- It's like cooper, like red on there and orange.
- For you flat earth people out there
here's a map of the earth, the flat earth in 1457.
So there you have proof that the earth is flat.
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- Good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
Hang with me for a second here,
because for those of you who have been enjoying
this travel vlog to Italy, you will enjoy today.
For those of you that are sick of it
and want us to get back that's okay,
this is our last vlog here in Italy
and we are of course in Venice.
How amazing is this?
We're going to spend some time here
we're going to Florence to do a little bit, and
then we are back to the Reptarium BHB in tomorrow's vlog.
So what do you say we have an absolutely
incredible day together?
- Brian and Lori are in Europe right now,
but things go on here at BHB.
We're about to put these iron giant feets together here.
They usually breed for me,
but I've never had production from them.
So hopefully this year we get some babies.
Need a little bit of breeding,
a little bit of interest from the male here.
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Getting some tail wiggles from the female over there.
She looks a little interested.
No he's still shedding, you can kind of see like
the scales coming off it's back and stuff here.
He may not be really interested in breeding
until he gets all of that off.
They usually, after we bring them out of hibernation
and everything they like to shed out before they breed.
So we may not get much in these first few breedings.
Sometimes I'll try to stimulate 'em a little bit here
and it kinda kicks him in to breeding mode,
sometimes not working too well for me right now.
She's ready, she's wagging her tail and everything
that's to show the male that she's accepting.
Sometimes females won't be accepting
and they'll try to fight the male.
This is pretty much stink breeding,
you got to have a lot of patience,
don't want to breed for you every time
so you just got to keep at it.
Keep putting them together and watching 'em.
- So this is absolutely insane.
You see this in movies and TV.
It's something to actually be here.
It's absolutely crazy, we're definitely going to do
a gondola ride later right, Lori?
Who knows what else we're going to come across,
I mean it's going to be an absolutely
amazing adventure here in Venice.
It's crazy that they literally
built this city on the water.
And for those of you who don't know it
there's no automobiles allowed here,
it's only boat taxi and walking around here, that's it.
There's no motor vehicles at all on the entire island.
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- What do you think Lori, is it crazy? (laughs).
- Yeah this is definitely (deep breath),
just like everything here (laughs),
more than I imagined (laughs).
- It's great, it's insane.
It's so hard to even describe what an amazing,
amazing town this is. Holy moly.
Just wonder around the city and
seeing as much as we can see in the
short time we're going to be here.
And everywhere you look there's
just views like you can't believe.
(church bell charms)
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There's no way we're not gonna go on a gondola ride,
for sure that's definitely gonna happen sometime today.
- Me and Eric over at The Reptarium, the Reptarium.
Go follow us on Instagram if you don't already.
But I wanted to just do a little check in
with our buddy snoop frog and your little missy
that you brought over from your collection.
We haven't been spending too much time with these guys
recently and quite frankly I miss 'em a lot.
- Frogs are like one of the coolest things we have.
- [Man Off Camera] They're pretty sweet.
- No, I don't know if they're one of the coolest
I don't why I said that, but they're awesome.
I love these little chunky monkeys no pun intended.
- Watch this "Hey Brian can I take a frog out",
guess I can do it (laughs).
- (laughs) He's not here to tell us no.
(laughter)
- This is the one I ended up giving to you guys, holy crap.
- Wow dude. She's a...
- Wow
She's bigger than both your hands.
- I know, she is massive, look at that.
She's trying to climb away but, that's a big frog dude.
- Dude, and then we also got to
check in on our boy snoop frog.
Or I guess it's a girl now, our girl snoop frog.
I've been looking at him recently
and the colors and pattering on this dude
has changed a lot since he was a little little little dude
and it's actually insane how much he's changed.
- It's like cooper, like red on there and orange.
This thing is so cool.
- Dude because you remember
from when he was a baby he was literally
100% lime green had its very vibrant colors
and sadly its dulled out a lot
When its reached its full maturity level basically.
