Exploring Orlando (without theme parks) | Food, Coffee, & Kayaking!

This is like my worst nightmare right now. Oh no. Segways! Oh no! I was really excited to go kayaking but I may have been even more excited to come eat at this place. Hello from the sunshine state. We just left Texas earlier this week after a three week break for the holidays and we are making our way southeast for the first part of the year and we haven't explored much of the south or the east coast so we're excited to see some new places. So we were supposed to be filming this vlog in New Orleans today. We had two really fun days planned there but unfortunately mother nature had other plans for us. There was this big storm coming and they were predicting like 70 mile per hour gusts, over one inch of hail, some tornadoes potentially and we just thought it's not really the best weather to be in with the van so we booked it all the way to Florida. We are currently in the Orlando area and when you think of Orlando you think of all the theme parks including Disney which we're going to be going to here in a couple of days so we wanted to explore a bit of the area outside of the theme parks. So we have a really really fun day planned today and we are very excited to show you guys a different side of Orlando. We are beginning our day just like any other day in our life with some coffee. Yes, I didn't spill this time. Good job. I spilled the last two vlogs every time I drink the coffee. So we came to a spot called Foxtail Coffee. From our research it's one of the top places to get coffee in Orlando. They actually have a ton of locations around Orlando. We're at the Winter Park location but they have them all spread out so you're probably always going to be close to one. Yeah and the inside is really cool. It's like my style. I like the darker with like wood with like exposed metal and stuff. It's like industrial kind of. Yeah, it's really pretty and they have a roaster inside and we always love when we go to a coffee shop that roasts their own beans. And I have to say I am pretty impressed with the Orlando coffee scene. When doing research on figuring out where to go today, I saw so many really cool like beautiful craft coffee shops. So good job Orlando keeping us caffeinated. So something that our friend TJ who used to live in Orlando told us we had to do while we were here is go kayaking on one of the springs. So apparently Orlando has a bunch of different springs that you can kayak on and they're all very beautiful. But he told us the best spot to come to was a spot called King's Landing which takes you on the Rock Springs River Run. Alright, we got our wristband and we're ready to hit the water so we paid for a two person kayak which was $50 but they let you use it all day long and just remember it is cash only. And we're off! So it's about 8.5 miles if you start at King's Landing and go all the way to the end and they have a shuttle that will shuttle you back to the starting point. But it's about 4.5 or 5 hours to commit to that and we didn't want to be away from Kona for that long so we just rented an out and back kayak and we're going to explore this area called the Emerald Cut which we hear is the most beautiful part of this whole run. They instructed us on the proper route to go and we're the only ones out here now that I see even though there were other people that launched before us and they said this is the way to go but anyways the first part they told us to go on is upstream so it's a little tough to go especially when there's only one person rowing. Oops! I am helping just not when I'm filming. We're playing a fun game. It's called Alligator or Stick. So far, all sticks. But we're a little nervous about alligators. It's the sticks that are like barely popping up out of the water that you think is like an alligator head. Yeah. Also something interesting we learned about Florida that we did not know and maybe this is common knowledge is that there are black bears here. I don't, I just didn't expect that because there aren't any mountains or anything but yeah so we'd be worried about bears, there's also panthers and alligators and all sorts of other crazy wildlife. I read that the water is about 72 degrees year round and I wasn't sure that would feel cold if you feel warm but it feels perfect and the water is so clear you can see everything below you. It's almost deceiving because it'll get really deep but then really shallow and sometimes you plop down into a deep part. I'm about upper thigh deep right now. This is awesome. Yeah, this is fun. It's nice, overcast. Yeah, it's not too hot. It's cool. Nice breeze going. It's easy to find your own little space. Yeah, we've seen people but it hasn't felt crowded by any means. There's a log. Either people are going slow or they're trucking by you so it's easy to just kind of go at your own pace and have no one around you. And I feel, I think I've read that in the summer it gets pretty crazy here but we are here, it is January, early mid January I don't know what day it is but that might be part of why it's not super busy because it's not hot but it's not cold either. It's perfect. Absolutely perfect. We didn't reach the end. We don't know how much farther it is until the end to turn around so we just turned around here and it is so much easier going back. We were just paddling uphill uphill or upstream the only other way and this way you can just kick back and just sit back and relax and maybe steer just a little bit cause we're gonna hit this tree. Look ma, no hands. Okay, I'll steer. Segways! Oh no! Are you sprinkling? Oh no, it just started raining. Made it. Survived. We originally wanted to go snorkeling with manatees today. It's something that is really popular to do here in the winter time. The manatees come into the springs to escape the cold cause the springs are about 72 degrees year round but it was pretty expensive and kind of far away so we xed that idea and did this instead and I'm really glad we did because it was cheaper, it was closer and it was so dang beautiful. But man, my shoulders are killing me. It was a pretty good workout and it worked up an appetite and I'm gonna go get some lunch. Let's go eat! I was really excited to go kayaking but I may have been even more excited to come eat at this place. We're at this spot called Sticky Rice Lao Street Food and it just looks incredible. It's one of those order at the counter type spots which those who've watched us for a while know that we love those places and almost everything, I think everything minus one item on the menu is under $10. So in typical A plus K fashion we ordered quite a spread but the first thing that came was the Kapun Nam Gai, it's like a curry soup, has chicken in it, noodles, cabbage, cilantro peppers I'm kind of scared