The C.H.O.D.E.S. Podcast
Two cousins, Maria and Leslie, discussing wild personal experiences in relationships, current events, and just life. We are sharing our experiences for relatability and entertainment. There will be laughs with a lot of gasps and we will also get down to the very intimate and raw details of the dating world and life lessons at every turning point.
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The C.H.O.D.E.S. Podcast
Take the stairs to Europe with us!
What happens when you mix a three-week podcast recording hiatus with a tipsy editing adventure? You get a hilarious recount of our recent shenanigans, thanks to our editor Nisa's deft touch. I also share the joys of my digital detox in Guatemala, from thrilling slides and charming Antigua streets to some less-than-stellar food moments. Meanwhile, my co-host relaxed with her partner, making for a heartfelt and funny recap of our time away.
Ever wondered how to plan a spontaneous European vacation amidst personal trials and new relationships? Get the inside scoop on how Leslie broke the news of her non-negotiable travel plans to her new boyfriend and managed to rope a friend into joining last minute. We navigate through the madness of booking flights and coordinating transportation across London, Paris, Milan, and Rome, turning what seemed like an obstacle course into a liberating adventure.
Join us as we recount our European escapades—both the magical highs and the frustrating lows. From Disneyland Paris and the top of the Arc de Triomphe, it's a rollercoaster of laughs and memorable experiences. Hear about our budget triumphs, the quirky mission to dine at every McDonald's we could find, and the serendipitous moments that made this trip unforgettable. Tune in for a laughter-filled episode packed with cherished memories and a fair share of travel mishaps.
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Speaker 2:Was I supposed to do this?
Speaker 1:I was like was I supposed to do it? Didn't you hear me practicing beforehand? I know?
Speaker 2:I was like maybe I'm supposed to do it. I forgot what I was supposed to do. It's been a while.
Speaker 1:We're bad bitch.
Speaker 2:After three weeks, damn crazy. It's been a while we're bad bitch. After three weeks, damn crazy three weeks.
Speaker 1:That's crazy. Huh, we managed to do it. We did. I'm so proud of us. Honestly, I'm gonna be 100% honest with you, girl. Last week I was drunk out of my mind on saturday night and I was like, oh shit, I have to post the episode. What am I gonna do? Like, in my drunkness, I managed to email the episode to the girl that helps me edit sometimes and I was like, hey, I know, this is like last minute. I'm super drunk. I could literally play you the audio, but I can't remember what I said.
Speaker 1:I just remember that I sent her an audio and I'm like, hey, I'm super drunk, I'm sorry and she's like very professional right, I know she's like, oh, don't worry, maria, like I'll have it to you as soon as possible, and I'm like, oh, you're an angel, thank you, oh my god. But hey, I got it done.
Speaker 2:No, no, yeah, and it sounded good. So, hey, shout out to her. Shout out Nisa. Thank you, I don't even know her name. Oh yeah, I'm sorry, her name is Nisa. Nice to meet you.
Speaker 1:Nisa. She says that she likes our episodes because she says that we talk about subjects that people don't really talk about sometimes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, that's the whole point we're trying to vocalize the silent sufferers.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, how you been babe.
Speaker 2:Good Aquí missing you. Aww Aww. Okay, yeah, that was the last mm.
Speaker 1:It's good, like I miss you too. But, girl, when I'm in guatemala, like let me tell you, I took four or five dresses, two pairs of jeans and three shirts. Ask me if I thought about my clothes here. Ask me if I thought about my shit here. I, I don't think about anything over there. I'm like fuck it, I'm not even my phone. You saw how disconnected I was from my phone Mm-hmm, but it was so much fun, as it should be, mm-hmm. Yeah, but did you do? Well, I was gone.
Speaker 2:Nothing, just hang out with my mans. Hang out at the ranch, that's it. And get drunk, that's it.
Speaker 1:Same seas. But you were in the motherland, so Girl I was, but you were in the motherland, so, girl I was. Let me tell you, my friend and her daughter loved it. They went with me for four days. We went to a giant slide, I think I. You saw the pictures right in the video. I'll post it. That shit was crazy, girl, because it goes my way. I was like please say it because I don't want to say Because it goes my way.
Speaker 2:I was like please say it because I don't want to say it. That explains everything. Because I saw the video of you. I saw the video of your friend's daughter and I was like how come there's a different background. But then when you explain that it's the way where you land, and I was like bitch, you almost went to the end of that.
Speaker 1:I almost went through the wall, bitch. Like you can straight up tell in the video, watch like you'll see it, everybody will see it. You can tell because even before I started, like I was already fucking screaming, because I felt it, like I saw it and I was like, oh hell, no, I'm the heaviest one and I was the first one to go too. So I knew, I knew where I was getting myself into. And then when I made it all the way, girl, you could straight up tell in my face that I was like, oh shit, I almost hit the wall of fucking.
Speaker 1:I don't know, you almost busted through that wall Bean bags, whatever and then my friend's daughter goes and she's like is that it, maria? I didn't feel anything and I was like girl bye because I felt everything. I felt like I was going to die.
Speaker 2:The girl almost ended at the end of the whole route.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we had gotten five tickets and it was four of us, and so we were like, okay's, gonna go again, and my brother, my friend and I are looking at each other like you're not me and my friend's daughter's like I'll go, I'll go, and I'm like you, you, honey, you can go, we're good down here, we'll take a video of you, but yeah, so we went to that.
