since we sat down to film sat down to chat yeah it  sure has been it's it's exciting to be able to do  

this with you guys sit down yeah let you know  what's been going on yeah we thought we would  

just film like a casual chatty video catch you  up on what's been happening so far in the year  

and water plans are for 20 yeah so after fairly  uneventful 2020 and 2021 2022 is gonna be a big  

year of transition not just for us but for for  family members and yeah it's exciting we've  

got some exciting news to share yeah there's  there's a lot going on i actually have like a  

little notebook with bullet points on the side of  everything we need to tell you because it's just  

so much that i'm afraid that something's gonna  yeah yeah yeah anyways what should we start with  

um why don't we start about your parents news okay  yeah so my parents are finally selling their home  

this is i guess i'm not my childhood home but i  moved in here when i was 12. so it has been the  

longest home i've had in canada yeah like over  20 years yeah 22 years in this house i mean this  

house has meant a lot to me as well we've spent  a big part of the the quarantine and the pandemic  

here we also got married in the backyard here  we're at the reception the reception you have  

the reception here so my gran my grandma came here  my parents have been here um even before i mean  

i remember the first time i came here when i met  your parents without you in this house so that was  

like in between the teaching contracts in korea  yeah i had a layover left over i slept over and  

met the family yeah that's a bit of a bit daunting  to to meet your uh you know your partner's family  

without them being there but you had the same  experience meeting mine too i did and it was  

also here wasn't it also here yeah so yeah  this homes they've had a lot of memories here  

so like i mentioned i moved in here when i was 12  and i lived here until i was 24 at which point i  

moved to korea and then we traveled around and  like we always came back here in between trips  

as like a little base and like trampolined  off to the next destination and then when the  

pandemic hit we were about to move somewhere and  everything kind of got put on hold for two years  

and we spent the pandemic here so yes has been  home sweet home i spent about 75 percent of the  

pandemic here and 25 percent of my parents yeah so  yeah we've been in between um family and it's been  

fantastic we've spent some really good quality  time with both sides of our family yeah so it's  

been a bonus and i mean yeah this place is is just  like like i said a few times we just have a lot of  

memories here it's just a lot of milestones have  been celebrated in this very home and a lot of  

plans have been made and i should mention we're  like in the basement apartment my parents have  

like an apartment suite and they've been gracious  enough to allow us to stay here i mean yeah we've  

turned this into like a a little apartment it's  been cozy it's been great for getting work done  

and it's also just been it's just been nice to  be surrounded with family we get along great with  

everyone and it's just it's really fun but this  house has been sold we are saying goodbye to it

well time to leave the house yeah while  the showings take place showing's taking  

place we've got to get out of here three  showings tonight not the best weather but uh  

what can you do right yeah it was  raining before now it might be snowing  

first day of showings guys yeah yesterday  it went on the market late afternoon kind  

of evening and now we've got three  people coming by now we got the ice  

coming down it's not snow it's not rain it's ice  pellets we came to visit the ducks and the swans  

togo is very interested all right guys day  two that we have to be out of the house  

for the showings it's time for an extra hour  yeah so yesterday it was three hours and three  

different groups of people came to see it it  wasn't a good day because of the weather it was  

really bad we had a snowstorm slash ice storm yeah  we were getting pelted by ice pellets yeah like it  

felt like little grains of sand were just hitting  it in the face smacking us in the face constantly  

but today it's much more beautiful in terms of  weather it's a bit more sunny and a bit nicer  

but it's considerably colder yeah say it's minus  20. minus 20 with the windchill and so far we have  

six showings taking place we might get a few  more i've got my phone receiving notifications  

yeah so yeah and this is even before the main day  that it's been yeah on saturday yes saturday's  

freeze the free yeah free open house so lots of  interest that's exciting yeah also today we have  

the the geese have come back and we're here with  my dad as well my dad into goach yeah here we are  

bitter cold winter's day yeah it's a it's  not the good time to sell a house in the  

middle of the winter a canadian winter but uh  sometimes things happen and you cannot dictate uh  

so this is what uh we have in our hands right  now yeah and uh it's killing time in the cold  

yeah you know what if we if we did not have this  big dog with us we could have gone to a restaurant  

or maybe movies or something anything indoors  where do you do what do you do with togo you know  

like he's yeah he's how we're a four-legged  boy and uh then this is what happens okay  

let's talk about the trip the trip okay so last  week i spent 48 hours in alberta with my mom my  

sister ariel and we went house hunting because  my parents are actually moving out of province  

and when they visited the rockies a few  years ago they fell in love with the place  

and they ended up finding their dream home  online so we went to go look at it in person  

and it turned out to be even better than what  we had imagined they've always dreamed of living  

out in the mountains living out in nature it just  coincides with kind of the the housing market here  

in canada for those of you who aren't so familiar  sort of the greater toronto area has been a hotter  

market for quite some time and now in alberta  there's relative value um in terms of what you can  

get versus what you can get here in ontario yeah  so i mean not only do you get the rocky mountains  

but there's there's a bit more affordability out  west as well yeah that's actually like really cool  

that you mentioned that because as an example this  house sold in three days and the one we're buying  

sold in 45 days yeah so not quite as hot as you  can tell and they're in a very rural area nothing  

against this remote nothing against this house  but the one they're moving to is quite a bit nicer  

yeah yeah it's like a it's a dream kind of home  it really is it really is oh i guess this would  

be a good place to show you the footage of the  trip so let's cut yeah snowy alberta she has one

is

well good morning everyone and welcome to alberta  i'm here with my sister ariel my mom's in the back  

