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Welcome back everyone to another Comprehensible input vlog in my old style
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Welcome back everyone to another Comprehensible input vlog in my old style
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Today we are in Hau Long Bay here in Vietnam
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Two twin beds
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and this is my mom two lamps on in Hau Long Bay Blocks the majority of the sunlight has his own kayak.
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It's going to go fabulous Here is a paddle, but last time I was here.
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That's called rage baiting.
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Think we'll probably head back soon We woke up too early.
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Also flower petals on the table.
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One big candle where we'll be exploring villages.
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Here you can see we just checked into our room on this cruise ship.
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Here you have two twin beds.
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Two twin beds.
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This is my brother's bed and this is my bed and this is my mom.
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Hello.
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Hello.
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Excuse me.
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And this right here is my mom's room.
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You can see the size of this bed.
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This bed is huge.
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This is a king bed.
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The king bed has four pillows.
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One, two, three, four.
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It also has two lamps, each nightstand, and the nightstand has a drawer.
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The handle of the drawer is silver.
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Anyway, we are about to go out right now and go kayaking here in Haolong Bay.
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You can also see we have a balcony.
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This is a balcony.
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There is a table and two chairs.
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Each chair has a cushion.
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The chairs are gray.
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There are also two flower pots on each side of the balcony
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and over there is the washroom or you can call it the bathroom.
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This you can see is a see-through curtain and this is not a see-through curtain.
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This blocks the majority of the sunlight, but you can still see a little bit of sunlight coming through here.
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And down there, you have a lady selling beer, water, chips, and other snacks.
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So if I want, I can go talk to her and buy some snacks.
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This right here is our washroom.
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You can see here, we have a bathtub.
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A bathtub.
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I haven't taken a bath in years, but I might use this.
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Here we have our sink, our toilet, and our standing shower.
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I'll give you a full tour later on, but for now we have to go kayaking.
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You can see my mom has her action camera.
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Let me put my shoes on and let's go.
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Okay, so now we're heading down the stairs to the bottom floor to get the kayaks.
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Now we're going to get on the kayaks here.
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So Leon's life jacket is very tight again, but honestly, we're not surprised.
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Grown man, by the way, you can loosen it.
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Look at mine, bro.
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Mine's not even tight.
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So now we're on the kayaks here.
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You can see Leon has his own kayak.
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And he also has the GoPro selfie stick.
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And he's by himself in that blue kayak.
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Me and my mom are in this lime green kayak.
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And we are two people in this kayak.
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Leon is just one person alone.
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Over there you can see multiple cruise ships.
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And that right there is our cruise ship.
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The Mont Cherie.
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And now we're gonna kayak over there to the shoreline and explore.
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Are you excited, mom?
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Oh, I know how this is going to go.
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How does it feel?
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It's going to go fabulous because I feel like I'm the one that I have to battle.
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Leon!
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Reflective strip right here on her life jacket and her life jacket is red.
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There is also white writing and black straps.
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This right here is a paddle.
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A paddle.
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It is black, silver, and yellow.
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Leon right now is pulling a rope.
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Leon might have ADHD.
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He's excited.
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But you can see a lot of kayakers over there.
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So let's head over there now.
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So I guess that's what you do when you're too tired to sit up straight.
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You just lay down.
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You can see Leon is laying down in his kayak.
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Yo, how's that Leon?
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He said it's pretty comfortable.
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He's so funny.
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I'm here, no backrest.
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My mom, this is what she's using as a backrest.
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I'm surprised I have a backrest.
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Low key my toes are going to break, but you know what?
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It's worth it.
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Look at this guy, dude.
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I'm going to show you guys what we have today for dinner.
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But man, for lunch we ate so much.
