 Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Sonali. Welcome to my channel. If you are new and if you are, definitely hit that subscribe button. And if you are already subscribed, make sure you turn on your post notifications so you don't miss a video. Today me and Ryan are headed on another road trip from Austin. We are going to Lively Beach, which is on Mustang Island. So I think in the Corpus Christi area, I will definitely give you guys more information when we actually get there. Lively Beach is a new resort and apparently the beaches over there are a little bit nicer than the Galveston beaches, which we went to, I think last year in Houston. So we're like not in Houston, but like we went to Houston and then we went to Galveston. And those weren't very impressive. I feel like we're so used to Florida beaches with the really nice white sands, blue water. So we had our expectations like way up high for that. But I've definitely heard that Corpus Christi is a little bit nicer than Galveston, so I'll keep you guys updated on that. Right now we are just getting some breakfast in us. We're stopping at Starbucks and I think I'm going to try to get a new drink. I think Tara Michelle posted on her vlog about like this black tea, milk tea kind of thing. Like it's almost like Boba without the Boba, but I usually get an ice way mocha. The last time I had it, I was very, very jittery, like almost like super anxious. So I'm like going to try to stay away from that. But if I do get it, maybe I'll try to just get like a decaf, but we'll see. Hopefully I can get the new drink because I'm kind of excited to try it out. Can I get a grande iced black tea? Do you guys have brown sugar syrup? I noticed that they accidentally put like chai tea instead of black tea as the base, so I had to ask them to change that. And now I'm like scared that it's going to be all sorts of like messed up because you like didn't understand, but let's do a taste test. OK, it actually does taste like Boba tea kind of. It is really good. So I got soy milk instead of that milk. I would definitely try to get that milk, but this is really good. You're driving once you turn. Yeah, without the Boba, I guess. We just arrived at Lively Beach. So let me give you guys a tour of the place coming through the front door. We have this kitchenette over here. We have some storage closets over here. I haven't really opened it, but a lot of good storage, just nice. And then we have this living room. The furniture is stunning. Like this whole place is really aesthetic and gorgeous. They gave us box water and wine. And I'm actually really excited to try that box water because I've never had it. And then we have this whole dining area, which is super cute. Sophie's outside. Hi, Sophie. Ryan is too. And there's a little balcony over there. We have a desk. We have a TV. Ryan's definitely going to be watching the masters on that. And then going back here, this is the bathroom. Very nice. This whole property is really new, so everything's updated. Now we're walking into the bedroom. Very cute. I love those little lamp things. There's two bathrooms. I did not realize. OK, this is nice. Look at this. Let me turn on the light for you guys. How do I turn on? Oh, oh, yes. Wait a second. This is so nice. Yeah, I know. OK, perfect. Because I was going to bring my mirror. That's nice that they have like a towel just for a makeup remover because knowing me, I would definitely use their nice white towels for my makeup. And there's the shower over here. Sorry if my shoes are being squeaky. Back to the bedroom. They have a TV in here and a dresser. Look at this furniture. Like look at these chairs. These are so freaking cute while Ryan watches the masters. I'm definitely going to be shooting some content in here just because it's so aesthetic. Now let's go see our view off the balcony. OK, so they have two chairs out here and then this is our view. So you can like hear the ocean over there. You can't see it just because the sand dunes are pretty tall. But this is so nice. It's like so relaxing. I just noticed that they have some beach towels up there, which is great because I actually brought some. I didn't know if they would. Let's see what kind of stuff they have in here. OK, so they have like the basics. Wine glasses, plates and all that, especially if you want to like cook dinner here, which I feel like we'll probably eat out. They have coffee cups and let's see. Yeah, we have pretty much the basics. Cleaning supplies, coffee, cure egg machine. Let's see what's in here. I'm just curious. Oh, they have like a little drawer situation. There's like a lot of good storage in this place. I ended up setting up my tripod on the balcony and filming a type talk. And then I took photos and everything, you know, it's just exciting because if you have followed me on my health journey, I just completed like two months of the 12, 3, 30 workout, which is like a treadmill routine. You know, watch my videos on it. I'm going to be posting. I don't know which one's going to go up first, but I'm going to be posting a whole video on it. So just keeping an eye out for that. But I just feel really, really confident in my body. And it's like weird to say because I feel like that's not how it used to be. And so I feel really confident. I'm just like, oh, my God, this is so weird. Like it's like the first time I'm seeing myself in a swimsuit in like so long, especially after I started doing that workout. So I'm like just really excited. And I'm like wanting to take all the pictures I can. So if you're following me on Instagram and you see like a lot of bathing suit photos, you know, I'm just feeling myself. But