PACK + PREP with me for a vacation | travel essentials, clothing haul + packing

Hello, you guys. Welcome to my pack and prep with me vlog. I am leaving in T minus 2 days to a cabin for 1 week with my family, and I'm so excited to go, but we have lots of stuff to do before we leave. I have an appointment right now, which is what we're at. We have to record the podcast. I have to do editing. I need to pack. There's just so many things that I need to think of doing before we go. So, this vlog is going to encompass all of the pre-trip shenanigans. I do this to myself every single time I leave for a trip. I just get super stressed out. I make it hard for myself to be excited for the trip because I get so stressed out with like everything that I need to do. We're going to try to relax. I'm like, "You know what? We're only going to a cabin. It's not that deep. We're not flying on a plane, which makes packing so much more easy." But, I'm still going to show you guys like how I pack for this, what I bring, and everything for a cabin trip cuz we're going to be staying on a lake for a week. So, it's a summer vibe vacation. It is a summer vibe day. The weather is finally picking up, so I'm so excited. Right now, I actually have an ear cleaning appointment. I've talked about this before, but I literally have some sort of genetic thing where I just like overproduce earwax, and if I don't get my ears cleaned on like a schedule, then my earwax will take over my ear, and I won't be able to hear. So, it's such a pain in the butt. Honestly, I get them done cleaned out like every three-ish months. I could probably go a bit longer, but like the longer I go, the higher risk of like me literally not being able to hear. So, I'm like, "I may as well just like stay on top of it and get them cleaned out like every few months." So, that's what I do. So, I'm at that appointment right now, especially if I want to like go swim in the water and stuff. If I have like wax build-up in my ears, then I always like get water stuck in my ears, and then it just like creates headaches, and I can't hear properly, and it's just like so annoying. So, I wanted to make sure that I get them cleaned before we go to the cabin cuz I'm definitely going to be swimming. It's actually such a funny problem. Like, my grandma had this. My mom has this. I just got that genetic gene, okay? Anyways, I'm going to go do that. Um 12:57, my appointment is at 1:00, and then I'll take you guys through the rest of the next couple days. So, let's go to our appointment. >> [music] >> It's a beautiful day. Why not walk out? Might as well get those steps in simultaneously, and also get my errands done. So, I'm just walking there. I've been trying to get 10K steps in per day, but it's been so hard just because it's been raining, and I don't like walking in the rain. So, it has been difficult challenge that I haven't been keeping up with, and I honestly prefer walking outside than on the treadmill, obviously. But, I've been doing 12-3-30 a couple times a week cuz it's just such a great workout, and you're simultaneously getting your steps in, so it's literally just the best of both worlds. 12-3-30 is 12 incline, three speed for 30 minutes. Such a gorgeous day out. It's like 28° right now, so I'm in my tank, and I put shorts on cuz it's literally so hot. I cannot wear those pants. Anyways, getting the errands checked off the to-do list first thing, and then tomorrow morning I actually have a workout class bright and early 7:15 a.m. I haven't done an early morning workout class in so long. So, I have that tomorrow, and tomorrow's a full-throttle day. Like, I have to get everything done tomorrow, basically. I have started doing laundry today, so we'll continue that when I'm home cuz I just did it before I left. But, yeah, I got to get laundry done. I'm always so last minute with my laundry. It's pretty horrible. I need to get better at prepping for trips. of suck at it. But, you know, it's just my last minute personality, procrastination personality. I'll update you guys once I get these errands done. Just picked up my order from London Drugs. We just watched Portugal lose and get out of the FIFA World Cup, which is so sad. But, we will see another day. We will live another day. It's fine, honestly. It was such a close game. Either team really deserved it. So, can't really be mad about it. It kind of sucks that it was such a close game cuz like either team deserved it. And I'm proud. It's just so sad that Ronaldo, that could be his last World Cup. Odds are, it's his last World Cup. So, so sad. It's out of our control. We can't do nothing about it. Canada is also out. So, I don't know who I'm rooting for. Honestly, maybe I'll root for Spain at this point. I need to see who's in still in the game. Spain's right next to Portugal, so we got that. But anyways, got my photos. Can't wait to open them. This is going to be for my apartment decorating vlog, so stay tuned for that. But just heading home now and then going to open them up and I'll do some laundry. Summer doesn't start to me unless I have a little bit of a summer wardrobe refresh. And today I have a haul for you guys from White Fox. I got so many freaking cute pieces from them and I have a discount code for you guys. So if you have ever been wanting to buy something from them, now is your time. I'm obsessed with all the pieces I'm about to show you guys. They have express worldwide shipping and also next day delivery available if you guys need something in a pinch. So anyways, let's just get right into the haul. This is the first set that I got from them. How freaking cute is it? I'm obsessed with like little matching