A day by the ocean with some friends/ Van renovations/ wildlife/ VAN LIFE IN BC

Ready to go outside, kitty? Hmm? Are you ready? Good morning. I thought I saw you over there filming something. So, just lying in bed. Yeah, the guys... Good morning, by the way. I told everyone good morning, but I didn't tell you guys good morning. The guys last night were to have a beer and some food, and they were like have you been in Spanish Bay? I'm like, no, I haven't been. I heard about it. And they're like, oh, that's where our van life starts. And they were like we need to show you, so we went here. It was nice. It was nice, beautiful by the ocean. It was quite quiet. Some people decided to have some fireworks in the middle of the night. But other than that, it was really quiet. I had a good sleep. Good life yesterday. With them, obviously. I'm not sure what they're going to do today. What I'm going to do is currently Sunday. If you know, I'm still in Vancouver, still waiting for some package. I think it's going to be quite a relaxed day. I might stay in this spot. Though it's quite a busy area, apparently. We'll see. First of all, I need to wake up. I need to have a cup of tea. And maybe have a little smoothie because I do have some food that needs to be eaten. And some spinach. Start with this cup of tea. I need a cup of tea. What are you doing? As you can tell, Kelly's got a new little bed. Doesn't she really enjoy it? You living, Joseph? Yep, sounds good. Huh? So, I was from doing some renovation. I'm like, maybe I should do mine too. Yesterday, I went at my mailbox and got my package. I got my smoke and alarm smoke and carbon monoxide detector, which mine broke. And I purchased this, which I am, sorry, I am quite happy this finally came. And I have a lot, which I think I'm going to give you some. Let's see if they work well. It's those little straps that you can go around the wire and just tie everything together so they don't like, make a mess. So, yeah, I got a lot. Which, I'm happy about it. We were using that when I was a janitor to kind of wrap the cord, so that's going to be something useful. And I'm just making myself a little extra cup of tea this morning. Uh, and yeah, we're going to start this little project after that. So, yeah, this is where I put all my wire, all my plug and electrical, you know, charger and all that. And I just want to put, like, straps around them so they kind of stay all nice. Because this is quite a mess. There you go. Oh, sorry. With the sun. So, yeah, now it's going to be all together. I love it. I think I'm going to do that for Katie's leash because it always tangles everywhere. Oh, that's awesome. So, yeah, there you go. This is what it's going to look like now. Way better to just grab. Love it. Alright, guys, I'm just looking at the smoke and carbon dioxide detector. And the best place, I think, would be right here, which is higher. I was putting it right beside my bed, but I think it would be better there, but it's not, like, super nice looking, you know. Um, I don't know if I put it there. I think it, like, eh. But I want to put the same kind of, like, thing, you know, with the whiteboard and all that, um, in the back. And I want to have a place in the back for this. So I'm like, uh, do I want to mount it there or I want to wait and put it, like, in the back when I'm going to be there and just... Like, those ones are just with battery and no wire needed, anything. So... Oops, sorry. So, yeah, maybe, I don't know. What do you guys think? It's not that it's that bad. It's white on white. But just, yeah. I feel like maybe in the back would be a better place for it. So I think I'm gonna wait for this to mount this. It's just, like, three screws. It's not a big deal. Um, so I'm just gonna put it together and put it behind here. It's gonna stay here. It's gonna be active. It's gonna, like... I'm not really worried about carbon monoxide because I only have a butane stove and those, like, you know, like, the chance that they leak is very small. And, you know, they're not always on my stove so they know, like, nobody any way to leak carbon monoxide. But, yeah, the smoke alarm... Yeah, I think I'm gonna put it there for now and, yeah, wait and see what I'm gonna do with it eventually. I think in the back will look better. Because also, eventually I want to put the fan, like, actual fan that I'm gonna mount somewhere. And... Yeah, I have to think about like, did I want the fan in the back? Which, maybe it would be a better idea to gonna think about it. I'm just gonna activate it. Put that together. There you go. And, yeah, put that there for now. So, it's still working but out of the way. And, yeah, we'll see if I put it there or when I'm gonna put the back here. If I put it there, maybe the fan on this side, the smoke alarm on that side. I don't know. I have to kind of think about those things. But, yeah, that's gonna be nice to finish this and have a little shelf so I can put maybe a couple of blankets and things that I want to be out of the way. Alright, guys, I came back inside just to have a smoothie and I think I'm gonna go walk by