LAKE TAHOE VLOG ☀️ wakesurfing, Gar Woods + practicing our first dance

Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Sonali. Welcome back to a new vlog. We are in Lake Tahoe and I've never been here before. The drive up here was so unreal. I feel like I haven't really explored a lot of northern states and it just looked so different than what I'm used to, obviously. And the water, like we weren't even super close to the water, but it looks stunning. We're here visiting our friends Andy and Dane. They have like a family house out here and they used to live in Austin, but now they moved to Charleston, which is so sad. But it gives us an excuse to do fun trips like this to see them. We drove through the town and it looked so cute. Like everything's like a log cabin. I don't even know what I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting that. And it's so cute. We're going to have dinner and drinks tonight. We're staying in this cabin and me and Kiana did rock, paper, scissors to get this upper room because it's a little bit bigger. Well, actually a good bit bigger. Depends if she wins and then no. And is it rock, paper, scissors, shoot? Yeah. Yeah, it's big. Hey, you ready? The comeback. Now I feel bad. I'm wearing a pretty simple outfit. I got my park denim jacket on, a white tank top, my Saison belt. Sorry, this is probably like the worst angle. I'm just like some jeans. So we're going pretty casual tonight, but tomorrow I think we're going to dress up. Andy had planned out like a whole itinerary for us. I mean, they come here often, so they know where to go, what to do. So I'm just excited to explore. We're going to Charpit. I'm going to get some burgers, hopefully. Oh, look at this road. It looks so cool. The girlies are back together. Coconut frozen lemonade. Good morning. We didn't chat too much yesterday. We got in pretty late and then we were going to go to dinner and dinner was so good. Charpit for burgers and onion rings. So yummy. I did start feeling a little sick though last night. I'm not feeling better today. I thought it was allergies and I've been having some allergy issues like back in Austin earlier this year and I got on steroids. I don't know if I mentioned this to you guys, but now I'm just like feeling it like actually all in my sinuses and all this stuff. But my eye is so crusty and like it hurts. It sucks to feel like just, you know, not normal on a trip that you've been looking forward to. We are going to the store to get like ice because we're going on a boat today. I'm so excited to see the water close up. I've seen so many pictures and it's funny because me and Ryan's default computer screen is like Tahoe and it's stunning. It's just like clear water. It's so beautiful that everyone's telling me like, no, you can't swim because it's so cold. It's literally water from ice and like snow. So I have so many layers on because they're like it's going to be cold. It's like 6 a.m. right now. We're going super early because they said in the afternoon it gets really choppy. So I'm layered up swimsuit, heat tech, long sleeve. I have this and then Ryan has a bunch of like windbreakers and Gore-Tex, all this stuff. So I'm going to borrow one of those. But yeah, feeling a little stuffy. It's just crazy to be in somewhere that's like so cold because like back home in Austin, like you can't even comprehend being cold, you know. Last night we did go a little bit closer to the water. It was like blue hour. So you couldn't really like see how blue like the actual ocean was because the sun was setting. I think it was music on the beach and there's so many people out. It was so cute, but it was pretty windy right next to the beach. So I was like shivering because I just had like a denim jacket on. So tonight I'm definitely going to bring my windbreaker out. Getting warmer, which is good. The sun's helping. Good morning. We're going to go boating. We're going to go wake surfing. It's going to be a good time. It's so pretty out here. I can't wait to see like the super blue water when the sun kind of like hits the water, but it's so stunning. I just braided my hair because the boat apparently is going to go fast and I'm not trying to detangle my hair, but it's so interesting because Dalton just went out on a paddleboard to get the boat. I feel like that's so cool. He's very skilled. I was very impressed. But yeah, he's bringing the boat to us to get it off the buoy. Yes. Me and Ryan are watching Sterling Point and it's very much these lake vibes. So it's the perfect time to be watching the show. Our ride is here. My dad sank the first one. Good drama. How is it? It's pretty nice, right? It's not too bad. It's nice. This is also personal. Yeah, his face says it all. He was like really struggling down there. Good luck, babe. You're going to kill