Hello everybody. My name is Jeff Layton and I'm a long time developer of Linux NFS. I've been involved for more than a decade. I've been involved with Ceph for about three years now. I've been working on a project to allow exporting of Ceph over NFS but from multiple server heads. So first of all, a lot of you guys were probably in some of the earlier talks but I'll go ahead and go over it. What are the pieces here? We start with everything at the bottom layer is RADOS which is a redundant and distributed object store. Built on top of that is CephFS which is a POSIX Coherent File System. Clients will talk to, it has its own daemon that runs on top of it. Clients will talk to that daemon to acquire what's known as capabilities or Caps. Caps are essentially pieces of delegated iNode metadata. So you can get Caps to allow you to read or write to a file, fetch certain pieces of the attributes of it, X adders, that kind of thing. And then above all that we have NFS Ganesha which is a user land, all in user land NFS server. And the reason we use that is that it's got a plug-in base back end that uses the Culp to Sol Ceph. So it's pretty well suited for exporting user land based file systems. We don't need to go through the kernel NFS server or do anything like that. And also it uses the same, it uses a LibCephFS which is a user land library that allows you to talk to Ceph without working with the kernel. And on top of that we can also store recovery databases and config files in RADOS too which makes it well suited for containerization. So sort of the goal I've had with all this is to be able to build a scale out NFS server on top of Ceph, or CephFS in particular. What we want is we want to be able to, people have had NFS servers on top of Ceph for a long time but being able to do that in a way that allows where you can export from multiple heads at the same time is pretty difficult actually because it's, be able to do that safely. People will do that but if you have any sort of stateful objects, locks, opens, that sort of thing, that becomes problematic in the case of recovery. So the idea is we want to eliminate bottlenecks and single points of failure. The goal is to sort of focus on NFS v4.1 plus because it has a lot of features that we make it better for redundancy and performance. The goal here is to minimize coordination between the Ganesh nodes. So you can build these sort of servers if you are really, if you're very careful about recording lots of stateful information in stable storage but that becomes pretty expensive. So we want to have them be really loosely aggregated, sort of being able to do their own thing until we need to have them reach out and talk to the other nodes. And the other thing is that Ganesh turns out in this sort of configuration is pretty amenable to containerization. We can stick it in a container, we can put a lot of the configuration and recovery info into RADOS. We don't need any real writable local storage or elevated privileges. We can run it non-root so we can run it on a rootless container. We don't need any third party clustering like core sync or anything like that to talk across nodes. And so we don't, we can just use RADOS to coordinate all that info. And we are also, you know, unlike a traditional active passive cluster, a lot of those configurations people will run will have two, you know, more than one node and will allow, it will have the other node take over if this one fails. But we don't really want to do that here with a containerized kind of setup. We can just reconstitute the node instantly if it fails. So the difficulty with all this is handling the recovery. So NFS is a little unique in that among network file systems in that most NFS servers don't track detailed information about what state is being held by clients on stable storage. So most SMB servers do, you know, for at least the more recent SMB versions, CEPH does in its MDS. It has a journal blog that it uses. But for NFS, when after a NFS server dies and it comes back up, it has no idea of what state it has. All we do track is what clients we have. And so it's up to the clients to come back in and reclaim all their state they have before. Hey, I had this open. Hey, I had this lock. So we do that by when a NFS server comes back up after crashing, we do that by establishing what's known as a grace period. And during that grace period, we don't allow any new state to be acquired. So if you try to do an open or require a new lock, the server will tell you, nope, we're in the grace period. So in addition to that, we also have to be able to know, because of certain edge conditions that can happen during multiple reboots and network partitions, we also do need to know what clients are allowed to reclaim. And so we have to keep these stable storage records so that they know after a reboot that the server knows after a reboot that it is allowed to reclaim. So prior to a client doing its first open, what we do is we set a stable storage record in it. So either a first open reclaim or a first open regular, we set a stable storage record for it. And then after the last close, we usually couldn't remove that record. And the key here is that when we switch from grace period, which is what happens right after a reboot into normal operation, we have to atomically replace the old client database with the new one. And that atomically is very important because failure can happen at any time. If we leave it everything in a indeterminate state, then that can be a problem after a reboot. So a key conceptual way to think about this is that we can consider each reboot as a series of server epics. So we can start with, as clients perform their first, so basically the first epic would be we have a grace period when the server comes up and then it transitions into normal operation. You know, crashes again, we go to another grace period, so that would start a new epic. And then we go eventually transition to normal operation, crash again, grace period. And we can actually have multiple crashes. If a crash happens during the grace period, we just stay in the same epic. So as the clients perform their first open, reclaim a regular, we set a record in the stable storage database for them. And then during a grace period, we allow clients that are present in the previous epic's database to reclaim. And anybody that wasn't in there gets refused. And after we transitioned from grace to normal operation, we can delete any previous database that we had that was associated with the previous epic. So where the difficulty comes in is how do we do this across multiple servers? So what does a grace period mean when you have multiple servers? Because the danger we have is that when this server crashes, or server one crashes, and as it's coming back up, we have to eventually kill off the old state that it held with the MDS. And during that window, we could have another server race in and grab state that should be reclaimable by a client. So we have to avoid that at all costs. So really what happens is that, so lifting grace, if we have to project this idea of a grace period across multiple servers, we have to consider that the grace period is really a cluster wide property. So really lifting grace period really becomes a two step process. We have to first indicate that the local server's grace period is over. He doesn't have any more clients that need to reclaim. And we also have to indicate to the others when we've stopped enforcing the grace period. So the way we do this, another way to think about this is that we can consider as a set of two flags in a state. We have a need flag. Each server in the cluster has two sets of flags. So we have a need flag which tells it does this particular server node require a grace period in order to allow recovery. So the first node that sets a need flag declares a new grace period. So we'll transition into a new grace period at that point. And when the last node declared its need flag, the last node declared its need flag can fully lift the grace period cluster wide and allow other, allow normal operation everywhere. So in order to, but we also need to know, you know, just saying you need a grace period is not enough. We have to actually know that all the other servers in this cluster are enforcing it before we can allow recovery to occur. So we also need a flag to indicate that a particular node is still enforcing the grace period. So if all the servers are enforcing the grace period, then we know that node conflicting state can be handed out and the grace period is fully enforced. So this is used by the server to determine when it's safe to clear its state on the MDS, on the set MDS. So and that really the, the sort of the basic idea here is we won't want very simple logic that allows individual hosts in the cluster to make decisions about the grace period enforcement. People have done active, active servers before. It was things like this too, but a lot of it requires some sort of external coordinating demon. Like, you know, I think IBM may have had a scale out server where they did something similar, but they needed a controlling node, but that also represents a single point of failure. And that adds you complexity. You know, if that controlling node fails, then you have to deal with the recovery of the controlling node to handle all that stuff. So we want to avoid that here. We want the nodes themselves to be able to just look at the state of the cluster and decide what they should do. So basically what we've decided to do is the way we do this is that we do it within set itself. We declare an object in a, just a single object in there that has just a little bit of info in it. We have it, we use that to coordinate our cluster wide grace period recovery. You know, RADOS is pretty well suited to this because the compounds are atomic that it sends to do reads and writes. We could, currently what we do is we basically do a read-off to slurp all the data off of the object. Then we modify it in memory. Then we do a write operation if we need to change something. And then if the object has changed in the interim, we'll just go back and review the whole thing again. So we have sort of a multiple polling method for this. So all we need to really track for this is just a very little bit of data. So we have two UN64T values. I used UN64T because who wants to worry about wraparound, we only have to track two of these things. The current epoch, which is where, you know, what database should we store new records that come in, new records when clients come in. And then we also have a recovery epoch. What epoch are we allowed to recover or clients allowed to recover from?  