Speaker 1:Then we went to antigua, uh, walked around antigua. I can't tell you the food this time around I don't know what happened, girl like the food was just not it in most places that we went to, but the beer and the inditas are always top tier. And then what did we do? We went to, oh, we rented a beach house, the beach house that I fucking love going to, and that in itself was total success. The kids enjoyed the pool, the adults enjoyed the beer, we were dancing, we were singing, we were diving in. It was fun. So that was my first 2 am Girl, 5 am. The second day that we were there, we stayed out in the pool until 5 am. My friend was like, oh, I want to see the sunrise. But she didn't see the sunrise, girl, because that day amaneció gloomy, so the sun never came out until like fucking 11 am. I'm like bitch, I'm going to sleep. Okay, I can't, I can't, no more you're like forget the sunrise.
Speaker 2:There was not, it was non-existent I know.
Speaker 1:And then, girl, I spent like four days by myself over there and then my mom and your dad went and my grandma didn't know that your dad was going. So when we went to the airport, me and my brother are like trying to cover them, like when they're coming out, and so grandma's like you already know how grandma is she's like a sergeant, she's like on to everything, and she was, like you, knowant, she's like on to everything. And she was, like you know, like stretching her neck trying to see what we were looking at and we're like no, no, no, okay, look at this on the phone. Da, da, da, like you know.
Speaker 2:And then when she saw.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when she saw your dad girl, she jumped up from her seat Like she felt no pain.
Speaker 2:She pushed that walker to the end of the world, to get through.
Speaker 1:I know it was so cute. And then we spent a lot of family time together with my mom for her 60th birthday. It was really, really nice and I was drunk pretty much every day, but not to the point where she was crazy, just like a cool buzz know, like I was just happy. But yeah, girl, that was my trip. We have to plan one out, you and I.
Speaker 2:Let's put him on takeover guatemala, go back to the motherland we already took on europe we did. I know that was an amazing trip, but I don't know when. We're going to plan something like that again, but we should. I want to go back and now I'm seeing all my friends going right now and I'm like I want to go. I miss them. So should we just go into it, because we're going to talk about this European trip that we had last year that we keep mentioning.
Speaker 1:This is a story for another day. Today's day, the infamous Euro trip.
Speaker 2:Okay. So last year, yours truly over here, I wanted to do 33 in Paris. All right. So this is my thing, my dream. I took French in high school. This is like my dream come true. So I wanted to celebrate my 33rd birthday in France and I was going to go. I didn't know how, but I was going to go.
Speaker 2:I was saying it since November, maybe even September of the year before and everybody's like, well, who are you going to? You gonna go with? I'm like I don't care, I'm gonna go by myself. If I have to, I'm gonna go by myself. I asked my friends, I asked anyone like, hey, what would you be doing around this time in May? Do you guys want to go? And everybody was like no, I can't, no, I can. They had their own trips or they had things going on Understandable. And I was like you know what? At the end of the day I was like I'm going to go. I know I'm going to go by myself.
Speaker 2:So in December some of my family members they gave me for Christmas coins to go and plan this trip. They're like, well, if you really want to do it, go ahead and do it. And I said, well, okay, thank you very much, I'm gonna do it. And then in January I mentioned this trip to one of my friends who was the one that went with us and he was like you were not going by yourself. And I was like, yeah, well, no one wants to go. And he was like I don't think I can go because I think he had trips planned too.
Speaker 1:And he had like two jobs.
Speaker 2:And he was like I don't know, I don't think I could go, or else I would go with you. And I was like no, don't worry. And of course you were my first one and because you were going back and forth to Guatemala in that time, you were like I don't think I can, I really don't think I can, and I think you had a trip already to Guatemala, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, what happened was that year 2022, I had gone to Guatemala from September to November and then, because it was the first time my mom was going to travel, I came back to get her and got plane tickets at a fucking incredible, insanely high price for December to January. And so I was like girl, like I don't know how I'm going to come back, and I had just gone, gone through the whole consolidation that thing, so literally all my credit cards, I had just closed them in November. So I was like if I get credit, I will go, but I don't know how I'm going to be. And so that's why I was like hesitant when you asked me, because you asked me when you were gonna go drop me off to the airport in december november.
Speaker 2:Yeah, see, and like you were one of the ones that I was like, well, I can't go without her. But I wanted to go and like my whole point of this trip too, was like, oh, I'm gonna meet someone out there, I'm gonna meet someone out there, I'm gonna stay my ass over there and I'm not coming back. But that didn't happen, right? So your man's had other. In january I started talking. Well, december, january, I started talking to my now man's and we made it official in february and I told him, you know, right off the back, like I have this trip coming up and I'm not stopping it for no one. And I told him you have to understand that this was in a different mindset, but this was like after, it was already set in stone that I was gonna go, and but I did let him know about that, but anyways. So in January, I think it was like, I hung out with my friend and he was like fuck it, I'm going with you.
Speaker 1:It was February.
Speaker 2:No, we got the ticket February 1st, oh shit, yeah, yeah. So in January it was January 14th, girl. So January 14th I hung out with him and he was like no, fuck it, you know what, I'm going to go with you, you can't go by yourself. And I was like okay, I'm down Like, and he's like no, for real, if we're doing this, we're doing this. He's like next week we're going to meet up for dinner and we're going to plan the flight. And I was like are you to tell you that? Hey, I found someone. And you're like you know what?
