- Hello Tangerinies.
- We are finally getting settled in
to life here in Queretero.
It's been about one month
since we officially moved into our new place, so exciting.
And we're finally, kind of getting into a routine again,
having some like, normal people life.
So today we're gonna bring you along
to show you what that sorta looks like.
Now we're heading into Costco to do a couple of returns.
But while we're in here, we decided to look around,
because Costco has been instrumental
in helping us furnish our house,
with mattress, bedding, towels, welcome mats,
Jordan's office chair (laughing).
We've gotten so much stuff from Costco.
- So we've gone over a month at our new place
without having a comforter,
so I think we're gonna get this one.
Do you wanna feel it?
- [Maddie] It feels really soft
- Yeah - And it's what, $55 dollars?
- $55 dollars, yeah.
- You know, the craziest thing about this Costco trip
is this might be the least amount that we've spent-
- At Costco? - On a Costco trip,
since we moved to Queretaro,
we got like four things. - Seriously.
- Once we started talking about it though,
I actually can't believe how much of our place
we bought at Costco.
Like, I forgot all about the kitchen,
we bought a blender, a tea kettle.
- So many things.
- Basically our entire liquor cabinet is from Costco.
We got some rugs.
- With how much we shop at Costco,
maybe we should buy some Costco stock (laughing).
- Something that has actually been really nice
about being in Queretaro
is that we're able to drive our car around everywhere,
even though the directions sometimes are very complicated,
like they are right now to where we're going next.
People drive pretty nicely, there's not a lot of honking.
The traffic's not super crazy,
and very courteous drivers overall.
Like, (laughing) when we need to get over
like five lanes really quickly,
we actually can, because people let you do that.
And that's not been the case in every city in Mexico,
like other big cities,
we're usually terrified to drive in them,
because the driving habits are just kinda crazy.
But here it's not too bad.
Next on the agenda today is a stop at Paseo Queretaro.
This is a really nice luxury mall,
towards like the Refugio area of Queretaro.
- This is where our gym is at.
- Yeah, our new gym.
Woo, exciting, we have a gym now.
(laughing)
But first. - I need a haircut badly.
I've been wanting one for a long time.
It's just a total disaster,
and really hard to do anything with it
when it's this long.
- I know what you mean, it's so hard.
- So it looks like everyone's busy at the barbershop,
so I'm gonna get that haircut after the gym.
(playful music)
- [Jordan] How is your hike?
- Oh, it's so fun.
It's nice to be in the great outdoors.
- It has been really tough to find a super nice gym,
with all brand new equipment,
and air conditioning and all that stuff.
But Seven Days Gold fits the bill.
It's not cheap by any means.
For their pass, to get access
to all eight of their locations,
it's a little over 2000 pesos a month,
but you get what you're paying for.
(speaking in a foreign language)
- I'm working up a thirst after that workout, so,
got me some boba.
Pretty good, definitely tastes like beets.
- Just remind me tomorrow that I'm not dying.
- [Maddie] (laughing) Yes.
(speaking in a foreign language)
- Okay.
(speaking in a foreign language)
1 1/2.
- [Maddie] All right, here's the before.
(laughing)
Good luck, Shaggy.
(smooth jazz music)
- Well, here it is, here's the after.
- [Maddie] Oh yeah, work it man, looks good.
- Thanks.
- [Maddie] Man, he did such a good job.
- Yeah, and I got a little bit of a shave,
and a touch up.
- [Maddie] Oh my gosh, you only have a mustache right now.
- That's it (laughing). - What?
I did not notice that happening.
- Yeah, and then a little massage at the end,
which was nice.
It was 260 pesos,
so on the more expensive side for a haircut,
but it's at a nice mall, at a nice barbershop.
It's right downstairs from the gym,
so might have to come back.
- We just realized that this mall is pet friendly,
so we're gonna have to come back here with Laska 'fo sho'.
- [Jordan] This one's eating the leash.
- [Maddie] (laughing) That's adorable.
- When you come to Mexico there's going to be
a lot of things you find overwhelming at first.
For example, a lot of the customs are different.
And one really big thing
is everything's in another language.