You know, the recovery epoch equals zero means that the grace period is not in force. So basically we store this little bit of info in little Indian and unstructured data inside the shared grace object. Beyond that, we also have an OMAP. We use the OMAP in the object as well, which is just a key value store. And we use that to store the need and enforcing grace flags. So it's just a single, so we basically have a node ID as the key. And then we also have a, the value is just a byte right now that stores two flags. I mean, it has room for expansion later if you need it for something else. So in addition, we can't just use a single set of recovery databases. We also need multiples. So we need one for each server, each node, and each node needs one for each epoch. So we store these also in Rattles objects because Ganesh has had the ability to do this for a long time. And we just store the name of REC and then we have this 64, UN64T value here for the epoch and then node ID here right after it. And this, so basically, and inside that record, inside that database is basically just a, what's, what NFS sends, which is a long form client ID string that uniquely identifies that client within the, within the, you know, among all the others. And so once, so when we go from normal operation to grace without recovery, we have to recreate the DB from scratch. So sometimes if a node comes down, comes up, says it needs a, needs grace period, we have to, we, you know, we don't want the surviving nodes to have to do any sort of recovery or to allow for any sort of recovery. We want them to mostly continue their operation, but we have to copy the records from one, from the old database to the new. As part of this, we had, you know, in order to handle the manipulating and querying this database, we added a command, new command to NFS Ganesha as well called Ganesha Rados Grace. And all it does is just a pretty simple command line tool. It allows you to see the current state of the cluster, tells you what, what epoch we're in and what, you know, what the current recovery epochs are. What server, you know, what servers are known to be in the database and what flags they have. We can add and remove those, those nodes from the cluster. Start a new grace period if we want or lift the grace period so you can fully manipulate the database from the command line too if you like. Mostly under normal operation, you'll just use the add and remove and maybe the one to view it, the dump command. So to configure NFS Ganesha for clustering, you know, we added this as a new recovery back in for NFS Ganesha. So mostly if anybody that's using Ganesha now in a single node configuration, you actually have like a Rados KV or there's another driver called RadosNG. But for this you would want a Rados cluster to set that value in here. And by the way, this is just an abbreviated configuration file. You would actually have a lot more parameters in here generally, but I'm just showing the ones that are relevant here. And then in the Rados KV block, this is the block that tells Ganesha how to talk to the Rados cluster. And so what user ID she used to talk to the cluster, what pool, name space, and the node ID. So each, the node ID in particular is a pretty important thing. This needs to be unique on each node in the cluster. If you have collisions there, that can be very problematic. And then so once you set up the config file on each Ganesha node, you just, and then, you know, beyond this too, you would also have export blocks so probably export for exporting Ceph. Though it is, this is nothing in this is particularly tied to CephFS. You could use this sort of Rados recovery back end with any cluster file system. And it should still work basically. But it is sort of, we've plumbed in a lot of other mechanisms for Ganesha to be able to better manipulate the CephFS state. So it is the recommended way to do this. Oh, and also there's some requirements. This is a fairly new feature in Ganesha. So you need V27 plus. And then you'll also want a Nautilus or later cluster. You can do this on an earlier one, but you'll probably find that some of the, you may end up stalling. And if you had particularly long outages of a node, you could end up not being able to recover. So we really recommend a Nautilus or later cluster for this. So how do we configure NFS Ganesha for cluster? Well, we also need to do, add it to the database. So we'll add, you can use the Ganesha Rados grace command basically 10. And so in this case we're using Ganesha dash pool as the name of the pool. And then we have cluster A as the namespace. Oh, sure. Lance. Are you using libredas? Yes. Yes. Yes. And also the same thing with, in fact, that's what, that's what this Rados KV block does is we're feeding it parameters for libredas to talk directly to the Rados cluster fetch object system. So, good question. So Ganesha Rados grace will have to add each node to the database. In this case we're doing two nodes. So you have a node A and a node B. That has to be unique. And then we just start up each daemon. And if they die, we want to restart them pretty quickly. The reason for that being that all of this depends on the NDS preserving caps that were held by a node between it going down and coming back up. So when a node dies, we're basically racing against the clock. We have to know that when the node comes back up that any caps that it held before haven't been fetched, you know, been stolen and maybe released. That's actually the worst case scenario, right? You know, if you had a file lock, let's say, for instance, and a node crashed and then that file lock got released while you were down, you come back up and someone else races in, grabs that file lock, maybe changes some data and releases that file lock. You come back up, you'll never know. And that's silent data corruption and that could be ugly. So in any case, here's the demonstration. Can everybody see this in the back? Okay, great. So in this case, I'm running a cluster on my laptop in Minicube. So Minicube is a Kubernetes in a box basically in a single VM. So, and I'm also using what's the, using Rook, which is a operator for Minicube, or operator for Kubernetes to allow it to manage a set cluster. So in here I've got three NFS servers. There's NFS AA. A is the name of the cluster and A is the name of the node here. AB and AC. Here I am on AC here and I'm running the Ganesha Rados grace command in a watch, under a watch command. So we'd see it. The current epic in this case is 23. And the recovery epic is zero. So we're not in a grace period. Nobody has a flag set, but you can see here is A.A, A.B and A.C are the three nodes that are in the cluster. So on this shell, I'm just going to kick off some, use FiO, which is a performance benchmarking tool mostly, but I'm going to use it here just to generate a bunch of IO. So we're just doing random reads and writes to a file on the on the Cephshare here through the NFS. So it's generally running now. Well, maybe running now. Well, I don't know. Hang on, let me see if I can, I may not have survived my, well, sorry, it was a good idea. Oh, boy. Let's see if MiniCube will behave. No. Well, it was working a little bit ago. Maybe I can stop MiniCube and start it back up. Basically what I was going to show is that you could run MiniCube, or you could run IO against a single head and watch and it would be able to recover and come back. MiniCube's not even behaving here. In this case, I'll just stop. So essentially what the demo was going to show is I was going to drive IO against one node and then kill off that node and you could see the IO go to zero and then see it recover and come back up and pick right back up where it left off once the thing comes back. The other thing we've done too in Ganesha recently is taught it how to lift the grace period early if all the clients have come back and reclaimed their state. So that allows us to keep the grace period down to a bare minimum, usually just a few seconds once the node comes back up. So now that my demo has failed. So caveat's of future directions. So again, all of this, the caveat with all this stuff is that we rely on the NBS holding the state for us for a client that has gone down. So a CEP