oh my god you guys I'm so excited so we just got a delivery and I've
been waiting like weeks for this and because they're finally here
we got kayaks oh I'm so excited so first I want to give a little back story and
how much of a process it was to get kayaks during a pandemic so way back on
Memorial weekend which was like I guess two weeks ago so it's not been that bad
so two weeks ago on Memorial weekend our plan was to go buy kayaks and go like
enjoy a bunch of kayaking on Memorial weekend went to the stores multiple
stores and I mean multiple like we went to four maybe five different stores
that would have kayaks and yeah kayaks were sold out like there was no kayaks
left everyone bought kayaks this year because of I'm pretty sure of the
pandemic because everyone's stuck no one's going anywhere
so kayaking is where it's at I literally called around all different stores in
Minnesota just find availability yeah every single store Dick's Scheels
Cabela's like all the stores that would have the kayaks we wanted none no and we
weren't even being picky we were literally thinking yeah we're just gonna
go get some kayaks yeah that didn't happen so we ended up ordering some and
we knew which ones we wanted because the first time we ever went kayaking was up
on the gunflint trail which is like on the Canadian border of Minnesota you
were camping and there was a couple next to us they had kayaks and they were gone
for then they came over and they said hey you guys want to use our kayaks? I'm
like sure we never kayaked so this was like I don't know 10 or so years ago and
they were these kayaks and we love these kayaks we protect multiple times unlike
other kayaks but we just remember loving these kayaks so we knew what we wanted
and so we ordered them and we got exactly what we wanted and
colors and everything so we are gonna open these up and I'm going to show you
what we ended up getting and why we love these kayaks and we can't wait to use
them
all right you guys there they are oh that their package oh my god they're so
pretty all right so these are the Perception Joyride kayaks the first
kayaks we've ever kayaked in and these are in now these are the 10 foot kayaks
so that was one thing that was really important to us when we were looking at
kayaks we didn't want long kayaks because of
transportation and just easier accessibility
so we wanted 10-foot we do not want 12 or longer or anything we want a 10-foot
so that's what these ones are these are the 10-foot ones and as you can see we
have 2 different colors so mine is called Sunset that's the color of my
kayak and then my husband's which is the blue and the green that's called Deja Vu
so that's the different colors they have lots of different colors that you can
pick from but we these were the colors we wanted so we got those so we ended up
buying as a kayak online like I mentioned from Back Country that's where
we ended up finding availability because there was like no availability we looked
at like Sheel's, Dicks, everywhere and no one had the ones we wanted in stock and
Back Country did just know it is expensive to ship kayaks I think we paid
an extra $300 just to get these shipped to us but we literally had no choice
because there's no kayaks at tge store and if we wanted to kayak I mean
that's where it was at so heads up on that and such then in the end we were
totally fine paying the extra because then we got to get exactly what we
wanted the exact colors we wanted like everything we bought was exactly what we
wanted so it is what it is so I'm just going to give you a quick showdown of these kayaks
alright so one thing that was really important to us when we were looking at
kayaks and like I said I kind of know where do you knew what we wanted but you
know we did want to just go about others but one thing that was really important
to us was all the different cubby like areas to put storage we got a water
bottle holder right here in the middle this is for a cell phone holder with the
strap so it's secure same with the water bottle you got this nice strap that goes
across and then these two things are like great for you know whatever else
you might have snacks or something but it's all like tie down to so that's
awesome so that was really important and then of course the seat is all
adjustable and then on the inside you have the two foot pegs on each side you
can see them down there they're both adjustable and then also we have the
storage in the back which is watertight storage so that was awesome this is huge
you can fit like so much in here it looks small on the camera here but
there's like a lot of storage in here so that's perfect it has the nice handles
here that are built in so yeah this is the perception and then the Joyride ten
and that is the brand and model that we'd purchased
yeah so this right here is really nice padding since that's like where your
legs hit so that's a nice cozy scene I feel like I'm like just chilling and
laying back and chillin all right so like I said we got our kayaks from
backcountry and then when it came to our paddles but this was another thing that
we kind of just went all out and got what we really wanted so we ended up
