 Well, good morning and welcome to vlogmas day 23 by this point you would have already seen what I did this morning My mom and I had a tour at 10 30 for the Stetson mansion Which is located very close to Stetson University, which is in DeLand, which is where my parents live My mom hadn't ever gone there before so we went there. Unfortunately. You couldn't take any video or photos inside of the home It is a personal residence So the two owners actually are there year round even though they open up their home all the time for people Which is fantastic. I will tell you it was beautiful and gorgeous and opulent and just Amazing so if you're ever in this area, I would highly recommend going as you saw we were able to take photos of the ground So I did some of that for you so you could kind of see today again My brother is missing in action He went to go visit a friend that was gonna be in the st. Augustine area today Which is about an hour and a half away from where my parents are so he went and did that So it is just myself my mom and my dad. I am currently is sitting in my dad's truck Which by the way is like horrible horrible to drive. It's some Honda thing. I don't understand it It just it's so tight and my dad complains about this vehicle all the time I don't know why he just doesn't get a new vehicle like he bought this brand new when he moved down here He's complained about it ever since I don't understand like just get a little like SUV or something I don't know. I don't know what the car is. Maybe I'll write it in the like description I don't know but I hate driving this thing. It is the worst. My mom doesn't even want to drive it Which is why I'm in the driver's seat. So anyway We just got home and we are waiting for my dad to Get ready and we are gonna go grab some lunch So maybe I'll show you a little bit of that because I don't think we're doing anything fun tonight My brother thinks that he's not gonna be back for dinner time So I don't think we're planning on doing anything Extravagant or what not that we do like extravagant things, but you know like go out anywhere We might go out somewhere, but it's not gonna be like a big to-do kind of a thing So anyway, I think when I get back from lunch, I am going to work a little bit I may actually film today, too. I'm rocking my YouTube shirt So maybe I'll do some filming today. I need to film a couple of videos while I'm here Plus I need to do my brother video, but I think my arm is getting tired Hold on. Let's go there. Oh Switching shots. I think I am going to end up filming with my brother tomorrow, which is Christmas Eve So I think that is going to happen. Anyway, we are headed off to a village cafe and my mom is here now. Oh There's my mom hello, are you excited for village cafe? Oh, yeah, is dad ready now? He's got his pants on so that's a good thing Dad's got his pants on that means there's serious things are happening aka the village cafe This is like one of the only places he doesn't complain about eating at I'll see you there today. I'm going for some tomato soup action as well as a sandwich But you will see in just a moment and for the main course I went with the Grilled ham and cheese on the like the little penny press and they give you chips here, which is kind of nice. So I'm excited about this. So we are baking now Change of plans. I did not actually film. I did a little tiny bit of work But I took a nap hence make up free Emily, but let me show you what we did. Da-da-da Made these little guys with the almond bark and Put all the sprinkles on look those are the sprinkles. I did my mom told me I was stingy with the sprinkles So I got a little excited and then we've got some holiday colors ones pretty Okay, and we are also making the rum cake from Carlos and Let's see how that is doing. Oh, yeah, that's look and tasty Yeah, so there are two parts to this recipe the cake is one part and then there's like a glaze So I think my mom is getting ready to make the glaze. So I will show you the final product When it's done. So my mom is deep in the throes of making that topping like I just said However, I figured I would show you what we got at the Stenson Stenson Stenson Mansion. Wow Got a couple of things. I had my eye on this bad boy and my mom was very nice to get it for me Happy Christmas. I got an empty liquor bottle. I gotta do something about that, you know But it is the John B. Stetson bourbon whiskey and I'm actually a really big whiskey fan random fact But yeah, I thought this was really cool We actually saw a whole bunch of these in one of the room scapes It was a really really pretty and then my mom actually got this it is like a Christmas collection booklet of Some of their interior shots Unfortunately, they didn't allow us like I said before to actually take photos inside of the mansion So I'll show you a couple of these actually none of their rooms were decorated in this fashion any longer But it sounds like one of the owners was it JT was that his name JT Thompson JT Thompson Okay, he is the mastermind behind this and we actually got to meet him which was like completely fabulous He was amazing, but he creates all of this stuff just from thin air. It's amazing He does reuse things from time to time, but he makes new Themes in all of his rooms every single year, which is like so crazy But anyway, let me show you. Oh, and my mom actually just brought this over This