5 Yr Old Does A Full Family Polar Plunge in the Arctic Ocean!.

We did poor puns. The countdown continues. Jessica's book. He makes the sound he loves it. Good morning from the Arctic. I'm just full of gratitude for this week. I had high hopes coming into this. I mean, we're in the Arctic, but man. Where we are, I don't know where we are, but it will be We are here with Lindblad Expeditions on National Geographic's Resolution. This ship is so nice. It's new. The boat is like from 2021. Okay, wait, we gotta break down like all the different things. Just I'm obsessed with this boat. Okay, first of all, we're currently cruising through the ocean. It's so quiet. Guys, come look at this. Look how chill the water is. Isn't it so smooth? When you step outside onto your balcony, it's just you and the ocean. Look how smooth this water is. Come here, come here. Come look how smooth it is right here. I know, is that trippy? Look at that. I don't know if I've ever seen water that smooth. It doesn't even look glassy. It looks like matte, like opaque. What is that? Like you can't hear the boat or its engines or anything else. And then it's like really steady, like super steady. Dorothy, there's whales all around us. Look, all around us are whales. So wake me up Oh this time I was finding myself It looks like they're having a meeting. All right, guys, we're surrounded by whales. It's unbelievable. I can't stop looking at it. That's me too. I'm freezing. I can't stop looking. I'm hungry. Good morning, JJ. Would you like some coffee? No, thank you. When this is going on. This boat's so cool. And then I think this is super impressive. The decor in it, in the most special way, the interior design, doesn't feel like a cruise. I love that about it. It feels like a cozy living room. I think it only fits around 130-ish guests. I mean, we were at capacity on this trip and it felt very empty and private. Yeah, love that about it. Termites. Termites. No, no, it doesn't matter. You just say one word. Spider-man. It has nothing, nothing to do with it. But some people answer the question correctly and some people just say spider-man. All right, here we go. Shack-a-book. Wait, what? Facebook. Grandpa's. Wee. WWE. Wee. Good job, you're doing great. Recycling. Recycling. Harry Styles. DMV. You're the greatest human ever. Okay, which one did you just read? Librarian gymnast. Foot. What is it? Okay, read it to me one more time and then I'll tell you. Librarian gymnast. LeBron James. LeBron James. What was it? Librarian gymnast. Recycling. Yeah, you got it this time. Good job, bud. Oh, we love you, buddy. Harry. Harry. Not bald. Giving birth. Snoop Dogg pit bulls. Giving birth. That was yours? Yeah. That's like your asian style. Manila. All right, Manila's out. I'm trying, dad. Was Cali tapping on your mouth or your nose? This is hard to explain. I like it so much. Okay, get back in the train. Dorothy, you're in. Do a good job. Not Cali. Yeah. It feels weird. Okay, I want in. I love you. The countdown continues. Jessica's book comes out for pre-order. July 11th is coming up. Are you nervous? Yes. Yes. I can't think about it. That's what this locker is. It's called base camp. They call this place base camp. This is where the adventure begins. Oh, you can hear it. Beluga. Dorothy, did you hear that? There's beluga in the air. And thus begins, officially begins, yet another summer semester on safari. What is the definition of safari? I looked it up and it was like safari. An expedition to observe wild animals in their natural habitat. This is our summer semester on the safari. This is our summer semester on safari. Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, we learned how to drive a Zodiac. What are we doing today? We're going on a boat. What are we doing on a boat? What kind of boat? A Zodiac. Yeah? And who's driving? Us. What do you mean us? One, two, add a big step. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. Enjoy everyone. Thank you. Don't leave without it. Yeah. You can tell me what the name of this boat is. Zodiac. Where's the engine? Right there. Right, so how do we drive it? Do you know what this is called? Tiller. Tiller, yeah, good job. Heyo. Silly kid. Callie, what am I sitting on right now? Side. Yeah, on the sides. And what are they full of? Air. Yeah. Tiller. So we need to check that the air is right. So come over here. Right here. Okay, you gotta check. Are you checking? Bridge, bridge, Dorothy. Go ahead. Dorothy driving Zodiac 14. You're driving Zodiac 14. Awesome. Nicely done. Good job, Dorothy. Nice job. Guys, this is Dorothy we're talking about. Hold on. Go, Dorothy. Now you can see why there's a break in the ice. Wow. Bridge, bridge, Manila. Go ahead. Manila driving Zodiac 14. One four. Have fun. Okay, so now the bridge knows. Epic job, buddy. So what is this? Here comes Nellie Bean. You remember that? I'm having flashbacks. It's in Norway. Here comes Manila Bean. Pump, pump. Choke. Neutral. Line up the arrows. Ready? Captain Manila Bean. Okay. Hold on. Right here. Go faster, you turn it. Wow. Manila