August 14, 2025 • 35 mins
LaLa shares how her family trip to Florida took a scary turn when her daughter had a severe allergic reaction to mosquito bites and ended up in the ER. Never heard of Skeeter Syndrome? Parents, you’ll want to pay attention.
Back home, chaos continues as LaLa juggles last-minute packing for Nashville and gets pulled into a neighbor’s impromptu BBQ. Her kitchen lifesaver? The Seal Vax, which helped her marinate chicken in half the time without sacrificing flavor. LaLa’s Nashville recovery plan included one item: Coaqua Coconut Water. And next up? LaLa’s hitting the road again to check out Sesame Place which is one of the most ADA-accessible theme parks in the country.
Back home, chaos continues as LaLa juggles last-minute packing for Nashville and gets pulled into a neighbor’s impromptu BBQ. Her kitchen lifesaver? The Seal Vax, which helped her marinate chicken in half the time without sacrificing flavor. LaLa’s Nashville recovery plan included one item: Coaqua Coconut Water. And next up? LaLa’s hitting the road again to check out Sesame Place which is one of the most ADA-accessible theme parks in the country.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the heart of the city, where the beat meets
the rhythm of your day.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's Shawna m what's up. You're listening to Shauna and Lalla.
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
May and check me out at Bella Underscore Lalla one
two five.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It has been a crazy busy few weeks. A lot
of traveling has been.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Involved, lots of trips that's been back to back for me.
Anyway of trip trip trip, plane, plane, plane, stress, fun,
stress fun. Well.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Our first trip was to the American Dream Mall, which
was amazing.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Oh it's so it is like a It really is,
and I think that that's what they kind of geared
it around, was just like it's a dream, it's a
fairy tale.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It was gorgeous. They had this little like fairy garden,
yeah in the middle of the mall, and great stores.
I mean, every story you could think of was there.
I really liked Primar.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, Primark was awesome. My favorites Altered State because they
always have the cutest closed so expensive, very expensive. That's
the only other problem it's not you know, like I
want to shop at these places, but I cannot wrap
my head around spending forty dollars or thirty eight dollars
on a baseball hat. You know, that just says something
silly on it, you know, or a pair of leggings
(01:41):
and how much was that?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Like sears?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, I can't wrap my head. I can't. I just
can't do that. But it's a cute store, beautiful store,
lots of nice stuff. But pre Mark was more our spending.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yes, states I bought a pair of leggings for four
dollars and fifty I think, Yeah, I mean, you couldn't
get any better than that. And they're great, They held
up great in the washing machine.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, I got Jilina some clothes. They were I will
say their sizes are a little off for the kids
or the toddlers because the eighteen to twenty four month
Jelina is almost four, and that eighteen to twenty four
month is still big on her. Granted my daughter is tinier,
but it's still that should have fit her snug if
anything not been it's like down to her knees. So
(02:29):
other than that, it was three dollars for a baby's
sweatshirt and pants like they were both three dollars. That's great.
You can't beat that. You can't find that anywhere, No.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You can't. And the luggings that I bought, I'm usually
like a size medium to a large, so I just
grabbed a medium just to you know, since it was
my size and they were ginormous on me.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
He were swimming in them.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, so I had to buy a smaller extra small.
I don't even remember, but yeah, I mean it made
me feel good. I'm not as fat.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, so if you want to feel good about your body,
go there, because you'll be an extra small guaranteed or
small or.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
An extra extra small. Yeah, you never know.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
The other crazy thing about that mall is it's absolutely huge,
so big you better put your sneakers on and be
prepared to get your miles in that day.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh yeah. Our local mall, which is the Policies, is
four stories. This mall was four stories, two I believe, maybe.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Three three yeah, three I believe.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Okay, so three stories, but it was just miles and
miles and miles long of walking.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, it would tell you if you want. It had
this these screens that you can go up to say, hey,
where's this store, where's this restaurant? And when you'd put
in where you wanted to go, it would tell you
how long it was going to take to walk there.
And no, lie, one of the stores that I put
in was a twenty eight minute walk, Like that's crazy
to think out a twenty eight minute walk in a mall.
(04:02):
Others were thirteen fifteen minutes. But that's that's that's far,
you know, that's how big it is, so that it
just it's crazy. They have their own water park there.
They have a ski a skiing place, like there's snow.
They have snow in there. There's snowboards skiing those what
(04:23):
are they called the ganda? I don't know if they're cookanda.
What are those the carts you sit in and it
takes you up the mountain.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Oh yeah, I know you're talking about ski ramps or whatever.
I don't know those ski ski as. Yeah, I know
what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I don't ski. I don't know this stuff. But that
just shows how massive this place is. They have Nickelodeon
Park in there, they have I think a Lego park
in there, an aquarium. They even have an aquarium. So
it it's insane. It's like anything you can think of
is in this place, and it's absolutely gorgeous and brand new.
(04:57):
Hopefully they put a little bit more stores that are
more for the average joe. Yeah, but a lot of
celebrities go to this mall and it it is. It's
something that you should definitely take a trip to to
see an experience.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, definitely. And the celebrities I saw on TikTok, Kim
Kardashian went there and she was able to get Actually,
anyone could get a golf cart with a personal shopper.
I mean, you have to pay for it, but you
can get one. And I googled it to see how
much it was, and there's no price online. You have
(05:32):
to call and like reserve it and call to get
more information. So I just I can't even imagine what
that costs.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, yeah, to be rich and famous.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, just rich. So you went to Florida prior to
us going to Nashville. You went to Florida and then
like three days later we flew out for Nashville.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I know, I am I'm still shot from both trips.
I am just I'm still trying to I don't know
how people do this for businesses and or just travel
constantly because it's draining. You know, Florida was for pleasure
and for apartment searching. When my husband retires in a
few years, we're gonna move to Florida. So far, that's
what we think.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
But anyway, yeah, we went down to Florida. It was beautiful.
I love Florida.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I just almost love everything about it. And we first
we stopped. I'm like, Mike, I want to take our
daughter to this mermaid place. When I was a kid,
I always went to Wikiwachie, and back then it was
like amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
No one really knew about it, but it was just
it was awesome. They've been around.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Since I think the fifties or sixties. I'm probably wrong
on those dates. But these girls train and train and
train to swim underwater in mermaid outfits with no scuba gear.
They hold their breath and yet, but they do have
these clear tubes of air that every so often they
will put the tube in their mouth and take air in.
(07:00):
Now I'm a scuba diver, you don't know how hard
that is. When when I'm Scooba ivan, we have the
it stays in our mouth the whole time. And even that,
you have to get used to not breathing through your nose.