let me show you guys what I'm wearing because I actually just got this swimsuit. I went to the mall yesterday because I literally couldn't find all my favorite swimsuits. I don't know where the heck they are, but I just need to like really just get rid of a lot of stuff in my closet. It's just a little crazy in there. So maybe they're just hiding from me, but I cannot find them anywhere. So I was just like, OK, I'll just go to the mall. I kind of want new swimsuits anyways. And this swimsuit is from Airy. And they have such great like high-waisted options, which I love because this is just, you know, not the best area to show off. So I love that it can be like covered but still in a bikini, you know, and obviously I'm a heavy trusty gal. So I feel like this is pretty supportive. It has like pads and everything. And then this shirt thing is from Princess Polly. And I don't think it's advertised as like a beach shirt. But like, how perfect is it? Because it's kind of see through. And like whenever I tried to wear it like a normal shirt, I'd be like, what do I wear under it? Because it's literally see through. So that is so cute. And I'm just wearing this necklace from Amazon. And then this one is from Etsy. So we're going to go to the beach. We tried to bring alcohol. We like literally brought whatever we had in our house. So these are my two options. We have like one truly lemonade done over all the rest went. And then this is like so old. Wait, does this expire? Now I'm like a little freaked out because I literally got this when I moved to Austin. I'm going to need to research that because that is quite old. But still haven't tried this rosé from Austin East Side or something. OK, I'm making the executive decision to not bring my camera to the beach because I just don't feel like that's a good idea. So I'm going to leave you guys here, but I'll take some iPhone clips. Also, it's really really windy, so you probably wouldn't be able to hear me anyways. We're probably going to leave Sophie in the place because she doesn't even like the beach anyways. And I really want to swim and she's just going to be annoying on the beach. So we're going to leave her here. She has literal separation anxiety since we are with her 24 seven because of COVID. So now she thinks she goes everywhere with us. So a lot later we are actually about to head to dinner. We went to the beach earlier. It was pretty windy. Honestly, the water was just a little too cold to get in, which was so sad because I was really looking forward to hopping the waves. But hopefully tomorrow like midday because we got to the beach like, I don't know, like five or four or something. So we're hoping midday tomorrow would be hot enough to like actually just cool off in the water. But we did go to the pool here and it's a heated pool, which is so nice. It felt so good. I don't remember the last time I went swimming in a pool. So it was a really just nice relaxing feeling and this whole like resort. I don't even know what I call it a resort. I don't know. I guess this condo community is just so relaxing because it's like kind of right off the highway. You can see the highway, but you can't hear anything. It's really just like calming and quiet, I would say. But we are going to dinner. We picked somewhere with oysters because I'm just really in the mood for seafood, obviously. Obviously at the beach, you just have to eat seafood and I'm a big seafood girl. Good morning. It is day two at Lively Beach. We are about to head out and get some coffee slash, slash some brown sugar syrup tea. Thank you. It's so good. And actually, yesterday when they got my order like mixed up with the chai tea, it's funny because like someone messaged me on Instagram and said that I should try all of that with a chai tea base. So that's interesting. I'm really hoping they have brown sugar syrup because apparently it's like hard to find at Starbucks. But I'll do a little OOTD really quick before we head out. This was another thing that I got at Airy when I went to get like my swimsuits. It's just like a really cozy, cool like beach thing. I guess it's not like super cozy. Ooh, I just saw that it has like a slit. That's cute. I guess it's not super cozy because it's like this material, like a scratchy, not scratchy, I don't know how to really describe it, but it's very like a beachy material. So I thought I would just go ahead and get it. I thought it was gonna be like a little bit like more slouchy at the top, but we'll work on that. Under it, I'm wearing my sedactive one-shoulder sports bra and then sedactive leggings. This is in the color spritz. I'm not really sure if it's still on the website because I'm pretty sure it was like a limited edition kind of color, so that is the outfit for the morning. It is so humid out here. I bet you can't even see me. This is just, ugh, I hate humidity, but we're at the beach, you know, it's normal. I got a water burger, a honey, wait, what does it call? What does it call on? Water burger, what is something you're saying that we're doing? Well, I used to call it water burger. Water burger. I don't know why, but I got a honey butter chicken biscuit. There's not like many options as a whole on the island. What do you think? Wait, wait, wait. Bodgery Island, which has like literally nothing on it. Nothing. There's a boardwalk and you go past our hotel, look. Oh yeah, we should just strip. It is 10.33 and we saw it on the weather. It's gonna be like super sunny. I think it's gonna be up to like 77 today at 2 p.m. So we're gonna go to the beach then. Right now, I think I'm gonna do an Instagram live because I do not remember the last time I did one. And I