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 imagine 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. You 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

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 there.

I'll wipe it for you. I want to take some

photos quickly.

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.

Yeah, I think I stepped in that 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.

Stand on that tuft of grass and then jump.

Maybe. I thought it would be soft and

stable.

This is where Robin Hood lived,

someplace like this.

Where is she?

How am I supposed to get over this?

Do you think I can jump from here?

I'll jump.

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, 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, um, 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, 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, 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, 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.