client that has died when it dies and it comes back up, the NBS eventually will time out the old client's session. And so we need all the nodes to be in grace before that happens. So we have to declare a new grace period. So on a clean shutdown, what we do generally is we try to declare a new grace period as quickly as possible. And then Nautilus also, one of the reasons we recommend Nautilus here is that it has interfaces to kill off the old session and also interfaces to increase the session timeout. We want to be able to allow the NBS to hold those caps as long as possible, as long as we need for the NFS server to come back up and reclaim them. One of the future directions, another future direction I didn't put on here, is that we also have some proposed interfaces too to allow CEP clients to reclaim caps themselves. That would allow us to allow a node to die and come back without having to put everyone else into the grace period. And that could be, is a huge win. If we know that a client goes down, comes back up and that nobody has stolen his caps and that he can get to all his caps, we don't need to enforce a grace period for everyone else. So another problem we have too is that all these are loosely connected servers and to an NFS client, they all just sort of look like individual servers. How do we distribute these clients among the cluster? Can we use, you know, one of the ideas is that could we use a load balancer with strong affinity? I have some real worries about doing that so I'm not sure if that will be something that's possible. NFSv4.1 also has a mechanism, an attribute called FS Locations Info which will tell the, which a client can query so that it can know what, where other locations for the same export may be. And so we would like to be able to allow, we'd like to be able to fill out this info from the server so that it could, so that a client could, so that if a node, a connection node goes down, it can seamlessly migrate to another node possibly. And then we also want to allow a failover to a different head if one fails. So that's a little trickier because right now all of our, all of this mechanism relies on a client going, getting back to the same node. That's why we like Kubernetes for this, is that we can pretty quickly reconstitute the node from scratch, even for our read-only container image, and get back up and running quickly without having to try to do any sort of migration of the state back and forth. And another thing, eventually we'd like to do is PNFS support. We would like to be able to run many small, run small NFS servers in each OSD possibly. They just need to be able to support NFS v4 read and write, or in NFS v3 even possibly. But unfortunately right now there is no PNFS layout type that allows for algorithmic placement. So we would need to have some way to be able to set, to inform the layout. One thing we could do is try, you know, one idea is just to go ahead and do separate layout segments, you know, and manually, but that gets pretty unwieldy for large files. So we really need some way to be able to say, you know, to allow clients to determine algorithmically where they should go to send their data. Any questions? Sure, Lance. So this depends on the set of the backend, right? It doesn't work with the S3. No, you wouldn't need to actually. My understanding with RGW is that we don't really have any stateful objects. And so mostly what we're concerned with is locks and delegations. Right now we have delegations supporting Ganesha. But there's a problem with trying to run it across multiple heads. I can tell you about it offline, but POSIX Coherent Locking does need that. And I don't think RGW supports any of that sort of thing. So I don't think you really have this. You don't necessarily need this. You can just stand up multiple heads independently over RGW and you don't have any real problem. Yes, yes. Any other questions? Okay, well thank you guys. Sorry my demo didn't work.


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So we'll see what happens in those So those were yesterday's post earnings plays. We didn't do any overnight trades But tonight after the bell after the bell that you just heard We've got a few stocks announcing first of which is Facebook so Facebook actually moved theirs. I'm gonna put this on a five-minute chart so we can actually see what's going on after hours here So Facebook was supposed to actually announce yesterday. You can see but they actually they pushed it out to today So we're gonna see the price. This is a five-minute chart. So we're gonna see The price start jumping around as soon as that announcement comes out. It looks like yeah, there it goes They're starting to move. So we've got Facebook announcing right now. We've got Amazon Let's go to Amazon AMZ N and just click it right here So it's actually so it's Looks like it may not be maybe it's not for another hour. We'll see what happens Looks like it's at 4 p.m. Central market closes at 3 p.m. Central So we may not to get to see the action here on this recording But look for that so Amazon announces after the bell right now and then also Google our friend goog G-o-o-g Big rally today Nasdaq started off weak is down and then it really just ripped higher This is Google look at the Amazon did the same thing and then it kind of chopped around and started a little bit lower And then Facebook also already looked at but let's look at what the price action was. Yeah, same thing as Google It just started low and ripped high So we'll see how it how it reacts to these earnings and then the other one that's announcing is GILD You can see there's basically trading sideways now GILD is a biotech Earnings aren't always the biggest announcement for them. It's more the FDA approvals But we'll see what happens if there's anything enlightening with GILD So those are the earnings. So what else did we do today? 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Oeddais, yn fwy o hyd o meddwl i'r prinsig ac yn diwrnog ei leolol Yn dderydd y gyrfa oedd yn golygu i gael unig ar ei digwydd o'r Schineyr Cymru, Mynner LONornaol. Yn gyfnod oes y Llywodraeth Llywodraeth i ddweud feddwl i'r rôl o'r Cymünü ac'r Rhywun Llywodraeth i ddysgu'r llefydd, ein cyfnod o'r dingwyr gyda hwnny o'r Llywodraeth i ddechreuol i misgau i ddechreuol i ddimun i gael,Recruitment is underway to recreate 500 new jobs in Scotland in processing and logistics. Likewise, businesses of all sizes are continuing to make good progress as they prepare for launch in August of this year. Deposit Return is a transformational step change on our road to net zero and businesses here in Scotland have the momentum needed to get us there. Small producers in the Highlands and Islands, especially craft blowers including Fine i gym without materials and the Glenn Spian Brewery are deeply concerned about the many unanswered questions that remain about DRS, including the way how the contract of bifer will collect materials from rural and remote locations that are hard to reach. Given those legitimate concerns, why won't the minister pause the introduction of DRS until these matters have been fully resolved or at the very least grant smaller producers a grace period before joining the scheme? I take the concerns of small producers very seriously. This week, Circular Scotland announced a package of measures to specifically answer some of the concerns that are raised by small producers in terms of cash flow and labelling. The process of the organisation and logistic is a matter of co-design between businesses to ensure and end biff of the logistics partner to ensure that it works for everybody and that will be going forward. I will be meeting with small producers again this afternoon to find out what else we can do to support them. While I welcome recent changes on fees for small drink producers and other improvements to the planned roll-out of DRS, some businesses in my constituency are still concerned about implementation at a time of other serious economic pressures. I have practical concerns about storage space and cost pressures. Although the aims of DRS are understood with widespread acknowledgement of the need for it, does the minister recognise the continued uncertainty and how she is planning to address it and what practical changes has her very recent meetings with industry produced? I understand that implementing DRS is a big change to manage, particularly for small businesses. I have regularly been meeting industry stakeholders throughout the process. We have simplified the return point exemption process as a result of feedback from retailers, particularly on concerns about storage, and Circularity Scotland announced a package of support this week to improve cash flow for producers, which equates to £22 million of support. That was in direct response to specific asks from small producers. I will continue to meet businesses and listen to them, and later today I am meeting with a group of small producers. I ask whether the claim made by some MSPs operating curbside collections along DRS would be unlike any other country in the world that is accurate, and how the minister would like to see councils respond to DRS. Thank the member very much for the question. Those claims are indeed inaccurate. Many countries operating a deposit return scheme also have curbside collections, including Norway, Germany, Croatia and Iceland. Our scheme will mean that local authorities will have less waste to