So after feeling overwhelmed all day,
you wanna go back to your hotel,
or to where you're staying,
and pull up your favorite websites.
Well, you do that, and all of a sudden
they're all in Spanish.
Well, some websites have an option
where you can be like hey, I'm set my location
to the U.S., but there's a lot that don't,
or they make it really difficult to do that.
So a way around this that we like to use is getting a VPN.
A VPN allows you to change your location virtually.
You change your location to let's say, Houston, Texas.
So now your favorite websites are back in English,
and they're back in U.S. dollars,
which is a huge weight off your shoulders
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- So at this mall, we get two hours for free of parking.
And then it's 25 pesos after that.
So I'm going to feed the machine.
(machine clicking)
Going to attempt to feed them the machine, eat it.
Eat it.
(machine clicking)
Eat it, eat it.
(laughing)
(coins clanking)
Loteria, yeah that's our loteria money.
(laughing)
I've never bought a lottery ticket in my life.
- [Jordan] But the Mexican loteria.
- Loteria, the game, that's a fun game to play.
(sighing) I gotta say after a workout,
I always feel so good, so many good endorphins.
And then top that off with boba,
you cannot go wrong with boba.
And Queretaro has a surprising number
of bubble tea restaurants.
- I love it. - It's awesome.
- And you were tired before the workout too.
- I was. - But it's great.
- I am- - Got some more enery.
- I mean, I'm feeling I'm still feeling a little tired,
because it's been cloudy the past couple of days.
I don't know about you,
but I just get really weirdly tired,
even if I'm fully rested, and fully caffeinated.
But it has been nice that it's cooled off quite a bit.
So it's not so hot anymore,
'cause we were in the hottest month of the year, last month.
- [Jordan] Remind me where I'm going?
- We are going to continue straight.
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A month, or maybe even two months at this point ago,
we were staying at a hotel in Juriquilla,
and within walking distance,
there was this place called Korean Grill.
And neither of us had ever tried Korean food out before,
so we went here, and walked in,
and it was freaking amazing.
And so we had to come back again today,
because this place is so cool.
They like cook your food at the table
with this little like grill thing.
They'd got this thing that we tried called soju,
which is like a, hopefully I pronounced that right,
it's like a rice liquor that's about 16, I think,
oh no, almost 17%.
And you kind of just sip on it, like saki kind of.
- It's pretty good. - A Japanese version,
It's really smooth.
- And we met the owner here of Korean Grill,
his name is Shin, and he's awesome.
- Yeah, super nice guy.
And we've come back here a couple of times since then.
And we just had to show you in a video,
because it's so good and so authentic.
But you forgot to mention Shin's from Korea.
So everything here is on point.
- So, we're waiting for our food to come out,
and we just wanted to cover something really quick.
We recently got a comment saying-
- Well, many comments, we've gotten a lot of comments.
- I'm thinking of one in particular that was like,
"Hey, I like your travel videos.
Most of your videos lately have been advice videos.
I wanna see you traveling more."
And for a few reasons,
we're not going to be traveling for a little while.
Well, if we do, we'll be like in and around Queretaro.
- Kind of like day trips,
or like a couple days here and there,
to close by spots.
But it's been really hard to get any videos out
over the past month or so,
really two months, while we were looking for a place,
then after we got it,
because we're building this place up from scratch basically.
It's completely unfurnished,
and all we had going into this was clothes.
So we've just been trying to get everything
that you need for the house.
You don't even realize all the stuff that you use,
that you need on a daily basis, until you don't have them,
like a mattress, forks, glasses,
towels, like everything, we had to buy everything.
And it's been so time consuming, and pretty stressful.
Not to mention, we're also having to be home
every single day for contractors,
deliveries, coordinating repairs,
and different types of things for the house-
- Yeah, so like you said,
that's been a tremendous amount of work,
and very time consuming.
So that's one reason why.
Another reason is we haven't had a home in a while,
and we just want to enjoy our home.
- I've turned into such a home body, because I've missed it.
I've honestly missed it so much,
just having like my own couch to lay on,
my own bed to sleep in.
I just, I don't wanna leave the house.
(laughing)
It's the weirdest thing,
because we were just constantly traveling,
that's our normal lifestyle,
is just go, go, go, go, go from one place to the next.