Bean. You drive in? Okay. Dorothy, you have to turn it. Look, Manila's driving by himself! Give me a salute! Give me a salute, captain! Watch where you're going! Ah, full circle moment right now. And then always look forward. So when he was two years old, we were in Norway, and he drove a little boat like this. Oh, no way! Manila, no time to itch your face, you gotta keep your hand on the tiller! You always have to have your hand on the tiller! What are you gonna do next? Get it, bud! Bridge, bridge, Kali! Kali, bridge, go ahead. So Kali driving Zodiac 14. Kali driving Zodiac 14. And then you've got to tell everyone, please sit down and hold on. Please sit down and hold on. Feel it going faster? You want to go straight, so how do I go straight? Yeah, you put this straight. Remember your driving stance Alright, so turn it and scream, go! A fast donut? Have you seen how fast these boats go normally in a straight line? No? Do you want to see how fast they go? Do you want to go straight, fast, or fast? Do you want to do a donut fast? Does everyone say, thank you, Eva? Thank you, Eva! So it's kind wings. We call them a sea angel. Do you see anything in there? Little thingies. Look at all that. So yeah, these are little, most of these are copepods. They're little guys, you see them bouncing around. Wow! Dad, come and look, look, look. It's a type of jellyfish thing. There's jelly in there? Oh, I see what you're talking about. What is that? Oh, those are cool guys. Oh, yeah, I know what it is. It has like a little heart in it. I kind of want to put my hand in there and see what happens. It's a jellyfish. It might sting you. There's only one way to find out. Let's see what happens. It's a ticklish. What does it feel like? I don't feel literally anything. Anything at all. Is that crazy to think, guys, that when we're swimming in the ocean, this stuff is all around us and we don't even notice? What did I catch? You caught a sea angel. Microscope? It's a great idea. So then we take that plank down and we put it under a microscope. Of course, this boat has a science hub with a microscope that hooks up to all the television screens. That was one of my favorite things of this entire trip. I'd never experienced anything like that. To just take seawater, put it under a microscope, and then see how much life is in these waters. See them on all of the different ones. What a cool thing. Look what's crawling into the way. It's a little shrimp guy. No, it's a big alien. What's that guy right there? It's a ctenophore. And the antenna is a copepod. What are we looking at? Is that the sea angel? It might be too big for us. Look at those details. Oh my goodness. I see its head. What? Wow. This is rad. Callie, what's it called? A copepod. Most things... Whoa, you got Ian. Something else that I really appreciated about this boat and this trip were all the incredible naturalists and guides that they had on. The most legit. They had a naturalist for whales and geology and underwater and polar bears. Anytime you had a question about anything... There was a specialist on board. There was an absolute expert. An expert photographer. It probably tastes salty because of the salt water. Salty? No. Do you mind if I get a shot? Go for it. Dorothy, I thought so. Good job, Dorothy. Nice. Here, you're probably cold. What type of rock is this? No, that's the actual question. Sedimentary. Metamorphic. It got compressed. Snow and ice can actually function as all three types of rocks in parts of the solar system. On some of the outer planets and moons, they have volcanoes of ice called cryovolcanoes. That would be igneous. When I'm on assignment writing stories, I always write down five things. What am I seeing? What am I hearing? What am I tasting? What am I smelling? What am I feeling? What are some other sounds you've heard on this Zodiac cruise? I've also been impressed by what we're not hearing. How calm and still it is. Absolutely. How still it is. So these are notes that I would write down in my journal. I did not think I would care to go to any of the speaking lectures on board. I went to the first one and I was like, this is so good. So impressive that I found myself going to every single one with the kids as well. They were learning so much. What do we have to wear to stay warm? We've got to wear these superhero capes. Oh, yeah. They're called sweaters. And coats. We have to wear jackets. We have to wear boots. We have to wear life jackets. We have to wear pants. We have to wear a shirt. We've got to wear gloves. We've got to wear a hat. Hats and beanies. And what else? And underwear. Is Manil barefoot? Don't get in the water, bud. Kali. Okay, no hands, Kali. Big runs, Kali. Big runs. Kali. Kali, do big runs with your arms. There you go. Just keep going like that. I'm going to see how your feet are allowed. Try to make it a little bit more smooth and quiet. There you go. Three, two, one. You did it. Alright. That's good, Dorothy. That's a good looking run. She's going to go to ten minutes, Manil. You did it till five. Whoa. Did you feel