Speaker 1:Fuck it, leslie, I'm going with you Because, look, listen, let me tell you that train of thought of mine. Just pause there. I was still with my fucking ex Right, and I would always be stopping myself from doing things because I was like, oh, he's gonna get mad, like this motherfucker was gonna pay for anything, right? So I think the night before he had gone out and gotten drunk and I woke up that morning and I was like, and why the fuck am I not going to Europe? Like literally like that, I woke up in the morning and I think I texted you and I was like, when is it that you're going to Europe? But you told me, like somewhere around me, and I was like, you know what? Fuck it, I'm gonna go. And then you called me and I'm like, why the fuck not? Let's go? I didn't know how I was gonna do it either because, again, I was literally living paycheck to paycheck and I was like.
Speaker 2:I was like, if I have to sell my body, just kidding, literally and I, okay, well, I kind of went through the same thing, right, because in the previous year I had gotten out of all my debt, I had done it all, and only to find out that I got myself screwed into another thing. So, anyways, I was like you know what? I always stopped myself from doing the things that I really want to do because I was trying to get out of debt. And then, now that I got out of debt, I'm into some other stupid shit. So I was like you know what? Life is short, I'm going to do this trip. So this trip for me was just like everything. I like everything with my whole life was literally depending on this trip, because I was in a bad state anyways. So when you guys said yes, I was like, oh my gosh, this is going to be so great and you and him do not know each other, never met each other, and it was just crazy that you guys like hit it off right off the bat.
Speaker 2:So, and then the following week, like, I meet up with him and we plan, we have dinner and we plan like the flight. We're looking at how much we're each willing to spend and we're looking at what days we're willing to work with Right. So we established the dates and we established, like, the country. But we're willing to work with Right. So we established the dates and we established like what we're willing to pay for the flight. So he said that he was going to find the flight. I think you guys had talked on the phone, were you guys? Did we talk on the phone with you?
Speaker 1:We were texting. We were just texting, like everything I think happened through text, like you and him would talk on the phone, but other than that, we had the group chat going on. But you guys both look, I was planning this trip and this trip only you guys had trips back to back so when when I was trying to figure out shit, you guys were both on vacation and I'm like okay this is true, this is true yeah, you sent me a message you even sent me a message when you were in cancun, was it?
Speaker 1:and you were like, look I'm trying. You were like look, maria, like I'm fucking trying to enjoy this vacation. When I get back, we'll talk about it. And I was like oh, shit, okay, my bad fucking day I totally forgot.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you see, like I planned these trips and I was like they're back to back, because the puerto vallarta was end of march, beginning of april, and it was like a week a week or nine days.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a week, it was like a week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a week, and so that was in February 1st. We got our flight. We had him do the flight searches so he ended up finding the flights and I gave him my card info. He booked mine and yours on my card right and then he booked his on his own. But he got the flight, so then you were then in charge of.
Speaker 1:but wait, wait, wait, hold on because we should talk about how we did the whole flight thing, because it wasn't just like we book a flight to Paris, we book a flight to London. Then he was basically in charge of all transportation related stuff. We booked a flight to London, then we booked the train. From London to Paris, from Paris to Milan. We booked the flight it was a connecting flight to get to Rome and then from Rome we booked another flight to get back to London, so we was being travelers over there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we were, yeah, we were going back and forth In the conversation we also like it wasn't only like oh, like you do flights, it was like, okay, where do we want to go and what are we willing to do? Like, what is it that you really want to do? And you were like I just want to be in paris, I just want to be here yeah, because this is like, this is my trip.
Speaker 2:I was like you guys are like. I was like you guys are gonna fucking dip me out of my paris trip. But so, yeah, we agreed, like where do you guys want to go? And he said he wanted to go london, you said italy and I said france.
Speaker 1:So we now established. We agreed that sorry, sorry to keep interrupting you, but like him and I, we were like all we want to do in london is the fucking harry potter tour. I, all I wanted to do was a harry potter tour and then he wanted to do other things, but he wanted to walk oh my gosh, we're gonna.
Speaker 2:We have to touch that she passed.
Speaker 1:She passed anyways for real. Back to back to the back to your story, sorry yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:So we agreed that we each wanted to go visit our respectful places. So, in knowing that because he even said too right, he wanted to go to go to London and he was like, why don't we just get a flight to London? Because a friend of ours had told him that that's what they did when they went to Europe. So we figured that going to London was cheaper and then taking a train from London to Paris would be cheaper, and then we were going to figure out the rest. So he was put in charge of transportation and he figured that out, that stuff. He would message us via our group messages like hey, you know, I found this flight for this price. Should we book it, should we not? And we would all agree, right, and then that's how we would end up doing most of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, for the most part, that's how we because we never have like an actual meeting like hey, let's get in person and let's all fucking look at shit. No, it was just like he was in charge of the flights, I was in charge of the airbnbs, you were in charge of the hotels, and then we didn't really get tickets. Oh, and I booked the photo sessions. The stupid fucking limousine, that waste of money, um, what else? And yeah, that's pretty much it. And I, I looked, thankfully, I looked at the harry potter tickets girl, because if I wouldn't have, we would have gone there and like, oh, sold out, sold out. Other than that, I think that's kind of how we planned the trip. We didn't, we didn't really have a game plan. Until we got there, we were like, okay, this is what we want to see.
Speaker 2:Oh, and we knew that we wanted to do disney paris that was like yes in the itinerary, for sure and that's where, where I came through with my my sources and networks anyways I got.
Speaker 2:I got us into the disneyland paris, but anyways, yeah, we, we looked at, even in looking at the airbnbs, right, we looked at places that were one cheaper but that were gonna accommodate all of us, right, and so far all of our airbnbs were good. I don't think we have a complaint on any of that. Nope, or do you? None of them? None of them like? I think no, because paris, we was the best. We each had our own bedroom.
Speaker 1:Italy too. Mine was perfect because it had the titties. The one in Italy was nice because it was centric, and then in London we actually just booked a hotel room for each night.
