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(Jess laughs)
Today's quite an exciting day today,
because little Miss Hunter is going to meet Santa.
And what's pretty cool is my parents have a tradition
where I've had a photo with Santa's every single year.
♪ Deck the halls with boughs of holly ♪
♪ Fa la la la la la la la la ♪ (rhythmic clapping)
♪ Deck the halls ♪
- And I'm gonna pass that tradition down onto Hunter.
So it's a big day today, her first ever photo with Santa.
And what's kind of cool is that Hunter's and my birthday
is only like two weeks apart, which means that
when I met Santa for the first time,
I was basically the same age as Hunter.
Are you ready to meet Santa?
(Jess gasps) You're gonna meet the big man!
- [Stephen] That's not Santa.
- Ho, ho, ho! - Is that Santa?
♪ Fa la la la la la la la la ♪
(electronic dance music)
(gravel crunching)
- Welcome back to Cairns, everybody.
- Today, we're going on an epic road trip
all the way up to Port Douglas.
So the drive up to Port Douglas is only an hour,
but it is one of the most scenic drives
you can do around here.
("Fool For You" by Volunteer)
♪ Waiting in line ♪
♪ I was facing forward ♪
♪ No reason to think ♪
♪ It was the day that I'd find you ♪
- So we've decided since we're not gonna be with my family
for Christmas that we would surprise them
with a little Airbnb up here in Port Douglas.
We're gonna be spending the next three nights here
and having kind of an early Valentine's Christmas.
We've arrived at our Airbnb before everyone else,
so I thought we'd show you before we surprise them.
So we found a four-bedroom Airbnb
because my siblings are gonna be here as well.
And coming through here, this is where there's two bedrooms
for my brother Jake and my sister Eliza,
and they have a little view of the pool out there,
which is so nice, and then the other bedroom's in here.
And then they both have a bathroom to share,
which is here, which was massive.
Look at this bathroom, and look at this shower!
So this is their little bedroom/bathroom situation.
And then through here is our living room, kitchen,
outside dining, and pool.
And what's really cool is it has this big window.
So it's kind of like an inside/outside kitchen.
And actually, you can see our dining room area outside
and our big pool.
- [Stephen] Chef David can repay
the little Christmas getaway by doing a little spread here.
We can jump into the pool.
(Jess laughs)
- And I think this will be our bedroom.
So we've got a double bed and our own bathroom,
but you should see the main room,
which I'm gonna be saving for my parents.
This room is massive!
I think they're gonna have a bit of a shock.
They also have a full walk-in wardrobe,
and again, a massive shower.
- [Man] But I think I just heard them at the door.
Can we go surprise them?
("Autumn's Song" by Stephen Day)
♪ Have you been outside lately ♪
♪ Those leaves sure are changing ♪
♪ Reminds me of that time ♪
♪ When we spent hours carving faces ♪
(Hunter cooing)
♪ Making jack-o-lanterns light up in the night ♪
- Surprise!
♪ It's an image that's ingrained inside my mind ♪
- Say, "Welcome to Port Douglas!"
Look how long the hallway is. - Wow.
- I know. - Wow!
Mwah.
- [Eliza] Wow, this is so amazing.
- I know, it's nice, hey?
- [Mom] Wow!
- Look, you can see a little bit more of the pool there.
- Wow!
- So this is where we're gonna stay in here with Hunter,
we've got our own bathroom,
and then this is yours and Dad's room.
- Are you kidding me?
Come on, oh my God. - Like it?
- David!
(Jess and Stephen laughing)
Come on.
And then that's yours and Dad's seat,
so you can sit out at the pool.
- Oh my goodness, we can stare at the pool.
This is so wonderful.
- So, I was helping my parents unpack their bags,
grabbed Dad's bag, he hasn't packed any clothes.
This whole thing is full of food!
(Stephen laughs)
He's brought his pumpkin soup.
He's brought all of the spices and he's even brought,
you know, natural fruit laxative.
He's sorted for a great holiday.
- [Stephen] When you ask what a chef packs for a trip.
- Dad, are we gonna have lasagna?
- Lasagna for tea tonight.
(Jess laughs)
- So I was just looking for Mom and Dad.
Spotted. (Jess laughs)
So you guys know how much we love escape rooms,
and Stephen and I found an escape room board game.
So we're gonna see what this is like.
There are three rooms.
We have to choose which room we wanna do.
- [Stephen] Well, I realize we've got the family edition.
- So might be a little bit easy.
There's two that a three-star difficulty out of five.
It's either Snake Bite or Moon Portal.
Which one?
- Moon Portal. - Moon Portal.
So it says, "Natalie explains that the only way to return
"to the real world is to open the moon portal."
- We've got 60 minutes to open the Moon Portal.