This frog is definitely my favorite Pac Man frog we have.
- This is pretty awesome, this is incredible.
I mean look at the architecture on this.
And this is one of those hidden gems
where I guess hardly anybody really knows about it.
Thankfully we have a really awesome friend guide
that's helping us today, he said it's probably less
than like 10% of people who actually notice.
And this is called Scala Contarini, the Hidden Jewels.
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And we made it to the top (deep breathing),
a little winded but we made it to the top (laughs).
This view, look at that, wow beautiful.
Like I mentioned, we're really lucky to
have my friend Frederico here (laughs)
- Hi what's up!
- Good to have Frederico here showing us around.
We'd be lost without you, so.
This city is like amaze, it's ridiculous.
So it's good to have a local that can really show us
these hidden jewels, this is awesome.
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Here's like the main bridge in Venice.
It's the one that's really famous. Absolutely amazing.
We made it to city center, San Marco's Square
of course the church is amazing over there
big bell tower, oh my gosh.
And again guy, I don't want to continue to preach
to you about things but the truth is,
is that I just want you to step out of your comfort zone.
Because honestly my comfort zone
isn't in the middle of Italy
or isn't across the pond or it isn't in Africa.
My comfort zone is home with my family,
my dogs, and my animals and the fact is
until you step out of that comfort zone
you don't grow as a person.
So I'm not going to preach you,
but I am going to tell you it is so worth it,
because when you do step out
you experience amazing things in life.
No matter if you can afford to go traveling or not
whatever the case is, you can find adventure
right around the corner.
Get out of your comfort zone, grow as a person.
Trust me you will be so happy that you did.
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We're about to go on our first gondola ride,
but this is a local gondola,
which means it's about 2 Euros per person.
On the other hand the fancy gondolas
are actually 50 Euro per person.
So the locals that these here, the fancy ones go that way.
We'll probably do one of each
because hey when you're in Venice.
You've got to do the fancy gondola as well.
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- And we are off.
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- That's it, technically that's our first gondola ride.
(laughs) What did you think?
- So exciting.
(laughs)
- Right behind us over here is actually
one of the shops that hand makes the gondolas here.
And those gondolas can literately
sometimes cost 50 or 60 thousand dollars.
But they literally hand make them,
and this is one of the places that does it.
What did you think of Venice, I mean pretty amazing huh?
- Yeah I mean, just like every part of Italy
just like, blows any expectations I had away.
- It is really amazing, I mean it's really good.
But you know I hope that you guys enjoyed
the little peek we showed you of Venice
but now we are off to Florence.
I'm pretty excited about this one.
This is a city that our daughter studied in abroad
so we're super excited to go check out Florence,
what do you say we hit the road?
- Actually just got bit by this guy.
He crunched down on my finger.
He's kinda aggressive, but hopefully that means
he's going to be a good breeder for us.
He's really looking at Christine.
This is the first time we've but him with anybody, so.
So this is just one of those things.
He's not interested obviously, he's trying to run away.
So I'm gonna just another bend.
This is another hard part,
since he's a little bit aggressive,
I really have to watch and make sure he doesn't
get her head or her arms.
And this is kinda just my process,
I'll keep one female out and try a couple of males.
Until I get a good pairing.
A lot to times you have to put animals together
multiple times like you have to kinda introduce them.
They won't always go the first time you put them together.
So maybe if I put these two guys together again,
in a couple of days they might breed.
- And as much as we absolutely loved Venice,
we are so excited to be here in the city of Florence.
I mean this place is really amazing.
And one of the things that's really cool
about all of Italy is that no matter where you go
it seems very unique, each city is completely different.
The architecture everything, this is our first Basilica
that we'll be going to right here.
Again it looks very different than every other
Basilica that we've been to.
Let's see what Florence has to offer.
Thing that's interesting here is that
in Florence it appears that you have to pay
to get in to the Basilica.
First in Rome, with the exception of the Vatican
everything was free,
but again that's just how it is these guys live on tourism.