You're breathing through just your mouth. No, I can't imagine
being underwater without a mask, without something holding closing my
nose and breathing through this tube every so often in
(07:22):
the middle of pretending to sing.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
It's it. They are so talented.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
They sing, they pretend to sing because there's like they're
showing the Little Mermaid.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
They're doing like a like a play.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Oh okay, so we hear the sound.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Inside in the auditorium.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I wouldn't be able to open my mouth underwater. Yeah,
that's what I'm trying to say, Like.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, they pretend to sing, they pretend to mouth the
words that we're hearing in the order.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
It's really it's crazy. These I give these girls a
lot of credit. And they're in a cold cold spring.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
That water I think is like in the sixties to seventies,
you know how cold that is.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, and they're in these little bras and mermaid tales.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I'll have to show you. It's amazing. But I went
to it as a kid, loved it. I took my
daughter and it was just not the same. The show
was still the same and she loved that, but the
park is so deteriorated.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
There's nothing you can do there.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
They had Buccaneer Bay that we can go to, which
is like a water park, but even that was so different,
So I was very disappointed in all that. I'm glad
you got to see the mermaids, she got to take
a picture with them, but it was kind of depressing
to see how things change, you know, from when you're a.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Kid, or from what you remember as a kid. You
know that magic.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Exactly, and from there, you know, we went to our
beach house. We go to the it's not our beach
house but family members, and we love it. It's a
little piece down south of Florida on the Gulf Coast,
and it's just so peaceful. It's a beautiful beach house
and we had a great time there.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
How was it since the hurricane because they got hit
pretty hard.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, that beach almost got wiped off the map pretty much.
They're still building back.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It's been closed for over everything, and they finally opened
up this year. And the beach house we stay at
was damaged, but they fixed it all up. But the
houses next to it on either side are just all
in the shambles, Like I don't know how the town
(09:19):
or the government is allowing them to still be standing
because it's dangerous. They're just what you would see after
a bomb explosion. Yeah, houses are just hanging on a thread,
you know, on either side. And as you walk down
the beach you just see all the destruction of the
houses that someone probably didn't have money to fix, their insurance.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Isn't covering it, or they can't get anyone or insurance
to prove it to be fixed. So it's heartbreaking, it
really is.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I would be careful that there's no glass in the
sand or the water. So back in October, we were
where the hurricane hit and my family, a few family
members said, do not go in the water, do not
walk on the beach barefoot. And when we went, there
was like one couple on the beach with their dog,
(10:11):
but they had like they shoes on, shoes on sneakers.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
That is a fear. But angle the place's angle would
Minnesota Key Beach, they're not allowed to They weren't allowed
to open the beach until they were sifting through the sand,
so they have the huge sifting machines. I saw a
video of it and they had to sift thousands and
thousands and thousands of pounds of sand. So a dump
truck or a bulldozer would come scoop up sand, bring
(10:38):
it to this giant sifter, and then the sifter would
sift out all the stuff and spit out the clean sand.
So they had to do that. But occasionally, like when
I was walking the beach, I saw an occasional rusty nail,
I saw an occasional piece of a house, occasional piece
of brick, occasional you know, sighting it, you know that's
bound to happen as the waves bring it in from
(10:59):
what was taken out. So yes, definitely have to be
careful with that. It's sad. So that was a space
we were going to look to move to. But now
that it's been hit back to back with these horrible hurricanes,
which it never had in the past, I'm like, maybe
we should we should move inland more, you know, continue
our search. But it was great. I got to see
(11:19):
baby sea turtles being born. That was absolutely amazing, absolutely amazing.
And you know I always say to Seana every trip,
me and my husband say, something goes wrong every single
trip we've ever taken. We know we wait because something
has to go wrong, and we wait for that to
happen because then the rest of the trip is smooth sailing.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, but did you lose your wallet?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
No, didn't lose my wallet this time.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Did you do any TikTok hacks?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
No hacks. I stayed away from TikTok, like you know,
my husband said to stay off TikTok. You're not doing
any travel hacks, you know. But this one was like
a little more scarier. My daughter. Now I'm going towards
the end of our trip. Now, so the whole trip
we're like, oh, smooth sailing. This is not good. It's
we're getting close to the end here. Something's gonna go wrong,
(12:06):
you know what I mean. Maybe we're jinxing it by
thinking that we probably shouldn't talk negatively, but we're is
so used to it. So anyway, Julina is allergic to
mosquito bites. She has something called Skeeter syndrome, and that
sounds like a fake syndrome, but it's actually a real syndrome.
I've never heard of it, I know, I didn't either
until I google. Then allergist said, hey, she probably has
(12:26):
Skeeter syndrome. So every time that Julina, since she was
an infant, gets bit by bugs, they swell up really
big into these big red hard welts, like huge, and
then they burst and they ooze like it's gross. They ooze,
and it's very dangerous because that they can get infected
(12:48):
because they're opening and oozing, you know. And I do
my best always keep them clean and whatever. But and
she's had to go on antibiotics in the past for
this and this trip, I was nervous because I heard
there was a flesh eating bacteria in Florida on the
Gulf coast.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah, and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Oh great, of course we're here during this bacteria and
people die from that, you know, or it just eats
their skin away. So when she got I tried to
keep her sprayed with bugspray. She got bit a bunch
of times by a mosquito that was actually in the
beach house, so she wasn't sprayed, you know, she was
inside and it bit her during the night and I
got it and I want to hit it. I saw
all the blood come out, and I'm like, great, it
(13:24):
got her, you know, and they started to swell up.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I kept them clean bandages, everything I thought I was
doing right, but it didn't. It didn't matter. Her leg
was just swollen and red.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And I noticed it the night before we were supposed
to fly home, and I said to my husband, I said, Babe,
I think we need to take her.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
To urgent care.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Her leg is like twice the size and it's very red,
or it wasn't twice the size at that point. It
was very red and hot and it was late and
he goes, what's open. We're on an island, you know,
and everything was closed. He goes, let's take her in
the morning. We'll pack up our suitcases tonight and we'll
head out, leave before check out and go right to
the urgent care. So that's what we did, and by
(14:06):
that morning her leg was twice the size. It was red,
swollen there. It was just really bad and it was
spreading up her thigh.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So urgent care was like, you need to go to
the hot soon.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
As the doctor saw it an urgent care, she said,
she needs to go to the hospital right now, and
she drew a line around Jelina's leg where all the
redness was spreading. She goes, this could be the flesh
eating bacteria. This could be sepsis. Like, this is bad,
this is spreading. And I'm like, well, can't you just
give her iv anabiotics?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You know?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
She goes, no, she needs to go to the hospital
right now. We need to do a wound sample, like
scrape open those wounds, oh for this flesh eating bacteria
or to see what bacteria is in there, and she
has she just has to stay over and I'm like, now,
this is the day we're flying home. Guys like, we're
flying We're supposed to get on an airplane that evening,
(15:00):
thank god, in the evening. And I was like, but
we fly home tonight, we fly home, and she's like, well,
you're gonna have to make other plans. You're gonna have
to cancel your flight. And I obviously I would for
the health of my child, but as you can imagine,
it's very stressful. Number One, I'm scared my daughter has
a flush eating bacteria. She could either lose her life,
lose her leg and be stressed of Okay, now we
(15:22):
got to cancel our flight or figure this out.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
You know, where are we staying tonight? How much is
this gonna cost? She wanted to send her an.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Ambulance where like, no, we'll take her over. We took
her over to Sarasota Hospital, Memorial Hospital, and let me
just say that hospital was gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Clean, friendly. Everyone was amazing there.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I'm so used to New York hospitals where it's like
like a prison and everyone's nasty and cold to you.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
You know what I mean, Yeah, like you feel like
you're in a dungeon.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah, this was not like that.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
So they took her back right away, checked it out,
got her on antibiotics, you know, they just monitored her,
and luckily the doctor said it was just an infection
and severe inflammation.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
So because my daughter is allergic and she had I.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Think six bites on her one little leg, it was
just overkilled for her body. So her body reacted to
that with that red inflammation. So it wasn't so much
that it was sepsis.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Wasn't it was.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
An infection, but it was also severe inflammation. They gave
her a steroid and within an hour the redness started
going down, so that's how we knew, okay, it is
a lot of inflammation. So thankfully we were able to
leave the hospital.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Jelina's okay.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
They had her on antibiotics and steroids, and thank god,
my baby was okay, and we made our flight and
we got home.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
But that was our crazy ending to our trip. And
we're like, well, you know, we knew something had to happen.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah, that's just crazy to me. Yeah, so now she's better. Obviously,
now she's.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Better, and I just gotta be very diligent with the bugs, fright,
even I'm gonna have to get like, you know, the
peppermint oil that your mom gave me, and even inside
a hotel or a beat house, put it on her
in case there is a bug in the house, you know,
and not least that's natural, so I don't have to worry,
you know.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
But yeah, I don't stay on top of that because my.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Poor baby, Like that was very scary. I was crying
so much thinking something was gonna happen to her.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, you called me from the hospital.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, I was scared.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I was scared, especially when they said she needs to
go to the emergency room right now. I'm like, and
she has to stay over My poor baby has to
get you know, a wound sampled. Thankfully they didn't have
to do that either, soh yeah, that was horrible.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Well, we just got back from Nashville, But we'll talk
about that in a little while. But do you have
any other trips planned? I mean, I know you're you're
always going somewhere.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I know, I know I have like a few trips
planned already for the year, But no, I mean, I
really want to take her to sest me place before
school starts. I've never been. I've heard great things about it.