handle, as well as reduced litter and associated cleanup costs, which is good for residents and good for council budgets. We are supporting local authorities to prepare for the introduction of the scheme, and our £70 million recycling improvement fund is supporting councils to modernise recycling services. To ask the Scottish Government how many free bicycles it has issued to children in Glasgow. Our commitment to encourage our youngest citizens to make active travel choices by providing free bikes for children of school age who cannot afford them was initially met through nine pilots, which have operated since summer 2021. An independent evaluation on the pilots was published on 27 January this year, and the total bikes issued is 3,650, including 52 adapted bikes. The free bikes activity has taken place in 20 local authority areas, including Glasgow, although we do not record data at a local authority level. Roads in Glasgow are in disrepair, with potholes so big that some may be asking for submarines, not bikes. The avenues project, which is designed for cycling, wheeling, walking and driving, also has safety concerns. In all the safety of our roads, for cyclists, it is left wanting to say the least. Given the variation in approaches and the flexibility given to pilot schemes, what steps will it ensure to ensure that a minimum level of safety equipment or training is provided to children receiving bikes as part of the future national role light? In order to ensure safety for everyone who is travelling actively, we need to reduce the barriers to active travel. We also need to continue to invest in safe infrastructure, and this Government is doing that on a scale beyond anything that Scotland has ever seen. However, as Pam Duncan Glancy rightly said, we also need to ensure that there is a wider package of support. All the pilots issue safety equipment to the children who have been provided with a bicycle, and the range of models of pilots also need to be informing the design of the national scheme. That is why the evaluation of the pilots will be important and useful information in making sure that our national scheme is as successful as possible. Question 3, Foisal Choudhury. To ask the Scottish Government what additional funding it will provide to local authorities in response to a reported concern about swimming pool closers. The Scottish Government recognises the importance of ensuring that community hubs such as swimming pools are accessible to the people of Scotland. Access to swimming pools can give children the opportunity to learn to swim—a life skill that can save lives. However, we also understand the challenging financial circumstances faced by local authorities largely due to the cost of living crisis. Our settlements from the UK Government have suffered a decade of austerity. In the most challenging budget settlements since devolution, we are providing over £13.3 billion in the local government settlement for 2023-24. Foisal Choudhury. My constituents, Lewis Conde, brought a fourth petition, PE1891, to make swimming lessons a statutory requirement in the primary school's curriculum. It was very disappointing that that petition was closed in January 2023. Now, potential swimming pool closers present further obstacles to providing crucial swimming lessons to children across Scotland. Swimming pools are vital community hubs for the population of Scotland. They provide crucial water safety skills, teaching more than 100,000 children each week the essential life skills of learning how to swim. They also act as part of Scotland's natural health service by safeguarding mental and physical wellbeing for all ages and inabilities. That saves the NHS an essential £357 million every year. Will the minister support swimming pool operators in keeping those vital community hubs open to provide the essential service? I thank Mr Choudhury for his subtle mention. Let me agree with him about the power of the preventative impact that swimming and, indeed, all physical health and exercise brings. The Scottish Government has been working with Scottish Swimming, Education Scotland, Sports Scotland and Scottish Water to develop interventions and approaches to provide opportunities for children to become confident, safer and competent swimmers. I touch on his particular point. Under the provisions of curriculum for excellence, schools and education authorities have the flexibility to decide upon the content of their lessons and, at the local authority level, to take into account the local needs and circumstances of all children and young people in attendance. Additionally, the Scottish Government will continue to work with Sports Scotland, our national agency for sport, to accurately understand the current swimming pool provision, lifecycle and predict a landscape in the short, medium and long-term to ensure that current and future generations have the opportunity to realise the benefits of swimming. 57 people accidentally drowned in Scotland last year, predominantly young people. The plan that the Scottish Government has to half accidental drownings by 2026 was announced four years ago, but deaths last year rose to their highest level since 2015. What impact does the Minister think that the closure of swimming pools across Scotland is going to have on that? I absolutely recognise the importance of doing all we can to ensure that we promote water safety and that all people have the opportunity to be equipped with the vital life-saving skills of swimming. Ultimately, decisions around local authority pools are a matter for local authorities. Under an exceptionally challenging fiscal settlement, we are providing £13.3 billion for local government in the coming financial year. We have now passed the budget, but, as was made very clear numerous times in that process, if members wish to see additional resources and funding for local authorities, it was incumbent upon members to identify where that funding should come from. I think that as Parliament realises that there were no credible alternative proposals put forward and Parliament has subsequently passed the budget. Thank you. I am concise questions and responses. I appreciate it as ever. Question 4, Pauline McNeill. To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with the Scottish Prison Service regarding the lifting of all Covid-19-related restrictions in prisons. The Scottish Government receives regular updates from the Scottish Prison Service on Covid-19 recovery within prisons. The only remaining restrictions are testing pathways and isolation for those who are symptomatic or test positive. Ask that out in the SPS Covid-19 transition plan. In the event of an outbreak, further restrictions can be reinstated. The prison service is prioritising restoration to further rehabilitative regimes, whilst balancing the need to protect the health and wellbeing of those living, visiting and working in our prisons. I raise the question because on November 22, HM chief inspector of prisons of Scotland, Wendy Sinclair-Gabyn, noted in her annual report that there was now no reason why prisons cannot return to regimes at least as open as they were before the pandemic, and I know that the minister supports the view that it is particularly important relation to routinely access to fresh air. Today, the Scottish Prison Service website still refers to a transition plan from July 22, and it was due to be reviewed in October 22. No statement has since been made about lifting all of the restrictions, and there is no way of knowing which regimes have remained in which have reverted to pre-pandemic status. I wonder if the interests of transparency and human rights concerns will the minister agree that it is time for the Scottish Prison Service to make it absolutely clear as to when all restrictions plan to be lifted? I thank Pauline McNeill for that question. Despite the required caution taking around lifting of the Covid-19 restrictions, given the close nature of the prisons, we are very aware of the reports that she does reference. The SPS operations directorate on the process of collecting information from establishments to establish any further support that may be required to maximise purposeful activity within each establishment, and we will seek to keep members informed. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on improvements to rail journeys in Fife. Jenny Gilruth. As a frequent user of ScotRail's Fife rail services, I am aware of the challenges with the operation of the current timetable. That has been compounded by the poor performance and availability of diesel trains in ScotRail's fleet on which Fife services are dependent. ScotRail will review Fife service provision in the next phase of the fit for the future timetable exercise to make sure that lessons are learned from the current performance, and as part of that review, the member has been invited to a meeting that I am hosting with Fife MSPs and ScotRail to discuss those matters in more detail. Anna-Bill Ewing. I thank the minister for her answer and I very much welcome the minister's commitment to include Fife rail service provision within the next timetable review, and I look forward indeed to the meeting offered by the minister. But can the minister say to those of my constituents who might be listening today when it will be that my constituents such as, for example, those in North Queensferry will in fact be able to get direct trains around Fife during the day and when their commute to Edinburgh will be in trains where they are not packed in, like Sardines. I thank the member for her question. I have to advise that my train to work this morning was not packed like Sardines. I had three carriages and plenty of seats, but nonetheless the member and I had a very useful conversation with my officials in Transport Scotland last year. Here I am being heckled from a sedentary position. I use our nationalised rail services very regularly. I would encourage other members to do likewise. That, in part, has led to the review of Fife service provision. Let us hear the minister, thank you. I welcome the input on behalf of our constituents. Since the member and I met with Transport Scotland, there have been some improvements to service provision. For example, ScotRail have advised that, in period 11, which ended on 7 January, 91.7 per cent of trains arriving at or terminating at Inver Keithing met the public performance measure compared with 90.9 per cent for Fife circle trains as a whole, notwithstanding, I am sympathetic to the specific issue in relation to the Fife circle and timetabling for Mr Ewing's constituents. I will ensure that ScotRail provides Mr Ewing with an update on that point when we meet next month. Presiding Officer, to ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its hydrogen action plan, including regarding the role that local authorities can play in defining demand. In December 2022, we published our finalised hydrogen action plan, setting out the actions over the course of this Parliament, necessary to support the development of the hydrogen economy in Scotland. The development of a domestic hydrogen sector and hydrogen production for exports supported by a strong supply chain will play an important role in supporting a just transition to net zero by 2045 and also present a significant long-term economic opportunity. We continue to work with our agency partners and local authorities to deliver on those actions. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. Can I ask what role sport agencies that he represents, such as HIE, Scottish Enterprise and South of Scotland Enterprise, alongside our university sector, will play alongside local authorities in developing supply chain capacity? Our enterprise agencies and our university sector will play a very important part in helping to build and support our hydrogen supply chain and the capacity within that sector. We work in a collaborative fashion at bringing together all parts of the sector, both public, private and academic sectors, to help to support the development of the hydrogen economy. Of course, our agencies can provide grants and loans and advice to organisations that are looking to develop hydrogen proposals and also our enterprise agencies work with our universities to help to take forward key aspects of research that are critical to supporting the development of hydrogen projects. 7. Rachael Hamilton To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the possible extension of the Bode Israel way through Huig to Cullisle. Minister Jenny Gilruth In October 2022, the Minister for Business and I met with the Borderlands inclusive growth deal partners to discuss the growth deal commitment partners had separately asked for a meeting with the UK Government by understanding that that did not happen. Nonetheless, it was agreed that the failure of UK Government ministers to engage at that stage was hampering progress. Scottish ministers subsequently wrote to our UK counterparts on 21 October to urge for progress on their side and a response was received from Lord Offord of Garville and Humennu Minn MP on 26 January, some three months later. Regional partners are now working to prepare costed proposals for scoping work to move forward on the possible extension of the Bode Israel way to Cullisle, and my officials in Transport Scotland will continue to provide support as needed. Of course, the Scottish Government commitment of up to £5 million towards this remains. Rachael Hamilton I thank the minister for that answer. Campaigners are keen to see the railway extended to improve transport links to the borders and beyond and to improve our economy and give it a much needed boost. Would the minister agree to meet with me and the members of the campaign for Bode Israel to provide us with a timetable for the possible extension of the railway and the timetable for the feasibility study? I have met already with the campaign group on a number of occasions. The member needs to reflect that the work itself is for regional and local partners to progress and to lead on. It is also worth remembering that the delay in progressing the commitment itself was directly impacted by the political turbulence in the United Kingdom Government during 2022. What that meant in practice was essentially that DFT officials couldn't engage as they normally would with Transport Scotland. It is perhaps the reason that no DFT officials attended the meeting that we had in October, where other partners, including Scottish ministers, were present notwithstanding. I recognise significant constituency interests, Ms Hamilton has. I have been more than happy to meet with the campaign group again, and I cannot commit to a timescale, because the work is being led by local and regional partners. It is for them to dictate the timescale in that respect. To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact of Brexit on investment in Scotland. In light of reports that Brexit has cost the UK economy £29 billion in lost investment. Cabinet Secretary, Angus Robertson. It is not surprising that investment has underperformed since the Brexit referendum. Many businesses in Scotland continue to report additional challenges, barriers and trade costs due to Brexit. That inevitably will act as a constraint on business investment in Scotland. Previous Scottish Government analysis has shown that Scotland's business investment could be 7.7 per cent lower in the long run due to Brexit. Evelyn Tweed. Can the cabinet secretary name one benefit to Scotland of Brexit because I can't? Cabinet secretary? No, I can't think of any advantages either. This Government warned before the EU referendum that Brexit would cause significant economic and social harm to Scotland, and so it has proved. The fact is that there are no benefits to be had from Brexit. It posed on us against our democratic will, which is one reason why Scotland needs to be able to choose our own future in an independence referendum.


Hey friends today, we are hanging out in Paris. I am so excited to be here as most of you know This is the first time I've ever left the United States and I've been able to go to London and Paris within one week I'm gonna roam around the city and share my experiences with you We're gonna check out all the sights to see and eat some of the delicious food and just have a beautiful Paris kind of day Anyhoo's Let's go do this The fact that I woke up this morning and walked out of my hotel and this was the view Literally almost made me tear up and I am so excited to be here I'm not even joking with you when I say I literally walk out my door and immediately see the Eiffel Tower And that is just so crazy and awesome and in fact, I think that's where we're gonna start the day off We're gonna head to the Eiffel Tower The Eiffel Tower is definitely 100% bigger than I thought it was and I think you could take an elevator all the way to the top So that's what we're gonna go do The wait to get up into the Eiffel Tower can be a long wait Two to four hours just to buy the ticket So we opted in to actually get a tour guide that's gonna give us access right up to the top And I'm so excited.  We have our little own tour guide of Eiffel Tower We do have to go through security before we go in the Eiffel Tower And you just can't bring some of the usual suspects of things, but it should be pretty easy The tour cost us 120 euros But trust me when I say it really comes in handy because you can make prior reservations But they sell out days in advance and if you come here Later in the evening like I said, you would have to wait two to maybe three hours just to buy the ticket So it's pretty nifty and ask if you're staying around at the hotels Ask your concierge if they know any good tours or anything like that because they could probably help you find out how to get tickets Once you get inside they actually have a ticket where you can climb the steps Or they have a ticket where you can take the lift up either way the line is always backed up But look at how massive this is when you're at the base. I mean, this is gonna be amazing I am so excited. It looks so beautiful I am very excited to visit Disneyland Paris, which we are gonna do I think tomorrow Today's just about exploring the city doing all the fun stuff and as you can tell like I'm very excited I'm wearing all my Disney 100 Roosevelt gear. I've got the special little Disney 100 Roosevelt hat and then also my hoodie and I cannot wait It's gonna be such a great time. I probably stick out like a sore thumb though If you do end up bringing any of the things that aren't allowed they give you a little box that you can actually Kind of dispose of them and look at this. Yeah, butter knives. You got locks bottles scissors Is that a steak knife? Why is somebody walking around with a steak knife? Yeah, the butter knife I don't understand the steak knife I don't understand the lock it's her