san juan
capistrano and this is adventures of an
average dad and the best kids
we're almost to san clemente pier and
the waves here are beautiful
we're arriving at our second stop of the
day san clemente pier
we're going under the train tracks to
the san clemente pier
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and we're on the pier i i don't ever
recall coming on the sphere although i
know i have
and
there's a lot of surfers today earlier
we saw a board that says that the surf
condition today is good
casa romantica is that little white
building up there kind of close to us
and we've been there before you can
watch that video by clicking up here um
i'm pretty sure there's a lot of little
white buildings all around uh santa
claus it's not sam
but yeah
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we reached the end of the pier
the train is coming and now we're going
straight to oceanside
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we're back on the train for the third
time and oceanside is in 20 minutes
another advantage of taking the
metrolink is that sometimes you get to
go faster than the freeway like right
now
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we're arriving in oceanside we can see
the ocean and we're on the side
our first stop is banana dang at this
place i got the nutty day and it's
basically a peanut butter smoothie
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it's like drinking peanut butter except
that if you were to drink peanut butter
wouldn't be good but this is so good
i have the mango tampo
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we're at our next stop petite
meadowlands for some pastries
i'm eating a chocolate tea
croissant or whatever yeah
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this is just as good as i remember
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the only thing is that we came a little
late in the day it's like noon and if
you want it
if you want to be able to have all the
selections available to you you have to
come in the early morning otherwise a
lot of things are going to sell out
we are at wheel fund rentals by the
oceanside pier and we're gonna rent two
surrey bikes
the best kids are renting a double
survey and we're renting a single
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adventures of an average dad and the
best kids are right behind us and i just
realized this wheel doesn't work so i
cannot move
that sucks stupid wheel actually that
does make sense otherwise the driver and
the kid could be going to different
directions
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all right we're making a ue now
because we reached the end of the road
hey
not nice
i have an idea later on let's sneak past
them
oh man i'm getting so tired
okay we're this is now a one lane road
so we have to battle traffic
let's sneak past them because
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oh man that was tiring
i refused to peddle
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like is walking
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oh man ah sorry bike is so
challenging it requires a lot of
physical stuff and brother thinks it's
so easy because all he has to do is sit
i think we're ready to turn around we
could keep going a bit more but we're
getting tired so
yeah we're just gonna go back to here it
doesn't look that far we can't make it
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we're so tired that we're just pushing
the bike back luckily it's not too far
the best kids passed us like five
minutes ago now they must be back and
wondering where we are
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oh now we realize why it's so hard
because our brakes were on
i hope the best kids are not looking for
us we've been gone for so long now
pedaling with our e-brakes
all right and that is our bike
experience with wheel fun rentals
compared to some other wheel fun rentals
i i do like this one a bit better
because it's along the beach and it's a
really nice route
oh man that stupid mistake we made
it's not we it's it's our chat
well yeah pedaling itself you need you
need to be fit to do it on the surrey
bike because
it is harder than a regular bike just
keep that in mind but when you put the
brakes on it's almost impossible but
otherwise this was a really fun bike
route what i thought about um riding the
bike it was tiring my legs started to
hurt so i just started to rest but then
when we started to go fast and we
started to crash into things i started
to fall out and i got scared because i
thought i was going to get left behind
but i really didn't my favorite part is
when we
attack the best kids okay on to our next
destination now we are at the california
surf museum
let's look at this exhibit a brief
history of surfboards from solid wood to
foam and fiberglass this one is from
the 1900s it's an ancient hawaii
surfboard
it hardly looks like a surfboard and
then and then it all of a sudden
increased in height by that much or
length
1953 is fiberglass
but we're getting more modern
oh 1980s
now it has designs on it and the final
one is 2014 this is made of string girls
uh i can't pronounce it but it looks
really cool this is an exhibit about
bethany hamilton i guess one day she was
surfing and then her surfboard which i
think this is the original one and also
her arm got bitten off by a shark you
can see over here
and i'm not completely sure but i think
that's the shark that hit her bethany
hamilton appeared on the amazing race
and surprisingly she still
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surfs and that is the california surf
museum brother what did you think about
this place
it was just how i remember
it being
like the last time yeah the the thing i
remember from last time is the bethany
hamilton exhibit that one is my favorite
over here because it's so cool seeing
like the shark stuff and everything but
there's also some exhibits i don't
remember from the past probably just
because i was too little before like the
evolution of the surfboards onto the
next stop
we're in gi joe's right now this is my
first time here but we just happened to
pass by this and it's a military store
they have real military stuff here
it's all like in that camouflage color
we are at the oceanside museum of art
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this is the fountain right in front of
the library and last time we were here i
think it was turned off due to drought
i almost said due to the pandemic
this is the children's section
we have to be quiet
we're at barrow republic which is a beer
place it's kind of like the yogurt land
of beers because you pay by the ounce
but since we're too young to drink
alcohol obviously we're gonna have the
non-alcoholic ones and there's always
four options
here is cold brew coffee agave lemonade
tutti frutti soda and mango kombucha so
i'm gonna try a bit of the agave
lemonade
this is probably like 30 cents or
something
and this is our dinner for tonight first
is the crispy avocado grilled cheese
from barrow republic
and we got the barbecue combo plate from
miss kim's which used to be called that
boy good in this barbecue combo plate
there's a half rack of ribs sausage and
pulled pork
and i think this is like a biscuit or
bread
it also comes with two small sides or
you can do one large side we chose two
small sides and then upgraded our mac
and cheese because we recall the mac and
cheese being super good they add pepper
jack in it and the other side is beef
it has pesto in it oh wow that is good
the avocado is so creamy the pesto adds
a lot of good flavor
and there's also tomato and of course
cheese and the bread is so crispy
that's the best grilled cheese ever
and that is our metrolink adventure to
oceanside with stops in san juan
capistrano san clemente and of course we
spent most of the day in oceanside we
had a fun time with adventures of an
average dad and the best kids
brother what was your favorite thing
from today
um
that was so tiring
but also fun and i liked all the museums
that we went to and i liked how we got
to stop at so many different places
today and that's it see you in the next
video