My husband was when he was a kid, and he
was like, I had so much fun. You know, he
had a ton of fun there.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
But yeah, I really want to take her there.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
My old co host from the radio station, she recently
took her daughter and it literally looked like you were
at Sesame Street.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Really.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, it was so cute. But I hear there's a
lot to do there, Like there's like different rides and
stuff you could do, and you know, you probably meet
the characters. And yeah, Almo was my favorite. He was
my favorite from Sesame Street.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Sesame Street was so big when we were kids, and
I'm so happy that it still is a part of
this generation's you know, youth. But I think it was
so it was majorly it was huge when we were little.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, I think it was bigger than like Blues Clues
was Blues Clues even out then. I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Well as we got older, but Sesame Street and Fraule
Rock I remember when we.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Were little, little Sesame Street was huge. It was like,
I don't even know if it's still the same book.
It was what we grew up on. You know.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, crazy how like stuff just comes back, you know.
But yeah, they're really great with ADA. You know, we're
all about like ADA accessibility and everything. So they have
a ride accessibility program and it helps match rides to
like the guests' needs, which is really cool.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
So for instance, you're saying, if someone came a kid
came in a wheelchair, it would know, all right, we
can put you on this, this and this ride or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah. Yeah. They also have designated quiet areas and low
scent for low sensory so like if you're autistic or
you're sensitive to sound, they have like rooms specifically for that.
And that's something I think pretty new in places, because
I know when I was younger, they didn't have that.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
No, they I don't think they truly understood that that
some kids need.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
That, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, and they also have a hidden disability Sunflower program
for guests who may need a little extra kindness.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
So basically the Sunflower program is for people that have
invisible disabilities to say, like to kind of instead of
saying like, hey, I'm disabled, they could just say, like
they could wear like sunflower pan or a lanyard, and
this staff will know, Okay, this person, you know has
a disability.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
We gotta yeah, we can't see it, but it's there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, and they may need some extra support, you know,
with understanding, which is great because once again, they didn't
have that when we were younger.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
No, I heard that they they train their staff too
on how to assist guests that have disabilities, which is
great because a.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Lot of places don't have that or they don't know
how to handle situations or guests that have disabilities.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, really important. Yeah, it is, and you know we
see that everywhere where people. We were talking about it today,
like customer service is just not the same. You know,
people are always in a rush, and when you're at
a park, you know, you run into every type of person,
disabled or non disabled. Somebody may just be having a
(21:17):
bad day, and you know, you need to have compassion
when working in the public.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yes, don't choose a job in the public if you
can't have compassion, understanding and kind of put your own
issues on the back burner. And you could ruin or
make someone's day just by how you treat them as
an you know, when you're working somewhere.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So that's very important.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So before we went to Nashville, your neighbor decided to
throw a barbecue for the whole entire community the block.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, our little block.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yeah. Last minute, she's just like we've been talking about
it every year. We talk about it, like we need
to do a block party, we need to do a
block party. And then you know, we're all all busy.
But last minute, my neighbor was like, hey, we're doing this.
You know, hey, we're doing this. And so she was
asking what can can anyone make anything? You know, this,
(22:10):
this and that, And I was like, let me see
what I could whip up because I really didn't have
time to go to the store.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
So went my fridge.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I so I had chicken, I saw I had I
could make a quick marinade with the ingredients I had
in my cupboard.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
So I I'm like, wait, it's not I don't have
enough time. I only have like.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Four or five hours before this party. I usually when
I marinate chicken, I do it overnight, you know. Yeah,
And I remember that we got the seal Vax to
review and it's like a glass I'm gonna use the
word pyrex, but it's like a glass top of ware Pyrex,
but it has a special.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Top on it that you use this vacuum.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
It comes with this round vacuum and you you know,
you charge it so it's so electronic. And you put
this vacuum on top of the whole that's on the
top of the glass container, and it's gonna suck out
all the air. Now, this is good for sealing things.
We want to keep meat fresh or vegetables fresh for
a long period of time or.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
A longer period of time. This is perfect for that.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
For marinaids, the reason I used it is because the
Sealbax cuts down the marinade time by fifty percent. So
if a marinade takes four hours to marinate something, this
is gonna cut it down only two hours.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
And it's going to.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Infuse that flavor and the tenderness into the meat or
whatever you're marinating.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
So I tried it and it worked. It truly worked.
I was kind of in sure. So I put the
marinate in the chicken, put the cap on, and I
took that little vacuum and sucked out all the air
out of the container and put it in the fridge,
and then I took it out to cook for my neighbors.
And that meat was so flavorful and so tender. Everyone
(23:50):
ate it so fast. I didn't even get to get
an after an after photo or video because I did
all the before videos and stuff, and I didn't even
by the time I came back, that's it was all gone.
There was a piece for me, and I'm like, wow,
do you guys like it? Like this is amazing? You
could cut it with a fork like my chickens always dry.
This was so tender. I used my fork and it
(24:11):
just fell apart.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
And I said that it was.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
From I guarantee the Sealbax help because it really infused
all those flavors into it.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
So I mean, I this is now my favorite thing
in the kitchen because with my add forgetting to do
things till last minute, that's usually my mantra, Like I, oh, shoot,
I was supposed to put that in the marinade last night,
or oh I need to you know, freeze or seal this.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
So I love that. It kind of helps me when
I forget.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Things, you know, yeah, you know, gives me that time back.
So highly highly recommend that adding that to your kitchen necessities.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And we went to Nashville last week and we had
so much fun. It was a very busy trip, very
hectic in the airport, but we made it through. And
the a plane ride. I don't like flying, but I
was like so scared. But it was a smooth, smooth flight,
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thank god.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yes, with all the crap that's been in the news
about planes, I was legit like really nervous on how
this flight was gonna go.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, I mean you just never know. But it went
really smooth. We flew out of La Guardia, and the
last time I went to LaGuardia it was a shit show.