for that locket area lock for the bridge Yeah for the bridge, but it's just so funny. Isn't it? Look at it on there I feel like I should contribute something I'm gonna try my best when ever I tried to pronounce certain places Here in Paris itself because I don't speak French and I'm not really good at pronunciation so I'm gonna like I said, I'm gonna do my best and Try to learn a little bit why I'm here as well This is the lift to actually get up to the off. Oh, there it goes I can't wait. It seems like we're going like a big slant They definitely pack a lot of people in here, I think it's over 50 people 56 57 it's a double decker. Oh, it's a double decker elevator double becker a double becker That's also one of the first no smoking signs I've seen in France We're going back bring me back up Okay, so we made it to the second floor we have to transfer over to another life to go all the way up But I do have to give you guys a warning. It's gonna be a little bit windy up there So it might mess with the audio especially with the the mic cover on there, so I'll try my best to cover it. Oh Yes, look at this view. Holy moldy. Oh my lord Wow, I Have never seen such a beautiful view before Wow It's gorgeous up here The Eiffel Tower has been painted many colors over the years and in fact like I mentioned when they first built it It was only supposed to be here for 10 years So they've had to repaint it 20 times and because they are hosting the Olympics coming up They are repainting it again, and they're painting it gold But the color that they have right now is Eiffel Brown, and that's actually a trademarked color Eiffel Brown And to think we are only halfway there. We still have to go all the way up there That's crazy. Isn't it? Eiffel Brown Another fun fact there has been an elevator inside the Eiffel Tower since it first opened in the 1800s, so that's why it was such a Modern marvel because there was an outdoor elevator and it was actually made by Otis Which is still in operation today a lot of elevators you may get into you'll see Otis on there And I think that's just so cool. You know what I mean? I always thought you know I mean elevators were such a modern thing, but it's literally been here since the opening We actually have a really cool treat because we get a preview of what the gold Eiffel Tower is gonna look like And it's not really that gold, but you can see this is where it separates right here Here's a good point right here. You can see one side of the other look at that This is Eiffel Brown. This is Olympic gold. We can call it. I think On this second floor. They also have a little shop. They have some food They have some place to get some drinks I really think we need to get some champagne and sip it on the Eiffel Tower. That is definitely Something to check off the bucket list One of my favorite little fun facts that I learned is this large black building straight ahead of us This was constructed and they said the 1960s To make Paris look a little bit more modern and it kind of ruins the sight line itself And the French people were so upset about it. There were plans to actually make four of them And after the first one was constructed they the French people went on strike and they stopped the other three buildings from getting built and Eventually made it known that no other buildings could actually Tower higher than seven floors. I think they said I think they said seven floors and to this day They call it the French middle finger and it kind of looks like it You have to kind of go all the way around the Eiffel Tower to get just views of Each side of it, you know, I mean, there's a different sight line from each one And I'm gonna try to show you the best that I can it is so stunning though from what I saw already This is the other viewing area and this one's a beautiful one too because you can see Notre Dame you can see the Louvre over there I really kind of want to go to the Louvre and then also Concreuse Square where they actually had the guillotine there and that's where they actually cut people's heads off And isn't it just amazing? I mean this is Stunning. I I just I really do love it here In fact the last time somebody was beheaded was in 1970 1970 so that wasn't that long ago. It was also the same time Star Wars came out so people were watching Han Solo or Harrison Ford and Also getting their heads cut off I'm not even sure if this works or not, but you really don't even need it I mean you can I mean you can use it to get a closer look at things But you kind of get it all in one shot already. Look at that Incredible All right, we're gonna try to make our way to the top get in this separate elevator There's two different elevators like I mentioned It's very very windy And crowded everybody's getting warm from the body heat Wow That was such a long ride up, but it was really cool and the one part is actually outside And I think you can buy champagne up here. We're gonna look for some champagne I Know we're not all the way up. I can't believe we're all the way up. We actually have to go up more stairs To get all the way up This is actually all the way up Wow Holy wow This is a view Before I was talking about how there were multiple sides you can see almost everything from one up here Incredible You can see gusto Eiffel inside there. How cool is that? Wow This is such a cool thing to see and if you ever watched Tomorrowland this kind of reminds me of that scene.  At the very top you can actually purchase champagne caviar macarons or macarons and They actually come in a little collectible box 24 euro. I think I'm gonna get some champagne Look at that a little bubbly celebrate the occasion It is very windy so the sound probably isn't the best But we got ourselves some rosé and then here's the macarons. Look at that. That is such a cute little thing. Oh Wow I think I'm gonna get some too Cheers to the Eiffel Tower. Look at us all the way up Very good rosé Now I'm gonna try some of my macarons here. I think this is pistachio and that's my favorite so Pistachio first actually I'm gonna do it this way because I feel like it's more appropriate with the view in the background You know so my first Eiffel Tower macarons It is pistachio and it is amazing I might get another Look at that That's a good macarons.  I mean that's a long drop I'm sure people have lost their cell phones. You can only imagine what happens to them, right? Oh, man Well, would it hit the second floor? I don't even know what it hit the second floor. Oh, yeah Well that was remarkable I loved visiting the Eiffel Tower and now I think we're gonna make our way across the street Maybe get on a big bus maybe do some sightseeing Now that we've accomplished going all the way up to the top of the Eiffel Tower We actually just came across the road and I think they have a little market over here. Look at this There is quite a lot to do in Paris and one of the things I'm most excited about is going to see Mulan Rouge And we are doing that tonight. We're actually gonna see Mulan Rouge in Paris and that is gonna be epic I can't wait to actually show you that because that's something I've always dropped it doing We stumbled upon a nice little market in here and I think I'm gonna browse around a little bit Maybe get something to eat. Oh my lord This looks too good There's so much food. This is a nice spot Oh I don't even know where to begin Right, there's a lot. There's a lot in here. Holy moly We might we might have to pull Steve and get an app or all spritz to start off with before we head back down Yes, we should we got to get an app or all spritz for Steve. This is this will be for you Steve Cheers Steve cheers buddy boy I spilled it Take a look at this little cheese stand here. Well Italian stand They've got the cheese blocks right out front looks like they're tossing them right inside there.  Oh over here. I'm actually cooking up hamburgers Fresh hamburgers Hamburger Lee, New York. Oh the Lee, New York actually looks pretty good little steak frets. Wow I'm kind of torn. I don't know what to get. I'm hungry. Look at the Lee Royale Everything looks amazing on this little market right here This smell coming out of this place is just phenomenal looking at all the food. I'm getting super hungry now Oh, yeah, it looks like it is look at this Wow, I just had breakfast, but I'm ready for more That market is actually really fun and it's nice because it's right next to the Eiffel Tower Super touristy, but still it's very nice and it's very convenient And now I'm up on the bridge where I get a better look at the Eiffel Tower and wow, it's impressive Every single building I've seen so far just looks immaculate and so cool I'm sure it's a little bit windy out. So you might hear some wind from the mic, but look at that Isn't that a view? All of this is I could stand here for such a long time and just look at everything You have to be aware though. This is a touristy area just like Times Square So there's a lot of you know crime and people actually picking on tourist and unexpected You know bystander. So please be careful I think now we're gonna move out of the Eiffel Tower area hop on one of the big buses the double-deckers and Go explore around the city a little bit Public transportation is probably the cheapest and fastest way to get around But I like taking the big buses because you get a higher perspective when you're sitting up top and for me Filming stuff it kind of makes more sense. You know what I mean, and it can get super cold So make sure you're wearing a nice little comfy coat It was 59 is a $59 euro 59 euro 59 euro and we actually get to do the hop-on hop-off and then the river cruise once You can't hop on hop off for the river cruise But we do have any time to actually go do it and this is good for 24 hours A whole 24 hours and the boat is good any time. Oh, yeah, the boat is good any tiny time You look so fancy.   