shorts and halter tanks. That's been like my hyperfixation this summer. These are their most likely fold-over booty shorts in the color plum/lime. And this is their most likely halter top in the shade plum as well. So it's a little matching set moment. The material is just so soft and stretchy. I feel like just do a million errands in this and be productive and get stuff done. It just fits perfect. It covers my bum. Obsessed. This is the next little set I got from them. I am so obsessed with the stripe and polka dots combination. Those are like my favorite two patterns right now and we just combined them into one set and I love it. This is a very very soft like loungy material that's super breathable and comfy and it's just so soft. Sometimes I don't like how tube tops fit, but this one fits so nicely and it's not uncomfortable at all. Just kind of snatches me up. These are their Charm Life booty shorts in chocolate banana stripe and this is their got to be you strapless top in chocolate/banana. But I actually love this color scheme. It is so different than anything I have and I just think it's so cute. This is definitely something I've seen the Pinterest girls wear and has been on my list for so long now. These are their sweet enough fold-over capri pants and sweet enough V-neck top. You guys, I'm obsessed. You already know that I love capris so much. This set is everything. It is so comfy. These are like the most comfy capris I have ever worn. The material is just so soft. This is just the perfect summer outfit to wear with flip-flops, running errands with a cute pair of sunglasses on, and a little purse. Are you kidding me? You look so put together, but with no effort. This is just such a Pinterest-coded outfit. I love the fold-over waistband, especially how it's low-waisted. I feel like the stripes right now with the black and the white are so in. She's perfect. Here is another Capri set I am obsessed. I don't know why, but I just love gray on myself. It's always like my go-to color. These are They're Focus on the Good Capri Pants in gray marl, and they're Focus on the Good Halter Top in gray marl as well. This is another one of those batty sets. Putting your hair in a slick back, putting some hoops on like I am right now. Unstoppable. Like, are you kidding me? And the material is so comfy and soft. Look at this cutie set. These are their Never in Question Fold-Over Pants in black-white polka dot, and this is their Never in Question Strapless Top in black-white polka dot, as well. This is the epitome of cute. This is perfect for a summer day where it's not so hot, and you still could wear pants. I love in the summer a good pant and tube top moment. That's like one of my favorite combos. I love how the pants are super flowy and comfortable. White Fox really did it with the cute ass pattern and color combination. How adorable is this? These are their Glow Game Flare Pants in navy, and their Glow Game Halter Top in navy, as well. This color combo is eating. I'm telling you, color's so in for summer 2026. You will not regret wearing color. I feel like for the longest time we were beige mom aesthetic. We're bringing color back, and I'm obsessed with it. The material of this one is very comfortable. It's almost like more of a sporty material, which I love, cuz I feel like I can totally do a Pilates class in this, or lounge around the house. It's perfect for absolutely anything. These pants are definitely tall girl friendly. As a short girl, I'm 5'3, I'm definitely going to have to hem them, but if you're tall, fair game. They're perfect. I love this one. This isn't a matching set, but I'm obsessed with these two pieces together. This is their Hype Girl Cinched Waist Off-the-Shoulder Top in gray marl, and these are the almost ready straight leg pants in charcoal. These type of sporty pants are so in right now. I've been seeing them all over Pinterest and I've been dying to get my hands on a pair. I love these stripes on the side. The placement on my waist is so perfect. I love how they're like low-waisted. They fit me perfectly and I could totally wear these to a Pilates class or something or just out and about but they're so versatile cuz they're so comfy and soft. And also this shirt, oh my gosh, it is so soft. It actually feels like butter. It is so comfortable. This would be the perfect top to either dress up and wear out or you can also wear this super casually like I am with these pants right now. Can kind of go for either or vibe. I love a shirt that you can diversify and these pants again are also tall girl friendly. This is just such a cool girl outfit. I love it. This is their cruising by knit maxi skirt in the color cream. It is so so freaking gorgeous, you guys, especially for over top of a bikini. I think this might just be the prettiest skirt I've ever worn in my life. It is so beautiful. The material is amazing. It's so soft. Imagine this with a little bikini top on and some flip-flops. Especially if you're going on vacation and you need just like a versatile everyday skirt, this is so perfect and I love the fold over here. It is so pretty. These are their jealous side low-waisted wide leg jeans in the shade vintage blue. White Fox's jeans are actually so underestimated. I used to have a pair of their jeans a couple years ago and I wore them every single day. Like they were my go-to jeans and they're so so good. They're such good quality and they just fit right. They're so perfect. They're tall girl friendly. This is their runaway love strapless mini dress in the shade chocolate cream stripe. I am officially planning a girls night out to wear this dress too because are you kidding