It was a disaster. It took us like five hours
to get there with the traffic, and it was just
they were under construction. It was just a madhouse. And
(25:45):
I swore that I would never fly out of La
Guardia again, but this time it was totally different. I
would fly out of there all the time.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah, it was an easy trip, super it was much
faster than JFK. And the airport is brand new, gorgeous level.
I mean, even though it's an old airport, they did construction,
they added on, they just changed everything, renovated the whole thing.
It was absolutely gorgeous, up to date on everything super clean.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Tons of restaurants, even the bathrooms were super clean. Yes,
and we went to my favorite place, Sorrows, for bagels.
The price though, they were like I'm pretty sure it
was like double the amount that it normally is.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yep. That's what they do in the airports. It's really ridiculous.
Like a bottle of water is five dollars, sodas five dollars, Like,
come on now, a little bottle. That's insane.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Even the Nashville airport, I mean it was nice. It
was older, you could tell. But the trip overall was
just so much fun. And we're gonna have to save
the whole like Nashville trip for next week because it's
gonna be a whole episode itself.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Yeah, lots of craziness, lots of fun.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I almost got murdered, So you definitely want to tune
in next week to hear about that, because that was
absolutely insanity.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
That was scary, very scary.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
So yeah, check back in next week for that story.
It's just too much to talk about today. But we
got back from that trip and we I think we
both didn't drink enough water.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
We were exhausted.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I was so tired.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I was out most nights to one am, the one
night to two am. Then by the time I fall asleep,
you know, you're talking two thirty eight, three in the morning,
and then we're getting up bright and early. Missus Kathy,
our assistant, she's an early bird.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, rummaging around the room at seven in the morning.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Is I'm a light sleeper. So once I'm up, I'm up.
So yeah, I think between all that not sleeping and
not drinking enough water, I was severely dehydrated.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah. The day that we were leaving, you drank a
bottle of water at the WHO hotel, a bottle of
water on the way to the airport, and another bottle
of water at the airport. And I don't know if
you had a drink on the airplane.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I did have another drink on the airplane.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, I was My body just was craving it. And
how I know I was dehydrated. Was I didn't even
have to run in the bathroom because my body was
just absorbing it, giving it to my organs.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I'm guessing, you know, not even peeing it out.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
See. I on the other hand, I was dehydrated, I think,
but I wasn't as dehydrated as you were. Yeah, because
I could pee it every five minutes.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, but coming back from that trip, I felt like
absolute coca that that first day, I actually felt like
I had the flu based on just being dehydrated and
run down.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yeah, you had texted me because we got back at
like midnight, and then you dropped us off and then
you how to drive to get the kids and then
drive home, so you probably got home at like one Yeah,
and uh yeah it was the next day. You had
texted me and said you felt sick.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I felt sick. I felt achy, I couldn't I felt dizzy.
It was like I was in a fog. And I said,
I think I'm run down and dehydrated. You know, my
husband said it, Shanna said it. So luckily we had
gotten these delicious drinks called coaqua, which is coconut water,
so aqua no water and coconut so coaqua, and they
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had all these different flavors and I hadn't tried them
before Nashville because we had just gotten them.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
And I'm like, this is the perfect opportunity to try this.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I am severely dehydrated and coconut water is amazing for dehydration. Guys, like,
if you are dehydrated, skip the crap crappy, gatoried and
poweryed filled with chemicals and dyes, and coconut water is
a natural electrolyte drink.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Do you think I would like it? I'm not a
big coconut fan.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I think so because it's listen, I'm gonna be honest,
as good as coconut water for me, and I like
coconut things.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I don't like coconut water because it.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Always has a very earthy I call it like a
dirt taste. I don't know what dirt tastes like, but
in my head, like, that's what coconut water tastes like.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
To me, is like dirt. So I've never liked it.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I drank it when I was sick because I knew
it was good for me, but I had to kind
of plug my nose and drink it, you know. Yeah,
so I was very hesitant to try this, but I did.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I popped open.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
The citrus circus one, it's the green can, and I
poured it over ice because things always taste a better cold,
especially when you're dehydrated, and it.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Was really really good.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
It didn't taste like that earthy dirt taste because they
put a splash of juice.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I mean, I don't know how much, but I'm calling
it a splash.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Of juice or whatever flavor that you know, they had
their drinks. Because these the coaqua, they have a ton
of flavors and there's no other coconut water out there
that has all these flavor combinations. So right there, they're
ahead of the game. But so it has that the
different flavors in it that help. And also what I
learned is that they where they get their coconuts from matter,
(31:12):
So in all different parts of the world, wherever a
coconut is grown, it's gonna taste different, it's gonna have
a different flavor structure. So they go after the young
green coconuts. I think it's in Vietnam, and those coconuts
have a better flavor and they're more sweet and they're
not as earthy, so that all they took that they
did their research basically, right, They did their research and
(31:35):
they created this better version of coconut water, or a
more delicious version of it. So that has made all
the difference. And that's why I think you're gonna like it.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yeah, And there's a ton of drinks out there that
are not healthy for you that, like I said, for
hydration and other things, they have high fruit corn syrup
in it and dies and different fake flavors. This doesn't
have that. So that's one thing I always look for,
you know that when I take a drink.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I think we all know that by now.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yeah, yes, everyone should know that about me. It's very important.
So even my sister, My sister is overboard with this stuff,
with like finding a drink that is not unhealthy for you,
and she liked them, and she's like, you know what,
this is great.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So my husband he right away, because he likes making drinks,
he said, this would be perfect to make a mocktail
or even a regular cocktail with it, you know. He
wants he wants to kind of play around with it
and make something yilmy for when we're having barbecues to
serve to people. So I think that's great. That's another
great use of this to make a kind of semi
healthy mocktail or make your elevate your cocktails with kawakua.
(32:44):
And what I also love about this company, so it
was it's the two co founders are like best friends.
So they call themselves the Coco Bros. I think that's
so cute. It's funny, that is cute, but they are
you know, this is very important to us, right Seanna.
They are committed to being sustainable and using recycled products,
products and packaging, and they partner with small farmers and
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you know, and that helps build communities and feed families
when they're doing that, And I think that's that's amazing,
and that's super important for businesses to try and do.
And we always love supporting businesses that make that front
and foremost in their companies.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, we absolutely love that.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, it's it's very important when when when I buy
products to know, hey, what's the deal with this this company?
You know, are they are they helping the issues that
we're facing in the world or are they making them worse?
And that that is always important when I'm buying from companies,
you know, But I mean anyway, I am excited to
try the other flavors. I was told to try the
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sparkling coconut that one. I am excited about that because
I drink sparkling water. I drink Seltzer, So I'm wondering
if it's something like that. I don't know because I
haven't tried it yet. But I love these. I keep
them in the fridge and it's really nice cold, and
I'm gonna have to bring you some and make you try,
because I truly think you're gonna like it.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Shauna.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, you'll have to bring me some next week and
we'll film it.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah, film Shauna tasting it. Because Shauna, she cannot hide
when she doesn't like something.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
No, no, I cannot.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
We were yelling at her. We had to review a
restaurant and we were reviewing their food and she took
a bite and she didn't like it, and there was
no hiding her face, and we said, no, Sauna, change
your face. They're watching. And she said, I can't change
my face. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I did. I can't lie. I'm not a good wire.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I know, I know, but just how about the Mercer's
really good and you know, try and smile and spit
it when they're you know, in a napkin. But no,
Shawna's like, I was like, this is disgusting, so maybe
we won't have you feel No, I'm kidding. I truly
think you're gonna love this. And you know, Shawna's face
doesn't lie, so it'll be a good review.