of but man, it looks so good. It smells amazing. We've got some sticky rice here already and then I saw these by the counter up there and they're shrimp chips I don't know, looked good, wanted to try them so here they are. So they bring out the food as it's ready and we have all of our food here now. The last few things we got are the Sticky Street Grilled Sticky Grilled Sticky Street Wings We have this Lemongrass Jerky and then we have a Crispy Rice Lettuce Wraps I'm cheating because I can't remember, we got so many things. This has pork, peanuts coconut, lime, a bunch of stuff in it and then you eat it with the lettuce. They just told another table that you're supposed to eat with your hands which sounds really fun but also problematic if you watch me eating our vlogs often Going for the wings first Mmm that smells good These aren't a very sexy thing to film Not very attractive to film but they're so moist they have a grilled flavor. Two vlogs in a row you've said moist. Yeah we got moist on there two vlogs in a row but it's got a grilled flavor, they're nice and juicy they're sweet but kind of a little bit spice. They're solid I think I have some in my mouth Next is the lemongrass beef jerky. It's like really crispy I don't know if they fried it or what but I'm really picky about jerky. I don't love the toughness that it can have sometimes but this is really crunchy hard on the outside but you can easily pull it apart like that I can hear the crunch Hands down this is the best jerky I've ever had it is so soft. It's not chewy at all it doesn't hurt your jaw to eat like jerky can and there's a crunchiness and it has a really good flavor. This is awesome It's like eating candy It's like jerky candy Can't forget about my shrimp chips They don't taste like anything It doesn't taste like shrimp I don't know but I know what would be good on it. I'm going to give this yellow sriracha a try Come on Oh that's a lot Wow They're better. It's like chips and salsa Chips and sriracha Just a little appetizer I guess They're alright but I will never get them again I have been hooked on curries lately and this looks incredible It looks super coconutty and noodles I'll probably do broth just because if I try to eat the noodles on camera it's going to fall over me Oh my gosh Adam I don't think I can churn this one. It is so creamy It has all the best flavor I need to figure out how to make this in the van Oh my gosh Crispy rice lettuce wraps It's really good It has a lot of peanut flavor. It's very crispy I do think this would be good with sriracha also So I'm going to add some It's very crispy as the name implies It's really good with sriracha added. It has a good flavor by itself but it's not like a super strong flavor So the sriracha just gives it like an extra kick Man that felt like a feast I don't know it was a lot of food but man it was so good It was only $36 for all of that which is I think a really good deal That was a lot of food That bowl of curry was huge and it was so delicious That might be my favorite. I think that was my favorite thing too It was all really really good but that just the creaminess of it the coconuttyness of it was just I'd go back for all of it except maybe one thing and it's these guys and I might let Kona try one or all of them Yeah I mean they just don't have much flavor but they have if you like crunchy things they might not be too bad Sticky rice had some amazing looking desserts but I found this ice cream place that I was really wanting to go to called The Greenery Creamery which is the cutest name ever It has lots of plants inside too which is my favorite It's super unique because so I got this charcoal waffle cone it has charcoal in it but this is like my worst nightmare right now Oh no it's Italy all over again But I got a smoked caramel and a sour orange pie and then you can get these toppings Oh my gosh it's dripping everywhere You can get these toppings of these crystals So this is basil and raspberry crystals What'd you get? I got hibiscus crystals and then I got the salty caramel and a lemon poppy seed This might be worse than Italy It was holding up so well and now it's falling apart It's just like It's a disaster right now It's really good, the crystals are really good Oh my goodness Okay we gotta eat this That did not go as planned at all We walked out of the store hit the outside temperature and it was holding up really well they were nice and frozen and we were like oh this is super exciting and then as soon as we rounded the corner the floodgates opened It was like a freaking waterfall It was like melting so fast Flashbacks to our Italy vlogs Oh man But it was melting all over us It was all over our hands, it got on the camera somehow I don't know how That was unreal, so sorry if that looked unappetizing Here's a photo of what it looks like in it's best form But again we both got smoked caramel and you got the lemon poppy seed flavor It was really really good, the smoked caramel was my favorite of the two though And I got a sour orange pie and man it was really good, it had like the pie crust like pieces in it Both of my flavors, so the salty caramel and the lemon poppy seed were vegan, so like half the flavors there are vegan, half of them have dairy and egg and all that stuff in it They have a bunch of different cones to choose from, a bunch of really cool toppings, super cute place on the inside It was delicious, we had to eat it really fast but we enjoyed every very fast lick of it We just walked off our huge sticky rice feast and our delicious ice cream at Lake Eola Park and if you didn't know fun fact about Orlando, there are over a hundred lakes in the city Which I didn't know that at all, when I was looking at the map it's just like bloop bloop bloop bloop all the lakes We had a really fun day exploring Orlando outside of the theme parks Like most of you guys I'm sure watching a lot of people come to Orlando to go to Disney Universal, I've been here a few times for work but we've never really explored outside of those things, so it was really fun to find some awesome gems in the city There's definitely a lot more to Orlando than just the theme parks Yeah, and if you're coming here anytime soon and you need some ideas of things to do that aren't just the theme parks we're going to post a blog post soon with a list of stuff you can do here Yeah, a lot more than we got to today, there's a lot more delicious food to check out so make sure to check that out But that is a wrap on our Orlando vlog today but get pumped because next time you see us, we're going to be at Disney World I'm going to Disney World! Minnie, I'm coming for you! Okay, she told me I needed to grab a drink from this cooler, but I know it's a prank, but I don't know what it is I'm kind of scared It's a snake and blood