it. Good job, babe. How do you feel? You do it right. Okay, I'm going to try. I don't know if I'll be good. You'll kill it. I was proud of myself for even just standing up. We don't work out for nothing, Kiana. I didn't just stand up. Yeah, she did it. She killed it. Dolan's right here, so you can jump in if you want to hang out, but he's out here. Why does it matter if I'm here? Do I want to? Is it better if I get used to it? Maybe get used to it. Oh my god. It feels amazing. Wow. Right? I feel like I'm going to bang my knees in this. Let's jump in. I know, that's what I was worried about. Okay, here we go. Can you get a little flotation device? There you go. No, lean back. Yeah, let go of the board. This is what you want to put your feet on like this. Good, good. So, Nollie, put that leg in between the S and the W, and then that leg closer to the thing. Should I put it more in the middle of the board? No, back. And then over that way for your back. Yeah, yeah. Perfect. Dig your heels in. That's good, yeah. So, lean back, dig your heels in. Those only two things going through your head right now when the boat starts, okay? When you start to feel that pulling, dig your heels in until the board stops you. Yeah. I'm so glad that I tried it because I really didn't want to. I was so nervous to try it, but I got up, and it was honestly so thrilling, almost addicting. I wanted to do it again and again. But we dried off, and now we're just bopping around on the boat. It's so fun. We just stopped at Garwoods and got their signature drink. I think it's called a Wet Woody. A Wet Woody is a frozen rum-based drink. And then you add more rum on top. And then you add a floater on top. But they're incredible, especially on a boat day. And you get a gallon bag. A gallon. It's so good. I'm excited to try it. Anyone else got any better ideas? Why don't you break it up? He's going to slap the bag. All right, let's see. I think there's something better. I hope so. If not, then it's all we got, right? I feel like don't fill it up as much. Oh, yummy. I like it a lot. It's tropical, and they were saying there was three different rums or something. That scared me. But you can't really taste the alcohol, which is my favorite kind of cocktail. Ryan, you got one? So I think I have to move to California. It's official. My hair has not been this shiny since I was probably in high school living in Georgia. And you guys, I didn't even wash it. I got in the lake, as you guys saw. And we decided we're going to go back out on the lake tomorrow. So I washed our hair. And that water is just so clear. When you're going wake surfing, you do ingest a lot of that water, unfortunately. But I was not freaking out about it. Well, this sounds a little bit weird, but it tasted so fresh. It literally is from the compared to Austin water. That would be a little bit concerning if I was ingesting all that water. But I am just like, wow, my hair looks so good for not washing it. Tonight is our more dressy night. So I got a little cute Target dress on. I'll try to get a clip of it when we're out and about. I was thinking about wearing pants because it was freezing last night. But I think I'm just going to have to bear the cold because my other outfit that I had planned looked like a waiter. It wasn't the vibe that I thought it was. So we're going to have to go with the dress and my legs might be cold, but we'll see. I'm going to just bring like an extra windbreaker jacket. I think all of us are so tired right now. I mean, our bodies and just obviously we woke up so early. I didn't really nap like I usually do on boat days. I like literally fall asleep for like a good 30 minutes. But today I probably like snoozed in and out for like five minutes. I've already drank in one Diet Coke today and I'm definitely going to have another one right now just to like rally and revive myself. Tonight we're going back to Garwoods because we actually went there on the boat to get that frozen drink. That's where it was from. They actually had some cute merch. So I might buy something there because I'm just like in the mood to buy some cheesy merch, whether it's from that restaurant or like Lake Tahoe. I don't know if they have gift shops or something. All ready for dinner. I love that we're matching in our browns. But we're going to go over to the other house. So they have two houses. This one they rent out and the other one is their family house. So we're going to go over there and that's like the really really pretty lake view. We're going to just hang out pregame a little and then we're going to go to Garwoods. And Andy, I love her because she literally has a content hour on the itinerary. And it's so funny because it's like a couple's trip and usually you would only do that for like girls trips. But yeah, she knows it's