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
It has been a crazy busy few weeks. A lot
of traveling has been.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Involved, lots of trips that's been back to back for me.
Anyway of trip trip trip, plane, plane, plane, stress, fun,
stress fun. Well.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Our first trip was to the American Dream Mall, which
was amazing.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Oh it's so it is like a It really is,
and I think that that's what they kind of geared
it around, was just like it's a dream, it's a
fairy tale.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It was gorgeous. They had this little like fairy garden,
yeah in the middle of the mall, and great stores.
I mean, every story you could think of was there.
I really liked Primar.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, Primark was awesome. My favorites Altered State because they
always have the cutest closed so expensive, very expensive. That's
the only other problem it's not you know, like I
want to shop at these places, but I cannot wrap
my head around spending forty dollars or thirty eight dollars
on a baseball hat. You know, that just says something
silly on it, you know, or a pair of leggings
(01:41):
and how much was that?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Like sears?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, I can't wrap my head. I can't. I just
can't do that. But it's a cute store, beautiful store,
lots of nice stuff. But pre Mark was more our spending.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yes, states I bought a pair of leggings for four
dollars and fifty I think, Yeah, I mean, you couldn't
get any better than that. And they're great, They held
up great in the washing machine.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, I got Jilina some clothes. They were I will
say their sizes are a little off for the kids
or the toddlers because the eighteen to twenty four month
Jelina is almost four, and that eighteen to twenty four
month is still big on her. Granted my daughter is tinier,
but it's still that should have fit her snug if
anything not been it's like down to her knees. So
(02:29):
other than that, it was three dollars for a baby's
sweatshirt and pants like they were both three dollars. That's great.
You can't beat that. You can't find that anywhere, No.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You can't. And the luggings that I bought, I'm usually
like a size medium to a large, so I just
grabbed a medium just to you know, since it was
my size and they were ginormous on me.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
He were swimming in them.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, so I had to buy a smaller extra small.
I don't even remember, but yeah, I mean it made
me feel good. I'm not as fat.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, so if you want to feel good about your body,
go there, because you'll be an extra small guaranteed or
small or.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
An extra extra small. Yeah, you never know.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
The other crazy thing about that mall is it's absolutely huge,
so big you better put your sneakers on and be
prepared to get your miles in that day.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh yeah. Our local mall, which is the Policies, is
four stories. This mall was four stories, two I believe, maybe.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Three three yeah, three I believe.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Okay, so three stories, but it was just miles and
miles and miles long of walking.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, it would tell you if you want. It had
this these screens that you can go up to say, hey,
where's this store, where's this restaurant? And when you'd put
in where you wanted to go, it would tell you
how long it was going to take to walk there.
And no, lie, one of the stores that I put
in was a twenty eight minute walk, Like that's crazy
to think out a twenty eight minute walk in a mall.
(04:02):
Others were thirteen fifteen minutes. But that's that's that's far,
you know, that's how big it is, so that it
just it's crazy. They have their own water park there.
They have a ski a skiing place, like there's snow.
They have snow in there. There's snowboards skiing those what
(04:23):
are they called the ganda? I don't know if they're cookanda.
What are those the carts you sit in and it
takes you up the mountain.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Oh yeah, I know you're talking about ski ramps or whatever.
I don't know those ski ski as. Yeah, I know
what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I don't ski. I don't know this stuff. But that
just shows how massive this place is. They have Nickelodeon
Park in there, they have I think a Lego park
in there, an aquarium. They even have an aquarium. So
it it's insane. It's like anything you can think of
is in this place, and it's absolutely gorgeous and brand new.
(04:57):
Hopefully they put a little bit more stores that are
more for the average joe. Yeah, but a lot of
celebrities go to this mall and it it is. It's
something that you should definitely take a trip to to
see an experience.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, definitely. And the celebrities I saw on TikTok, Kim
Kardashian went there and she was able to get Actually,
anyone could get a golf cart with a personal shopper.
I mean, you have to pay for it, but you
can get one. And I googled it to see how
much it was, and there's no price online. You have
(05:32):
to call and like reserve it and call to get
more information. So I just I can't even imagine what
that costs.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, yeah, to be rich and famous.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, just rich. So you went to Florida prior to
us going to Nashville. You went to Florida and then
like three days later we flew out for Nashville.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I know, I am I'm still shot from both trips.
I am just I'm still trying to I don't know
how people do this for businesses and or just travel
constantly because it's draining. You know, Florida was for pleasure
and for apartment searching. When my husband retires in a
few years, we're gonna move to Florida. So far, that's
what we think.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
But anyway, yeah, we went down to Florida. It was beautiful.
I love Florida.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I just almost love everything about it. And we first
we stopped. I'm like, Mike, I want to take our
daughter to this mermaid place. When I was a kid,
I always went to Wikiwachie, and back then it was
like amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
No one really knew about it, but it was just
it was awesome. They've been around.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Since I think the fifties or sixties. I'm probably wrong
on those dates. But these girls train and train and
train to swim underwater in mermaid outfits with no scuba gear.
They hold their breath and yet, but they do have
these clear tubes of air that every so often they
will put the tube in their mouth and take air in.
(07:00):
Now I'm a scuba diver, you don't know how hard
that is. When when I'm Scooba ivan, we have the
it stays in our mouth the whole time. And even that,
you have to get used to not breathing through your nose.
You're breathing through just your mouth. No, I can't imagine
being underwater without a mask, without something holding closing my
nose and breathing through this tube every so often in
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the middle of pretending to sing.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
It's it. They are so talented.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
They sing, they pretend to sing because there's like they're
showing the Little Mermaid.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
They're doing like a like a play.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Oh okay, so we hear the sound.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Inside in the auditorium.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I wouldn't be able to open my mouth underwater. Yeah,
that's what I'm trying to say, Like.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, they pretend to sing, they pretend to mouth the
words that we're hearing in the order.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
It's really it's crazy. These I give these girls a
lot of credit. And they're in a cold cold spring.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
That water I think is like in the sixties to seventies,
you know how cold that is.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, and they're in these little bras and mermaid tales.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I'll have to show you. It's amazing. But I went
to it as a kid, loved it. I took my
daughter and it was just not the same. The show
was still the same and she loved that, but the
park is so deteriorated.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
There's nothing you can do there.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
They had Buccaneer Bay that we can go to, which
is like a water park, but even that was so different,
So I was very disappointed in all that. I'm glad
you got to see the mermaids, she got to take
a picture with them, but it was kind of depressing
to see how things change, you know, from when you're a.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Kid, or from what you remember as a kid. You
know that magic.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Exactly, and from there, you know, we went to our
beach house. We go to the it's not our beach
house but family members, and we love it. It's a
little piece down south of Florida on the Gulf Coast,
and it's just so peaceful. It's a beautiful beach house
and we had a great time there.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
How was it since the hurricane because they got hit
pretty hard.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, that beach almost got wiped off the map pretty much.
