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

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The video documents a couple's exciting trip to Lake Tahoe, where they visit friends Andy and Dne in their family cabin. Upon arrival, the vlogger expresses awe at the stunning scenery and the unique log-cabin architecture of the town, noting that the cold weather is a stark contrast to her home in Austin. Despite feeling slightly unwell due to allergies, she prepares for a day on the water by layering up against the freezing temperatures. The group heads out early in the morning to avoid afternoon choppy waters, with the vlogger initially hesitant but ultimately thrilled to try wake surfing for the first time. She finds the experience thrilling and addictive, successfully standing up on the board before taking a dip in the crystal-clear water that tastes surprisingly fresh compared to tap water back home. After their boating adventure, the group stops at Gar Woods, a local spot famous for its frozen rum-based signature drink called the "Wet Woody." They enjoy the tropical flavors of the beverage and purchase a large gallon bag to share on the boat. The vlogger also reflects on her decision not to wash her hair after getting in the lake, praising how shiny it remains despite being submerged. Later that evening, they attend a more formal dinner at Gar Woods, where she wears a dress from Target. The night concludes with a visit to another house for pre-game drinks before heading out to explore the local food scene, specifically visiting Commodore Perry to cross a restaurant off their Austin bucket list. The following days are filled with professional photography work and personal preparations for an upcoming wedding in Cabo. The vlogger shares her anxiety about being late to events and discusses her thoughts on practicing their first dance, weighing the pros and cons of hiring a choreographer versus keeping the moves simple. She also takes time to cook elaborate meals at home, such as marinated skirt steak with chimichurri sauce and broccoli with parmesan, finding fulfillment in using her hands creatively rather than doom-scrolling. Additionally, she mentions buying expensive new SD cards for her camera gear and trying out various coffee shops and bakeries in the Mueller neighborhood to try new drinks like strawberry matcha and banana Nutella cookies. The vlog concludes with a relaxing Sunday morning spent at a local cafe called Thoroughfare, where they enjoy fresh coffee and pastries while watching a soccer game. After grabbing groceries to restock their pantry, including rice packets for quick meals, the couple prepares a homemade skirt steak dinner with broccoli. The day ends with a couples' massage at Harmony Foot Spa, which the vlogger notes was quite intense as her partner requested a hard pressure. Throughout the video, she balances updates on her professional life as a photographer with personal reflections on her wedding planning, food experiments, and the joy of exploring new places with friends.
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[music] You guys can maybe leave your strap [music] there, but >> [music] >> Hey y'all. What's up? My name is Sali. 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 Dne. 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 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 cuz it's a little bit bigger. Well, actually a good bit bigger. >> Two out of three. >> Depends if she wins and then [laughter] >> rock paper scissors. Shoot. >> Yeah, this is big. >> You ready? >> Scissors. Shoot. >> Rock. Wait. Sorry. >> Rock, paper, scissors. Shoot. >> I haven't done in years, but the comeback. >> Now I feel bad. [laughter] >> No, she manifested it. >> 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. And 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 Char Pit. >> Going to get some burgers. Hopefully, >> I might get ribs, some chips. I don't know. Might go crazy. >> Oo, look at this road. It looks so cool. >> And then the girlies are back together. >> Yay. China's developing that'll drink your teeth. >> 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. Charit for burgers and onion rings. So yummy. I did start feeling a little sick though last night and I'm not feeling better today. Um, 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 cuz 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 cuz me and Ryan's default computer screen is Lake Tahoe and it's stunning. It's just like clear water. So beautiful, but everyone's telling me like, "No, you can't swim because it's so cold. It's literally water from ice and like the snow." So, I have so many layers on because they're like, "It's going to be cold. We're It's like 6:00 a.m. right now. We're going super early because they said in the afternoon it gets really choppy." So, um I am layered up swimsuit heat tech long sleeve. I have this and then Brian has a bunch of like uh windbreers and Gortex, 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 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 