that? Wow. Her's is crunching right through the ice. Wow. Did you see that? Okay, but my favorite thing just about the boat alone we're in the Arctic and we're charging through ice. Sea ice. And it just goes this sound when it's cracking through the ice. The whole time you're like We're going, like you've seen Titanic, right? When they're like, iceberg ahead. And boats should not want to hit ice in the ocean, right? No, this one, you see ice ahead and it's just going, going, and then it just boom, breaks right through it. The sound, explain the sound. I just found myself literally just looking over our balcony and just watching the ice separate and the sound of it and the colors of it. Whoa. If you were inside the ship and it hit ice, the whole ship just But it takes it. At first you're like, the ship's going down. And then when you realize the ship is so epic. It's built for this. And then when you go outside the cracking ice sounds like thunderous. Oh, big one coming up. Whoa. Oh, polar bear tracks. Callie, tell me if you see any more. Footprints. Whoa. Jordi, what are those? What kind of animal is that from? Polar bears. You see them in there? Was there a little cave? There's a little cave, but not big enough for a polar bear. Yeah, it could be like a little one. Oh. A little polar bear. By itself? Yeah. By itself. That's what our kids argue about. It was incredible. And to be in this never-ending vastness of sea ice. Where else have you looked out and just had forever horizon? It felt like a desert, but it wasn't a desert. It was just sea ice. And there's chunks here and there and sometimes you come across these really big chunks of sea ice. I love this place. And it was so cool. Whoa. Their bridge is where the captain drives the boat. It's like the control room. It basically looks like Star Trek from a spaceship. That's where the captain controls everything. And usually it's a very private place. But it is open-door policy and everybody comes in. A lot of the guides are up there and you can just search with everybody. So you're up there with the captain hearing why we're navigating, where we're navigating. It was very interesting on this trip how much lack of structure there was in a good way because you can't predict wildlife or weather. So it was like, hey, we want to see polar bears. We want to see walruses, seals, all the things. But we don't know where they're going to be and whether it's going to dictate that. And also the landscape here changes based on where is frozen, where is not, where we can go. So to hang out on the bridge with the captain and just be part of that planning discussion and part of the exploration trying to find the animals was such a cool part of the adventure. But it also being so high-tech that you could have these magnifying lenses to help search for animals. And then they had this, what do they call it? Heat radar. Heat radar that could show, we would see something and we're like, I think that's a polar bear. And then they would put a heat thing over it and you're like, that's a polar bear. What animals did we see, Callie? We saw polar bears, we saw walruses, we saw some whales, seals, humpback whales. We saw some seals and polar bears and blue guys. Dolphins. Do you know anything about reindeer, Callie? Mmm, they fly. Okay, Manila. Some do, a little bit. What do you know about reindeer? Their antlers fall off, they grow back in the summer. All Santa's reindeer are girls. They fall off in the winter and then they grow back in the summer, but the girls don't. No, I don't want to say that, you say it, it's really weird. Okay, I'll say it, just tell me it. I am not telling you that. It's so weird. I already told the first one. It's so gross. Just do it, please. Please. Fine, I'll say it. So, when the, when reindeer's poop is like together and mushy, it means they're more hydrated reindeer. But if they're, if the poop is like little pellets, then that means it's not a hydrated reindeer. Guys, guys, guys, guys, everyone listen. So, polar bears have many types of ways to catch the seals. So there's a technique called the laying technique, and what they do is they stare at the water. Callie, do you know about polar bears? What do they eat? They eat seals. Yeah. But they only eat... And they don't toy eggs. They lay babies. They only eat the blubber off of any animal they catch. What's blubber? It's fatness. What's a lipobor? It's, they only eat blubber. What animal's a lipobor? Polar bear. What's a polar bear's skin color? What color is a polar bear's skin? Black. But their fur is translucent. Try to take your hand and cover your other eye. There. That's pretty cool. Right in the middle. Okay? Alright. You see it, Nance? Yeah. Good job, buddy. Is it just chilling out there? Oh, right on the edge. We're hyper. So cold. It was cold. It was not cold at the first part. It was really cold at the first part. We're following the surface. See, I walked in a circle. I did the same thing before I jumped in cold water. You got this. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!