They're still building back.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It's been closed for over everything, and they finally opened
up this year. And the beach house we stay at
was damaged, but they fixed it all up. But the
houses next to it on either side are just all
in the shambles, Like I don't know how the town
(09:19):
or the government is allowing them to still be standing
because it's dangerous. They're just what you would see after
a bomb explosion. Yeah, houses are just hanging on a thread,
you know, on either side. And as you walk down
the beach you just see all the destruction of the
houses that someone probably didn't have money to fix, their insurance.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Isn't covering it, or they can't get anyone or insurance
to prove it to be fixed. So it's heartbreaking, it
really is.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I would be careful that there's no glass in the
sand or the water. So back in October, we were
where the hurricane hit and my family, a few family
members said, do not go in the water, do not
walk on the beach barefoot. And when we went, there
was like one couple on the beach with their dog,
(10:11):
but they had like they shoes on, shoes on sneakers.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
That is a fear. But angle the place's angle would
Minnesota Key Beach, they're not allowed to They weren't allowed
to open the beach until they were sifting through the sand,
so they have the huge sifting machines. I saw a
video of it and they had to sift thousands and
thousands and thousands of pounds of sand. So a dump
truck or a bulldozer would come scoop up sand, bring
(10:38):
it to this giant sifter, and then the sifter would
sift out all the stuff and spit out the clean sand.
So they had to do that. But occasionally, like when
I was walking the beach, I saw an occasional rusty nail,
I saw an occasional piece of a house, occasional piece
of brick, occasional you know, sighting it, you know that's
bound to happen as the waves bring it in from
(10:59):
what was taken out. So yes, definitely have to be
careful with that. It's sad. So that was a space
we were going to look to move to. But now
that it's been hit back to back with these horrible hurricanes,
which it never had in the past, I'm like, maybe
we should we should move inland more, you know, continue
our search. But it was great. I got to see
(11:19):
baby sea turtles being born. That was absolutely amazing, absolutely amazing.
And you know I always say to Seana every trip,
me and my husband say, something goes wrong every single
trip we've ever taken. We know we wait because something
has to go wrong, and we wait for that to
happen because then the rest of the trip is smooth sailing.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, but did you lose your wallet?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
No, didn't lose my wallet this time.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Did you do any TikTok hacks?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
No hacks. I stayed away from TikTok, like you know,
my husband said to stay off TikTok. You're not doing
any travel hacks, you know. But this one was like
a little more scarier. My daughter. Now I'm going towards
the end of our trip. Now, so the whole trip
we're like, oh, smooth sailing. This is not good. It's
we're getting close to the end here. Something's gonna go wrong,
(12:06):
you know what I mean. Maybe we're jinxing it by
thinking that we probably shouldn't talk negatively, but we're is
so used to it. So anyway, Julina is allergic to
mosquito bites. She has something called Skeeter syndrome, and that
sounds like a fake syndrome, but it's actually a real syndrome.
I've never heard of it, I know, I didn't either
until I google. Then allergist said, hey, she probably has
(12:26):
Skeeter syndrome. So every time that Julina, since she was
an infant, gets bit by bugs, they swell up really
big into these big red hard welts, like huge, and
then they burst and they ooze like it's gross. They ooze,
and it's very dangerous because that they can get infected
(12:48):
because they're opening and oozing, you know. And I do
my best always keep them clean and whatever. But and
she's had to go on antibiotics in the past for
this and this trip, I was nervous because I heard
there was a flesh eating bacteria in Florida on the
Gulf coast.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah, and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Oh great, of course we're here during this bacteria and
people die from that, you know, or it just eats
their skin away. So when she got I tried to
keep her sprayed with bugspray. She got bit a bunch
of times by a mosquito that was actually in the
beach house, so she wasn't sprayed, you know, she was
inside and it bit her during the night and I
got it and I want to hit it. I saw
all the blood come out, and I'm like, great, it
(13:24):
got her, you know, and they started to swell up.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I kept them clean bandages, everything I thought I was
doing right, but it didn't. It didn't matter. Her leg
was just swollen and red.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And I noticed it the night before we were supposed
to fly home, and I said to my husband, I said, Babe,
I think we need to take her.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
To urgent care.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Her leg is like twice the size and it's very red,
or it wasn't twice the size at that point. It
was very red and hot and it was late and
he goes, what's open. We're on an island, you know,
and everything was closed. He goes, let's take her in
the morning. We'll pack up our suitcases tonight and we'll
head out, leave before check out and go right to
the urgent care. So that's what we did, and by
(14:06):
that morning her leg was twice the size. It was red,
swollen there. It was just really bad and it was
spreading up her thigh.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So urgent care was like, you need to go to
the hot soon.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
As the doctor saw it an urgent care, she said,
she needs to go to the hospital right now, and
she drew a line around Jelina's leg where all the
redness was spreading. She goes, this could be the flesh
eating bacteria. This could be sepsis. Like, this is bad,
this is spreading. And I'm like, well, can't you just
give her iv anabiotics?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You know?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
She goes, no, she needs to go to the hospital
right now. We need to do a wound sample, like
scrape open those wounds, oh for this flesh eating bacteria
or to see what bacteria is in there, and she
has she just has to stay over and I'm like, now,
this is the day we're flying home. Guys like, we're
flying We're supposed to get on an airplane that evening,
(15:00):
thank god, in the evening. And I was like, but
we fly home tonight, we fly home, and she's like, well,
you're gonna have to make other plans. You're gonna have
to cancel your flight. And I obviously I would for
the health of my child, but as you can imagine,
it's very stressful. Number One, I'm scared my daughter has
a flush eating bacteria. She could either lose her life,
lose her leg and be stressed of Okay, now we
(15:22):
got to cancel our flight or figure this out.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
You know, where are we staying tonight? How much is
this gonna cost? She wanted to send her an.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Ambulance where like, no, we'll take her over. We took
her over to Sarasota Hospital, Memorial Hospital, and let me
just say that hospital was gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Clean, friendly. Everyone was amazing there.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I'm so used to New York hospitals where it's like
like a prison and everyone's nasty and cold to you.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
You know what I mean, Yeah, like you feel like
you're in a dungeon.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah, this was not like that.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
So they took her back right away, checked it out,
got her on antibiotics, you know, they just monitored her,
and luckily the doctor said it was just an infection
and severe inflammation.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
So because my daughter is allergic and she had I.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Think six bites on her one little leg, it was
just overkilled for her body. So her body reacted to
that with that red inflammation. So it wasn't so much
that it was sepsis.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Wasn't it was.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
An infection, but it was also severe inflammation. They gave
her a steroid and within an hour the redness started
going down, so that's how we knew, okay, it is
a lot of inflammation. So thankfully we were able to
leave the hospital.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Jelina's okay.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
They had her on antibiotics and steroids, and thank god,
my baby was okay, and we made our flight and
we got home.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
But that was our crazy ending to our trip. And
we're like, well, you know, we knew something had to happen.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah, that's just crazy to me. Yeah, so now she's better. Obviously,
now she's.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Better, and I just gotta be very diligent with the bugs, fright,
even I'm gonna have to get like, you know, the
peppermint oil that your mom gave me, and even inside
a hotel or a beat house, put it on her
in case there is a bug in the house, you know,
and not least that's natural, so I don't have to worry,
you know.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
But yeah, I don't stay on top of that because my.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Poor baby, Like that was very scary. I was crying
so much thinking something was gonna happen to her.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, you called me from the hospital.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, I was scared.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I was scared, especially when they said she needs to
go to the emergency room right now. I'm like, and
she has to stay over My poor baby has to
get you know, a wound sampled. Thankfully they didn't have
to do that either, soh yeah, that was horrible.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Well, we just got back from Nashville, But we'll talk
about that in a little while. But do you have
any other trips planned? I mean, I know you're you're
always going somewhere.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I know, I know I have like a few trips
planned already for the year, But no, I mean, I
really want to take her to sest me place before
school starts. I've never been. I've heard great things about it.