Speaker 2:But they were so good. I think the first night in London we each had our own little twin bed right, we were not expecting that like three twin little beds in one room, which is crazy. And then the last night in London, oh, that one. We had like queen beds, that one we had two queen beds, right, yeah, and it was yeah, no, but they were nice and again closer to where we needed to be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, closer to where we needed to be for those places and for those dates. I think in London you guys wanted to do the Harry Potter thing.
Speaker 1:I ended up having fun on that mm-hmm and you know that I'll just, I'll just talk along. Oh, you were just like so, uh, what do you call that like apathic? Was that a word like just like yeah, whatever, yeah uh-huh because I didn't see the movies.
Speaker 2:I never watched any of the movies, let alone read the books. You know, like I don't know what to tell you about her. But now I have seen the movies, thanks to that little tour, because it was fun, it was interesting and I was like, okay, I see why you guys are fans and it was really cute. I definitely recommend that, if you guys are going to London or if you ever want to go to London, or if you're a fan of Harry Potter, definitely go to that Harry Potter tour and if you don't want to go all the way to London, they have a smaller one here at the warner brothers studios.
Speaker 1:Fyi, I think, yeah, that's also when me and your friend, we were like we, we bonded, like, oh yeah, we both like harry potter, we both want to do that. And do you remember we had to switch the whole itinerary because of the stupid fucking tour? Yes, because originally we had planned that we were going to get to London and straight up go to France, but because there was only tickets for the day we arrived in London, we had to move everything kind of one day, which I think worked out perfectly. You know, it still worked out.
Speaker 2:yeah, I liked it.
Speaker 1:I mean, the way things worked out was just Girl, the way that trip, that entire trip, just worked for us. Because, look, listen, the week before we got there there was the whole thing going on in France with the trash and that they weren't picking up the trash for like weeks and the streets were like stinking with trash and stuff.
Speaker 2:And the week after we came back Italy.
Speaker 1:It was a fucking yeah, the fucking crazy environmentalist that they went and put charcoal on the fucking fountain and the workers at disney paris walked out on all the guests like that was like everything after we we came back just the week that we were there was like it was chill the weather was perfect everything, even the, even the flight. Remember the girl?
Speaker 2:yes, it wasn't even it wasn't a full flight, so the flight attendant was nice enough to let us like. She's like.
Speaker 2:Oh, if you guys want to move around and find your own row, so you guys can stretch your legs your friend was like bye bitches, I'll see you he ditched us real quick and me and you started chomping away like oh, we're talking because I guess we haven't seen each other, because you were honestly like you were dealing with your relationship and we haven't yeah, we hadn't hung out. So it was like great. And then, even though that would have been a good time for you guys to get to know each other, he was like fuck you guys to get to know each other.
Speaker 1:He was like fuck you guys, I'm out. We were going to the He-Less Curls. We were looking wild on that plane.
Speaker 2:We were up for every fucking meal that they got. How many meals did they have? It was like they gave us like three courses.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, like two snacks and free drinks and free drinks and free drinks.
Speaker 2:And we were like yes, another.
Speaker 1:We were not in first class. Imagine first class bitch.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. No, I know, and we were getting drunk.
Speaker 1:We were like eating, doing our hair taking little naps. I know that's why we didn't feel the fucking what was it 12 hours?
Speaker 2:I know 14, girl, 14. Feel the fucking. What was it? 12 hours I?
Speaker 1:know 14 girl, 14, shut up for real. Yeah, that's crazy huh yeah, I did not feel 14 hours. No girl, I have never in my life walked so much like we did on that trip. Like remember we said okay, last episode me.
Speaker 1:I have been working from home at this point like two years, literally. My walk was four steps from my bed to my desk and I would hardly go out when I would go to Guatemala. My ex had a car. We would never walk anywhere. So, like I, just I was not used to walking. And then Leslie's like oh, we're going to do this trip, bitch, and you better start training because we're going to walk. And I thought you know like, oh, we're going to do this trip bitch, and you better start training because we're going to walk. And I thought you know like, ok, we're going to walk, but like in my fucking life, would I have imagined 25 to 35,000 steps a day? Like in my wildest dreams?
Speaker 2:No, that's what I do on a regular day, and over there we were doing what we were doing, a lot more than that. Yeah, girl, like we were doing what we were doing.
Speaker 1:a lot more than that, yeah, girl. Like I think, the highest count we had was 36,000 steps no we had more than that. You think so? I guess we did. My phone was on battery saving mode. So probably that's why I didn't count the rest of 20,000 steps, because fuck.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, we did a lot more. And I was doing all my walks here, my hot girl walks. I was doing two miles, two miles, two, two miles, two cute little miles, two cute little miles. And I was telling you like I don't know about you, bitch, but you better train because there's a lot of stairs, and like I knew mentally what I was getting myself into because you know, I've seen movies and I wanted to go to Paris and I was like, fuck, most of the places don't have elevators that work and all their stairs are for skinny people, for freaking Barbies, and how am I gonna fit? I'm already obese. I'm gonna be like huffing and puffing, oh my god, in Paris. And what did I tell you? Everything was stairs, everything you. Everything was stairs, everything was stairs, everything was stairs.