Ready, set. (Jess gasps)
So this is the timer thing.
I don't really know what we're doing.
I've kind of read it.
Got cards to solve.
Are we ready?
- We're ready. - Yes.
All right, let's do this.
And that's the classroom, and now I'm gonna click start.
Are we ready?
Should we all put them together?
- Yeah. - All the fingers together.
One, two, three, start.
- Oh, no one pressed it.
- It started! - It started.
- It's started.
Oh my God, what are we doing?
Okay, so we should look at different things, right?
So we're basically working out the code.
My realization about the driveway.
(all laughing) This has taken us 20 minutes,
and we're not even done yet.
Okay, ready?
All right, so we all put one in.
So you put yours in, Jake.
- Ready? - Yeah.
- I'm so proud.
- How do we know which way they go?
- They both are the same.
- [Stephen] Can I put the last one in?
- Yes.
- [Jess] That way, though.
- [Stephen] This way?
- [Jess] Yeah, that way around.
(buzzer beeps loudly)
- No! (all laughing)
No!
- Well, I know that this is right.
I know that that's right.
- [Stephen] So we have how many minutes left?
- 16, and this is halfway through.
- Oh, please work.
(buzzer beeps loudly)
- Surprised, Eliza?
- Let's try, ready?
(buzzer chimes brightly)
(Eliza clapping)
- [Stephen] Yes!
- Jake, you got it!
All right, last one, are we ready?
The letter C, the letter C, the letter C, the letter C.
(buzzer beeps loudly) (Eliza slams table)
- [Stephen] We've got how many?
- [Jess] Two minutes?
- So what's wrong? - So, the first one.
- One more try.
(Jess laughs) - No!
- [Eliza] Aw, it's wrong.
We know it's wrong.
(buzzer playing sad music)
(Jess sobbing loudly)
- [Stephen] Remember when we said this was a family game,
and this would be so easy?
- We were like, so close to winning.
- Let's find out what the answer was.
- [Eliza] That was heartbreaking.
- [Jess] Yeah, what's the answer?
How do we find out?
- Now it's counting upwards, like it's a joke.
- We were so close.
We were the last room, the last level.
(buzzer beeps loudly)
- Devastating.
- I think, yeah, I think it's the last one.
(upbeat pop music with sleigh bells)
- Merry Christmas, everybody.
Hunter, this is probably the first instance
of you coming across Christmas presents.
What's all this?
What's all that stuff?
Probably right now, you have way more interest
in what Mom is doing.
- Is today Hunter officially is gonna try her first pancake?
(Stephen laughs)
- Do you want to try some pancakes?
(all laughing)
- I'm busy making Christmas breakfast.
I'm making pancakes and French toast.
- That sounds good.
Oh, yum, blueberry, and chocolate.
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(griddle sizzling)
Christmas breakfast has been served.
Thanks, bubs. - That's okay.
And Hunter is going to try her first ever French toast.
But I have to wait for it to cool down.
Do you want some French toast?
What do you think? (all laughing)
Hunter, try that.
She says, "Oh, this looks interesting."
- [Stephen] She's probably feeling it
'cause it's a little bit warm.
(Hunter laughs)
She looks so cute with the hat on.
- [Jess] Yum!
- [Stephen] Yeah, good?
- [Jess] Do you like your Christmas breakfast?
Are you gonna get two Christmases?
You're pretty lucky.
(Stephen laughs)
- This is the sign of a girl who loved her French toast.
(all laughing)
- Here, Hunter, ready?
This is my present to you.
Can you open it?
(wrapping paper crinkling)
- [Jess] Oh, you got her a Sophie, cute.
- Sophie the Giraffe.
A rattle.
- [Jess] Aww, that's so cute.
She can't see it.
- And, a Cat in the Hat romper.
- [Stephen] Aww, that's adorable.
- Oh my gosh, that's so cute.
Aw, thanks, Eliza.
This is so cute.
- She's made a friend. (all laughing)
- Oh, that's perfect.
- This is for baby.
It says, "Hunter J. Perry Valentine,
"a special gift for a travel baby, Granddadda."
(all laughing)
I read it just in time.
And that's for her passport.
- Aww, this is for her passport.
Oh my gosh, that's so cute.
- She says "Thank you, Eliza."
- Aww, little pink packing cubes.
Imagine when she is starting to do crafts on the plane,
and then I can put all of it in here.
- Yeah, so you have a little thing to put 'em in.
- How funny how it's a rainbow and a paper crane.
- That's crazy.
- So the first present I'm giving is Dad.
Now, when you guys got here to Cairns,
you know how we posted that picture
of you and Hunter and Dad?
Someone actually sent us something.
They were like,
"Oh, I got inspired by seeing you guys together."
So they drew this.