My husband was when he was a kid, and he
was like, I had so much fun. You know, he
had a ton of fun there.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
But yeah, I really want to take her there.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
My old co host from the radio station, she recently
took her daughter and it literally looked like you were
at Sesame Street.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Really.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, it was so cute. But I hear there's a
lot to do there, Like there's like different rides and
stuff you could do, and you know, you probably meet
the characters. And yeah, Almo was my favorite. He was
my favorite from Sesame Street.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Sesame Street was so big when we were kids, and
I'm so happy that it still is a part of
this generation's you know, youth. But I think it was
so it was majorly it was huge when we were little.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, I think it was bigger than like Blues Clues
was Blues Clues even out then. I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Well as we got older, but Sesame Street and Fraule
Rock I remember when we.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Were little, little Sesame Street was huge. It was like,
I don't even know if it's still the same book.
It was what we grew up on. You know.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, crazy how like stuff just comes back, you know.
But yeah, they're really great with ADA. You know, we're
all about like ADA accessibility and everything. So they have
a ride accessibility program and it helps match rides to
like the guests' needs, which is really cool.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
So for instance, you're saying, if someone came a kid
came in a wheelchair, it would know, all right, we
can put you on this, this and this ride or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah. Yeah. They also have designated quiet areas and low
scent for low sensory so like if you're autistic or
you're sensitive to sound, they have like rooms specifically for that.
And that's something I think pretty new in places, because
I know when I was younger, they didn't have that.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
No, they I don't think they truly understood that that
some kids need.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
That, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, and they also have a hidden disability Sunflower program
for guests who may need a little extra kindness.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
So basically the Sunflower program is for people that have
invisible disabilities to say, like to kind of instead of
saying like, hey, I'm disabled, they could just say, like
they could wear like sunflower pan or a lanyard, and
this staff will know, Okay, this person, you know has
a disability.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
We gotta yeah, we can't see it, but it's there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, and they may need some extra support, you know,
with understanding, which is great because once again, they didn't
have that when we were younger.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
No, I heard that they they train their staff too
on how to assist guests that have disabilities, which is
great because a.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Lot of places don't have that or they don't know
how to handle situations or guests that have disabilities.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, really important. Yeah, it is, and you know we
see that everywhere where people. We were talking about it today,
like customer service is just not the same. You know,
people are always in a rush, and when you're at
a park, you know, you run into every type of person,
disabled or non disabled. Somebody may just be having a
(21:17):
bad day, and you know, you need to have compassion
when working in the public.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yes, don't choose a job in the public if you
can't have compassion, understanding and kind of put your own
issues on the back burner. And you could ruin or
make someone's day just by how you treat them as
an you know, when you're working somewhere.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So that's very important.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So before we went to Nashville, your neighbor decided to
throw a barbecue for the whole entire community the block.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, our little block.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yeah. Last minute, she's just like we've been talking about
it every year. We talk about it, like we need
to do a block party, we need to do a
block party. And then you know, we're all all busy.
But last minute, my neighbor was like, hey, we're doing this.
You know, hey, we're doing this. And so she was
asking what can can anyone make anything? You know, this,
(22:10):
this and that, And I was like, let me see
what I could whip up because I really didn't have
time to go to the store.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
So went my fridge.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I so I had chicken, I saw I had I
could make a quick marinade with the ingredients I had
in my cupboard.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
So I I'm like, wait, it's not I don't have
enough time. I only have like.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Four or five hours before this party. I usually when
I marinate chicken, I do it overnight, you know. Yeah,
And I remember that we got the seal Vax to
review and it's like a glass I'm gonna use the
word pyrex, but it's like a glass top of ware Pyrex,
but it has a special.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Top on it that you use this vacuum.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
It comes with this round vacuum and you you know,
you charge it so it's so electronic. And you put
this vacuum on top of the whole that's on the
top of the glass container, and it's gonna suck out
all the air. Now, this is good for sealing things.
We want to keep meat fresh or vegetables fresh for
a long period of time or.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
A longer period of time. This is perfect for that.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
For marinaids, the reason I used it is because the
Sealbax cuts down the marinade time by fifty percent. So
if a marinade takes four hours to marinate something, this
is gonna cut it down only two hours.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
And it's going to.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Infuse that flavor and the tenderness into the meat or
whatever you're marinating.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
So I tried it and it worked. It truly worked.
I was kind of in sure. So I put the
marinate in the chicken, put the cap on, and I
took that little vacuum and sucked out all the air
out of the container and put it in the fridge,
and then I took it out to cook for my neighbors.
And that meat was so flavorful and so tender. Everyone
(23:50):
ate it so fast. I didn't even get to get
an after an after photo or video because I did
all the before videos and stuff, and I didn't even
by the time I came back, that's it was all gone.
There was a piece for me, and I'm like, wow,
do you guys like it? Like this is amazing? You
could cut it with a fork like my chickens always dry.
This was so tender. I used my fork and it
(24:11):
just fell apart.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
And I said that it was.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
From I guarantee the Sealbax help because it really infused
all those flavors into it.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
So I mean, I this is now my favorite thing
in the kitchen because with my add forgetting to do
things till last minute, that's usually my mantra, Like I, oh, shoot,
I was supposed to put that in the marinade last night,
or oh I need to you know, freeze or seal this.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
So I love that. It kind of helps me when
I forget.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Things, you know, yeah, you know, gives me that time back.
So highly highly recommend that adding that to your kitchen necessities.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And we went to Nashville last week and we had
so much fun. It was a very busy trip, very
hectic in the airport, but we made it through. And
the a plane ride. I don't like flying, but I
was like so scared. But it was a smooth, smooth flight,
(25:12):
thank god.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yes, with all the crap that's been in the news
about planes, I was legit like really nervous on how
this flight was gonna go.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, I mean you just never know. But it went
really smooth. We flew out of La Guardia, and the
last time I went to LaGuardia it was a shit show.
It was a disaster. It took us like five hours
to get there with the traffic, and it was just
they were under construction. It was just a madhouse. And
(25:45):
I swore that I would never fly out of La
Guardia again, but this time it was totally different. I
would fly out of there all the time.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah, it was an easy trip, super it was much
faster than JFK. And the airport is brand new, gorgeous level.
I mean, even though it's an old airport, they did construction,
they added on, they just changed everything, renovated the whole thing.
It was absolutely gorgeous, up to date on everything super clean.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Tons of restaurants, even the bathrooms were super clean. Yes,
and we went to my favorite place, Sorrows, for bagels.
The price though, they were like I'm pretty sure it
was like double the amount that it normally is.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yep. That's what they do in the airports. It's really ridiculous.