important. Yes. Cute. Cute. I honestly haven't vlogged in a while and I told Ryan it's just so hard for me to like pick up a camera and start vlogging because I haven't vlogged in a while. It's almost like a habit. So we're just going to start it and it's going to be the best vlog because we're starting off the vlog in one of the most beautiful places in Austin. This is Commodore Perry. We are finally crossing off Looties on our foodie bucket list. I'm pretty sure Commodore Perry is like an exclusive members club so it's really like not accessible unless you're eating at this restaurant. I have been here for like events and stuff so I have seen it before and I've done some photo sessions here which I am trying to manifest more because it's just so gorgeous especially at this hour. We got here a little bit earlier than our reservation to like walk around, take pictures, so let's go explore. Tomato cocktail drink and I've always wanted to try like a tomatini, a tomato martini. I was just about to say it's very garden vibes because I have a tomato plant and I like love to touch the leaves and like smell it because it smells so fresh. This place is very delicious. All that's missing is like flaky salt and this will be perfect. It's so interesting, huh? You don't like it? It's like I'm bit into tomatoes. Yeah, I don't think you like tomatoes. I like tomatoes. You can see the olive oil sitting on top. I know, I love that. It's not even that weird. I have made a foodie bucket list and I can finally cross Ludi's off of it. I've already crossed Jeffrey's and CT off of it. One through ten, what are we rating it? Is it a decimal point? Yeah, sure. 6.5. Yeah. 6.8. I think the dessert okay so it's farm to table which I was really excited about. I love farm to table restaurant but it's just you know it's just annoying when it's like literally 40 something dollars for a plate and it's like you get three bites that's just absolutely nuts to me um so that kind of plays a part into it you know but I don't think it was bad but I don't think it was absolutely mind-blowing like I feel like people say and then I was really sad because I was really excited about the ice cream. I've heard so many good things about it and it was like so icy. It just like didn't really hit the spot like I really thought it would. It's funny because the three others also were kind of slightly let downs like Jeffrey's we didn't really like. It was like a smoky steak. Remember that? It was not it was not the vibe. CT was good. CT was good but we we decided that Kindy was better and I've never been to Clark's Oyster Bar here. Oh wait is it on there? No it's Austin Oyster Company. Okay because I've been there multiple times. I know I haven't. I just went there recently but um yeah so next up on our Austin bucket list is Conjay which I've heard is like so many people's top top top favorite restaurant here um the Driscoll restaurant just opened up again um I think it was like closed for a while or something like that and then Hestia which we've actually been to for an event but we haven't done like a sit-down dinner there. I think it's like Michelin recommended maybe or on the oh Michelin star um and there was this one dish that we kept going back for because they just kept handing out samples. It was delicious. It was like a corn fish dish. Oh my god I want it again but we need to go and sit down and I've heard also so many good things about Austin Oyster Company and Royo which is a um Persian restaurant I believe Mediterranean Persian. We are from Georgia and suburbs of Atlanta and we have Rumi's Kitchen there. The last time I was there we were talking to the waiter and he was like oh my gosh like they're actually coming to Texas and he was like oh I'm pretty sure it's Austin and then I was like wait no freaking way like I was so excited and then he came back and he was like never mind it's Houston. I was like just like crush my soul why I think it's a chain you know it's like now Houston has like Nobu. Yeah I guess but Rumi's is so good. Yeah I guess but Rumi's just has a special place in my heart. We're practicing first dance. I know I was bawling for a second but they dried up so now I can vlog. You ready? We got some power on that one. Good morning it is Saturday and today I'm actually working two photography gigs. If you guys are new to the channel I'm a professional photographer here in Austin so this morning I am doing a birthday kid shoot for Kayla Borrello and then later this evening I'm doing a couple of hours at a retirement party and it's going to be at the Line Hotel so I'm excited to shoot that. Probably be home for my first gig around like 11 30 possibly 12 and then I have to leave for the next one at like 4 30. It starts at 5 30 but I always just get so anxious like I never want to be late to anything and then