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<\/a>The gym. Photo by Karen Salkin, as is the one of the step-and-repeat at the top of this page.<\/p><\/div>\n
It was held at the Pico Athletic Club, which is a very accessible gym whose entrance is right on the street!\u00a0 There\u2019s no going through an entire office building to get to it, as so many work-out facilities are situated these days. My friend said, \u201cA gym is a great place to hold an event such as this one, directed toward beauty and healthful lifestyles, because we were surrounded by reminders to work out more often!\u201d<\/p>\n
We couldn\u2019t stay long, (because of our aforementioned crazy schedule that day,) but long enough to avail ourselves of some of the cool happenings on offer at this event.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Justin doing a massage. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n
As we entered, the hostess, Joy Parris, was announcing the winners of the raffle they had held earlier, and the guests all seemed happy with it.\u00a0 When they took a break, she showed us around.\u00a0 There were lovely desserts inside, but\u00a0as we had just come from a foodie event, we had to pass on them.\u00a0 We spoke with some of the sponsors, and looked around.<\/p>\n
Traveling Hands, an on-call massage company we\u2019ve become familiar with over the past year, had one of their masseurs there to do mini table massages on all the appreciative guests.\u00a0 (The table<\/em> wasn\u2019t mini–the length of the massages<\/em> was!)\u00a0 My friend had hurt her hand that\u00a0 morning, so she was especially happy to make Justin\u2019s acquaintance.\u00a0 She said, \u201cI thoroughly enjoyed the massage. It was terrific, and he really helped relieve the tension in my injured hand.\u201d<\/p>\n Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n Before we left, even though I was still sort-of full from the earlier food fest that day, I managed to sample some of the food from Bibigo, whose healthful fare I\u2019m always<\/em> happy to avail myself of.\u00a0 I enjoyed a mini version of one of their famous Korean rice bowls, layered with brown rice, chicken, and all kinds of fresh veggies.\u00a0 It\u2019s always delicious, and feels kind of light while still being filling.<\/p>\n But, as the beauty-obsessed gals that we are, we were the happiest with the generous gift bags we received on the way out.\u00a0 We had tried-out Nava Naturals Facial Peel on our hands earlier, (with my pal commenting, \u201cIt smells great and works even better,\u201d) so we were happy to receive our own jars of it to now try on our always-stressed-out faces.<\/p>\n<\/a>