Speaker 1:You told me to watch Emily in Paris and I think that's what, like honestly, that's what did it for me to not take a big suitcase, because, remember, we were planning on taking a big suitcase, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then I was like I started doing research like no tomorrow, on luggage, on the Airbnbs and everything. Yeah, the airbnbs like there was several that were really cute, and I was like, where is it? Where is it located on the first floor? Is there an elevator, like where they were like only had to climb three sets of stairs, or whatever. I was like, oh, thank you next, next bitch. So I did so much research on the luggage something that wasn't gonna like get destroyed because the streets over there are not it for luggage, especially italy. And then what else? Yeah, and I was like you know what? We don't need to take a big suitcase. We're fine, like we're chilling. We can, we can do.
Speaker 2:We're going for 10 days, we're gonna be fine. I don't know how we did it we packed 10 days guys, 10 days in a carry-on and a personal bag, aka me, a backpack and my carry-on, mariah, with a nice fancy base carry-on and a nice base.
Speaker 1:Uh personal bag, but yeah, the mini week in there base, yeah, and our dear friend with a fucking duffel bag and a backpack.
Speaker 1:God bless his back, but no, he was stressing the fuck out of me because I was like dude, you in that duffel bag, I feel like I'm your neck carrying that shit because all the stairs. So okay, look, london was cool because the hotel had an elevator. We were were good, the little baby room. We barely had space to move because we're heavy set people. You know what I mean. Let's talk about the elevator in Paris. Yeah, wait, hold on. Then we get to Paris, y'all and our stupid asses. We talked about this. We talked about this. We talked about the escalator and the stairs. We have to climb stairs and we have to walk uphill, because it was uphill to get to the airbnb. And then, when we get to the airbnb, the elevator was I don't know how miraculously fit all three of us in our suitcases. Did it fit all three of us?
Speaker 2:or did we know the first no, when it was just the three of us, we could fit. But when it was our suitcases, it it fit all three of us. Or did we know the first no, when it was just the three of us, when it was just the three of us we could fit, but when it was our suitcases it was like one by one bitch.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, we each went one.
Speaker 2:That's all I was like wait, I thought we went two and then one because the elevator is small guys like I don't know how to explain it it's it's like a service, fucking elevator girl.
Speaker 2:Like that's how I can like it literally fits a good, like five people, like literally standing crowded together, like you know, like touching butts, boobs, like almost kissing each other, cause like maybe a good two if it's a heavy set people, maybe two people just to give you guys a visual. It was a heavyset people. Maybe two people Just to give you guys a visual. It was a very small elevator.
Speaker 1:Look, look, look, listen. It fit both of us and our friend, and we were admittedly heavier last year. So a good three people, two and a half.
Speaker 2:Anyway. But that elevator push girl that elevator push, girl that elevator push. And it's like those weird ones where you have to open the one door and then get into the other door.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was several times it was several times that we wouldn't close that little tiny door, okay, and it was like, okay, just push a little forward so I could close right. But you know it was, it was fun. We spent how many days in france five, four, five, five, four and a half, yeah, yeah, five days, four nights. Yeah, that was fun, that was fun, we spent how many days in France. Five Four, five, five, four and a half yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, five days, four nights.
Speaker 1:That was fun. That was fun. Our Airbnb was really really nice that one we have to. Como dice el Cesar, lo que es el Cesar, it was top-notch.
Speaker 2:It was, it was located.
Speaker 1:It was actually located in a good area. It was close to everything.
Speaker 2:It was very close to the metro, which is what we needed to use to transport to anything. The metros are so quick, guys. You just have to look at what area you want to visit and then see what stops are there for the metro. They're easy to navigate. I think when we got to Paris we bought the five-day pass.
Speaker 2:We went to the metro station, we asked we bought the five-day pass right we went to the metro station, we asked the guy for a five-day pass so we didn't have to worry about, like, buying a ticket each day, so it ended up being cheaper. We even bought our ticket for the train that takes you to Disneyland Paris, because something that they don't tell you, that's separate, yes, so you have to get that.
Speaker 1:Well, the guy was nice enough to tell us because we wouldn't have known, he saw us. He was like Americani, stupidi, that's another thing, y'all. I did not claim America. I was like, oh, hablas espanol. And people are like, no, do you speak English? And then they'll be like, yeah, you know, like fuck, I guess. But. And then they'll be like, yeah, you know, like fuck, I guess. But I was claiming my freaking central american blood like there was no tomorrow, because they fucking hate americans they do I told them I was like you guys better not speak english, because these people are not gonna respect us at all.
Speaker 2:But they're not. Okay, I like. I like my french people, because they're just minding their own business with their RBFs. Shout out to my French people what did the guy tell us he's like? Why? Because we're not laughing with you. Oh, for real. He's like oh, because we don't have beaches, we're miserable.
Speaker 1:Oh sorry, I know he was just such a Debbie Downer dude, but your friend got a crash course in Spanish, not just Spanish. Guatemala in Spanish and hanging out with us. I know because we had to. We had to, you know, speak Spanish. But what was wild to me is when we were laughing on the trains, the metros, whatever, and people would quite literally walk away from us because we were too happy for them.
Speaker 2:We were just like they would look at you up and down, like, oh, like if we were disgusting because we were laughing and we would try. It was like if we were kids in school, like we were trying not to laugh or giggle, and it's like, though, yeah, it's like the spongebob and patrick, like the more you try, the more you fucking want to. Speaking of language Trick, remember? Okay? So we had a plan that Mariah was going to do Duolingo and learn Italian to help us get by. I was doing my civic duty of learning on the Duolingo Shout out, duolingo. I was learning French and my French got us through.
Speaker 1:It got us through it did your friend and I. We were just listening to Leslie fucking trying to order a French and him and I were just like oui, oui, pardon, bonjour, merci, that's it, Like literally those were our words. And well, la toilette, la toilette and the pain au chocolat.