you never know about parking and so I'd honestly just rather wait in the car and just edit things on my phone. This morning I did not feel like doing my hair so this is what it's looking like right now but I did a full beat. Hopefully it'll take me through the day so I don't have to like retouch that later today. Last night we practiced our first dance for the first time and I didn't show you guys the song that we're doing I don't think but I was contemplating possibly getting dance lessons but honestly I've heard that they're like a thousand dollars for like eight classes but still I'm just like I don't know if I really want a choreographed dance. The main reason is because I'm already feeling like I'm gonna be so stressed out that day. I can't imagine having to remember all those dance moves but both of my best college friends did a choreographed dance and it looked amazing. It was so special and they did such a good job even the husbands like they were amazing and honestly last night I was shocked that Ryan like got some of those moves down that fast because he didn't really have a ton of rhythm especially when I first met him like I think he's gotten a little bit better. I just want some like simple dance moves that we could have in the back of our head to like add a little bit of spice because most of the time I'm thinking we'll probably just be swinging back and forth because knowing me I'll probably be crying the whole entire time. I'm not sure how much I'm gonna vlog at these photo gigs today and honestly after them I am so beat because I'm just like yapping the whole entire time telling people like how to pose, what to do. Kayla just needs me for one hour. We usually just like get a ton of content before people show up and just like family photos so that should be easy. Tonight is going to be a longer event and honestly I don't work on the weekends very often so it's kind of nice that they're stacked up on just one day because I kind of end up dreading it even though I love my job and I love being there when I am there. The logistics of it all and I guess maybe me thinking I'm always going to be running late or something might happen. That definitely is a factor of like the impending doom but we're going to kill it at our shoots. I'm just gonna go get my camera bag ready. I literally just bought a new SD card. I don't think I've done that in like two or three years but holy ---- I wish I didn't wait because somehow SD cards literally doubled in price especially the 256 gigabyte ones which I love. Those are like $300 and they used to be under $100. I'm like what the frick happened? I think I heard something about it's AI's fault but I don't really understand and that is just like such a big price jump. Hopefully it doesn't go up anymore because I don't know that's just crazy and honestly I have SD cards sitting around my house at all times so I need to be better about like taking care of those since they've gone so damn expensive. I'm gonna start some laundry before I head out because it's always nice to have it running when you're gone since there's no door. It gets so loud so I just like to try to be efficient in that way but I wanted to show you guys my outfit because I think it's so comfy and so cute. These pants I got on Amazon and they're kind of like a barrel like flowy but they have this like lace detailing on the bottom and they're just so pretty and like feminine and then I'm wearing my jellies. I'm actually really loving these. These are so comfortable like at first I didn't know how I was feeling about them but now I'm in love. They are just one of my go-tos. I love anything that I can slide my foot in and right now I'm eyeing these mule slides. They're from Brunch. I've never heard of the brand but a couple of influencers have been posting about it and they like redo the laces and I've been seeing a lot of like really cool colorful laces and charms on them to make them a little bit more fun and less boring but honestly I just like them plain. I feel like I would get a lot of use out of them so I honestly might purchase those soon but since our wedding is in Cabo in November like I feel like I'm gonna be in this summer mindset for a while until that happens and then we can like embrace the fall. I think this white t-shirt is from H&M and honestly it's a bit thick. I'm worried I'm gonna sweat. I think I got this necklace at like Target a while ago and it's like the perfect blue that matches the pants so I'll make sure to link the outfit in the description of this video. I decided I do need a little caffeine before I go so I'm gonna make a matcha but I'm gonna use some coconut water to mix the matcha. I've been obsessed with coconut water recently. I just feel like it gives a little different taste and flavor. Always got to put in a good bit of flaky