so this video is coming at you a little out of order if you have been following our youtube
channel for a while you'll know that our last video was in malta and in that video
we said that our next stop was tel aviv and as you can probably tell this is not israel
this is mexico and we'll explain a little later in this video why we are here because
this is not a destination we expected to be at this year or even next year
all right so our youtube videos are usually about a month behind our real life just because editing
takes a lot of time but this video is gonna be coming at you guys in basically real time and
the reason for that is because we are so excited to share with you our journey home to canada for
christmas which of course you know by the title of this video uh but don't worry our regular
videos will resume as scheduled in a couple of days we will be exploring tel aviv as promised
so there are a few reasons that we are so excited to go over the holidays the
first is the obvious one which is that we haven't seen our friends and family
in almost 10 months we even have a baby niece that we haven't met
but the second is that we are surprising everyone so no one knows that we're coming home with the
exception of a very select few votes and we are so excited to surprise them although i'm honest this
is our last day of the beach and i don't know that i'm excited to leave this beautiful beach
sorry it'll all be working
i can't believe we're voluntarily leaving this place
maybe not our best idea we're creating sand for snow
that's okay all the all the people we love are there and our doggies there
that's right although this is pretty tempting
puppies weren't up yet when we left so now they're awake and excited and ready to play
okay gracias back to canada
so today we're starting the long journey back to canada with the first our flight
from puerto rico to mexico city and then tomorrow we brought the
international leg mexico city to montreal montreal to calgary where we're from and
while we take that quieting route we are going to bring you guys along and explain how we got here
a lot of twists and turns to get to this point where we are finally headed back to canada for
christmas and if you follow us on instagram you'll know a little bit about the story you'll have seen
kind of the steps that we've taken without us ever actually explaining why we're doing those things
so the story actually starts at the end of november the world was doing
quite a bit better travel seemed to be a bit more predictable in the months leading
up to november and so we decided to go for it and we booked one-way non-refundable flights
from egypt to canada getting into canada on december 24th you probably know where
this is going before we continue with the story let's catch a flight to mexico city
goodbye beautiful ocean and we will miss you
okay so about a week after booking our flights home to canada the first set of flights home
to canada we arrive in egypt and don't worry you'll see those videos coming up pretty soon
and within a few days of writing arriving in egypt we started hearing about the omicron variant
and all of a sudden it felt a lot like old times countries talking about closing their borders
countries are being redlisted again and before we knew it canada was redlisting
travelers from egypt now as canadian citizens we would still be allowed in the country
but in order to go we had to undergo a mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine
so it wasn't exactly going to work with our current plans to arrive in canada on december 24th
and show up to christmas the next morning to surprise our families
all right we're gonna go find our hotel stay there for the night before we continue on this
journey and really do the big leg of it tomorrow morning where i will continue on with this story
this'll be good for one night
so
thank you so much all right where were we so we arrived in egypt and quickly discovered that we
could not get home from there so we really did the only thing we could do at that point we called the
airline that we booked our first tickets with and we asked them what our options were because they
were not refundable thankfully we were able to change the destination of the tickets as
well as the date of the tickets and retain most of the value of the cost of the flight
so we literally opened up google flight and we did an explore search to see where could we fly
i was sort of on route to our home in canada and that we could safely get to it's time for
me to get caffeinated before we get on this flight to montreal where i will continue this
i think i'm gonna cry
wow just hit me
ladies and gentlemen
it's the first time i've been in canadian soil in like almost 10 months
let me tell you the soil is very white right now
oh the snow not excited about the snow
all right and that is how we arrived in mexico it is a country close-ish to canada i mean it's
mexico not exactly a bad place to wait out until christmas as soon as we arrived in mexico we
booked the next set of flights back home to canada for christmas again arriving in december 24th but
this time we've learned our lesson and we booked refundable tickets which is a very good thing
also we have officially arrived in canada so first order of business find a tim
coming for you we spotted it can i get a medium regular and then a 10 pack of timbits
just uh what's the new tip it's been gone so long the timbits have new flavors
this is almost worth burying the cold front not quite but
ma'am i feel like we're doing a canadian food tour this is what you would see
so a week after entering mexico canada changed its regulations for people entering the country
once again and what the new regulations required was that anybody entering the country from a
place other than the united states would have to be randomly potentially selected
for additional coping 19 testing and then if they were randomly selected they were going to
need to do a three-day quarantine up to three day quarantine as they waited for those test
results so once again our plan to arrive in the country on december 24th we're spoiled because at
this point we're risking being in quarantine over christmas so you guessed it we changed our flights
once again and the new dates we were leaving was december 21st which is today it's happening
we're going back time thanks very much enjoyed this evening my first officer
surf pleasure to walk to welcome aboard flight 329 surely to party for calgary
local time
so it turned out to be a very good thing that we rebooked our flights that third time to leave
today the 21st because we were randomly selected for additional coverage testing and now i need
to quarantine for a couple of days to employ for the results which we expected that's pretty much
happening to everybody these days um and that was the plan we are not seeing our families
until christmas day which is a few days from now we are really excited but i think it's gonna be
super hard to sit in a quarantine airbnb for the next three days and just wait for our results
when our family is just so close by but at least for now we have
officially arrived in calgary and we are so excited we're home we're home in our hometown
we are however not looking forward to the cold air that i think we have waiting for us
no just outside these doors it's gonna be freezing it's all gone that's gonna be a long few days
but at least we're here the end of our travel day i think it'll be worth it it'll be worth it
my family's a big airport family usually they would all be here but they don't know we're here
i haven't put this puffer on since nepal the best that we
got for now until we can get into our storage unit
no
welcome home love it's like way too familiar i think it's kind of nice today's actually like
the warmest day that i think we're gonna have in the next couple of weeks today's high is
like minus eight i think the rest week's high is like mostly minus 25-ish so i think we should uh
just checking the pcr results from the airport not again
okay so we just got the notification that our results are in so not detected awesome so
we're free to leave quarantine whenever we want christmas is definitely on
oh my gosh it is finally time the last three days have felt like an eternity they have just gone so
slow but it is it's it's finally time we are finally here we are two minutes away let's go
and see all my family in their pjs which is a christmas tradition
are you so excited let's go see everyone
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lead me straight to you merry christmas merry christmas