Good morning from Morelia! This is incredible and we're looking forward to exploring!
It's our first time in the city, we're coming from Aguascalientes where we just
celebrated Día de los Muertos. But we are noticing the remnants of the Dia de los
Muertos celebrations here, which is so cool! They've got like hanging garlands
with these Maddie-golds, I mean marigolds. [Laughter] And lots of different
ofrendas and various things. We don't even know what exactly they are
but it's kind of interesting to see a celebration of death die in and of itself,
And be cleaned up and refreshed. And the city's being cleaned up right now. It
seems like there was a lot going on here right in the Centro area of Morelia! It's
still pretty gorgeous but they're taking it all down today.
So basically, the only time we've spent in the city since arriving last night
has been in Centro, and I seriously cannot stop staring at this gorgeous
Cathedral. We're kind of just walking around it in circles like trying to get
over the like "Oh my gosh, it's so pretty!"
It's incredible! (In a Steve Irwin Austrialian Outback accent) I've spotted a Jordan in
the wild with some tamales, let's see how he eats them.
I have to eat them right now?
(Switches to a British accent) Will he eat the banana leaf?
Or will he take it off?
We shall see. What is this?
How do I even get this apart?
Okay, here we go.
(In a British accent) It does look like a lot of work.
So these are supposed to be typical of Michoacán.
A Michoacan combination plate, and I
didn't realize I was getting all tamales.
This is my first-ever gordita. They make it with maiz, which is corn. So it
doesn't have gluten which is why I can try it. Usually, I think they're made with
wheat flour. Also, very typical of Michoacan.
How much was it? 81 pesos.
Kind of tastes like a sope. Like your average sope.
(This is our 2nd Airbnb in the city, our 1st was kind of a disaster.) We just got to our Airbnb here Morelia where we have
this nice gated area to park the car. We have a space reserved for our apartment.
Up a couple flights of stairs and to our place.
This door is unlike anything I've
ever seen. You have the door handle in the middle and it opens over here. And that's
a dog! Laska, stay. Stay.
And then coming inside, this is our
little loft apartment that we're staying in, in
Morelia. Super cute!
The place conveniently came with a husky and this
cute guy. And really fast Internet, we're so excited! Very close to Centro, just a
quick walk over there. We're gonna be staying here for eight nights and then
it comes out to like just over two hundred dollars. We always like to look
for places like this one, which had a 20% weekly discount. Thank you to everyone
who's used our Airbnb link to sign up and taken a trip. That got you credit
and also gave us a credit which helps us afford places like this, and to travel
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So we're at this restaurant in Morelia. It's next to Jardín de Las Rosas?
I think? Rose garden. Rose garden, yes. [Laughter]
And I got these Corundas Michoacanas.
Which, I think, are like tamales. And then it also comes with costillas in
this delicious red sauce. What are costillas, for those who don't speak Spanish?
Like a ribs kind of thing.
So I'll give this a try.
Okay, well this sauce is amazing! It's a little bit on the mealy side as far
tamales go. How much was your plate?
93 pesos. And it included orange juice, coffee, and a plate of fruit.
This guy is from Brazil.
Playing music to pay for his travels.
While we were eating breakfast.
He sang in 3 different languages.
It is Morelia after dark!
Dun! Dun! Dun! [Laughter]
Someone told us that there is going to be a light show
on the cathedral tonight. Thank you amigo!
Since we've been a little bit swamped
with other things, we had no idea what's going on with the events in Morelia
right now. Especially since Día de Los Muertos passed. We were like "Ah, that's
a big holiday!" But whatever this is, there are a lot of people that came out to see it!
So many! So this light show, it must be a little bit of a bigger deal than we
thought it was.
(Announcer over the loud speaker) Ladies and Gentleman. A very good evening!
(Announcer) This is the first call.
(Announcer) We give you a most cordial welcome!
(Announcer) This is the 2nd call.
(Announcer) Our wonderful... The most beautiful of all...
Our Cathedral of Morelia!
Wow, so what do you think about what just happened?
So what we were told was a light show, was actually a firework show! That was a
shock to me! I was expecting lights on the side of the building.
Yeah. So, I felt at one time while
filming, something burned my hand. But I thought how crazy, no way a firework
would be like shooting into the audience. No, there was definitely lots of fireworks,
and lots of explosives, shooting right into the audience! I mean this probably like
30, 40 feet away from us. This is the closest I've ever been to fireworks going off, ever!