and we just flew into calgary last night we're  here for 48 hours of house hunting on behalf of my  

parents um so yeah we're gonna be looking at homes  with my mom and my sister and we're not meeting  

with the realtor until later this afternoon so  we had free time this morning we drove around  

downtown calgary for a bit um i had never seen the  city before very nice it's like a small downtown  

very clean very organized we may have made some  wrong turns because there's certain streets  

that are just one way and you know everything is  covered in snow so you can't see lanes or anything  

um we keep going west towards spam um so  yeah it's it's kind of strange getting used  

to driving in a different city but we've got it  under control we've kind of figured it out and  

right now we're driving out towards canmore  because that's what we have time for that's  

as far as we can go and we just wanted  to get close to the mountains and we're  

on the trans-canada highway already getting  impressive views everything is covered in snow  

they actually had a really big snowstorm  over the weekend before we flew out here  

like saturday and sunday it was storming and  we landed monday evening we'll take a steering  

wheel okay we're we're in this fancy modern car  that keeps trying to correct my sister's driving  

it keeps telling her you're not in the center of  your lane but we are um so yeah we don't like that  

but we're super happy to be here we'll bring you  along for the rest of the day and see what we find

these are the views  

all right good morning everyone it is day  two house hunting for my parents future home  

and yeah i thought i would give you a little  update so we saw several houses yesterday  

in the end none of them were for us the first  one was beautiful gorgeous the best views we  

saw out of all the homes but that house was kind  of small it only had two like finished bedrooms  

and the idea is that my parents want to have a  slightly bigger home so the whole family can come  

visit grandkids the whole shebang also that home  was conditionally sold already so that's too bad  

then the second house we went to see we had really  liked it found it online about a week ago by the  

time we got there it was also conditionally sold  but the realtor still wanted to show us the place  

so we had an idea of what the homes look like in  that part of the province also the basement wasn't  

finished so it wouldn't have been it wouldn't have  been ideal home number three was a little too big  

and just slightly above our price range and  it didn't feel very homey like it was nice  

it was luxurious but it didn't really feel like  warm and cozy like oh i would want to hang out and  

linger here so that one also kind of got discarded  and then some homes we weren't able to see because  

the pin didn't work to get into the house others  weren't going on the market for another day or two  

um so yeah we didn't find the one but  we have one more to look at today in a  

different part of the province we drove like  two and a half hours yesterday to reach this  

new area where we spent the night and  yeah super calm let me show you the views  

we have lots of farmland prairies but we are  driving towards the mountains it's kind of hard  

to see because i would need a zoom lens to really  show you the magnitude of the mountains but they  

are beautiful and we're getting even closer also  one thing we've really noticed here in alberta  

is that people are super friendly super nice in a  good mood really great customer service and it's  

been a change from what we're used to in toronto  where people can be a bit more rough or in a hurry  

sometimes even grumpy so that's been a nice change  and yeah we're really liking the area so far  

and we'll see how everything goes today so yeah  that was the trip as you can see we did a lot on  

the first day we viewed five different houses none  of them were it but then on day two we went to see  

the one that we booked the whole trip for like  we booked tickets to look at this one house  

and yes that was the one i'm not showing that  one yet we will reveal it soon enough when we're  

there we're actually there but while we were on  while i was on that trip samuel had an accident  

me and your dad which is announcement number three  hanging out well we were having a great time such  

a good time in fact that we had scheduled homemade  pizzas and the missing ingredients was i was going  

to walk out in in in a bad condition weather in  the snow and go get some pizza dough and some  

cheese we already had the sauce we had the meat we  were ready to go with some pizzas of wine and um  

there was some kind of freak weather the night  before or sorry the day before i should mention  

it had rained heavily and that had caused a  lot of the snow to melt and freeze and the  

craziest thing was your dad and i had like a 20  minute discussion before i went out talking about  

like safety and like how to be careful out there  and like you know not slip and fall and i'll be  

honest with you i was really careful for a good  portion of the walk but suddenly i uh there's  

there's sort of like there was sort of black ice  in front of me and i just didn't notice didn't  

notice it in front of me i think i was getting  a little overconfident and suddenly i had the  

ultimate banana peel ice slit fall launched into  the air and landed directly on my left shoulder  

like it took the entire brunt of the fall and i  knew when it happened something was really wrong  

because i've had some really spectacular falls  in the winter before and like it really hurts and  

you're a lot of pain but you kind of just you know  dust yourself up get back up and yeah you're sore  

but you keep walking but like there was something  scary your fingers started like curling weird  

yeah something like my body was going into shock  and i just i somehow got myself back to the house  

and i got rushed to the emergency room fortunately  i was in a lot of pain almost like involuntarily  

like that's the most painful thing i've ever  experienced so it ended up being a separated  

shoulder a dislocated shoulder like out of socket  right yeah yeah it came right out and um so what  

happened was they kind of knocked you out they  did knock me out but like it was so nice the  

people people at the hospital realized like  i was in in some serious pain so i i was seen  

quite quickly had an x-ray then i was put out and  when i woke up oh i felt so much better like they  

obviously had put my shoulder back in they had  given me some painkillers and i was just kind of  

like waking up yeah that happened close to a week  ago and it's been a slow process to get better i'm  

going to be in a sling for a couple weeks and then  i'm going to have physio and then i'm going to  

strengthen the arm it's it's a several month  injury from from what i've been reading for  

recovery for a full recovery and it's one of those  injuries where if you try to do too much too soon  

you can re-aggravate it and go all the way  back to step one so i'm really taking it easy