Like a bottle of water is five dollars, sodas five dollars, Like,
come on now, a little bottle. That's insane.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Even the Nashville airport, I mean it was nice. It
was older, you could tell. But the trip overall was
just so much fun. And we're gonna have to save
the whole like Nashville trip for next week because it's
gonna be a whole episode itself.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Yeah, lots of craziness, lots of fun.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I almost got murdered, So you definitely want to tune
in next week to hear about that, because that was
absolutely insanity.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
That was scary, very scary.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
So yeah, check back in next week for that story.
It's just too much to talk about today. But we
got back from that trip and we I think we
both didn't drink enough water.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
We were exhausted.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I was so tired.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I was out most nights to one am, the one
night to two am. Then by the time I fall asleep,
you know, you're talking two thirty eight, three in the morning,
and then we're getting up bright and early. Missus Kathy,
our assistant, she's an early bird.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, rummaging around the room at seven in the morning.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Is I'm a light sleeper. So once I'm up, I'm up.
So yeah, I think between all that not sleeping and
not drinking enough water, I was severely dehydrated.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah. The day that we were leaving, you drank a
bottle of water at the WHO hotel, a bottle of
water on the way to the airport, and another bottle
of water at the airport. And I don't know if
you had a drink on the airplane.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I did have another drink on the airplane.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, I was My body just was craving it. And
how I know I was dehydrated. Was I didn't even
have to run in the bathroom because my body was
just absorbing it, giving it to my organs.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I'm guessing, you know, not even peeing it out.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
See. I on the other hand, I was dehydrated, I think,
but I wasn't as dehydrated as you were. Yeah, because
I could pee it every five minutes.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, but coming back from that trip, I felt like
absolute coca that that first day, I actually felt like
I had the flu based on just being dehydrated and
run down.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yeah, you had texted me because we got back at
like midnight, and then you dropped us off and then
you how to drive to get the kids and then
drive home, so you probably got home at like one Yeah,
and uh yeah it was the next day. You had
texted me and said you felt sick.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I felt sick. I felt achy, I couldn't I felt dizzy.
It was like I was in a fog. And I said,
I think I'm run down and dehydrated. You know, my
husband said it, Shanna said it. So luckily we had
gotten these delicious drinks called coaqua, which is coconut water,
so aqua no water and coconut so coaqua, and they
(29:27):
had all these different flavors and I hadn't tried them
before Nashville because we had just gotten them.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
And I'm like, this is the perfect opportunity to try this.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I am severely dehydrated and coconut water is amazing for dehydration. Guys, like,
if you are dehydrated, skip the crap crappy, gatoried and
poweryed filled with chemicals and dyes, and coconut water is
a natural electrolyte drink.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Do you think I would like it? I'm not a
big coconut fan.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I think so because it's listen, I'm gonna be honest,
as good as coconut water for me, and I like
coconut things.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I don't like coconut water because it.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Always has a very earthy I call it like a
dirt taste. I don't know what dirt tastes like, but
in my head, like, that's what coconut water tastes like.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
To me, is like dirt. So I've never liked it.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I drank it when I was sick because I knew
it was good for me, but I had to kind
of plug my nose and drink it, you know. Yeah,
so I was very hesitant to try this, but I did.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I popped open.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
The citrus circus one, it's the green can, and I
poured it over ice because things always taste a better cold,
especially when you're dehydrated, and it.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Was really really good.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
It didn't taste like that earthy dirt taste because they
put a splash of juice.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I mean, I don't know how much, but I'm calling
it a splash.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Of juice or whatever flavor that you know, they had
their drinks. Because these the coaqua, they have a ton
of flavors and there's no other coconut water out there
that has all these flavor combinations. So right there, they're
ahead of the game. But so it has that the
different flavors in it that help. And also what I
learned is that they where they get their coconuts from matter,
(31:12):
So in all different parts of the world, wherever a
coconut is grown, it's gonna taste different, it's gonna have
a different flavor structure. So they go after the young
green coconuts. I think it's in Vietnam, and those coconuts
have a better flavor and they're more sweet and they're
not as earthy, so that all they took that they
did their research basically, right, They did their research and
(31:35):
they created this better version of coconut water, or a
more delicious version of it. So that has made all
the difference. And that's why I think you're gonna like it.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yeah, And there's a ton of drinks out there that
are not healthy for you that, like I said, for
hydration and other things, they have high fruit corn syrup
in it and dies and different fake flavors. This doesn't
have that. So that's one thing I always look for,
you know that when I take a drink.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I think we all know that by now.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yeah, yes, everyone should know that about me. It's very important.
So even my sister, My sister is overboard with this stuff,
with like finding a drink that is not unhealthy for you,
and she liked them, and she's like, you know what,
this is great.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So my husband he right away, because he likes making drinks,
he said, this would be perfect to make a mocktail
or even a regular cocktail with it, you know. He
wants he wants to kind of play around with it
and make something yilmy for when we're having barbecues to
serve to people. So I think that's great. That's another
great use of this to make a kind of semi
healthy mocktail or make your elevate your cocktails with kawakua.
(32:44):
And what I also love about this company, so it
was it's the two co founders are like best friends.
So they call themselves the Coco Bros. I think that's
so cute. It's funny, that is cute, but they are
you know, this is very important to us, right Seanna.
They are committed to being sustainable and using recycled products,
products and packaging, and they partner with small farmers and
(33:07):
you know, and that helps build communities and feed families
when they're doing that, And I think that's that's amazing,
and that's super important for businesses to try and do.
And we always love supporting businesses that make that front
and foremost in their companies.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, we absolutely love that.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, it's it's very important when when when I buy
products to know, hey, what's the deal with this this company?
You know, are they are they helping the issues that
we're facing in the world or are they making them worse?
And that that is always important when I'm buying from companies,
you know, But I mean anyway, I am excited to
try the other flavors. I was told to try the
(33:48):
sparkling coconut that one. I am excited about that because
I drink sparkling water. I drink Seltzer, So I'm wondering
if it's something like that. I don't know because I
haven't tried it yet. But I love these. I keep
them in the fridge and it's really nice cold, and
I'm gonna have to bring you some and make you try,
because I truly think you're gonna like it.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Shauna.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, you'll have to bring me some next week and
we'll film it.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah, film Shauna tasting it. Because Shauna, she cannot hide
when she doesn't like something.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
No, no, I cannot.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
We were yelling at her. We had to review a
restaurant and we were reviewing their food and she took
a bite and she didn't like it, and there was
no hiding her face, and we said, no, Sauna, change
your face. They're watching. And she said, I can't change
my face. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I did. I can't lie. I'm not a good wire.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I know, I know, but just how about the Mercer's
really good and you know, try and smile and spit
it when they're you know, in a napkin. But no,
Shawna's like, I was like, this is disgusting, so maybe
we won't have you feel No, I'm kidding. I truly
think you're gonna love this. And you know, Shawna's face
doesn't lie, so it'll be a good review.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
And that's our show for this week. Thank you so
much for tuning in. Be sure to follow us at
Shawna and La La on all social media platforms. Check
us out at Shawnaanlala dot com, follow me on Instagram
at the Real Shana.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
May, and check me out at Bella Underscore, La La
one two five, and.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Be sure to tune in next week for our Nashville segment.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
You guys don't want to miss it.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
You do not want to miss it.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Oh my god, crazy stories.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
We will see you next week
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