is a ornament for the Christmas tree, which was like this pretty wood and then also it's a magnet Like double-dooder, you know Anyway, which I thought that was really cool. All right, so let me show you some of the booklet. All right, so here is the booklet There is just some Really pretty things I mean if sorry that glare you guys But I mean if you think this is pretty you need to go there in person because it is just glorious I will leave the website of this Stetson mansion down below So if you guys are ever in the deland area or even in Orlando, it's not that far of a drive Also, if you're in Daytona Beach, it's kind of right in the middle as well. My brother's texting me. P. S. My brother's not home I don't know what the heck's going on with him, but whatever. He'll never watch this vlog anyway, right field, right? Well, and they do have tours From February to April that are not holiday themed, but yeah, they're glorious as well Yeah, we're kind of interested to see it like without the holiday theme But I mean it was so cool to see them with the holidays. So We actually had this little bogo thing where if you went today They stamped your pass so like my mom can go back again with another paying person and then see it in a different time So yeah, it's really cool. So I think she'll probably end up going back During like non-holiday time, which is really cool. Anyway, but beautiful beautiful property Yeah, I mean that you guys saw the outside because I did take footage of the outside But yeah, the inside we couldn't take it. It is a private residence and they do live their year round So this is just the coolest thing It's so cool you guys But anyway, I just wanted to share that and I need to get back to my texting with my brother to tell him to come home So if I'll come home fun time with your family, that's why you're here. All right So these are all done. We have made a few just a few just a few there's another one as well That's completely full Alright, so the rum cake is done Here's the topping like this glaze thing, but my favorite part get to take a skewer or whatever we are gonna go with a Chopstick because that's how we roll here poke holes in cake with ice pick pour glaze over cake while still in pan Completely cool cake before we're moving from pan. All right Well, we don't have an ice pick but we're gonna go with this But you just you just strategically Put holes wherever you would like and that is gonna help get this cake all nice and drunk He getting drunk cake is drunk you and there's actually Some crushed walnuts on the top of it as well Which I'll show you when we take it out because none of our family members are nut free That will be attending this. All right. I think we are good All right, so mom's gonna pour it. Let's see how this works We'll see. Oh Yeah, you gotta get a goo look at all the goodness. It's amazing It just like soaks it up and this is rum and butter and sugar and Anything else? Yeah, actually what I'll do is I will type in the description box the recipe if you guys want to test it out for yourselves Because this is like delicious and then if you do test it out like take me on Instagram or something Because it's so good water is the other so oh and water Okay, but I'll type out the recipe in the description box if you guys want to check it out All right, I will show you this when it's all done cooling. All right, mother is going to attempt To turn over the cake. We're gonna see what happens The pan is still a little bit warm, but the cake is totally cool to the touch now I'm like the underside Look how beautiful That looks nice. See and like I said we put some crushed Walnuts on the top. So Got some nuts. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah That looks Delicious Smells really good I think it smells better than Carlos's because it has the nuts on it, but that's just me Smells nutty. All right, well, I'm gonna end the vlog here. It is 11 p.m and I am going to upload my footage and I Say I want to edit right now, but I don't think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna go to buy it because I'm tired Tomorrow there are fun things in store because it is Christmas Eve So you will be seeing whoo you will be seeing Probably some other family members and things I don't know if I'm actually going to talk to them where you're just gonna see like pans of faces I don't really know what's gonna happen tomorrow, but we are gonna go to Orman Beach tomorrow I think my mom's gonna go do some shopping. I'm not sure if I'm gonna go or not But we'll decide later and then I'm actually gonna film tomorrow That's like my Christmas Eve plans as I'm actually going to do some filming So that'll take me a little while to get that done But I just need to do it in the daylight like I said I was gonna try to do it today, but just wasn't feeling it yo just wasn't feeling it And you will actually see at least one of those videos next week, right? Yes next week I'm so confused because I'm like a day behind and you know life So anyway, I hope you guys are having a good day and enjoying vlogmas Make sure to thumbs up the video if you liked it and make sure to subscribe Normal videos are Monday Wednesday Friday and then vlogmas is going on until the 31st But there will be a video until January 1 for you guys during vlogmas So anyway, hope you're having a good day and I will talk to you all later. Bye