Speaker 2:That's all we fucking learned.
Speaker 1:Pain au chocolat.
Speaker 2:That's all we fucking learned Paris.
Speaker 1:You're like I'm gonna find the chocolate.
Speaker 2:But I told you, but I like how, that's the first thing you needed to use the restroom. And I told you, I was like, oh, you're gonna say eau à la toilette. And you're like how you went, and you told the guy, and the guy was like what did he tell you one, one, one euro oh, yeah, yeah. That was literally the first thing we did when we got off the train yeah, and then that was our crash lesson and like how to learn, and I was like oh I know this.
Speaker 2:I know this when I'm all teaching you guys oh, that was funny. And then how we had to pay for the madame.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you did your duty with French. I forgot every fucking sentence in Italian that I could remember, like I couldn't remember anything. So me, because I'm more technological, I'm like you know what, let me not struggle. So I would just type everything and fucking Google Translate and show my phone to people Like here you go. Oh my God.
Speaker 2:And this would be me and our friend, friend, like just laughing behind her when she would do things like this, and then, when I would be speaking french, they would be behind me like the choir.
Speaker 1:We we, we we like damn they, but we got through it we survived.
Speaker 2:We got back, yes, and we got to see what did we do in london. We did the harry potter tour, we went to the london bridge, we saw buckingham palace we saw big ben.
Speaker 1:Oh, we saw big ben. Big ben was cool, like it's just so majestic we saw the london eye.
Speaker 2:It't operating, but we were there. I know I wanted to get on that, the London Bridge. Though let's talk about the London Bridge.
Speaker 1:Look, okay, let me tell you something. I'm a very how do you say it? Like I'll flow if I need to flow, right, but like I don't like to suffer. I was just talking to Leslie about that. I don't like to suffer. And if we don't need to suffer, why? Why? So we were in London.
Speaker 1:Homeboy over here says I want to see the night market. Neither one of us fucking knows what the night market is. So we're like okay, you're gonna lead us right, because I wanted to see the Harry Potter. I found out the schedule, I got the tickets and I was like here's how much it is period. Right, you wanted to see the Eiffel Tower. You wanted to see Disney.
Speaker 1:We did our research, right? So he didn't tell us that the night market was only Saturday days and that it ended at 4 pm. How is it a night market if it ends at 4 pm? One. Two he wanted to see the London Bridge and we were on the side of the Big Ben. So if you're from London, you know the distance that we're talking about.
Speaker 1:If you're not from London, let me fucking tell you this guy is like we can walk there, because everything for him was like we can walk there. We can walk there and for the most part, we could walk there. This day in particular. The London Bridge was closing at 6 fucking pm and we were far as fuck from it. London Bridge was closing at 6 fucking pm and we were far as fuck from it and I was huffing and puffing and I just couldn't and I was fucking pissed because I was like I don't want to walk anymore. This is the last day too. So, mind you, this is. We've already gone through the first day of London, five days in Paris and two days in Rome, and this guy still wants to walk. And so we're like can we just get an Uber? I'm like can we just get an Uber there? It's like no, because like when are you going to walk through London? And I'm like all right, whatever. So I can't remember how much we walked, but it was for sure more than 40 minutes, wasn't it? Wasn't it, mm?
Speaker 2:hmm, and then we both needed to pee and we make it to this, like to ask around and find somewhere to pee.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no. And we get to this cool ass freaking spot that has a bunch of pubs and people are just drinking outside and we're like we'll go to a restaurant, we're like we should have some drinks. And then this guy's like, no, but the bridge is closing. And we're like, okay, fine, we keep walking and we make it to a bridge not the bridge so which is across from the bridge, and it's not even across across, like it's still like you have to zoom in the camera to see it.
Speaker 1:So when, when we get to this other bridge this is like random, tiny bridge we're just like, okay, fuck it, let's just cross this one, see it from here. And we we sure enough, right, we saw it open. Yeah, but we, we didn't get to have a beer in london. We didn't stop anywhere to have a beer because we had to see the london we were just walking.
Speaker 2:we were just walking because we had to see the London Bridge and we were just walking.
Speaker 1:We were just walking because we had to keep pushing to go see this London Bridge and then, because I'm a smoker, I was over here huffing and puffing. I was tired and I was annoyed.
Speaker 2:And you're like I'm taking an Uber back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Hell yeah. I was not about to take the train or anything. I was like we're getting an Uber to the hotel.
Speaker 2:Because our hotel was an hour away from London, right Like 30 minutes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it was like an hour with traffic. But that guy was cute, come on, yeah, but that was the London Bridge. This guy just had to walk everywhere. And don't get me wrong, I love you, dude, I miss you, but damn, we could have done so much more. And then, what else did we do? We in france, we did the eiffel tower.
Speaker 2:So many times did le arc de triomphe we did disneyland paris.
Speaker 1:we did angelique's hot chocolate we had to do that one, we had to do that one. It was the best meal it was the best experience ever.
Speaker 2:What else did we do? We had breakfast at the Little Cafe near the Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 1:Oh, Le Macis. Oh, that was horrible. I thought you were talking about Le Macis, no, no no, le Macis is good.
Speaker 2:Shout out Le Macis.
Speaker 1:Because that restaurant is bomb, oh my. And the owner was a hustler and he was hot too a sugar daddy, but no, just kidding but you were holding out on us.
Speaker 2:Right, you were holding out on I wasn't.
Speaker 1:We went back and he wasn't there. I was willing to go the next day, and we did, and he wasn't there and the whole trip we were trying to pimp out mariah, these bitches, they were motherfuckers. No dude. And the arc de triomphe. We did it the day after disney. So not only did we walk all of this at disney, and then the next day we decided to go to the arc de triomphe. And again, this is europe. They're like elevators.
