 Hi guys, it's Monica. I know I've been missing in action, but for a very, very good reason. I know I've hinted a couple of times that we had some really excited things coming up and we have a trip planned and all of that. Well, I'm going to include some footage in this vlog and you can see that I have this wonderful, wonderful woman sitting right next to me. Hi everybody. I don't think she needs an introduction, but if those of you that may not know her, I doubt if there's anyone that doesn't know her. But this is my lovely, lovely friend, Molleen Fab and Glam over 50, for those of you that follow her beauty channel and for those of you that follow her wig reviews, it's Molleen's Wake in Chat studio and I will link both her channels below. But anyways, I'm at Molleen's house. We have been having a ballast and I hope you stay tuned because I'm going to share a little bit of what's been happening since we got here and then there'll be a part two. So stay tuned. Hey, thank you so much. So you guys, Jay and I got on a plane and we left cold New Hampshire and we flew to Venice. Well, actually we flew to Sarasota, Florida where we spent the first phase, I call it phase of our vacation and we just had a blast. We landed in Sarasota. It was warm, but a little chillier than I expected, but we stayed with my mother-in-law, Barbara and she's a beautiful little condo and we just, we went to the beach and include some footage of the beach right here so you can see. How is that? Yummy. Is it as good as my margaritas? No, I haven't finished it yet. And oh my gosh, I mean, what can I say about Florida beaches, right? They're absolutely beautiful. So we did the usual tourist trip. We went out, we had lunch on the water and we had a sort of a tropical cocktail and Jay and I just enjoyed the views. Just to be beachside was just amazing. We did that. We went on a bike ride. It was just an awesome. Oh my gosh, it was ever fun. We went to Pettigo. There's a Pettigo dealer in Sarasota actually and we rented two e-bikes from them and the e-bike I rented was one I'd never driven before but the one that Jay rented was his interceptor but smaller size and it was I think a 28 mile around trip on their rail trail, the legacy trail. It was awesomely well maintained, paved, clean, really nice, mostly flat. When we brought our bikes back, I mean, I think we were gone for like four or five hours because we rented for the whole day. When we brought our bikes back and we told the guy where we went, he cracked up laugh and he says, you hardly have a dent in your battery and it's because we use leg power as much as possible and then the electric power just to help us if we need it. So he was kind of impressed that we did mostly pedaling and especially Jay. That's a long bike ride. She had me at 28 miles, I would have conked out. It was, well, I was tired. My butt hurt when we got back and we got off the bike seats but I felt exhilarated, I really did. It was just awesome. So we spent a few days in Venice with Barbara and then we went to what we call Haines City, a place called Haines City where Jay golfed with a buddy of his from his golf league. They were gracious enough to host us at their home. They had a beautiful, beautiful condominium. Not condominium, it's a detached single family home in a planned community and it's a gated community. And so they had a lanai with a pool and a hot tub and I'll enclose a few pitches here. And the most interesting thing is that I had never met either of these people before but Jay has known the husband Jim for many, many years and just really respects him. It feels really comfortable with him and they'd been talking back and forth for a long time about this. But his wife, Susan, I had never met. And sometimes when you meet a stranger, right? Or someone you don't know, sometimes you don't know how it's gonna go, right? I mean, conversations and there are low in the conversation but quite frankly, I don't know what it was and I'm pretty sure she feels the same way because both of us marveled at the fact that here we were virtual strangers and both of us probably a little anxious, right? Because we're gonna spend a couple of days together in their home and she was hosting us and doesn't know us but it was amazing. We had so much in common, things that I would say, she's, oh, I feel the same way. I've done this or vice versa. So Susan, and I feel like I've a long lost sister in that sense because I just felt like I had this huge, huge connection. You would love her if you got to meet her. You would absolutely love her. But you're also really easy to get along with. I mean, Molly and I, right from the get go, it was like we had known each other forever so I am not surprised at all. I was gonna definitely say that I think I'm easy to get along with. I'm not too judgmental in general but I was gonna say, getting along with her reminded us when we first met, remind me of that. But anyways, we stayed there and then the highlight of coming here was coming up to Melbourne where Maline is and just a little history for those of you that are new to the channel. Maline and I met, well, we just did a week collaboration and I think we said six, seven years ago but it didn't be long ago, I'm not too sure. But we met and then we met Sheila, life with Lily at that time, simply Sheila now but she's not active on YouTube anymore. And we just all connected, even though we hadn't met, we connected, we bonded, we talked, we did all sorts of stuff and then we decided, let's do a girls weekend. Yeah, and we got together in South Carolina and Myrtle Beach over by Sheila's and we had always talked on, you know, via email or what we use Boxer and we always talked, I mean, every day, 10 times a day sometimes but we hadn't actually met in person so it was awesome getting together in Myrtle Beach and spending on work. It was almost a week, right? It was, that's when you hit 10,000 subscribers. I did, yes, when I hit 10,000 subscribers on my channel you guys got me the cake, some of the pictures if I can find them but they got me a congratulations cake and all that and we did a bunch of shopping and it was, I went to the coach store and you bought a coach bag and Sheila did as well and we did makeup stuff and it was a lot of fun. We had absolutely blast and that was the first time we had been in person together and we just laughed the whole time and I mean, there was no awkward, you know, the same thing we're saying with Susan, you know, we don't have any awkward pauses, you know, like what do I say next? You know, you don't even think of that, right? We're just like gabbing like we are