(Mom gasping)
- [Dad] Oh, isn't that great?
- How cool is that?
So they drew it! - How cute is that?
- So it's for your house.
It's a picture of you guys.
- Oh, wow.
- Oh yeah, do you wanna see?
- That's amazing. - Do you like it?
I know, right?
I should have got the name of who drew it.
It looks so much like you.
- It does, and Dad, look at Dad.
- Do you wanna look?
- [Dad] That's so good.
- It's so amazing.
(Stephen laughs)
- [Jess] Do you like it?
- It's beautiful.
- [Jess] I saw it.
Someone drew it, and I was like,
"Oh my gosh, we need to print that out
"and give it to you guys for Christmas."
- That's amazing.
- After a very intense one hour game of Uno
that ended in no one winning.
- Oh, he's trying to do double.
- What's this? - Can you do that?
- No, you can't do that.
(all laughing)
- I agree. - Play multiple cards in Uno.
"You cannot play two cards on one turn,
"so if it is your turn and you have two cards left."
- Wait, I've got the rules.
- From Uno himself? - From the official site.
Mr. Uno said. - Listen.
- [Siri] David is a cheater.
(all laughing)
- There we go, it's sorted.
- It is actually the first of December today,
which is the first day of Advent,
and I feel like for years and years,
we've never had an advent calendar,
because we've never wanted to carry one around.
And then I thought, "You know what?
"This is the year.
"I am gonna carry one around."
So I brought this all the way from Perth.
I found a Friends-themed advent calendar,
and I'm gonna be opening it every day.
I'll probably open them all on Instagram
if you wanna follow along.
But I'll open the first one here with you guys.
Here we go.
- [Stephen] What do you think you're gonna get?
(Stephen laughs)
- No idea.
I don't think it's a chocolate one.
- No, I think it's little things from the show.
(Jess gasps) - How cool!
All right, number one.
"Welcome to our tropical Christmas party," quoted by Rachel.
Don't remember that episode.
All right, let's see what's in it.
(Jess and Eliza laughing)
We need to put it on our tree!
Put it on our fake fiddle leaf fig tree,
whatever it's called.
- [Stephen] Hang it on something.
(Jess sighs) - Let's see here.
- [Stephen] There we go.
- Now Christmas has started!
(Jess humming "Mission Impossible Theme")
What is that?
(seagulls screeching)
Just down the road from where we're staying
is a really famous beach called Four Mile Beach.
I'm guessing it's four miles long.
We've come down here.
Eliza's currently having a dip in the ocean,
and we're here trying to get Hunter used to used to sand,
and maybe she can have a little dip.
She's never had a dip in Queensland water before.
Is it cold or warm?
Wow, the water, the water is so warm.
I think Hunter'll like this water.
Ready, Bubba?
(ocean roaring)
I feel like we need to bring her down for a swim.
It's so warm.
- [Stephen] It's so warm.
- Look at this!
- All-righty, after dipping our toes in the water,
it was so unbelievably warm that we've all gone,
jumped into our bathers.
Are you ready for a little swim in the ocean?
- Her first ocean swim.
This is gonna be a big one.
You ready, Bubba?
- [Stephen] Aww, that hat.
(Jess laughs)
- Are we ready?
The waters here are like, the warmest waters
we've ever felt at the beach.
This is the perfect beach
for you to have your first proper little swim.
Oh.
(Jess squeals) Yay!
She wants that GoPro.
(Stephen laughs)
(upbeat electronic music)
We've just had, I feel like,
the most beautiful time here in Cairns.
In the last two weeks, I think we've only left the Airbnb,
like, once, to go to the beach.
(Stephen laughs)
We've just been enjoying family time and being in the pool.
Everyone's just gone home, and I realized,
we didn't even pick up the camera,
because all we wanna do is spend time with family.
- [Stephen] It's been nice.
It's been so nice to just kind of hang out and like,
not really have a plan. (Stephen laughs)
- Not have a plan.
We didn't want this to be a holiday
where we go and do things.
We wanted a holiday where we just see and hang out
and spend all the time together.
But they've all just gone home,
and we'll see them tomorrow at the airport
when we have to leave, but I don't wanna talk about that,
'cause I feel like I'll get all emotional.
(Hunter fussing)
- [Stephen] How's your two weeks
with the Valentines been, baby?
(Stephen laughs)
I think you've loved it.
(Eliza kissing Hunter softly)
- Bye!
- I'll see you in May, yeah? - Yes.
And you'll see her.
You can properly play with her next time.
(all laughing)
Can you say "bye-bye"?
See ya. - Bye-bye.
- Have a good Christmas.
- Bye, Mom, send me pictures.
- [Stephen] Aww, she's ready for bed.
- Are you sleepy?
(Stephen laughs)