cuz the sun was setting. I think it was music on the beach and there was so many people out. It was so cute. But it was pretty windy right next to the beach. So I was like shivering cuz I just had like a denim jacket on. So tonight I'm definitely going to bring my windbreaker [music] out. It's getting warmer, which is good. The sun's helping. >> Excited. >> Good morning. We're going to go boating. We're going to go wake surfing. It's going to be a good time. >> That's like >> 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 paddle board 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 [laughter] >> and it's very much these lake vibes. So, the perfect time to be watching the show. >> Our ride is here. >> That's my dad saying the first one. the drama. >> And how is it? >> It's pretty nice, right? It's not too bad. >> It's nice. >> This is also personal. >> Yeah, the face his face says it all. He's like really struggling down there. >> Nice. >> Easy. Easy. Good luck, babe. >> You're going to kill it. >> GOOD. [screaming] GOOD. GOOD. GOOD. >> YEAH. LEAN BACK. LEAN BACK. OKAY. LEAN BACK. Lean back. Lean back. >> Turn it in. Back foot. Back foot. Yes. YEAH. >> YEAH. >> Right there. Perfect. Drop a little bit. >> Yeah, baby. >> Good job, babe. How do you feel? That >> was actually that when you do it right, it's really fun. [laughter] This be a hard one. I think so. >> Okay, I'm going. I'm going to try it. I don't know if I'll be good. Are >> you done? >> Keep going. >> But you'll kill it. I was proud of myself for even just standing up. >> We don't work out for nothing. >> Stand up. >> No, 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 he's out here. boat. >> Why does it matter if I'm here? [laughter] >> I don't want to hang out in the water. >> 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 knee into this. >> Let's jump in. >> Yo, that's very hot. Okay, here we go. >> And you got a little flotation device. So, there you go. >> How's the water? >> It's warm, huh? >> You want to try and bring your backpack on? Show me. What do you do? >> Like this. >> Or like No, like lean back. Lean back. Yeah. Let go of the board. >> Put your feet like barely on it. Like like this. This [laughter] is what you want to put your feet on. Like this. >> And Okay. >> Good. Good. >> So, Ollie, put your put that leg in between the S and the W and then that leg closer to the the >> Should I put it more in the middle of the >> back? >> And then over that way for the your back. >> Yes. >> 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 to the board stops you. >> Yeah. >> Good. Yeah. >> Good. Good. Good. Good. There you go. >> Yes. >> You're good. >> Yeah. Back. Good. Good. Good. Back. Back. >> Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. [screaming] >> Just stay there. Just chill. Just chill. Good. >> I'm so glad that I tried it cuz I really didn't want to. I was so nervous to try it, but I got up and it was honestly like so thrilling and almost addicting. Like I wanted to do it again and again. But we dried off and now we're just like boopping 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. Wet Woody is a frozen rum based drink, but >> and then you add more rum rum on top. >> 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 idea? [laughter] >> As long as you like break it up. >> Going to slap the bag. >> All right, let's see. >> I think this will be better. >> I hope so. >> Oh, my head. >> If not, then it's like it's all we got, right? >> Don't fill it up as much. gets a big one. >> So yummy. What do you think? >> I like it a lot. So good. >> It's tropical and >> they were saying there was like Did you say there was three different rooms or something? There's like Yeah. I mean, but there's a lot of different types of >> but you can't really taste alcohol, which is my favorite kind of cocktail. >> Ryan, you got one time. >> You can always surface and not get this. 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, why wash our hair? And that water is just so clear. Like you know when you're [music] going wake surfing you do ingest a lot of that water unfortunately but I was like not freaking out about it because it like well this sounds a little bit weird but it tasted so like fresh. Like it literally is from the ice um compared to Austin water. Like 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. try to get a clip of it um when we're out and about. I was thinking about wearing pants cuz 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 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 5 minutes. I've already dranken 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 cuz we actually went there on the boat to get that frozen drink. That's where it was from. They actually have some cute merch. So, I might buy something there cuz 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. >> The one that I have already like >> all ready for dinner. I love that we're matching in our browns. I know. We got the goods. >> Yes. Um 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 [music] like 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 cuz it's like a couple's trip. And usually you would only do that for like girls trips, but she knows it's important. Yes. I was >> kill. [music] >> [music] >> There you go. [music] You just grab it. [music] >> [music] [music] >> 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 Ludies 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. I got like a tomato vodka drink and I've always wanted to try like a martini a tomato martini [music] like I was just about to say it's very garden vibes cuz I have a tomato plant and I like love to touch the leaves and like smell it. It smells so fresh. This place is literally part of the table so that makes sense. Very delicious. All that's missing is like flaky salt and this would be So interesting. Huh? >> You don't like it? >> It's like a bit fit into tomato. >> Yeah. I don't think you like tomatoes as much as me. >> I don't like tomatoes. You see the olive oil sitting on top? >> I know. I love that. >> It's not even [music] Oh my goodness. I have made a fooy bucket list and I can finally cross Ludy's off bit. I've already crossed Jeff and CT off bit 1 through 10. What are we rating it? >> Is it a decimal point? >> Yeah, sure. >> 6.5. >> Yeah. >> 6.8. I think the desserts ruined it. >> Okay. So, it's farm to table, which I was really excited about. I love farm tot restaurant, but it's just, you know, it's just annoying when it's like literally $40 [music] 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 cuz 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 cuz the three others also were kind of slightly let down. Like Jeff we didn't really like. It was like a smoky steak. You remember that? It was not It was not the vibe. >> Um CT CT was good. CT was good, but we we decided that KI was better. And >> I've never been to Clark's Oyster Bar. >> Oh, wait. Is it on there? >> No, it's Austin Oyster Company. >> Okay. cuz I've been there multiple times. >> I just went there recently. But um yeah, so next up on our Austin bucket list is Con, 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. Michelin star. >> Um, and there was this one dish that we kept going back for because they just kept hand handing out samples. It was delicious. It was like a cornfish 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 Roomy'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 don't you?" >> I think it's a chain, you know? It's like now Houston has like no boo. It's like >> Yeah. >> Who cares? >> I guess. But Roomies is so good. >> You have peacock and an aba. >> Yeah, I guess. But Roomies just has a special place in my heart. We're practicing first [music] dance. >> Why are you crying? >> I know. I was I was balling for a second, but they dried up, so now I can vlog. [laughter] [music and singing] >> I guess I should probably >> you lean into this, but >> I know it's scary. [music] >> You ready? Three. Two. [laughter] >> THIS WAY. >> OKAY. NO, NO, NO, NO. >> WHAT? OKAY. [screaming] >> I can't do one hand. But how do people like >> No, I literally can't hook onto [laughter] your neck. You're so screwed. >> OKAY. 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 kids shoot for Kayla Burello. 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 12:00 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 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. But 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 $1,000 for like eight classes. But still, I'm just like, I don't know if I really want a choreograph dance. The main reason is because I'm already feeling like I'm going to be so stressed out that day. I can't imagine having to remember all of 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 can have in the back of our head to like add a little bit of spice. Most of the time, I'm thinking we'll probably just be swaying back and forth because knowing me, I'll probably be crying the whole entire time. I'm not sure how much I'm going to 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 1 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 going to go get my camera bag ready. I literally just bought new SD cards. And I don't think I've done that in like 2 or 3 years, but holy I wish I didn't wait because somehow SD cards literally doubled in price, especially the 256 GB ones, which I love. Those are like $300 and they used to be under $100. I'm like, what the freak 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 gotten so damn expensive. I'm going to 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 going to 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 going to 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 going to make a matcha, but I'm going to 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 wet jars. I'm going to put ice in it. Oatley. Sometimes I actually like to pour the milk in here just to get all of the matcha out. I'm realizing I'm very particular about like everything that I use for my matcha cuz I'm obsessed with these tiny chunky straws. See? Might need more