now. Right, right. I said sit down, be in my vlog and here she is. Yeah, right. And remember we did that video it was Sheila Monica and me and I don't remember some, one of them said something or I said to, and we were just laughing. It had to have been Sheila that said it. It had to be Sheila that had said something and we were just, it was so fun. It was historical and I think I made a funny face and they left that in the footage. And we said our video was because it was like, I think that was my thumbnail. It probably was, I put the thumbnail and it was the three of us just cracking up. Oh, so we, Jay and I drove from Haines City and up to Melbourne and we had a little bit of traffic but the ride was really smooth. Got here, Maline was here and oh my gosh, I wanted to, I've been teary anyways. I mean, I wanted to just hug her because I hadn't seen her in so long and it was like so nice to just be in person again. And I have to say Jay's been an awesome, he's been awesome because he was gonna go golfing and then that got canceled due to the wind, weather, whatever. And he's, he's just been vending and enjoying it well. Well, it's chicks are doing awesome. Well, we're playing in my wig closet and we're playing with makeup and recording. Oh, we've had a blast. So I'm gonna include some footage right now of the first night that we got, we went out to a place called Wiggly Squilliglies. No, Willy, Willy. The Boatfish Willys. Oh yes, and it was awesome. Maline made a call to make sure we could get in and we were down on a deck and overlooking the Indian beach. Indian Harbor Beach of the Indian River. Indian River. And it was, it was a perfect timing because it was still kind of mild and it was just beautiful sitting there. We both had wonderful food and we just chatted like crazy. It was really nice. And then the next day we drove, we went all the way, we tried to go to Jetty Park. We tried, right. We went to Cape Canaveral. We drove on A1A all the way to Cape Canaveral. And then we tried to go into Jetty Park and we weren't able to go in there. And then we turned around and went down to Melbourne Beach. That was beautiful. Beautiful ride. We stopped a couple of places, this beach that we stopped at where I'm showing you the footage right now. Oh, that's right. We took a bunch of pictures. Maline took a picture of Jay and I kissing on the beach and then we tried to do Selfie with the three of us. I did a little video clip showing the beach. It was just perfect. I mean, it was just beautiful. And I'm so surprised at how beautiful this whole area is. And I can see why you live here. It is just absolutely gorgeous. I love it here. I've lived here since 91 and I love it. And last night we went to a squid legs lips. Squid lips. Like the squid, like the fish. Like the seafood squid, squid lips. That's where it went, squid lips. Weird names of restaurants down here. So we did that and we walked on this pier. I'm gonna show you a bunch of pictures as I'm talking. And the pier was, it was so pretty because it was all lit up at night and there was some guy out there cleaning our fish or something like that. He was cleaning the fish that he had just caught. But there I was in my puffer jacket with the hood from home, right? Cause we left it was pretty cold wearing flip flops on the pier in Florida. That was incredible. And then today, and I will, depending on, I don't know what's coming first or whatever, but if those two videos are uploaded before this one, I will link them. But if not, make sure you check out the videos that Molly and I did on her channel for we tried a bunch of wigs on. What I have on my head right now is called Charlie from Tressalore. And this is in a color that I always said I would never wear, right? This is what they call dark smoke gray. Yep, dark smoke gray. And I haven't taken it off. This is actually, I just did it. It looks beautiful on you. Thank you. I do. So we did a little Swaperoo, you know, and Molly and we talked about the wig. We'd each tried on and stuff like that. So we did two videos. That was so much fun. What do you have on? I have on John Renau Elizabeth and the color Salted Caramel. And that's the one that is hand tied? This is a hand tied cap with a full mono top. Yeah, heat friendly fibers. That's the one I tried on and really liked it. Right, you really liked that one too. Anyways, I've been like a kid in a candy store. If you can imagine going into a place where, like a wig store and just being able to try on anything you want to try on, boxes and boxes. And we've just been playing and having fun. And tonight we're gonna be bad again. We're gonna have pizza. Yeah, we're having pizza, having had pizza in forever. I have not had. Well, I've had pizza, but I have not eaten today. I'm trying to save my calories because I'm gonna pick out on pizza. But there's also, and I'm gonna try to enclose the footage in here. I'm not too sure what I'll get. But there's also a launch. Oh, that's right. There's a launch. There's a rocket launch today. So we're gonna go outside because when we go out by my pond area in the back, well, she'll be able, Monnie will be able to get the footage there to and see the rocket go up. And then she'll be able to experience the sonic boom where you're home when you're so close to. Oh my gosh. I'm only about 30 miles away from Cape Canaveral. So when the rocket goes up, you could feel that once it passes like a certain, don't quote me on this because I'm not a rocket scientist, okay? I think it's when it passes the, like leaves the atmosphere or something along those lines, you could feel everything shake. The whole house shakes, the windows shake. It almost feels like it's an earthquake. That's gonna be wild. I can't wait to experience that. Never, and you see that often then. Oh yeah, I see it often out the window when I was teaching, I would take the kids out to the plate area so they could see the launches. Wow. Yeah, it's really exciting. Amazing, amazing. So that's what's gonna be inserted at the end of this whatever footage I end up getting. But there's also gonna be part two to this vlog because our vacation continues after we leave here but I'm not gonna get any of it away yet. And I wish I was going with you. I know, I know. And almost happened. But so this is part one and it's gonna end with that footage and a big hug to my bestie. Oh my gosh. I'm so glad you're here. I'm so glad to be here. You are awesome. And I'm gonna cry again. No, don't cry because you'll cry as much of my makeup. But anyways, thank you all so much for all your support. I love you all. See you in my next video. Bye bye. Bye everyone.