Speaker 2:For what lazy ass bitches elevators are for the disabled girl especially there yeah, so there was how many steps at the Arc de Triomphe?
Speaker 1:it's like 313 floors. No, I can't remember. But you know what? Let me look for it, because I like to relive my traumas but we did it, girl, me and you walked there.
Speaker 2:we took videos to show proof that we actually walked the steps and we're like Inside the damn ark.
Speaker 1:That's literally how I sounded. Okay, so it's first is 284 steps and then there's 46 more additional steps that you have to get to get to the top, to the actual top. But then the view was so worth it, like the pictures we took there. Remember that guy that was taking a picture of us and we had no faith in the poor guy. You could tell our faces are like this guy's not going to do it.
Speaker 2:And then we saw the picture.
Speaker 1:It was actually good, it was actually good yeah. Yeah, our friend didn't want to do that. So see, he made us fucking walk, but he didn't want to go up the stairs with us. Didn't want to go up the stairs with us. So we did that. What else? Oh, we went to lafayette galleries where I got my diors. Oh, because, true, I wasn't gonna buy anything. These bitches were gonna buy something, supposedly, and then I ended up buying dior. The only thing I bought was the.
Speaker 2:Okay, help me, mariah. How did the guy tell us how to say this brand?
Speaker 1:he he I was like yeah, I, I went and I asked him. I was like do you know where the yves saint laurent store is at? And he's like huh, what? Like excuse me, pardon, and I'm like that you sell around, and he's like yves saint laurent, yeah Something wrong, yeah, all fucking angry and I'm like all right, dude.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I got a wallet for my brother there I did. That was my big spending.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think I only got the Dior's girl because I spilled the coffee.
Speaker 2:And I wanted my Louboutins, but it wasn't meant for me. And that's where we discovered our new favorite perfume. That's our dream perfume. Oh my god, yeah 540 it smells so good.
Speaker 1:There's a dupe, it's called mood, but you can't get it anywhere. I've looked for it, it sold out. Damn, I know. But yeah, dude. And then rome, girl, rome, the first pasta that we had in rome was the best pasta I've ever had in my entire life. Remember we were just like, oh, let's just go into this little cafe because whatever. And then we got. We got beers in, uh, fettuccine, alfredo, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the food was so good in Italy, and then I think our favorite was the Fountain of Trevi.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it was so close to our apartment. And the gelatos, and the gelatos, and the cops around the gelato no, I'm just kidding. Oh, my God Girl, the cops, the cops. I was like let me commit a crime.
Speaker 2:Let me just like La Polizia was on a good one.
Speaker 1:I wanted to. I don't know, you know those people that Get arrested just. On the stadium that's what I wanted to do and the Trevi Fountain, just so I would get arrested. But yeah, man, the food in Italy, italy, it, just that one pasta that I didn't eat. What was it? The carbonara that tasted like the pig had just been killed?
Speaker 2:probably the I don't know, yeah, because you don't like pork and then I don't know what it had. But yeah, it's because their meat was like fresh yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1:I mean, I mean, somebody else would have probably liked it. It wasn't my thing, but yeah, the food was amazing there. And then what else?
Speaker 2:did we do? And then we succeeded our goal of going to all the McDonald's. Don't forget McDonald's. Shout out McDonald's. We ate at all the McDonald's.
Speaker 1:I was overdressed for the Golden Arches in Italy, remember? Oh, because it was bougie.
Speaker 2:It had the like the statue and everything that was like the roman post pics but yeah, those that mcdonald's was good, I had a beer there oh, you did, I had, and I had the espresso prop, oh the espresso mcflurry you did.
Speaker 1:I can't remember what I got, dude, but I just oh, I got a wrap, but I just know that it was so bomb, like all the food. Honestly, what we can take away from this trip is get a shit ton of french fries anywhere you go in Europe, because they're all fucking amazing, except for the restaurants near the Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 2:Do not recommend 0 out of ten. Those things are gross.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that's our Europe trip. Are we missing anything?
Speaker 2:No, yeah, Well we didn't rent a car, we stayed in Airbnbs. We took the metros and trains and planes. Another thing that we did set up and we didn't say in the beginning is that we did establish that our goal, each of us, was that we are. Our budget had to be within three thousand dollars and we succeeded. We did and, yeah, we did. Well, I don't know about you, miss dior, but you probably. That was another, another expense that you didn't need to do, but we did. I'm like we did.
Speaker 1:When did we establish this? I didn't know.
Speaker 1:No, I for sure spent more well, yeah miss dior, but that was only like six hundred dollars, like 650, I don't know, somewhere along those lines but no, yeah, we did the math and it came out to like a little bit below 3 000, like two night 29, yeah I think we did really good because when I talk about this trip, I was telling you, like, what a lot of people ask me is like, oh, did you guys go through like an agency or something like where you got a package or whatever? And I think we all established our roles really good from early on, to what each of us was going to do, and then you were our accountant during this trip I was.
Speaker 2:They had me doing math on my birthday. It was already midnight and I'm like you guys really want to do this now. And they're like, yes, figure it out. Because, see, at the end of each night we would get together and we would show our receipts literally our receipts because we would take turns on who would use their card one day. That way we weren't embarrassing and doing the whole. Oh, can we split it? Can we split it? No, it was all going on. One check one person was paying it and at the end of the night we were all venmoing or Zelling that person, whoever was the one paying that day, and everyone was squared up and it worked out. We had a great time and I'm glad you guys got along. You guys met and you guys got along and we had a good trip. We were laughing the whole time. If you guys think we laugh right here a lot on the podcast we were laughing for every little thing.
