- [Narrator] First disaster of the day
it's stuck.
This is theoretically the very first thing
that actually brought into the reptarium.
(Upbeat music)
Hey, good morning everybody
welcome to the vlog.
It's a little after six in the morning
and guess what?
Less than two hours till the cages for the
reptarium show up.
That's right, today is the day.
It's the install!
We've been waiting for this forever.
I'm actually having to go pick up
Stewart from his hotel.
Everyone is gonna be at the shop,
we have a ton of people that
are coming in to help out
so it's gonna be an amazing day.
You guys as excited as I am?
Let's go ahead and hit the road
and get over to the reptarium!
I'm in route to the shop
again, picking up Stewart.
I'll be honest with you
Most of the nervousness is gone
that was there yesterday
and now it's just kind of been replaced
with excitement, you know?
It's happening!
I mean it's been such a long road.
It's gonna look a lot different at the end of the day today.
Again, I'm sure there'll be some
little hiccups here and there
but I think things are gonna go good
and it's gonna be amazing.
So, heading over to the reptarium.
At the end of the day we're gonna
at least start to get an idea
of what the place is gonna look like.
The next four days
we're installing and kind of building things out.
So, I hope you guys are excited as I am.
Oh my God!
(jazz music playing)
Alright, so the place is about to look a lot different.
Everyone is starting to show up.
Stewart is laying stuff out over here.
He's the master mind behind things.
Everyone else is showing up.
Truck is not here yet,
hopefully it will be here soon.
We've got to get the window out of the truck here
and then we start to load in
and cages start going in.
It's starting to get real.
Oh my gosh guys!
It's exciting, the truck showed up!
I'll tell you what
I was getting worried
it's like five minutes to eight
they're supposed to be here at eight
and I'm like, is this gonna be late?
I'm thinking, what if they don't show up till noon
or something like that.
But, the truck is here!
Oh my God, this is so exciting!
We actually have two trucks coming today.
One right now, and one in a couple of hours.
Think about that.
That truck is full of reptarium enclosures.
Oh my gosh, I'm so excited!
(laughing) It's my first one!
We're supposed to get all the small tanks first
and the other truck showed up first.
So, that's a little bit of a trip.
Oh my gosh!
But, here it is guys!
Oh my gosh!
Look at that big tank Stewart!
- [Stewart] They gave us the wrong truck first!
- Oh gosh! So, the big tanks
I don't know what we're gonna do
but these were supposed to come in
in a couple hours.
We'll do what we have to do!
So, this is actually Bowser's tank here.
Oh my gosh, It's gonna look so good.
First disaster of the day
I had parked the high-low back here
over night, and it's stuck.
It sunk in the dirt
and we can't get the high-low out.
(sigh)
What in the world?
- [Male volunteer] We'll get her. High-low's stuck.
Made a little rig, we'll see how this works.
(equipment running)
It's moving.
(equipment running harder)
It's moving!
You got it!
Yay! (laughs)
- And they said it couldn't be done!
(jazz music plays)
So, the first little casualty, I'm kinda bummed out.
This is that really
big cage that has the water feature.
But, we've got chipped glass up here.
This piece of glass was like $1500
so I'm definitely pretty bummed
that that shipped.
I'm gonna have to deal with that later.
I knew there was gonna be issues
so it's not that big of a surprise.
For now, I'm just gonna have to leave that
and continue to unload these trucks.
Just to give you guys an idea,
all this stuff here
is basically
bits and pieces that will eventually
go up on walls and enclosures
and stuff like that.
So, a lot of unloading.
Then, we'll actually start to install.
I'm sure we probably have another hour
of unloading before we even start
to think about installing.
With that in mind,
the window is still here.
The guy was supposed to be here half an hour ago
to take our window out
so, that's one thing I'm concerned about now.
Hopefully he'll show up soon.
(jazz music playing)
So, this just gives you an idea.
This is actually the gator tank right here
that we spoke about.
So, the gators will actually have a water
feature right here
and a landmass on this side.
This is theoretically the very first thing
that was brought into the reptarium
so it has begun.
(jazz music playing)
We have one truck unloaded,
one truck to go.
Basically what's gonna happen is
this truck is gonna move
out of here, This trucks gonna move into place
then we'll unload all of this truck.
This has all of the 6x8 cages,
as well as all the 4x4 and 6x4's.
So, there's a whole truck
full of nothing but cages.
But, you can see we're making
quite a mess out here.
Next little wrinkle as we're unloading
is the fact that this window
is actually just like paned glass.
Well, code is that is needs to be safety glass.
The guy that's gonna take the window out
said there's a chance
he can't take it out without
replacing it with safety glass
which is about $2000 extra dollars
He's calling his boss.
Hopefully, they'll say, "We're gonna do it".
But, definitely a little bit of a concern
cause I wasn't expecting that.
(jazz music playing)
Alright, goods news.
It turned out that it actually was safety glass
so, it didn't cost me a couple
thousand dollars.
The window is out.
Now we can start loading in here.