milk. Definitely need some more milk. But it's so good. Yay. All right, let's go down the road. We have a 40minut drive ahead of us. She does live like kind of further out. So, I'm going to have to find a good podcast to listen to. Now, I feel dumb 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 cuz 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 Sweet Green, but I told myself I had to eat at home because yesterday's meal was pretty expensive. So, like, let's just save a little bit of money. I already uploaded all of the images and I need to edit a few photos for her cuz I want to get that sent before I go to my next event because the next event I'm going to have to edit all of the photos and I know it's going to be a lot because I'm going to 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. 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 Maidwell 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 have to be in black. Very comfy. It actually has pockets, which is super helpful cuz 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 going to 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 Suzie Cakes and I'm so excited about it, but it's like almost 10:00 and I still want to try to edit a lot tonight. So, just fueling up. Update. Suzie cakes is bomb. Vanilla or chocolate? >> No. Chocolate. [music] Good morning. 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 such a lively place on a Sunday. There's like a soccer game going on. They have the farmers market, of [music] course. But I got a strawberry matcha with like a loud foam. So, cheers. Let's try. Okay. The foam is not as sweet as I wanted. Like, it's definitely has a Yes. I think it's going to be all at the bottom. Let's mix it. It's going to be so hard again. >> Blow bubbles. >> Oh yeah, I forgot. Ryan taught me this trick to like mix your drink is to like blow bubbles into the drink. [music] >> Are we doing it? >> Yeah. I got to move a straw around though. >> 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 [music] we got two cookies. Chocolate chip and what was the other one? >> Banana Nutella. >> Banana Nutella. So, we'll try these later. [clears throat] >> Later. >> What'd [music] you get? >> Uh, ice latte with oat milk and honey. >> It's good. It's kind of warm. [music] Whoa. I haven't even gotten to the Nutella part yet, but the banana part is so good. It's very, very yummy. 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 [music] 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, [music] I feel like you can always like optimize to your taste. back home [music] and we stopped in the Mueller HB 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 restock. I haven't really been feeling super creative in the kitchen lately. I think this 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 chimmy cherry 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 wares, 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 cuz 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 going to make the marinade so it can just sit for a couple of hours before dinner. It's currently 1:00 p.m. right now. 1/4 of olive oil, 1/4 of soy sauce, 2 tablebspoon of woreshire, half a teaspoon of onion powder, 1 teaspoon of paprika, 1 teaspoon of black pepper, 1 tbsp of brown sugar, 2 tbsp of lime juice, last but not least, 3 to four garlic cloves. I'm pretty sure for the chimmy cherry you also need garlic. So, I just went ahead and peeled a little bit more. And then I'm just going to 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, I might as well just do it all at once. It's like gigantic. Just going to give the marinade a little stir. Oh No. I got so many compliments on my set today. It is from Step 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 chimmy cherry 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 going to do a little less than that cuz that just seems like a lot. 2 tablebspoon of red wine vinegar. 3 to four garlic cloves. About a cup of parsley. I think about 2 tablespoon 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 vinegar. 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 going to 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 going to try to get that done because Ryan booked us a couple's massage, which we've never done before, but we're going to 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 going to do that at 3:15. It's 1:48. So I'm going to 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 cuz I want to focus on just getting the house like pristine and ready for a good start to the week. We're going to Harmony Foot Spa. >> Are you going to get to walk in the back? >> I think I just got beat up. [snorts] >> Pretty hard pressure >> cuz Ryan asked for it to be hard for the both of us apparently. >> No, I'm kidding. I don't know. But he as she asked you and then they didn't even ask me and I was too scared to speak up. >> Oil you down the other girl. [laughter] [music] >> For a side, I did some broccoli with parmesan. 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.