the beach. Sorry, the light. It's a little bit hard. There you go. So, yeah, I'm gonna go walk at the beach. So, yeah, I'm gonna have a quick smoothie. I didn't have any breakfast this morning so it's gonna be good. I've been thinking about my smoothie for the past couple of days and I didn't do it. So I got a bunch of cherry. I'm gonna have some spinach. Oh, I should put my banana. My banana is getting old. It's still gonna be good. It's ready. One banana. And I'm gonna put a little bit of protein powder. I make a mess everywhere. Some water. It's not for you, kitty. It's for me. I'm gonna give you water. Yes, I'm gonna give you some. Just one second. No. My cat is crazy about water. I need to give her water. Hey, kitty. Want some water, baby? Every time I pull the water out, she's like, I want some. I'm like, you already had some in your bowl. Freshly. Nope, she wants some. And I only use, I have a little magic buret. That's what I use with a little Jackery 240. This is what's gonna power. In fact, this is what was powering all my van at the beginning when I was sleeping in my car. It's just enough for the blender. I think it's close to 240. There you go, my little smoothie. I think if you are starting van life, because we've been here talking about where we started van life, me and Chrome outside, that was Ispat and me, that was in Squamish. If you are starting van life, starting inside a car, I think a little Jackery like this, 240, it's plenty enough. At least it was for me at that time. Right now, with my needs of having to edit videos and things like this, this is not like... I need a little bit more power than this. Not that it will not charge my laptop. Not that it will not power my blender. It's just that it will not have so much life to it. You know, one charge on a laptop and that's it. And because I edit videos for like 4 hours a day, you know, that would not be enough of just power. But at that time, it was plenty enough to charge my laptop. It was plenty enough to charge my phone. And I was charging at work. That was mainly... My cat's gonna jump. Oh, he didn't sit. It was plenty enough at that time. I was charging at work. I asked my boss, can I charge the battery? You can also charge with the 12V cigarette lighter inside your van or your car. And yeah. So, nice little battery. And I have Jackery 1000 too because I don't have any inverter right now in my van. I use them everyday. And I'm gonna be super honest with you because I always been... Jackery reached out to me to be one of her new you know, influencer, ambassador whatever you wanna call it. So, currently, I'm working with Jackery. But I wanna say, if you watched my previous video, I talked about them. I had them before YouTube, before everything. As soon as they were available in Canada, I purchased my little one. Which is probably been a good 2 years now, if not more than that, that I have this little Jackery. And I still use it everyday. It's right there. It's in this place. And it's always for... Especially my blender here. The little one. And quickly charging my phone sometimes. And the big one is more for my laptop right now. But yeah. I really like this one. It's super light. Can go everywhere. Alright. I think I'm gonna enjoy this little green smoothie. Yeah, it's good. It's good. And we're gonna go to the beach because, yeah, the water the tide will really go lower here. And apparently, it's beautiful. So I'm gonna go check it out. Guys, look how far we can go to the beach. This morning, the water was right here. Now, we can walk all the way almost to those boats. That's insane. That's crazy. Let's try to go all the way to that boat there. That's pretty crazy to see the boat. I don't know if you can see it right there. And Vancouver. And all that sand. I feel like it's got no ocean anymore. That's really the first time that I come here. Like, the guys told me like, oh, at 1 o'clock it's gonna have low tide. You're gonna have beach forever. Which is not even 1 o'clock right now. So the beach is still going down. It's 12. So in one hour, it's gonna be the lowest. And like, you can walk forever. That's awesome. I didn't expect that. That's the first time. It's so funny because I've been living around Vancouver for probably 12 years now. In Squamish. I mean, I moved a little bit in Alberta. I was not 12 around here. But still, you know, I've never been here. Which is awesome. I love it. Alright. Yeah. Let's try to go further, close to the boat. Alright, guys. We made it to the other side. So close from the boat. I feel like I almost touched them. Right there, guys. It's pretty crazy to stand in front of this. Alright, guys. I'm gonna let you with this. But before I go, I just wanted to tell you that Jackery gave me a 10% off. So if you want to buy a Jackery, the little Jackery 240 or a big one, the 1000, a solar panel, whatever you need, all their products, you have 10% off using my code THECATLADYVAN. So I'm super happy that you're gonna be able to have this little discount. And, yeah, I guess I will leave all the links, by the way, in the description. And I will see you soon, guys.