This is so funny, everyone wants to pet Laska!
[Laughter]
Laska, so much attention!
Laska the celebrity! [Laughter]
[Laughter]
How pretty!
[Laughter]
I think it's a wolf!
Look!
How beautiful!
[Laughter]
I don't think I've ever seen such a cool firework show because it was next to
that gorgeous, gorgeous cathedral!
And did you see them moving the lights on the
cathedral towers as the show was going? Yeah, with the music I think. Yeah. That
was really cool! But, what might be cooler was what happened afterwards with Laska!
And Jordan picks her up and then it was like everyone on their way out of the
show wanted to pet her.
Laska has never been in such bliss, I don't think as
getting that much attention! Her ears were tucked all the way back! Her tail
was wagging the whole time! [Laughter] Awe, that was so cute!
I couldn't stop smiling!
Now, we're walking back to our Airbnb. It's late-ish
for us, but it's pretty early. All the bars are opened up now, and I'm
starting to feel like there's this whole like other world of Morelia that we had no
idea existed, except on the weekends.
We are trying to try as many Michoacan and Morelia things while we're here.
One of the things that's been recommended so many times is gazpacho.
And I thought this was a soup, like a hot soup. But I think it's something to do
with lots of fruits and maybe like hot sauce or salsa on it? And someone told us
it has onions, but I think they were mistaking jicama for onions?
Which I love jicama! [Laughter] So it sounds like
Maddie will be able to have this.
Yes! Okay, let's see what this is about.
Come on in, friend. Hello, good afternoon!
What ingredients are in Gazpacho?
It is pineapple, jicama, and mango in orange juice, lime juice, and salt.
And we can put chili powder and cheese on top.
How much is it? 35 pesos.
Is it really spicy with chile? No, it's not very spicy, just a little spicy.
Very well, very well.
I really hope I don't have a Rudolph nose right now because it's so darn cold! But
we're in this little corridor next to, Centro is right there and the Morelia
Cathedral. There's like six gazpacho places, so we just picked one. But yet
Another example of different style of competition of businesses in Mexico!
Okay.
I was expecting sweet and spicy.
I just got spicy.
[Laughter] No sweet at all. Let me
dig down in here. You didn't get sweet from the pineapple or anything? No, I didn't get any
sweet in that bite. Okay, I think your tongue is broken. [Laughter]
Okay, that one I got
some pineapple. Good stuff, very unique flavor!
Alright, so this is 35 pesos for this huge cup!
[Laughter]
Mmm!
I don't know what I think this tastes like, but I like it! Would you get it again?
Hell yeah! I love jicama!
And lime and chile. I was worried that I was going to have onion because they
were chopping onion right there for something. While we were waiting but it
turns out that was for a potato plate they were serving.
I'll just take this! Hey!
Stop right now and
no one gets hurt!
Okay Jordan, we've been in Morelia for
like two weeks now. Has it been that long?
Doesn't feel like that, but yeah. What are
your thoughts? We haven't put out a whole lot of videos here. When we got here,
we were trying to get caught up on videos! The city is amazing, really aesthetically
pleasing! It's super easy to understand the locals here speaking Spanish so
that's - that's nice since we're trying to learn. How about you? What do
you think? That gazpacho made my nose run, a little on the spicy side after a while.
So as Jordan said, although we've been here for almost two weeks, we will only
be putting out two videos, this being the second solely about Morelia. I feel like
we should probably tell you guys why that is. It's mostly my fault because I'm
dealing with mercury poisoning right now, so whenever I run out of some vitamins
and then start them up again, I start having really bad detox symptoms like
having an achy body. Similar to when you get the flu and you just, feels like it
takes a lot of energy to do things, and then similar symptoms like that. So
that's sort of derailed our hopes and dreams of seeing Pátzcuaro and
Tzintzuntzán, and like the neighboring Pueblo Mágicos. So that might mean we need
to come back. But it's gorgeous! The Cathedral, the architecture, it's super
clean here someone pointed that out. And I'm like it is always really clean! The
drivers are pretty respectful - the mass transit, the colectivos or combis or
something, someone said? Combis. They're called, but I think that's awesome!
Buses are the worst! [Laughter]
Loud and stinky. Oh, and the prices, we didn't really
go into that very thoroughly. Low, low prices here. It's a very, very affordable
City. I don't know if that translates into housing as well? Like rent costs, and
bills, and things like that? But as far as food, and entertainment, and getting
around the city - really, really affordable prices. So if you liked this video give
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