getting carbon-fiber paddles so we ended up finding these ones that we liked at
Dick's so we were most standard cheapest ones are gonna be like the aluminum
pedals but if you've ever held a carbon-fiber
paddle it's like air like this is like nothing so when we were in the store at
Dick's we found the aluminum and then we have this carbon fiber and we were hands
down like yep this is what we're getting so these are the field and stream lines
and there's even like a fish measuring tape on the back so I'm sure my husband
will be fishing and maybe I will too I don't it's got a matching pair I was
gonna try and get one that was like the orange or yellow but they didn't have
that color all right so the next thing is how we are hauling in the kayaks
so we do have a truck and we were thinking about just using our truck it
has you know the bed to put the kayaks in but after more research you're just
kind of looking at things we decided to get a rough track for our SUV and we
figured this would be the best way for us to haul them and plus our SUV it just
it gets around quicker easier I just we just like going on trips with our SUV
when we can and then our truck is more like you know heavy duty type things but
when we're traveling around and doing things we prefer to take the SUV so we
figure this will be the best way to do this so we got a roof rack so I'm going
to show you that next okay so we have never had like any type of rough rocking
on our SUVs so this is all new to us so we went into spoke to
Scheel's which is like an outfitting store that starts in the Midwest so for
those of you who have never heard of Scheels it's more of a Midwest store
so after talking to them they pretty much hooked us up with exactly what we
needed however they didn't have any in store because they were all sold out
just like the kayaks so we ended up ordering everything online through
Scheels and we ended up going with all Yakima roof rack and equipment so I'm
gonna just kind of show you what that looks like my husband installed them all
by himself and he did a real good job so I'll show ya kind of how that looks as
of right now all right so first here are the two roof racks and this is the
Yakima that's the brand that we ended up going with and we just have the two bars
that were attached to these that are already on our SUVs yeah that's just
kind of how they look and then we ended up getting the JayLow holders
so because we have two kayaks we needed to be able to hold two of the
kayaks and these are called JayLow and the reason they're called JayLow is because
these come down when you slip that little lever they come down so you can
install these on the top of the roof racks and then when you're not using
them you can flip them down so that was really important because some of them
don't look down so we have to get those installed right know so we can get our
kayaks on there all right so hubby is getting the first
a JayLow we got JLo put it on a JayLow it looks pretty easy you just set them on
top and then you just turn the little knob and it tightens right to the rack
right and I just wanted to show you guys like how these collapse um so we got the
red handle you just pull that out and then you can flip that down and then put
it in and then when you're not using your kayaks those aren't in the way so
it's just kind of nice to not have them sticking up all right they are all on so
you can just see now like there they are up and then that's what it looks like
down so now we gotta get them up there the fun part
and then also with a yak on my clip and they also give you all ya come out
straps too so that's really nice so now we get to figure out the straps alright
you guys we got em up there oh my gosh we're practicing um working on the
straps and trying to like figure out all that and hopefully they won't we draw it
alright so we figured out the strap we still have to get our strap for the
front um we have a access point coming in the mail so we can strap it to the
front so we're just waiting for that to come and then we got the back strap the
two middles and then once we get that part for the front so we can secure it
so be ready to go so we were actually gonna go kayaking tonight however it's
just sort of thundering and I looked at the radar and there's like red coming
our ways okay we're gonna probably get these taken down and get them inside and
then probably go kayaking tomorrow or something so can't wait to use these
guys so with that said if you guys have any questions about the kayak the rack
system or anything be sure let me know down in the comments and thank you guys
so much for watching we are so excited to take these out and spend our summer
kayaking and hiking because we're not traveling anywhere since all our trips
have been cancelled for the most part so with that said be sure to give this
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watch our kayaking adventures we are gonna be going somewhere this weekend
we're going to a state park to bring these out for the first like big trip so
we're really excited to do that looks like the weather should be good as long
as it's not like super windy we should be good so anyways I will see you guys
in the next vlog. Bye!