That's the only way. This is the way. This is the way They actually have a really nice narration that gives you some history about the city too. They give you some headphones Put it to 11 This literally might be the prettiest bus tour. I think I've ever been on better than New York better than London. This is gorgeous This is beautiful. I wish you can actually hear what I'm listening to I tried putting the Headphones on the mic, but I don't know if it came out, but it is so awesome and very like knowledgeable Well, not knowledgeable very educational But take a look at this Notre Dame Wow Look at it Holy moly It's actually an island. I just found out from the Audio recordings and they're repairing it because of the fire, but that's amazing. I Think we're gonna keep making our way on the big bus all the way to the Louvre and I'm excited There's a lot of great things I want to check out in there and this whole area right here is beautiful Tommy Hill figure right on the corner there. Look at that. Oh look at Olympia Look at this beautiful view looking down this street right here I also want to use some of the public transportation here. You guys know I love that, but this is beautiful The big bus was such a great idea and like I said, we have 24 hours We can get on and off as much as we like plus we can still do the riverboat And now we're gonna kind of take off from here on foot so that we can get a little bit closer to the Louvre But Oh, I wish we were on an Uber boat slowly I didn't get to do in London. I wanted a Uber boat This trip has been non-stop and I've been loving every single second of it But I think we need to stop and get some coffee and let me tell you something the coffee that I've had so far here in Paris and Just in France has been spectacular some of the best coffee I've ever had in my whole entire life and we have this nice little spot right here Right outside sitting on a table drinking some coffee and the views are always just so beautiful Look at this Find Distinguished gentlemen right here You know you're doing it right when you're having coffee and champagne together He up darling Honestly, I'm so hyped up from all this coffee. I don't stop though like it doesn't stop yours looks really good What is it cappuccino little cappuccino? Look at that beautiful and like my coffee like let me show you how frothy this is I already kind of like look at this Look at that I'm not even joking when I say I tiered up a couple times already Just just today just today like not like just emotional You know everyone can get a little emotional, but right now. I'm having a moment. I'm enjoying my life right now I'm enjoying what I'm looking at drinking coffee and just really Catching a vibe You know if there's one thing I would love to do in Paris It's rent one of those scooters and drive around a little bit even if it's a two-person one Me and you Hold the back of you like dumb and dumber Can you imagine I was just good with them rather From a spittle field all over again This is definitely one of the coolest things I think I've ever seen can you guys see the building it's it's like it's invisible It's all mirrors and that's the skyline right there.  I wish I can clean that off. I would clean it off right now I'm gonna mop that floor gonna make it shine. We're gonna take off the spray paint with turpentine It looks like we've made our way to the Louvre gonna go see Mona Lisa a lot of other artwork I also want to go back and see the the thinking man the actual thinking man. Oh, wow. This is big Oh, man, that'd be awesome Da Vinci code Robert Langdon We're walking in the backside here, and I think we're gonna be coming out to like the big glass pyramid Hope and here comes the pyramids. I knew it. This is awesome. Look at this Wow This is something else isn't it? Holy moly. I feel like I just got transported into a different world Well, I got goosebumps. I literally did I this is unbelievable It's honestly overwhelming how beautiful and amazing it is here I just keep on like spinning in circles. I'm trying to keep the video like in a nice flow But it's so hard when I'm just like Geeking out. I'm an emotional wreck I'm just full of happiness and it's it's beautiful. Everything is just so beautiful here This is by far my favorite destination. I already know this I like I've only been here for a couple of hours, and I already know that I'm gonna love Paris forever We have been stopping quite frankly the just to sit down and take in the atmosphere It's really awesome how everywhere you go in Paris they have outdoor seating so you can actually sit down enjoy drink a little champagne smoke a cigarette because They're smoking everywhere if you wanted to in fact, I might indulge in a cigarette might not might actually have one You know be like Walt Disney There is a nice little cafe or restaurant right next or right inside the Louvre here And I think we're gonna sit down and maybe grab maybe a drink Having some rosé Beautiful right look at this. It's probably the best place to actually sip on some rosé, you know I feel fancy. I've been feeling fancy since I got here Non-stop fancy the fancy meter is at 11 As amazing as this place is it looks like the Louvre is closed on Tuesdays Tuesdays, that's what we get for not planning Yeah, but it's all about the experience and we're gonna come back and visit it But it would have been nice to show you I would have loved to seen you know Mona Lisa in there and plus There's a lot more you know I mean I know we say Mona Lisa because that's the most iconic thing that you would think of immediately But yeah in due time we will we will be back we will Me and DTH just actually hopped up on those blocks and took photos Touching the top of the pyramid, and it was fun. It was fun. It's good time. It's fun Yeah Now I think we're gonna move along come back on a day. That's not Tuesday today Bloody Tuesday Today is gonna be the day that they're not opening up the Louvre By now we should have somehow realized that we need to plan For some reason I feel much more colder here in Paris than I did London and I'd like the same temperatures But I think it's more windy and chilly. I think that's what's happening But maybe because we're by the water right now. It was very cold underneath the Eiffel Tower though I felt like it was a wind tunnel As you're walking around outside the Louvre they actually have a lot of art Like little kiosk here, and it's really pretty. Oh look at Mickey Mouse right here. Look at that fancy. I Like that. You got Betty Boop there You've got Babar. It's really nice. All of this is nice some comics Maybe I get some some art, you know Well, there's the Mona Lisa All the nice iconic spots to come visit. I'd like to see the Eiffel Tower at night That's got to be pretty pretty. It's got to be pretty pretty, you know Since we can't get into the Louvre today. We decided to make our way up to the Basilica Sacred Heart of Mamatra. I think I'm saying it right, but yeah We've seen it when we were up at the Eiffel Tower and it looked beautiful So we figured we'd go up there and check it out And I'm sure it's gonna look even better in person once we get there And holy moly. I was right. Look at that Wow, this is awesome What a monument right here. I mean Tremendous It's really cool to see all these love locks up here and also to see where we just came from This is the view from Sacred Heart But then you can see the Eiffel Tower all the way over there That's where we are actually on the top there and wow. This is truly a Amazing thing to see Wow look at that Very busy up here. I mean we're far out of like, you know Paris like away from the Eiffel Tower and everything like that It was only about a 20-minute ride. So it's not too bad. It's very artsy up here You can see some you know music and street performers and they even sell art on the courtyard itself Oh, wow. Look at these stairs Look at this We're gonna see if we can actually just go inside I think we can We're lining up or something and they're saying stuff over the loudspeaker. So I'm assuming it's just a walk-through Once we get inside I'm not gonna be able to film much I think I can film the entryway they say no filming but I mean a lot of people walk around with their phones But I want to be respectful and also they asked everyone to be quiet so I just want to give you guys a heads up, but we're going inside and I'm pretty sure it's gonna take my breath away Silence from this point on though guys, but I'll show you some on the inside that was really amazing in there and you can light a candle if you want to they have little spots where you can drop some euros or they even had electronic payment that you can tap your card and Donate to light a candle. It was really cool to see that in person. It was really something else something very special Now we're gonna make our way to the top for the panoramic view from the dome actually But to make our way up to the top we have to go down below Look at this This is so fancy. Oh Wow, I know look at that I Think we're actually gonna be walking up the steps to get there which is gonna be kind of interesting. I Had no idea there was this many steps in here.  