The thing I find interesting in most of the Basilicas
here in Italy is the fact that
they're actually tombs as well.
So in here I think that they're actually five or six
people that are buried.
They can be priest, they can be cardinals,
and in some cases even popes.
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- We've found our second place with cannolis
so this one has the normal cream filling.
We'll see if this one is good enough for Lori.
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- This chocolate in the cannoli shell.
- Oh okay, interesting.
- I'm not really sure about the cream yet,
but I like that idea, I might steal that (laughs).
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- I think it's good, different but good.
This was something I was pretty excited about seeing.
You know I love art and I love history.
You always here Michael Angelo's Statue of David,
well guess what it is right there. How crazy is that?
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- I had no idea it was so absolutely massive, holy cow.
Again it's such an iconic thing,
I mean it's absolutely crazy, I've seen this statue
my whole life in pictures and depicted in movies.
To be literately feet away from it is crazy.
Man this experiences is like this
that I wasn't even expecting when I came on this trip.
How absolutely incredible is that?
Holy moly, wow!
Gesh...
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Just to give a little up date on the weather situation,
In Venice it was about 32 to 35 degrees.
But relatively decent as far as sunny goes.
Here it's about 35 degrees and its rainy of course.
So it's not quite cold enough to snow,
but it's definitely chilly out here.
But it's completely fine and the rain is just a drizzle.
So we're not getting too wet, yet.
But hopefully the weather would hold up,
so we can finish our day in Florence
and then head back to Rome and
get on a plane and start heading back.
It's like I mentioned every city you hear that we visited
in Italy is completely different from the next.
Yo in America, its like every city
has kind of flavor and tastes,
but they're all kind of the same.
When you come to Italy, I mean every city feels
like you're in a different country, or something like that.
And that's what makes it so special,
is because definitely Florence has a completely
different feel than Venice or Rome or Milan.
And by the way this is the Duomo here,
and for those of you confused just like I am,
there's a church, there's a Bascilica, and there's a Dumomo.
I guess they all mean the exact same thing.
It is crazy how massive this is,
just take a look it goes all the way there,
all the way over there, all the way over to the side.
Holy cow and look at this ornate door.
- Oh my gosh.
- We finally made it around to the front of the Dumono.
Oh my gosh!
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- It's hard to put into words how absolutely
massive and ornate this is crazy!
Not sure if we mentioned, but me and Lori love Italy.
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- Well the weather has not improved,
but we did get some really tasty pasta
with the cheese tray. So Lori is a little happier.
(laughter)
- But it is definitely still pretty chilly out here.
But it's awesome it's absolutely beautiful.
And up here is the Ponte Vecchio,
which is the bridge across the river.
You know what's crazy, we are actually on the Ponte Vecchio,
which is the bridge that joins both parts of Florence.
And this is what it looks like.
I mean it doesn't look like any bridge I've ever been on.
- (camera guy) Some beautiful stores here though,
look at all the jewelry.
- You need some jewelry?
- Yeah, I think it would make a great souvenir.
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- We found some cannolis that were
actually from Sicily style.
So this might be the closest thing
to Lori's grandma, which was from Sicily, so.
- It looks like it.
- Let's give it a shot.
- Alright.
(background noise)
- Well like it?
- Um hm.
- Yeah,
oh yeah a lot more like it.
That's definitely the closest thing for sure.
These are good.
Lori you said this is the Pitti Palace.
- No! (laughs)
- What did you say it was?
(laughter)
- This is the Pollazo Pitti
- Yes or
- The Pitti Palace
- (laughs) go away.
- (laughs) Regardless, it's absolutely beautiful.
It's really amazing.
Oh, this is crazy. Lori I think
they call this the Chandelier Room.
- I think that's a good name.
- Yeah
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- We have a few hours left in Florence
before we start heading to Rome.
And Florence is really know for it's museums.
So I think we're going to hit three museums
before we head back. One is the Galileo,
one is the Uffizi, and the other one I don't know the name.