thought it would be a good time because the Sephora sale is coming and it's gonna be going through. Let me just check really quick. I think like April 19th or something, something like that. I feel like there's just so many products that I want to purchase and then like kind of like review before the sale gets done with. So I do definitely need to purchase them today. So it can like ship before I get home or like probably this week or something. But I wanted to go live on Instagram because apparently you can like save them to your IGTV, which I guess I always knew. But I thought that would be a really good like thing to just like quickly do so I don't really have to like edit it and I can just literally make it go live on my IGTV. Does that make sense? And you can also link in your IGTV so I can actually put the products for you guys to shop from those links, which is great. And yeah, so I'm gonna get started. I'm gonna like set it up. I have like too many tripods. This one's like not the best. The other one I have is the Manfrotto and I'm using it right now on my camera even though I'm holding it. That one's like a lot more sturdy. Like I feel like these legs are just not as sturdy but it was a little bit cheaper. So let me set this camera up. I'm just like a little nervous because I feel like lives, like if there's not that many people joining, like it just like, you're a little uncomfortable because you're like literally talking to yourself. But I guess this is the same thing like for this. But I guess for lives you can like see how many or other people can see how many people are in the live with you. So it's just like weird. There's only like three people. I guess, I don't know. But I'm just gonna go and set it up. And plus like this bathroom has such good lighting. Like this, let me show you. It has like this lighting and then obviously that little ring light. I thought it would take advantage of this really, really pretty bathroom and just like, you know, take a lot of content which honestly I'm kind of happy that it is only going to be sunny at two so that I can do my makeup and like maybe do some TikToks here and there because tomorrow we're probably gonna leave at like 10 a.m. So I don't think I would probably want to like put on makeup tomorrow. But this place is so pretty. I was sure you were staying longer. Okay, I wish you good luck guys. I'm really nervous. I don't even know if people are gonna be like up and like, you know. This is like so, I don't know. I haven't done this in a while so I'm like getting nervous but I thought it would be a really good time to just share like a couple of my favorite Sephora items because if y'all didn't know, Sephora sale is happening. Cuda Beauty Tantor Contour Cream. This is like great cream to like powder. It's like really blendable. What foundation do you use? Right now I'm like in between like a bunch because this one is like my all time favorite. Right now, that's a little bit too dark. Instagram Live went well. I'm just like adding my cover photo and all that. I have never like done a live and saved it to my Instagram TV. So we shall see what this looks like but that was a little suspicious because I feel like that was a little fast and I was, I felt like I was missing some steps. So I like kept like looking in my bag. I was like, okay, anything else need to go on my face? Like, you sure this is it? Cause I feel like I was just way too fast. Ryan opened the bottle of wine that they gave us. We're just drinking that. Yeah, it literally tastes like juice. I don't really love like red wine but like when it tastes like juice, I'm like, okay, I'm here for this. But also when it's that sweet, it's probably gonna like get me a little bit of hangover knot. What am I saying? Headache. Yes, headache. Anyway, so since Lively Beach is hosting us, I definitely want to take like a couple of really high quality photos around the property. We're gonna do that now, but before that, I want to share my OOTD. This hat is lack of color and it's pretty pricey but I've used it so many times. So I've definitely made it worth it. This one piece is from Aerie and then the pants are pedal and pup. They have the distressing at the bottom which is so cute. And then the shoes are forever 21 but they are super old. So I don't know if I'll be able to find the link for that but we're gonna go get some more content and then we're gonna head to the beach. You're freaking starving. It's a lot later in the day. I think it's like six something but we are probably gonna get some more seafood. Like I said, I think we're gonna go to a crab place but there was also an option for some sushi which also sounded good but I'm feeling more like seafood right now. But let me show you guys my outfit. This is actually a two piece which is nice because you can just like mix and match with whatever else you have in your closet. So this is kind of like a more like a crop top. And then this skirt is like coming into style. You guys remember when we used to wear these like in middle school or something? From, I'm pretty sure they were from Abercombe. This one's actually from Aerie though. Like I said before I went to Aerie like literally right before my trip and just got like a bunch of random things. And this two piece that was one of them. And I just think it's so cute. And I feel so sun kissed even though I feel like I didn't really get that much sun since like the sun just started coming out. But I still feel like I got a little bit of a tan which is a good feeling. We tried to go into this place called Surfing Crab and it has an hour and a half wait. So we decided we're gonna get a bocce. I haven't had a bocce in