Soft Luxe Travels: The Chrismas Fair at Burnham Park Part 2 and a 24K Gold Eye Mask

As promised, here are more photos from the park!

I went here to look at the leather goods. They have free name engraving. I wanted to buy a coin purse for my husband, but they only had one style. I passed.

This booth sells lots of perfume, lotion, body washes ala Bath and Body Works

I wanted to try the Vietnamese fried spring rolls from this booth, but I was checking to see if they have a fryer. I couldn't find one. How were they going to prepare the fried spring rolls? Or maybe it's somewhere I couldn't see?

I wanted to try the food in this booth, too. But my son was set on eating the sinigang na salmon from Raquel's Forest House that night. My son and I always share food and it didn't feel right to buy this.

It's not the leaning tower of Pisa. It's the Colosseum. 😆

I got the strawberry mango pizza from this place. Will write about that soon in my food blog.

So many wonderful Christmas decorations at this booth

I love the pink nutcrackers

I wanted to taste their lechon over garlic rice, but again, my son didn't want to. I tried their okoy instead. I'll write about that in my food blog, too,

There was a choir singing

Wanted to taste the pasta in the cheese wheel, but after watching for a minute, I felt like it was gonna be too much cheese for me. 😆

Rolled ice cream.. which they will apparently fry?? Didn't stay long enough to see the process

This is what I saw from the car that's why I wanted to go to the park. I have yet to taste the food at James Wright. Next time, James!

Beautiful Eiffel Tower replica at night

We finally went home and while I was cleaning up, I heard fireworks and looked out the window.

Later that Night...

For the Exhale part of my trip, I chose to try these 24K Gold Collagen Essence Eye Mask from KKV.

They are very flimsy, as you can see in the photo. One was already torn. I tore off that hanging piece then proceeded to apply the mask to my under eye area. I left it on for 15 minutes

The mask itself smelled like plastic. I didn't like it, but I left it on to see how the essence will work on me.

I washed it off after removing the mask. (To make sure I don't have a reaction.) My under eye area really did feel a little relaxed. Bonus points because I didn't react to it during the 15 minutes it was on. I think with continued use, this could really be beneficial. The smell is my only problem and because of that, I will not buy this again. I have other eye masks that I want to try.

I will leave you with this short video of some of the wonderful decor at that booth in Burnham and of the fireworks. Please excuse my son's comment. I had to cut the video short as he was talking too much. 🙄

The Christmas Fair will be there until January. Don't miss it if you're going there. Lots of people at night so be sure to come early if you want to get some shopping and food tripping done.

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'Til my next post,

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