But we're gonna go check them out,
and see what they got.
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- We made it to our first museum,
and basically the reason we chose this museum
is it had some of Michael Angelo's works in here.
So we thought it would be pretty cool.
It's one of the smaller museums.
I think this and Galileo are both pretty small.
And then the Uffizi is absolutely mammoth.
Okay I think there's a chance
we might be in the wrong museum.
I mean we came in and it's all like
about like movies and look at there's like
a clown outfit over here (laughs)
I don't think this is anything to do with Micheal Angelo.
(laugher)
- Good job Lori (laughs)
- Me (laughs)
- It's cool nonetheless and what the heck
we might as well enjoy it.
I'm still not 100 % sure what this museum is about.
I think it's about a famous film maker in Italy.
Do you think that's it?
- That would be my guess.
- Your guess, yes. It seems like it's all about movies
that were made didn't get a whole lot out (laughs).
Oh my gosh, we're such tourists, it's so funny.
We never did find the museum that we're looking for
that had the Michael Angelo stuff,
but that's okay because we're going to go
to the Galileo museum and then the Uffizi,
which is suppose to be a museum
that is like second only to the Louvre in France.
So I'm pretty excited about that.
So the Galileo museum is all about scientific advancement
over the last several centuries. Including sundials,
which were the earliest form of telling time.
And I love museums and I love art, and I love science.
So this is actually pretty cool.
For you flat earth people out there,
here's a map of the earth a flat earth in 1457.
So there you have proof that the earth is flat.
That was super cool, again.
As someone who loves science to see stuff like that.
What's interesting about what we saw today,
was that that was the era where people
really started to think things
through from a science standpoint.
It was pretty amazing to just see all the apparatus.
How did they come up with that stuff?
Galileo and all the scientist from that time.
Man it was spectacular. We are off to the Uffizi now,
which is suppose to be absolutely incredible.
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- Definitely a very impressive gallery.
There's no doubt about it tons of paintings,
carvings, I mean this is definitely the largest
museum I've ever been to. Amazing works of art.
Alright is there any Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
section with Rafael, Michael Angelo, and Donatello?
- Get away from me
- What?
Pretty incredible to be this close
to Leonardo Da Vinci's work.
I mean that's absolutely incredible.
You saw Michael Angelo's stuff, now Da Vinci, wow.
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So the next big artist, Rafael.
This gallery is just for his artwork.
So again we seen Michael Angelo,
Da Vinci, and now we see Rafael, wow.
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- Literately all we need is Donatello,
and we'll have the Mutant Ninja Turtles.
We're so close, was there a Donatello?
- I saw his name.
- What?
So this wasn't Donatello, but this was actually
in front of a piece of work from Donatello.
So we basically have the Mutant Ninja Turtles now.
So I'm okay we can go now.
That was absolutely amazing again.
I don't know if you guys are into art or what not,
but I've always been into it.
So it was absolutely incredible.
We even got to see some Rembrandt.
So gosh what an amazing amazing gallery.
But you know as much as we love Florence,
we're wrapping our time up here in Florence.
Going to be heading to the train station.
Heading to Rome for one last night,
and then tomorrow we wake up and we get on a plane
and we fly back to the Reptarium and BHB.
So the by far tour on the train to Rome.
Hey we're here back in Rome.
Well actually at the Rome Airport.
So there's no beautiful sights to see,
but this trip was absolutely incredible.
Tomorrow morning we wake up, we get on a plane,
we go to Amsterdam, and then eventually
we get back home to the Reptarium BHB,
and all of our lovely animals, crew,
and of course Noah. This trip was absolutely incredible,
and just so you guys have an idea,
We were only hear a handful of days, and we saw so much.
We were literally going day to night.
Most days we were walking like 8 to 10 plus miles a day.
So that's the way we do it.
So we need a vacation from our vacation,
if you get my drift regardless.
Let me know in the comments how you liked this adventure.
What was your favorite part?
What would you like us to do in the future?
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