me? When I saw this dress on the website, I actually gasped and I'm like, I need that. Add to cart right now. I love this style of dress right now. I'm just obsessed with it. I think it's just so in and it's just so comfy. I can't get over how cute this is and I cannot wait to get photos in it and wear it out. Oh my goodness. This is like the most slay of a dress I have put on my body in a while. That is the haul. White Fox has so many cute clothes right now and you need to check them out. I will have my discount code up on the screen for you guys right now and obviously everything will be linked in the description. I'll make sure to also put my sizes for you guys so that you can get a reference. I'm 5'3 by the way. Thank you so much to White Fox for sponsoring today's video. Take advantage of my discount code because it will not be around forever. While you're at it, literally send me a haul if you get anything. I would love to see it. DM it to me on Instagram. We love White Fox around here. She always delivers best quality and cutest stuff. Literal chef's kiss. >> [music] [music] >> Good morning you guys. It is currently 7:03 and my Lagree class starts at 7:15. So I'm going to head in next few minutes. I have so much to do today. It's kind of ridiculous. We're going to get it done. I'm trying to have a positive mindset about it because I'm obviously low-key a bit stressed right now, but everything's going to be fine. I obviously decided to start off my day with a Lagree class because what better way to start off the day especially before leaving on a vacation. I really want to work out cuz I'm probably going to go on like a couple runs when I'm at the cabin with my family. I mean I say that now, but like who knows what's actually going to happen. But like ideally I'd want to like work out maybe a couple times. Feel like a run around the lake would be so nice. So maybe I'll do that if I'm feeling up to it. If I want to get some movement in or just go on a really nice long walks with my family. There's going to be some movement happening, but I really wanted to get like a nice workout in before I go. So I booked it for early this morning. I actually haven't done an early workout class in a hot minute I've just been booking them for around like 9 or 10-ish just so I can let my body sleep in. I have just been in my waking up a little bit later era because in the summer I feel like I go to bed a lot later because the sun doesn't set until literally 10:00 here. And so I'm not going to bed until like 11:00 cuz once it gets dark and then I'll head to bed cuz it just feels wrong for me if I don't need to be in bed when it's light outside. Especially with our apartment has so many big windows, the light's so prominent even at night. So it's like it's just harder to go to bed. So I've been just letting my body sleep more in in the morning lately. But yeah, last night I probably got like 5 and 1/2, 6 hours sleep. I need to get so much stuff done today that I needed to book this earlier class in for myself. So I thought there was going to be a lot more traffic coming here, but it only took me 25 minutes. Usually it take me like half an hour, but there was literally no one on the road coming this way, thank goodness. I was wasn't sure if it was going to be like super trafficky at this time or not. It's actually going to be probably more trafficky for me going home this way, like the other way towards the city. Anyways, let's get this workout class done. Wish me luck, you guys. I will update you guys afterwards and throughout the day. >> [music] [music] >> I finished my leg day class. It was honestly really great. The class was so good and the music was great. I really liked the instructor. I filmed the entire class for you guys on my phone and I realized that I wasn't recording, but I tried to film the entire class, I'm not going to lie. When I picked up my phone at the end of the class and I realized that I wasn't filming, I did in fact have a mentee bee. I kept adjusting like my phone the whole class cuz it was like facing the other way. So I couldn't see the screen, but I hit record and then when I was adjusting it, I accidentally like hit unrecord, and I'm so upset at myself because I would have gotten some cute workout clips for you guys. It's like when this is your job, it's so frustrating when you're not recording, and like when things go south. Like I've lost footage before. I've edited stuff before, and it my hard drive broke down, and then it all deleted. So, it's like this is just part of the industry. Sometimes you're going to film something, and it's not going to be recording the entire time accidentally. We all make mistakes. Next time I will make sure that I'm recording. There's bigger fish to fry in life, so I'm not going to get too upset about it, but like I just feel like in general I needed a big cry. There's just times in life when you're holding a lot of tension. It's the straw that breaks the camel's back. It's also because I'm on the phase of my cycle right now where I'm just like a wreck, you know what I mean? Like I'm just an emotional wreck. Anything and everything affects me like a times a hundred. So, I think that's also why I'm just like not at a good phase mentally in my cycle right now where my hormones are going a bit crazy. Anyways, with all that being said, I'm at Whole Foods, so let's go do some grocery shopping. We are leaving tomorrow, but I do want to stock the fridge cuz Sadie is my friend is coming to watch our cats for the week while we're away, so she's house sitting. So, I want to make sure that the fridge is somewhat stocked for her. I don't want to leave her with no food. So, I'm just going to get a couple things, be in and out hopefully in like 20 minutes. So, let's go to Whole Foods, and get what we need to get. Yeah, I think I'm just going to carry a basket today. I'm not going to get like a whole buggy situation. I don't want to get too much. So, let's go. >> [music] [music] >> Hi. Can I get [music] an iced strawberry matcha? >> What size? >> Um a medium, please. >> Medium. >> And just soy milk. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. Just soy milk. >> Soy [music] milk. >> Thank you. >> Iced strawberry matcha, medium, $3.99. >> Amazing. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Just got a strawberry matcha, you guys. I needed something to lift my spirits. I'm feeling a lot better. It's really easy sometimes in life when you're stressed out to focus on like the little negatives and not look at the big picture. It's easy to like zoom in and look at all the little things that are going wrong. But, you know what? I just zoomed myself out and realized that nothing is really that deep in life. It's just not. Like, the whole point of life is to go through ups and downs. And like, the little things in your daily life that you choose to let bother you or you choose to let go of going to be the difference of your day. And so, over the past few years, you know, like I've been trying to get better at not letting like those little things ruin my day because that's the difference between having five bad days a week or five good days a week. You know what I mean? It's all what you focus on, what your mindset is. And if I have learned one thing in life, it's that everything falls into place eventually. You get over things. Things get fixed, things heal over time. And so just know it's important what your mindset is, how you go about things, and how you're dealing with the challenges. Anyways, cheers to that. It is officially time to lock in and to start packing. I have my packing cubes here. I just want to bring my whole wardrobe. Like that's the problem when I travel, you guys know this about me is that I just literally want to bring my whole entire wardrobe, which is so bad. I cannot be a bad girl with this vacation. We have limited space in the cars. Joel and I are taking up our own car. We're driving in separately. So we do have a car. However, there is going to be multiple things being put in our car. Like we're going to get groceries, all the fun stuff. So I can't be coming in with three huge luggages. I don't think I'm going to do a luggage. I think I'm going to do a tote bag. Like I'm just going to literally plop my packing cubes into like a giant bag, maybe even an IKEA bag or something like that just because it's more malleable for the car. We just finished cleaning the car. That was something on my to-do list that I needed to do today. Vacuumed the inside, cleaned the outside. It's always nice to go on a road trip with a fresh clean car. We went to Squamish over the weekend and our car got like really dirty on the outside, so we just wanted to freshen it up, clean the inside, clean the outside, and then we could kind of see how dirty it gets for that road trip and then clean it after that. It was so nice to do like a deep clean of the car. Haven't done one in so long. So car's super super clean, which is nice. That just feels really really good. A tip for packing, whether it's a cabin vacation, a tropical vacation, wherever you're going, literally just get packing cubes. It will be such a godsend for you, I swear. It just like organizes things in your luggage and just makes your life so much easier because then you could have like one cube for shirts, one cube for shorts, one cube for bikinis. Like it just makes your life so much easier. So this is going to be my bikini cube. I'm not going to lie, I do have a lot of bikinis here. Bikinis are the thing that I'm like, you know what? I can bring a million of them because they're just literally tiny. As long as I can fit them in this cube, I'm going to bring it. So let's see how many that I could fit in here, which is so bad. You know what? Sometimes the problem with me and packing and like the way that I dress myself every day, I am really not a person that can pick out their outfit the night before. Obviously like for a wedding or something that's different like I'll have a dress planned, but for like day-to-day life and stuff, I am not the type of person that's like oh let me just like plan my outfit the day before. My mood dictates what I want to wear that day and that's why if I only bring for example like triangle bikinis or whatever, what if I wake up and I don't want to wear a triangle bikini and I want to wear a different style of bikini. That's why I like my options especially when I'm traveling. I'm like the epitome of an over packer like it is really bad. I'm not going to lie. I should be learning my lesson right now because when I we went to Houston just last week, I didn't wear like 90% of the things that I brought. This is why packing cubes are the best like look at this. It's going to fit in here perfectly just watch. I can even add more if I wanted to which is bad like I won't I'm not going to do that, but I could. Perfect. Do you see how nicely that just organizes it? Now this is my bikini packing cube and just like that it's nice and put away. Got to bring a pair of jean shorts obviously. Just some casual shorts. It's kind of nice getting to pack for something that you don't need a strategically plan so much. I actually thrifted these ones another pair of lounge shorts and then we need like a mini pair. We need a mini pair of shorts. Got the longer shorts, mini