Strawberry Twilight

Today I went to the Magic of Oz and Ozimals sims for their Strawberry Festival because there was a strawberry hunt going on at both sims. I picked up a basket at the landing point and found a spot on the Magic of Oz sim to look for randomly appearing strawberries. If you want to win all of the prizes, you have to collect 6 strawberries 16 times.

After collecting the strawberries, I went to each of the 16 participating shops to eat cake! It was fun! I love the Magic of Oz hunts!

Twilight: Eclipse was released in US theaters today. Anyone see it? I'm in no rush to watch the movie because so far I'm loving the books more.

Attempted!

Earlier today, I thought of an idea for another machinima I wanted to make. When I got in-world, I looked through my inventory, searched and teleported to places, and rezzed stuff out. I got sidetracked by IMs and SLURLs though, so I ended up doing other things. I'll either film later tonight or tomorrow.

While I rezzed and set things up, I received a group notice from -RC- Cluster. In celebration of the store's 3rd birthday, there was cake, balloons, and gifts at the main store. I quickly teleported over because it's one of my favorite shops. Congratulations to the creator, Redd Columbia!

Afterwards, I teleported back to where I rezzed stuff and I received a group IM about the CVL Volunteer meeting on Info Island. I love to know what's going on at the CVL, so I had to attend. I knew I was going to make it back late, so I just started taking things back into my inventory.

Also, I'm sad that the two teams I rooted for lost. I'm still enjoying my vuvuzela though!

SL7B: Enigma and Absurdity

Last night, I finished exploring all of the SL7B sims that have exhibits. There are more sims, but they only have stages for concerts. I was only interested in checking out the exhibits, so this will be my final post for SL7B.

There was one thing that was definitely present on all of the sims I visited and that thing was cake! One of the last cute and delicious looking cakes I saw was the strawberry cake by AliciaKay Kilara on the A Touch of Ireland exhibit.

I ate so much strawberry cake that I turned into a strawberry myself! I felt like taking a swan dive into the big blueberry pie by Holocluck Henly and Snurky Snoodle. It's located on the Me, Yourselves, and Pie exhibit and you can get the strawberry costume for free there. Right next to the pie is the Stilt Beaches exhibit with the big sheep where you can pick up a free pair of stilts. They are hard to walk in, but they are very fun!

If you like seeing your avatar contort into different poses, then visit the Bodied Words exhibit by pallina60 Loon. Just sit on one of the pose boxes and scroll through the letters and numbers for different poses. There are several boxes lined up next to each other, so you can bring a group and spell something out. While you're there, don't forget to pick up the free rideable pen!

I loved all of the artwork on display by Kerupa Flow. I couldn't stop looking at the artwork pictured above. Looking at it straight on makes it look like it's going in, but when I put my camera at an angle I saw that the prim is actually sticking out!

I enjoyed the SL7B sims this year and I'm looking forward to many more SL birthday celebrations!

Pool Party!

Earlier this evening I attended the TX950 Pool Party on Info Island. Each year, the Community Virtual Library has a pool party and they are always fun to attend. There was a contest for the most outrageous bathing gear, so that explains the outfit I wore to the party. Congratulations to Galia and Waldron for winning the contest!

It's so much easier to move and dance around in a pool in SL.

This is one of my favorite things to do in RL. I love to just lay back and float in the water of a pool. It's very calming and relaxing!

Even though the party is over, the pool is still on Info Island. It's a nice place to hangout and there are also links to summer reading websites on the tables by the pool.

SL7B: Contrary and Visionary

After exploring the SL7B Cake Park, I flew around some more and spotted the dragon by Extrovirtual on the Contrary sim. I'm used to seeing their dragons as Tiny Avatars, so it was fun to see it as a giant. There's a small teddy bear next to it to show the height comparison.

After visiting the dragon, I saw a big furry rabbit with carrots (created by Beaumont Ryba) close by. I decided to stop and snack on some carrots as well.

I was very happy to find the SL7B time capsule on the Visionary sim. I tried putting something into one of the time capsules a couple of years ago, but I forgot to put it in as copy and trans. I still need to find something to put in it this year.

Also on the Visionary sim, I spotted these cute building blocks on the side of an exhibit. I clicked on a block and was given a notecard that answered the question, "So why am I a kid avatar?" I went into the exhibit and saw that it's called Unexpected Childhoods by the Second Life Children group. I clicked on a few more blocks and read through the interesting stories of why they chose to become child avatars. I recommend this exhibit if you were ever curious about them.