I am very out of breath right now 292 steps up here, and it was a narrow climb But I'm so glad I did it. I I paid $7 to climb 292 steps and this view is worth every single dollar or every single euro Just look at how amazing this is what of you holy moly This is stunning isn't it I can't oh This is beautiful. I want to go sit at that park down there huh 292 steps well worth it You can see the French middle finger from here and The Eiffel Tower right on over there look at that. Oh Yeah, you can see the rain literally coming down That's impressive That was incredible, and now we're gonna roam around near the actual Sacred Heart kind of Near the artsy area That's what they said this was But they have an Irish pub This area is honestly what I always pictured Paris like being like it's actually really artsy and very nice Amazing restaurants tons of artists doing street art a lot of portraits And now we need to get something to eat But it's hard to decide because there's literally so many different restaurants that all look amazing and it's hard to pick one Out of all the restaurants we decided to actually eat right here And it actually has a lot of great things on the menu. I might try pizza in France I mean a lot of places sell pizza hamburgers hot dogs, but I want to get stuff that's you know like French cuisine So it's tar. It's tough. I was gonna say it's tar because I was looking at the Tartare de beef. Oh, I might get steak frites That would be a good thing to get here and maybe even some crepes. It all looks amazing I'm gonna tell you guys something. It was so hard getting to the top of The church itself. I really It was a lot and I feel lucky that I was able to record my way down And I'll probably post that on Instagram like do an Instagram real I'm gonna time-lapse my whole entire like climb down my descent and I think there were more steps Almost every place we stopped I've gotten a coffee and we're actually gonna be getting a lot of food here I really do want to try a lot. I got to get some of the French onion soup I love how all these cars are driving through here. There are like literally like such a tight corridor That's really I would never be able to do it. I would never be able to do it But anyways, we're gonna get some soup. We're gonna get some prawns.  I can't wait to see the charcuterie board I'm not a big fan, but I know that you are.  I feel like I should get a blanket now. I really do feel like I should get a blanket now The first round of food has already arrived we have the pizza I had to try pizza here and then we've got the prawns over here and then that's the charcuterie board But you still got meats coming too, right? The fromage. Yeah, and then we've got French onion soup the Rib rib eye steak and that's it. Yeah, so we don't have that much food. I mean, all right We got a lot of food. Nobody in Paris eats like we do. Oh, well, this is more or less I just want a sample. Yeah, we want to sample be fancy At this point, it's just a level of curiosity and now it's time to try some French pizza here Now I want to try a prawn. Oh wow, look at this. That's a big prawn right there Isn't it? That's a big prawn Some delicious prawns The prawns are good very sweet. Wow The pizza was made the prawns were okay But now the main courses come out and take a look at this This is the rib steak with the bernet sauce and the fritz and then there's all the charcuterie with the meats over there And now I'm gonna dive in and get my first bite The best thing is that I have my French onion soup that I can actually dip this in to give it just a little bit more flavor So here we go Okay That's good That's a winner If you want to get extra dangerous you take a little bit of this a little bit of that and let it just sit for a second Oh, yeah, and a little bit of this That's the way that is that's the bite I'm throwing in the towel. I'm completely full and it was a good meal. I love this whole experience It's time to head back to the hotel. I'll show you around a little bit and then Mulan Rouge. I'm so excited Our hotel is the Juliana here and it's a very nice hotel. I can't wait to show you guys this I'll even give you a little room tour Look how fancy it is in here when you first walk in you've got some sheep back here And the one thing that caught my attention is this cool chair that they have in the lobby here It's right here. I always want to point out this chair. Look at this. I Feel like Gaston would sit in that chair It's kind of funny because the room to my door is behind another door and I've never seen that before So this is my room over here and look at this You go in this door right here. So that's my room number 506 and then I Have like another door 506 it's like I have a front porch. I've got a front porch to my door Here is my room and I love it. It's a great hotel room It's very cozy and it has some awesome art on the walls And I love how I have this little couch in front of the bed. The bed is incredible I love the backdrop there. It's so nice. It kind of reminds me a little bit of the Haunted Mansion I got a little desk area have my computer up and I'm editing some videos TV this is the entrance way right here and Then over here you have like this little tiny like Hallway that leads into the bathroom and then the bathroom itself It's really cool because it has this awesome stand-up shower this deep tub This tub is so deep and then honestly I made a mistake because I thought this was all like one stand and I sat Like a drink on here and it just fell down because that's the sink itself The toilet is a little strange though.  And then you got a phone in the bathroom some towels the works. This is a great room I like it here a lot. There's not much of a view though because we're literally in like the main area But this is what you could see outside the window now that we got the room tour taking care of it's time to head back out and Go to dinner When we first came back it was raining outside So this time I'm gonna be a little bit prepared because the hotel actually has Umbrella is to take with you and they're the fancy umbrellas the ones you can walk with look at that. I Feel pretty fancy with an umbrella. Look at that perfect only hit by a car Now it is time for Mulan Rouge. Look at this. I am so excited Tonight's gonna be such a great night. This is the best Alright, it is time for us to head in to see Mulan Rouge and I am so excited. I'm about a hundred percent positive I'm not gonna be able to film in there, but I'm sure I'm gonna be able to film Just the beginning part like as we get seated and stuff like that and then once the show actually comes on They'll probably make an announcement that says no filming, but I'll make sure to recap it with you once we're done And I'm so excited like this is a it's a big deal While this place is actually very busy I am so interested in this show. It's gonna be amazing. Oh, they're turning the lights That is Thank you Cheers cheers to Mulan Rouge A bottle of champagne is included with your ticket prices and you actually sit with other people at a table It's kind of like communal Seating itself. We have a nice spot though. The stage is right here and it's a full show full show That was by far one of the most entertaining things I have ever seen from the beginning I was on the edge of my seat. I was gasping. I was laughing. I was singing It was so good like it exceeded my expectations Amazing I would highly suggest if you guys ever get the chance and you're here to see it here because that was breathtaking Wow, I can't even that was I mean, I don't even know what to say I don't know how to continue the night now, but we must we must continue Seriously, that's a life moment right there for me. I can't believe I got to see Mulan Rouge in Paris It was incredible and tickets were like 110 euro and plus you got that whole bottle of champagne So it's honestly not that bad of a deal We decided to hang out in the same area as Mulan Rouge and we made our way down to a little karaoke bar little karaoke bar in Paris Honestly from the outside this place looks pretty amazing and there's a lot of cool lights happening in there Look at this place Oh I never thought I would say I would be singing karaoke in a karaoke bar in Paris, but We did and I loved it and That was that was pretty fun Pretty awesome. My boy. I'm losing my voice. Oh, I mean it was a good time and now, uh, I don't know I guess we'll keep going starting to rain a little bit though Now And with that, I think we are done here today an epic first day in Paris. I love it here so much It's so beautiful. My voice is actually like I'm losing my voice because I was singing and having fun And uh, yeah, uh, probably tomorrow we'll start with Disneyland Paris videos I'm very excited to share those with you because it's going to be my first time actually going to that park And uh, this whole trip has been Amazing, honestly Roosevelt's are such a great company for having me out at the boot that star wars celebration I would never be able to make any of this happen without them And I just wanted to say thank you guys guys are just like family to me honestly at this point and I just uh I'm completely like blessed. I love it so much. So I hope you enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it We'll see you next time Bye