Cages are about to go inside!
(jazz music playing)
So, the first stack of enclosures
so now we just gotta finish out
the rest of this wall
and the place is coming up.
Hey everybody!
These guys are all awesome to come help.
Thank you guys so much!
You guys are awesome!
(jazz music playing)
I'll tell you what guys,
this is definitely controlled chaos.
I mean, look at all this stuff
that's all over the place.
These are water bowls and cliffs
all kinds of stuff.
We still have cages, like all over here.
We have rock walls over here.
We've got tons of people.
Look at all the people,
it is absolutely crazy.
It's coming together though.
This is the base of the first isle right here.
All along here.
So, we have to put
cages on top of of course,
then we'll start working on the other wall
with the really big cages
and ultimately get the big pond in here.
So, still a lot of work to do.
(jazz music playing)
So, we literally have the entire first isle in here.
You guys are starting to get an idea
of what it's gonna look like.
Again, these fronts are gonna be covered
with cool stuff.
As a matter of fact,
this is an idea of what's gonna go in between the cages.
You can kinda see there's kind of timber,
there will be things like that.
All kinds of other stuff.
We have this whole first isle set in.
Now we're gonna go to the other side
that is actually bigger cages
and ultimately we're gonna put the pond in
and then lastly,
Probably more like tomorrow,
we'll start working on the middle.
Of course we'll have the gator tank over here
so we're making a lot of progress.
This is awesome.
(jazz music playing)
Alright, so I have the best volunteers here.
I mean, people are killing it.
I'm so lucky, I'm just walking around here with the camera.
Look at these guys working their butts off.
(volunteers laugh)
- [Stewart] I'd give us five out of 10.
Five out of ten.
(volunteers laugh)
- [Male Volunteer] The meeting didn't help.
We need to go back to the drawing board.
- Oh my gosh.
And that's how we're putting this place together.
(jazz music playing)
- [Stewart] One-Two-Three!
Level! Okay, walk slowly!
Straight back!
Straighten it back
Walk around!
Good!
Turn!
Turn guys, turn!
(volunteers laugh)
In the middle!
Keep going! Looks good!
Okay, slowly down.
All together!
(volunteers cheer and clap)
Okay, now we leave this.
Lets get the next one.
- [Male Volunteer] This was the light one guys,
lets get the heavy one!
(volunteers laugh)
(jazz music playing)
- We're kind of wrapping up
getting the things in. We still have a lot of kind of
design work that Stewart and I are
going through for the middle.
We have Bowser's enclosure right here,
there's waterfalls over here
you can kind of see how it's coming together.
Of course the main cages over here.
We're starting to work on the center ones over here.
Again, just kind of down the road here.
There's so much going on.
Definitely a lot more work to kind of figure out.
This is gonna be the little gater tank right here.
There'll be glass sliders here,
a land feature on this side and a
land feature on this side.
The wall will be build in here.
So, things are definitely coming together.
We're kind of winding down the day.
We've got a lot accomplished.
Let me know in the comments what you guys think.
How it's coming together,
are you excited about it?
Do you think it's awesome?
Do you think that we should do something different?
Let me know, whatever the case is.
I figure we still have at least
a couple more hours of working in here.
Over the next, probably three to four days
you're gonna see a huge transformation.
But there is it guys.
It's actually starting to look like
a reptile zoo.
Of course Jen, my friend, came in from Chicago.
You guys remember her,
she's been around a bunch.
And Kelsey, has got shirts that match here.
Jen is my spirit animal
Kelsey is my spirit animal.
What's up with this?
- [Jen] I got them made because we needed them.
- [Kelsey] We're besties!
- It's something that needed to happen.
- It's a besties shirt!
- It's a besties shirt that needed to happen.
- Yeah, so anyways
We moved a lot of cages in
but that happened too.
As we're wrapping up the first day
of the kind of install of the reptarium,
I'll be honest, it's a little surreal to me
to be totally honest with you.
I mean, I can't believe we're actually here
and you guys can see that things
are starting to come together.
It's still a wreck over here.
We've got rock panel over here,
we've got stuff over there.
We've got cages all over the place,
trees aren't quite set.
I mean we have a long way to go.
But, just starting to get the feel like
it's starting to come to life
and that is pretty exciting.
I cannot tell you how over the top
happy I am right now.
I mean, my dream truly is coming true
and I can't thank everyone that came
out and helped me.
I mean, it was unbelievably heartwarming.
So, I hope that you guys enjoyed day one
of the build.
You guys are gonna get about three more
days of this.
So, I hope it's good.
We'll go next door and definitely check out some animals
over the next couple days.
There it is guys, The reptarium!
I hope that you guys will come and visit me.
And again, September 14th is
probably gonna be the open,
if nothing goes wrong
but we have to wait to see how that goes.
You guys have an absolutely amazing day,
evening, whenever you happen to be watching.
Truly, your support means the world to me.
And without that support, this wouldn't be possible.
So, I love you guys so much.
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(jazz music playing)