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It was a lot of food because it was like buffet style style
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so we got to like dish up our own food
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but it was literally just straight protein okay mom what do you think
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so far of our kayaking experience i think it's unique the first time ever
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that we're well i'm here in halong bay this is your second time
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and it's beautiful but last time i was here it was
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so like overcast
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and like foggy you couldn't even see anything like you wouldn't
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be able to see those mountains in the distance did you
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guys go kayaking yeah we went kayaking we went to this
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cave we went squid fishing we did everything we're gonna do
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but then not as much though
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because here you do more though yeah we're going to go to lan habay
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but i remember it was like a lot colder i came
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in february i think it was cold like i remember it
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being cold i was like dude i do not want to
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swim now i can swim now it's like i think the
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water would be nice the water feels not too bad
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if it was sunny out it would be even better yeah
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the water feels nice no it's not too bad i I could definitely see.
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Yeah, there's a little bit of garbage, but not too much. Where?
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Along the edge?
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Yeah, along the edge there.
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You can see along the edge, there is like a lot of garbage.
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Not a lot, but you know.
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Some plastics.
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Yeah.
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A lot for a park, because this is a park, right?
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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No, it's a lot for this area, which is like sad, but I guess people throw their garbage out for some reason.
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And then it just finds its way into these bays.
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They don't have any cleanup projects.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, you could see the limestone rock formations behind us.
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This honestly reminds me a lot of Avatar, doesn't it?
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Like everything here.
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Oh, the first Avatar.
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What's the planet called?
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Pandora's box.
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Yeah.
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Is it called Pandora's box?
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No, it's called Pandora.
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So which one is it?
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Pandora or Pandora's box?
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It's just Pandora.
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Pandora.
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Pandora.
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There's a P and A.
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Oh God, help us.
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That's called rage baiting.
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And it was successful.
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successfully rage baited both of them okay
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but this is really nice this water is like like kind of like green like green
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and blue yeah i'm really nice and honestly it's not even
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that cold no do you think i can get my back
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rest back oh okay there we go now we can continue talking now it's really really nice
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and this is kind of a lot of people it's not
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that salty it's not actually
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that salty at all i really thought it would be a
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lot saltier try it no thank you i don't want to I'm gonna have diarrhea.
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It's just salt water.
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You're not supposed to drink it.
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Well, I spit out the salt water that was in my mouth.
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I spit it back into the water.
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I know, yeah, that's pretty gross, but better than drinking it, because I guess it could give you diarrhea or something.
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Right, mom?
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Yeah.
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Is that what you said? Who knows?
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And you know, feeling sick when you're traveling, especially if it's a stomach bug, is the worst.
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Yeah, fortunately, I don't think any of us have felt sick except for Leon, but he's low-key a little weak, so that's kind of normal for him, even if he wasn't traveling.
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Yeah, he seems to be sick all the time.
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For us that are built different and built like absolute machines, we didn't get sick at all.
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No. Like low-kirk, entological, flow, and we did not get sick.
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No, I didn't sleep well last night.
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I had such a good nap in the afternoon.
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Goodness gracious.
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I did not sleep well last night because what?
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I don't know why we didn't sleep well.
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I woke up at 5 a.m and I was like, oh, dude, I'm not going back to bed.
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Well, I didn't sleep well because I think I had a coffee too late.
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I had like a coffee at 3 o'clock and that was too late maybe and then I didn't sleep well, but I'm kind of retaining water.
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So I think I just I need to eat more salt.
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I don't drink enough water.
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You need to drink more salt.
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Salt water right here.
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Pick your poison.
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Yeah, dude, you literally got it.
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Unlimited right here.
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Yeah, I feel like yesterday I didn't drink enough water.
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So today I'm going to drink more.
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I like how it's not super sunny because that would definitely be, definitely be like burning me and hurting my eyes.
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I think we'll probably head back soon and we'll give you like a deeper tour of the whole cruise ship.
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And then we'll show you what we're having for dinner because I know that's going to be some deliciosa food.
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Actually, I'll insert some clips right here of what we had for lunch.
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It was really, really nice.
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It was like a buffet style.
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The one side was all like warm hot foods and the other side was like cold foods and dessert.
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Lots of seafood.
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Yeah.
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But I have to say whenever there's beef on the menu, we'll always go for the beef.
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So I hope it's delicious because we're used to Alberta beef.
