Exploring the New Forest with my sister [6ZWYMnDdHrI]

In the New Forest, it's raining.

We came all the way to the New Forest, but we didn't come to the forest until now, and today it's raining all day.

This is what I imagined the New Forest would look like.

It looks so cool in the video.

Look. Yeah.

It looks really picturesque.

Yeah, it looks kind of misty, like a grayish mist.

Only we have raincoats. Chihiro and Mum don't have the coat, so they stayed in the car. It's so pretty in the video. Look.

Yeah, it looks nice.

It's just a straight road.

And I didn't bring my phone. We don't have any signal.

We could run into the wilderness. No one would find us. How far are we going to go? Starting to get drenched.

Maybe we can go into that bit.

It's like a swamp. Oh wow, look at that. It's like Jurassic Park. Oh, it's all really muddy. It's so muddy.

Well, this bit looks really cool.

It's like chocolate milkshake. Oh, Sabrina, come here! I got mud all over my shoe. Look at that. Wow, look at this bit. It's like Jurassic Park. I can't believe we nearly missed this because we didn't look on the Google Maps. Whoa, so nice. I hope there's no— oh, there's a smudge on the screen, on the lens.

I'll wipe it for you.

I want to take some photos quickly. It's too Stupid rain keeps getting on the lens. I'll do a quick, quick panorama. Very nice. It's really muddy over there.

You look funny.

It's like quicksand. You should have brought your Wellington boots. Well, look at this tree. That's a big tree. I jumped. Look at my shoe.

I don't know where I should put my Wellingtons. I think you've got mud.

Yeah, I think I stepped in that bog.

I don't want to step in the bog.

It's like Jurassic Park when that guy goes for a piss, then he gets lost.

Yeah.

And then he gets chased by the little dinosaurs.

I love that scene. Just jump.

I can't. I can't reach there.

Stand on that tuft of grass and then jump. Is that a solid bit of grass?

Maybe.

That wasn't a solid bit of grass.

I thought it would be soft and stable. This is where Robin Hood lived, someplace like this.

Where is she?

It's so relaxing in the fog.

How am I supposed to get over this? Do you think I can jump from here?

I'll jump.

Haha, nailed it!

Okay, let's go back.

It's getting very wet and rainy. I can't believe Mum and Chihiro didn't come out. Afraid of a bit of rain.

Hello and welcome back to the garden. Um, I haven't really had much time to make videos where I just talked about things like I usually do. That's why I've just been making vlogs recently because we've been traveling around. We got back from the New Forest— was it yesterday or 2 days ago? We were supposed to stay in the New Forest for one more day, one more night, but we decided to come back one day earlier because It was kind of boring. It wasn't really that interesting, and it was a little bit disappointing going there because we didn't actually go to the forest until the last day. It's so silly. The first day we got there, we just walked around the village, Burleigh Village, and then the second day we walked around the roads again in Burleigh Village. For some reason, we didn't think to look up on Google Maps where the actual forest of New Forest is until the evening that we left— the evening before the day we left. Then I decided to look on Google Maps and find out where the actual bloody forest was. Turns out it was only about 10 minutes drive away from where we walked, but in the opposite direction. So, we decided to go to the New Forest on Boxing Day. But it was raining the entire day. All day long it was raining. So we drove to the entrance of the New Forest and only me and my sister got out of the car because my wife and my mum didn't want to get wet. So me and my sister walked around the New Forest for a bit in the rain. I took some footage. I'll add the rest of the footage onto the end of this video in case I need to get to 10 minutes. So yeah, we did get to explore the New Forest for about 20 minutes before we went back to the car because we were getting drenched in rain. It was just a bit disappointing because I guess I imagined that we would be— we would be in the New Forest, in the actual forest, and then we'd wake up and be surrounded by trees. It kind of felt a bit silly because... We were just stuck in this big house, Burghley Manor, in the middle of nowhere. We're already stuck in a big house in the middle of nowhere. We drove hours and hours and hours just so we could move from one big house in the middle of nowhere to another big house in the middle of nowhere. It did feel a bit like we were stuck in this old people's home as well because the only other people there were these very old English people. A few families were there as well, but I just really felt out of place in that, in that hotel. Today's my last day in England. We're going back to Japan tomorrow, so by the time I've uploaded this, I might be in a plane or I might already be back. And I feel a bit sad to be leaving, but the longer we stay with my mum, the more and more frustrating it gets and we start having arguments about silly things like cleaning. I don't really want to get into it. And, um, I haven't really had much time to just make walking around talking videos, so I'm sorry about that.