so freaking long and it sounds actually so good. Do you think the fried rice and the zikini? Yeah, the fried rice went on. Hey, up. Hey. Whoa. Yeah. Oh. Good morning y'all. Happy Sunday. Unfortunately today is our last day here at Lively Beach. And I just wanted to quickly talk about like our experience here. First of all, I feel like I've said that this place is just so relaxing and especially being in the middle of my graduation season. If you guys didn't know I'm a freelance photographer so my busiest season is grad season photos and it's also my favorite. But definitely a busy one. I have like shoots every day so I'm very overwhelmed right now. But this was such a nice getaway. And Lively Beach is only like three hours and 30 minutes away from Austin. So it's not too, too bad. The beaches are pretty nice. I mean, I think if we went a little bit later, like maybe even in this month of April we would be able to like swim in the water but it was just like a little bit too cold for my liking. But like I said, the pool is heated over here and it's just like so calming. This morning my body alarm woke me up pretty early but I was able to like catch the sunrise and just being able to hear the ocean and just being so close to the beach is so like soothing and relaxing. So I really enjoyed that. And then also just like the condo itself is so aesthetic. This place was just really designed well. Like whoever did the interiors killed it. Lively Beach is on Mustang Island. So last night we went to Hibachi and that was kind of like in the downtown area. I think it was like 20 minutes away. So if you really want like a lot of food options I would say it's about 20 minutes away. But the first night we went to like more of a local place I would say and it wasn't too far. But you have a whole kitchenette. So honestly, one of the nice we were like we should cook maybe. The property like I said has a heated pool. They have like a fire pit, which is really nice. We didn't get to use it just cause like I feel like by the time we got back from dinner we just like pooped. The beach is a lot like Smyrna Beach near Orlando where you can actually drive your car up onto the beach. So I'm not sure where the entrance is for that because that's probably like a public entrance but we just walked out and like kind of had to find a spot like in between cars. It wasn't super bad on Friday but Saturday obviously everyone's on work. So there was a bunch of cars out there. Also at night this resort is just really like vibey. I don't know how else to describe it. It's kind of like you're in Cancun and you're just like walking along the resort because everything's just so well lit and the weather right now just feels really nice at night. So yeah, that was our experience at Lively Beach. I feel like I didn't really show like too much of the beach and like the water stuff but it's always really hard because I don't wanna like ruin my cameras especially cause I use it for my photography business. So I tried to get a couple of iPhone clips for you guys. Checkouts at 10 a.m. it's 9 30 so we're gonna head out the door and we might stop at a Starbucks to get that freaking brown sugar drink. The Starbucks yesterday was out of that brown sugar syrup so we might have to stop at another Starbucks cause I'm like really craving it. We're in the car, we just packed up, we got Sophie in there and they actually gave us boxed water when we first got there but I didn't try it and I haven't ever tried boxed water so I'm kinda curious to see if it even tastes different which you know, I kinda know the answer. Here we go, taste test time. Honestly, I don't think I like the tasting. Maybe it is the cardboard box. Something about it is kinda funky, it's aesthetic. I love trying like random aesthetic things and seeing if they're actually worth the hyper if the packaging is just good. I mean I know this one is literally just technically water. In San Antonio on our way to our drive to Starbucks we haven't even eaten anything this morning but we do have Sophie in the back so we need to find somewhere that's like Pat friendly. We're hoping to find somewhere on the river walk because I feel like a lot of it's like outside so it should be dog friendly, we should be fine. Yeah, we have been to San Antonio once and like I always tell people this but whatever we went to the river walk we got there at night and like I'm a type of person that likes to get places, new places and the daytime because it just like is a weird vibe if you get there at night. When I saw the river walk I was like, oh my God, is this even real? Like it looked so fake. It just looked like a made up set I guess and it reminded me of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney World slash Disneyland. If you guys have been on that ride, I swear it's like that because there's like these little boats that are like giving tours on it and it's just so funny but now we're gonna go in the day and check it out. So we're actually gonna get a quick dinner outside. I thought I would end the vlog here. As you can see we have like a lot of unpacking to do when we get back and if you guys are interested in bugging your stay at Lively Beach I actually have a discount code. You can get up to 10% off depending on when you go. So definitely check it out. I highly recommend it. Like I said, it was just like a really nice getaway. I'll definitely be posting a lot more photos on Instagram so if you guys aren't following me over there definitely go and do so. It's so underscore gnarly without the G and if you guys wanna see more Austin content definitely subscribe to this channel and I will see y'all in my next video. Bye.