Speaker 2:We were laughing at some guy's button in the train because the button was hanging on by a string like it was gonna pop off and hit one of us.
Speaker 1:But mariah said I wish I had the confidence of that button I know it's because, like the, I think it's the language right, because like I would look at them and and I would just like kind of make eyes and I'd be like, oh, I wish I had that guy, I wish I had the confidence that that guy has in his button, I said and leslie and our friend were just freaking laughing.
Speaker 1:It was just like stupid little comments like that and I was falling in love with every freaking european dude. We have so many pictures and statues, you know the monuments the sites.
Speaker 2:Everything remember in disney it was quite oh in disneyland we followed some poor soul and that man knew it, his wife knew it and I'm sorry, but he was gorgeous, but we just wanted a memory of him.
Speaker 1:We saw all the sites that man knew it, His wife knew it and I'm sorry but he was gorgeous.
Speaker 2:We just wanted a memory of him.
Speaker 1:We saw all the sights, that we did. Honestly, I think what we didn't do was go inside the Louvre. Oh, we went to the Louvre too. It was raining that day.
Speaker 2:But we didn't go inside of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we didn't go inside. We didn't go to Versailles, we didn't go inside of it.
Speaker 2:yeah, we didn't go inside. We didn't do the. By the time we go to versailles we didn't go to versailles. There's still a lot to do in france. We were just trying to get as much done with our shiver legs. Look, listen, when I thought of this trip.
Speaker 1:I've told you many times. I thought it was gonna be like we were gonna go have a picnic by the freaking tower and we were gonna be like those freaking instagram girlies with their wine and cheese at the eiffel tower. No girl, our friend was like okay, let's go.
Speaker 2:We saw it, it's cool, it's tall, let's go literally, that's how you had us like are you guys good, did you guys? Do you guys need more pictures? All right, let's go on to the next. Everything was on to the next because we needed to get as much done and then at the end of each night, after doing the accounting all right, tomorrow, what do you want to see? What do you want to see? Okay, we're gonna do this and then we're gonna go here, and then we're gonna go here. Okay, got it cool. Okay, bye, have a good night yeah.
Speaker 1:So it was like there was still a lot that we need to do, but I think, like for how we planned it and that, not knowing where we were gonna go, we did a lot. So if anyone else wants to know what else we did, like, like, in terms of planning, just ask us.
Speaker 2:We're an open book right and and we love our trips so much and we'll even recommend the Airbnbs to you. Whatever you guys need to know, mariah and I are no strangers to flying, so we love planning trips like that, and I went to school. The one time I went to school I went for air travel and careers. So I know, I know the one time I went to school, the one time I went to school, I went for air travel and careers. The one time, I know, I know the one time I went to college, that's as much as it gets because you're truly wanting to be a flight attendant.
Speaker 1:Girl, at least you got the dream. Here I can help you guys plan trips, but I can't do it.
Speaker 1:I know someone that went to supposedly flight attendant school and now they're a vet Voldemort. There's something stuck in my throat. Yeah, that was a pretty cool trip. Honestly, the memories will last forever. Everybody says that they're so happy that we did it because it was literally like that whole thing of like being the Lulu and so like guys, be fucking the lulu, just say I'm gonna fucking do it. I don't know how the fuck I'm gonna do it. Yeah, because we were both like I don't know how we're gonna do it, but we're gonna do it. And we didn't mention your friend literally got back that day from dominican republic like at 4 am and met up with us at the airport again at noon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, and this is one of the reasons why he was hesitant on going on this trip with me in the first place because he had that trip. That's right. So we were all on. Yeah, it was intense here, but we did it and I'm saying if you guys have the opportunity, go, go for it. Why not? The way I saw it is I was originally single when I planned it and I still don't have kids and I was like so why not? I need to do it when I can, and you guys too, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, basically we don't have kids, we're like, all right, when are we going to do it? I think both of us combined we've we've been places, like we've seen states, other countries and we're no strangers to traveling. Like Leslie said, and for me, I know it takes a lot of money to travel. But really think about it like if you're the type of person that you're gonna go out with your friends, you're gonna go clubbing, you're gonna go have drinks, you're gonna go to brunch, you're gonna type of person that you're going to go out with your friends, you're going to go clubbing, you're going to go have drinks, you're going to go to brunch, you're going to do this. Like, how many times do you do that a month?
Speaker 1:If it's a lot like, minimize it, you know, and use that money and book yourself a trip, because you learn so much traveling, not only about other cultures but about yourself. You know, like for me, I think the trip was kind of like why do I hold myself back from spending my own money? Because a lot of the time I feel like that, you know, like I feel guilty about spending my money and I don't know. I think it was a big lesson. We all took something from it, and I think that's what traveling does for you. So my recommendation to all the kids, all the people, is whenever you have a chance to go somewhere, even if it's like close by, just fucking go.
Speaker 2:It's vacation.
Speaker 1:That's how you start.
Speaker 2:Yep, that was our Euro trip.
Speaker 1:Scotty doesn't know.
Speaker 2:Oh no, he's in the mood. Oh my gosh, all right. Next week we're going to have a little surprise for some of our friends.
Speaker 1:So stay tuned for that. We're not going to say who or what, but we hope you'll enjoy it. All right, all right, guys.
Speaker 2:Have a good day or night. Bye, you said that, so sad Bye, I'm going to go.
Speaker 1:All right, love you, bye, bye.
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