pair shorts. These are like a mid length. So I'm like should I throw these in there? May as well. Of course I was going to choose gas. I'm so bad. I've realized honestly I always gravitate towards wearing basics. Like obviously I love a fun tank. I love a fun top once in a while, but as long as I pack like my basic stuff like black tank, white tank, that kind of thing, I know that I'm always going to be covered. >> Beanie, say hi. >> Hi. What are you doing? We had the window washers come today cuz they're doing our building and she got so spooked. She's a real scaredy cat. Like she's grown to be a real scaredy cat. Yeah, you are. She literally hid in this spot and now we know where her hiding spot is because it's happened before where she she'll go and hide somewhere and we're like, "Where is she?" Like we look in every crevice of the house and we found it today because she was hiding in there. And it's in the spare bathroom underneath like this sink area and the toilet area where you can't really see at all unless you like bend over, go over the toilet. I guess she feels safe there. What are you doing? You want to say hi? Oh guys, I'm actually you know those like memes where it's like me on vacation and then it like flashes to like your cats or your dog at home and you're like thinking about them 24/7. That's literally me. I am going to cry tomorrow when we leave them. I'm literally going to cry. I'm so bad. I just love them so much. They are my children. I literally told my family yesterday that I'm going to pack barely anything. Like I'm such a liar. I'm such a liar. It's actually bad. Okay, got to toss these in. I think every girl experiences the pre-trip stress, the pre-trip packing stress jitters. It's like you're so excited for the trip, but then you're so stressed for packing. It evens out to like just a weird state of mind, honestly. Obviously, I'm going to pack this White Fox set. How freaking cute. I'm just thinking I might just do a separate cube or something for my little matching set. So, I'm going to leave that for now. I'm just going to go to the laundry cuz I think I have some stuff there that I need to see what I'm going to pack. So, I'll be back. To [music] be determined. >> [music] [music] >> We are officially starting the road trip. We are headed to my parents' house. They live 1 hour away from us cuz I think we're going to be driving Madison and Connor, my sister and her boyfriend. I think we're going to be driving them up because we're taking three cars in between my whole family. So, my parents are going in a car, Joel and I are going in a car, and my brother and his girlfriend are going in a car, and then Madison and Connor are like the two that aren't taking their own cars, so they're going to fit in one of our cars wherever they fit. So, I don't know, might be our car, might not be. But, anyways, I literally love going on a road trip, and it's so much easier than flying, especially with packing. I basically, like you guys saw, just threw some stuff into packing cubes, put it in a bag, like a huge bag, and that was it. Like, that's tips for packing for a cabin vacation. It's like you don't need to worry really about space. Like, if you're bringing a car, you don't need to worry about liquid limits. You don't need to worry about weight. You can literally bring whatever you want, which is so freaking nice. The only thing that's like making this so difficult, the reason why we're bringing up so many cars, is because the boys are going golfing, so they have a golf day planned, and they all want to bring their own clubs up. Golf clubs take up so much space in a car, so that is what is taking up literally all of our room, basically, cuz one, two, four golf bags. We need to fit four golf bags. Um, and my dad does have a truck, but the bed of his truck is like not like huge, and he also stocked it with firewood. We're bringing Bruno, so like we have the dog stuff. So, there's just like a bunch of stuff in my dad's truck, so it's just hard to fit all the golf bags in between the rest of the cars. But, we'll see what happens. We might need to bring up one more car. But, Sadie is watching the girls, so we're going to go drop off the keys at our house right now, and then we're going to officially start the road trip once we get to my parents' house. So, so excited. Summer energy, summer vibes. I love a good road trip. We haven't went on a road trip probably since we went on a cabin trip with Joel's parents like a couple years ago now. It's been a while since we did like a road trip, so this is our first one since then, since we went to up to the cabin that Joel used to go to. I miss that place though. That place That place is so good. I wish we were going up there again this year. That would be so fun. Anyways, I'll keep you guys updated. Also, this is going to be a testament to our electric car. This is our first time taking our electric car on a road trip. Kilometer-wise, kilometer ratio-wise, in theory, on paper, we're going to make it. Like, we're going to make it there, and then we have a trickle charger once we get there that we can plug into a regular outlet that it'll take like a few days to charge the car, but on paper, we're going to make it. So, I don't know if we're actually going to make it. Like, we'll see what happens cuz if we need to stop at a charger, that's no big deal, but this is the first time taking our car out on a road trip. Anyways, so excited. We're definitely going to do Tim Hortons. I know we're going to stop at Costco to get groceries and stuff. So, yay! First road trip 2026. Honestly, a road trip kicks off the summer, really it does. >> [music] [music]