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Dinner isn't going to be a...
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It's a set menu.
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It's like a menu.
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It's not a buffet.
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This cruise ship is really nice and the dining hall is really nice too.
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And I like how each room has its own personal balcony.
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That's fire.
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So we're on the kind of on the second floor
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if you look at it because that's where the view is the best
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and we'll hear almost no engine noise And it's also very good for you for filming.
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So you can thank me later.
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Thank you or later even later.
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Okay, good Anyways, we'll finish up kayaking here and head back to the cruise ship.
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See you guys in the cruise ship So we're passing a boat right here.
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We're actually gonna hit it Oh, we got a little too close to the boat, but that's our boat up there.
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So we're just going to paddle towards it.
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Almost hit this boat right here, though.
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We?
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Yo, who's that guy over there?
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Who's that guy over there?
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Where is it?
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Look over there.
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His back is probably killing you.
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That's giving, you know, Wally, the people that just sit in the chairs.
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I remember that, Wally.
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They just sit in the chairs and like eat and stuff, bro.
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So we've just got back from kayaking.
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How was that, Mom?
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My butt's all wet.
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It was good.
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Yeah, me too. Is yours?
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Look, mine is wet.
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Actually, not too bad.
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I just feel like really damp, but it's not very wet.
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You're very wet.
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I'm gonna go and have a shower because I didn't have a shower this morning.
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You did not?
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No. We woke up too early.
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But what time is the next activity thing?
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I think it's at 6 o'clock.
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So there's a break right now?
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Yeah, it's for cooking.
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Looks good.
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You want to taste it?
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Yep.
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You can ask for more.
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Feels good.
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Okay, so now we are having dinner.
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Or we are about to have dinner.
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This is the dining hall.
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And this is the set dinner we're going to have.
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We have a soup and appetizer, a main course.
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All three of us went with option one, the beef.
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And then for dessert, tiramisu with chocolate sauce.
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This is our table our table.
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Leon's sitting by himself in the corner.
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My mom is sitting beside me and I am sitting on her right hand side.
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You can see they gave us two forks, two knives, a tiny fork and a spoon.
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I believe all of these have names but I just don't really know them.
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So the rule is you eat from the outside in so be a salad, fork, and knife and this will be for your soup and that's your dessert board.
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But you know the names?
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I think the names are pretty complicated.
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It's called a salad fork.
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Oh that's it, just
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that simple oh i thought i thought it'd be some fancy
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british stuff that's what i would call it maybe the british
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will call it something else this is a placemat it's a
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leather leather placemat this is a glass here we have a wet towel this is a cold wet towel
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and there are also flower petals on the table
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and even a small plant and we have two candles on the table one small candle
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and one big candle these are salt and pepper shakers
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and this is i don't know what is that toothpicks i I forgot to restock them.
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And this right here is our napkin.
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You usually put these cloth napkins on your lap.
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Or you could tuck it into your shirt.
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That's in extreme cases.
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Normally you just put it on your lap.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, this is where we're eating dinner tonight.
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Alright, this is the first dish.
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It's duck salad.
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Okay, this is the second course.
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What is it, Mom?
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It is a pumpkin soup with scallops.
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Creamy pumpkin soup with seared scallops and crispy baguette.
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I think it looks good.
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Okay, so this is another course.
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Mashed potato, fish, and some greens.
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With passion fruit sauce.
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Looks really good.
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This one is the grilled sea bass with passion fruit sauce, mashed potatoes, and buttered vegetables.
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Okay, here we have the main course.
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This is option two.
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Oh no, sorry, this is option one.
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Five-spiced grilled beef with tamarind juice, emerald rice, and steamed zucchini.
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I love you.
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Okay, this is dessert.
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You can see I already took two small bites.
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But we have some fruit and a tiramisu cake.
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That's our first full day here in Hau Long Bay.
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And tomorrow we have another full day where we'll be exploring villages, caves.
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We'll also be kayaking, swimming, and riding bikes.
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So make sure to watch the next video if you want to see that.
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Bye, guys.
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