salt, some vanilla syrup, favorite matcha cups are these weck jars. I'm going to put an ice in it. Oatly. Sometimes I actually like to pour the milk in here just to get all the matcha out. I'm realizing I'm very particular about like everything that I use for my matcha because I'm obsessed with these tiny chunky straws. I might need more milk. Definitely could use some more milk but it's so good yay. All right let's go down the road. We have a 40 minute drive ahead of us. She does live like kind of further out so I'm gonna have to find a good podcast to listen to. Now I feel done because this chunky ass glass does not fit in my um console. I came home and I needed to decompress for a little bit so I had a frozen Trader Joe's meal because we have not gotten groceries in so long. I usually go every Monday but for some reason we were a little bit thrown off and I was just trying to finish stuff that was already in the house. So I had many temptations on my way home. I'm currently obsessed with the chicken caesar salad wrap from Sweetgreen but I told myself I had to eat at home because yesterday's meal was pretty expensive so I was like let's just save a little bit of money. I already uploaded all the images and I need to edit a few photos for her because I want to get that sent before I go to my next event because the next event I'm gonna have to edit all of the photos and I know it's gonna be a lot because I'm gonna be there for so much longer and for my events I like to give them the photos as soon as I can get them edited so I'll probably be working on that all night tonight so I can just have like a fully free day tomorrow. I always feel so dead when I don't have a lip on but I just wanted to pick up the vlog camera and give you guys a little update. I'm just cleaning the house up a little bit. We have started some laundry. I told you guys that earlier today. I kind of want to just like get that done too because I want tomorrow to be like a free fun day not having to reset the whole house. I'll probably do a little bit of resetting tomorrow to be honest but you know I just kind of like want to get a head start on that. I did the quickest touch-up of my life. Curled my hair and just put some blush on and I'm in my Madewell dress which is like the perfect dress for photographers or like vendors of any sort when you just want to you know have like a uniform. You super helpful because then I can just have my phone on me or like an extra battery or something. There is a parade downtown so I think some roads are closed. That means I'm gonna get there extra early because like I said I get anxious. I never want to be late. Just got home from the event and this is my reward. It was an Indian family and they were so nice and they were like you should take food, you should eat. So I have some tikka masala and then I also got some cake from Suzy Cakes and I'm so excited about it. It's like almost 10 and I still want to try to edit a lot tonight so just fueling up. Update Suzy Cakes is bomb. Vanilla or chocolate? Chocolate. It is Sunday and we always love to try out new coffee shops because there are so many that we can try out a new coffee shop literally every weekend. We are at Thoroughfare in Mueller which we used to come to Mueller so often but we kind of stopped but it's such a lively place on a Sunday. There's like a soccer game going on. They have the farmer's market of course but I got a strawberry matcha with like a cloud foam so cheers. Let's try. Okay the foam is not as sweet as I wanted yes I think it's gonna be all in the bottom. Let's mix it. Oh yeah I forgot. Ryan taught me this trick to like mix your drink is to like blow bubbles into the drink. Are we doing it? Yeah give me a straw around there. Life hack. It is also a bakery and a deli and there's like a little market in there. I love looking at cute little CPG products but we got two cookies chocolate chip and what was the other one? Banana Nutella. Banana Nutella. So we'll try this later. Later. What'd you get? Ice latte with oat milk and honey. That's good. It's kind of warm. I haven't even gotten to the Nutella part yet but the banana part is so good. Very very yum. Also I just told Ryan this but I feel like coffee shops wherever they have like all the lids and the simple syrups they should have sea salt because I am kind of addicted to putting sea salt in my matcha and that would just like make this matcha like 10 times better but it's good but you know I feel like you can always like optimize to your taste. Home and we stopped in the Mueller HEB and just got a few quick groceries to just start the week off. I needed to restock my rice. I've actually been making it myself and it's not as hard as I once thought it was. I used to get those like packets seeds of change which honestly are just so good to have