From the cabin to the city: Day FOUR of FIVE On day four of my five-day trip to Calgary, my Mom & I drove four hours North to Edmonton, Alberta with all four dogs - Fern, Ivy, Julius & Mina - to visit my little sister, Ryley. Ryley owns her own permanent makeup studio, Rybrows Studios - located in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, a world vastly different than my own back at the cabin property. Join us as we load up the dogs up in the car, hit the road and drive to yet another big city to deliver Ryley's belated birthday present, check out her new studio to have my eyebrows microbladed, get a grand tour of her 18th-floor apartment overlooking Roger's Place, and enjoy a late lunch (where I finally get to meet her partner Zach for the first time) before driving all the way back to Calgary in the dark. This vlog is part three of a five-part series chronicling my adventure out of the deep woods and over to the city I came from almost four years ago ? Catch up on Day One: https://youtu.be/lLRs7rxcx0k?si=SpBqa70AULMep9oj Catch up on Day Two: https://youtu.be/Tvz4ZC7Gr_k?si=JGKjhMHySD4fCXsK Catch up on Day Three: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHdgZ5HMItE&t=1s Thank you SO much for watching these little stories about my life with Fern & Ivy in a post-Jonie world... *About the Series* I recently left the peace and tranquility of the cabin on a 5-day trip back to the city of Calgary in the neighbouring Canadian province of Alberta, driving 8 long hours West from our little cabin in the Kootenays of British Columbia (with two little senior pugs in tow). Over the past three years as I attempted to reconcile my "City Girl Brandy" identity with my "Rural Kootenay Brandy" identity, I had taken this loooooooong trip from our tiny little village in the West Kootenays to the big city of Calgary COUNTLESS times. For each and every one of those times, Jonas - my late soulmate dog - had been with us. This was my first trip back to the city in seven long months, and my first trip back to the city without Jonas. Every time I make the trip out of the forest and away from the lake over to the towering glass-and-concrete high rises of the city, I learn something new about myself, my values, and the way I want to show up in the world. Originally, I was undecided about making the effort to vlog and document this trip to Calgary. I used to share every detail of my Calgary trips on my IG stories, but in the end, I decided to vlog about it for YouTube this time to hopefully reach more people who might find it interesting or entertaining. I also wanted these experiences to live on for a little longer than they ever would on other social media platforms. This vlog series will be episodic - Day 1 to Day 5 - and put in a playlist to watch from start to finish. The vlogs chronicle travelling a long distance with Fern and Ivy (my two senior pugs), sleeping & waking up on a small couch, getting my hair cut for the first time in three years, shopping at a big 'ol city shopping mall for my little sister Ryley's birthday, and then travelling 4 hours to Edmonton - the northern capitol of Alberta - to experience her world & reality, which is soooo incredibly different to my own in almost every imaginable way. The last vlog will chronicle my trip home back West Kootenays and across Kootenay Lake, back to the cabin and Jesse and the Steller's Jays (who desperately needed an urgent peanut delivery ?) Huge shout-out to my partner, Jesse, for taking the time to edit together all of my random clips into these beautiful, adorable little travel stories ? :: LINKS :: Rybrow Studios Edmonton: https://rybrowstudios.com Rybrow Studios Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rybrow.studios Join our Patreon community: https://www.patreon.com/grumblefarm Visit our website: https://www.grumblefarm.ca Sign up for our newsletter to stay in touch: https://www.grumblefarm.ca/email-signup ** Grumble Farm's Socials ** Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grumblefarm TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@grumblefarm Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welcometogrumblefarm Our Amazon Store (USA): https://www.amazon.com/shop/grumblefarm Our Amazon Store (Canada): https://www.amazon.ca/shop/grumblefarm ** Jesse's Links ** YouTube: @JesseSchpakowski Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jesseschpakowski ** Brandy's Links ** Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grittygracious ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATnp1dpAGWA

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