And we're never really having that time to ourselves.
- And the third reason why it might be a few months
until we're traveling again,
is that furnishing a completely unfurnished house
is pretty expensive,
and travel is pretty expensive.
So while we're incurring all these expenses
of furnishing our house and buying all the things,
like Maddie was just talking about,
like all the things you don't realize you need
until you need them,
we would like to be able to-
- Save a little bit of money,
because even starting into this place,
we're having to pay one month's rent as a deposit.
We had to pay one month's rent, obviously,
to move into the place.
And then all of these expenses like a couch, a bed,
a bed frame, everything in the kitchen,
literally everything in the kitchen.
- Yeah, a toaster oven, a blender,
or all the plates and glasses-
- Kitchen table, chairs, tables, everything.
We had nothing, desks, office supplies.
So it's been a whopper,
our bank accounts are suffering a little bit.
And yeah, so we just gotta take
a little bit of a break from travel,
and to be able to enjoy, like settle into a life here,
try to make some friends,
get to know the city a little bit more
before we're running off to somewhere else.
- Yeah, by no means are we saying we're done traveling.
That's just not the case. - No, no, no.
- But we just wanna enjoy our home for a little bit,
and not have so many travel expenses
for a little bit as well.
- So hopefully you understand,
and hopefully you enjoy getting to know Queretaro,
and settling into daily life again with us.
- I have no doubt that there's gonna be
a ton of things for us to do in this city,
and around the city.
So there'll be lots of new stuff, I'm sure,
coming out for you in the next couple of months.
- For appetizers, I got a Korean style sushi.
It's called beef kimbap, and it's cooked though,
So it's not a raw, but it does look like the style of sushi,
like it's wrapped in the seaweed paper,
and it has rice and vegetables and beef.
And then you? - I got a fried chicken,
with like a Korean barbecue sauce on it.
- It looks- - I'm excited for that.
- Amazing. - All right.
- Plink, plink. - Let's give this a try.
Oh, that looks good.
Dip it in some salsa.
Learn how to use chopsticks.
- My only problem with these is that it's so big,
that it's like my whole mouth-
- That's what she said.
(laughing)
- Oh my gosh, fills my whole mouth,
it really does though.
- Mm. - Mm.
I'll let you know how it is in about two minutes.
- In the meantime, I will tell you this, this is awesome.
I love this plate.
All right, so we got the salmon sushi as well,
and it's like a nigiri style on top of rice.
It tastes good, the little bit that I got in my mouth.
(laughing)
- Mm, that's good, that's really good.
Ooh, you're right, there's like a really interesting sauce.
It was kinda like tartar sauce,
like maybe a little bit, mm.
- So they're preparing our meat at the table.
Oh yeah, listen to that sizzle.
(meat sizzling)
- This looks so tender.
It is so tender, it's so tender.
Oh my God.
- [Jordan] You can try with some wasabi.
- Wasabi. - Maybe a little bit of salt.
- Mm, mm hm hm, mm mm mm, oh oh oh oh oh.
It is so good.
- I love this place, 10 out of five.
- 10 out of five?
I think you mean 100 out of 10.
(laughing)
- God it's all good.
- This is our third time here I think.
And somehow it gets better every time.
Like we try more off the menu,
we get a little braver,
understanding all the different Korean foods
that are on here.
- But like you were just saying, this steak here,
I think it's better than Sonora Grill.
- It's better than a steak, the Sonora Grill Steakhouse.
- Yeah.
- That's what they do is steak.
But this, oh my gosh, oh my gosh,
I want more of this and I'm not even done.
(laughing)
Well, it's been raining up a storm,
so we are now hiding out in the car.
But I just have to say that if you're in Queretaro,
you must come to this restaurant.
Don't forget to subscribe to our channel.
And on the screen here is another video
that you can continue watching,
until we post a new one next Saturday,
how we moved to Queretaro, how we got our apartment,
what the whole process was like.
- It was way different
than other parts of the country for us.
- Yeah, so much different than elsewhere in Mexico.
And one more thing before you go.
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the next time we release a new video on Saturday,
and we will see you there.