on hand in case like you don't have time to make rice or you just like are so hungry you cannot wait. So satisfying when it actually fits in the container. I was worried that I was going to have like leftover rice that I would just have to like leave in that plastic for a while but got our rice restocked. I haven't really been feeling super creative in the kitchen lately. I think that's probably due to just like a lot of things on my mind with the wedding and stuff but I just like want to feel inspired again. So I think I'm going to try to make some chimichurri sauce because I made this skirt steak the other week and I was absolutely obsessed with the way I marinated it and funny enough I literally just asked chat to give me like a good marinade and it said worcestershire which was so interesting, soy sauce, fresh lime juice. Like when I was doing it I was like I have no idea how this is going to taste but it was like perfectly cooked. It was so tender. I loved like a little bit of the sweetness from like the brown sugar and the soy sauce all that. It was so so good and I've been wanting to like really learn how to make skirt steak better. I'm always craving steak but the steak at the grocery stores we usually get a ribeye and that's so expensive but skirt steak is a little bit cheaper and there's like a lot of quantity so this was $23 and I feel like I could have this for today and tomorrow. Sometimes when we eat just like a ribeye it's not like a lot of food for leftovers so I'm gonna make the marinade so it can just sit for a couple of hours before dinner. It's currently 1 p.m right now. 1 fourth of olive oil, 1 fourth of soy sauce, 2 tablespoons of worcestershire, half a teaspoon of onion powder, 1 teaspoon of paprika, 1 teaspoon of black pepper, 1 tablespoon of brown sugar, 2 tablespoons of lime juice, last but not least 3 to 4 garlic cloves. I'm pretty sure for the chimichurri you also need garlic so I just went ahead and peeled a little bit more and then I'm just gonna put some of this mashed garlic in like a separate bowl for later. It's not the most impossible thing to clean this out but it is kind of annoying so might as well just do it all at once. It's really gigantic. I'm just gonna give the marinade a little stir. Oh ----. No. I got so many compliments on my set today. It is from Set Active. I'll try to link it below if it's still available. They just have like the best colorways. You know what while the kitchen's messy I might as well just make this chimichurri because I was also thinking it tastes so much better when it like sits for a while and it's not as fresh so we are going to go in with some olive oil first. Half a cup of olive oil. I'm gonna do a little less than that because that just seems like a lot. 2 tablespoons of red wine vinegar, 3 to 4 garlic cloves, about a cup of parsley, think about 2 tablespoons of oregano. You can also do some red pepper flakes. I think I might do without for now. Lastly, some salt and some pepper. Taste test. I feel like it needs a little bit more. I know it takes a lot of effort but cooking a little bit more elaborate meals just makes me feel so good and so productive and so almost creative. It's very fulfilling to me because it means I'm not doom scrolling on my phone and I'm actually like using my hands to like do something fun. I think I'm gonna make broccoli as a side. There's a lot of vegetables that Ryan doesn't like like I thought asparagus would probably go well with this but he nixed that real quick so I have to figure out how to make the broccoli. I'll probably just like put it in the oven, salt, pepper, maybe some parmesan cheese. I do think I have that in the fridge. I still have a lot of editing to do for the event last night so I think I'm gonna try to get that done because Ryan booked us a couples massage which we've never done before but we're gonna go to one of those like random places on the street like I think it's like a foot massage place if I'm not mistaken but they also have like full body massages and he was like I really want a massage. He was like asking me to crack his back and I couldn't and um anyway so we're gonna do that at 3 15. It's 1 48 so I'm gonna try to do as much editing as I can. I just want to feel free from having to do that when I get back home because I want to focus on just getting the house pristine and ready for a good start to the week. We're going to Harmony Foot Spa. Are you gonna get the walk on the back? Because Ryan asked for it to be hard for the both of us apparently. No I'm kidding I know but yeah she asked you and then they didn't even ask me and I was too scared to speak up. For a side I did some broccoli with parmesan just sprinkling on some lemon juice. Dinner is done. Not the most gorgeous plate but it's definitely going to be super super good and fresh.