Not.

It would have been nice if I had a bit more time in England to do few other things like a cooking video, maybe going to the dentist. Didn't really have much time to do anything I wanted because we were traveling the whole time, stuck in a car driving all the way to the New Forest and then all the way back for not much reason. We should have just stayed at home, I think. So I have only today to make a talking video, and today I want to talk about How boring Christmas is when you've grown up. When I was a kid, I used to love Christmas. It used to be the most exciting day in the entire year. When it got to December, me and my sister used to count down every single day excitedly until the big day. My grandmother used to get us an advent calendar and we would have a little chocolate every day, counting down the days. Everyone at school was really excited. And it was just a really exciting time. I used to love Christmas so much. It used to be so exciting because Christmas was the only day that I could get new video games. New video games were about £40 for one new game and as a kid, when you don't have any money, £40 is a lot of money. There's no way I'd be able to afford it. So I had to wait until Christmas And then I could choose 2 new games. Me and my sister would wake up really early in the morning on Christmas Day. We weren't allowed to go downstairs to open the main presents until my dad woke up. So we used to wake up at 6 or 7 AM in the morning and my parents would give us Christmas stockings and hang them outside of our bedroom doors. So we'd wake up really early. My sister would come into my room with her stocking And we'd open the stockings together. I usually got an Xbox magazine or PlayStation magazine and a little box of Lego, some chocolate, some oranges, some other toys, and we would just spend time with those presents until around 8 AM. And then we could hear my dad finally waking up. We could hear the buzzing of his shaver and we'd get even more excited. And then we could hear him going downstairs to have breakfast. And then we'd be waiting by the Christmas tree waiting for him to finish breakfast and then we could finally open the main presents. I would open my 2 new games and then I would just run back up to my room and then spend the whole day playing my new games all day until Christmas lunch was ready. My mum would start calling us to come downstairs, then we'd have lunch, then I'd go straight back up to my room. And then on Boxing Day or the day after, we'd all go to my auntie's house and we'd have a big family get-together and I used to really enjoy it. All of the cousins would come and we would play together and have fun and have food and it was just so nice. We had presents, spending time with family, people we cared about. And then as you grow older, all of that just starts slipping away. Because when you get your own money, you start to stop caring about getting presents. You don't really care about getting presents when you can just buy what you want. If there's anything you really want, you just go out and buy it. You don't have to wait for Christmas anymore. So the whole appeal of getting presents vanishes as soon as you get your first job and you're not relying on your parents to get you Christmas presents for the things you really want in life. And the family starts drifting away. Your cousins grow up, they start their own lives, you stop seeing them, and then your dad passes away, and it just feels like everything that made Christmas great starts slowly disappearing. And then we still carry on doing Christmas because we're, we're used to it, and that's just what we're used to doing every year. But it's not the same as it used to be. It just feels like we're clinging on to this hollow, empty shell of what Christmas used to be— what Christmas used to be and used to mean. And it's just kind of depressing. I don't really feel any excitement for Christmas. I get presents, you know, one or two from my sister or my wife, but It's always just rubbish. It's not really exciting things. They might get me a pair of socks. I just feel kind of sad that this is what Christmas has become for me. Just another day. You wake up, you have turkey maybe, then you go back to bed. It's over. It just feels so anticlimactic compared to what it used to feel like when I was a child. Well, I guess that's what growing up is all about. As you grow up, things you used to enjoy when you were a child aren't really that enjoyable anymore as an adult, and Christmas is just one of those things that used to be a very magical, exciting thing, and then when you grow up, it's just not really magical anymore. It's just boring.