Don’t you see your dreams lie right in the palm of your hand
Just like the lyrics of Vanessa Carlton, my day was pretty ordinary, well it started like this, but how it turned out? I put on my Animare-HUD for this gorgerous shot in the water, close to the beach where i live. Even Samson my Orca helped me and just showed up in the right moment for this shot. Just a few minutes later, Jaspar ….
… my lovely, sexy bestie came over to me, to hijack me for a ride in his new Madpea. He grew very fond of that boat, something I can totally relate to. He even told me his ‘fuck off’ line.
“OH! I am sorry, you must have mistaken me with someone who cares!”
While we were sailing someone called me home, someone I grew fond of the last week, for a surprise. He hates shopping for clothes and fitting and everything that comes with it.. but he did it even with full TMP Body… what a surprise, I am still smiling about this kind- and sweetness.
While we were talking, Damien woke up, and wanted some fun on the beach with his mommy. He was his usual bratty, and nosey self, but he swam, for the first time alone, with floaties, but he swam. I am a very proud mommy right now!
On September 29th 2015 we had another of our famous private parties. This time the subject was Still Summer but not just it. No, my lovely sister and best friend Dakota had her rezday and soon birthday which we madly celebrated!
We gathered all of our friends, and some people who just became friends during the party, and made it count. The last days of summer and we are in between, dancing the night away.
Dakota took her place behind the DJ booth and spinned us awesome tunes, while i took my job as host and welcomed everyone, helped with ice cold Corona, dance animations or bratty comments.
A special gift for Dakota was also part of the evening. She LOVES fireworks, and she turned three in SL, tho i organised some awesome fireworks for her, three times over the evening.
It was just fantastic and so naughty. We had so many so good looking people around, that i was most of the time slobbering, happy i could hide behind my camera and shoot every single one of them.
We danced, laughed and partied for over five hours! Kinda untill the sun came up again. After we said our goodbyes to the last guests, Dakota and i cleaned up the mess and just fainted onto the beachtowels, with no ability to just move one muscle. What an adventurous day!
My special thankies to everyone who joined us. To Kovu and Zo for coming around with such a great mood… it was amazing. Your spirit can light up every pitch black night. To Dex and Sebastian for your awesome hotness, making us faint with every hip swing! To Jasp, who came in late, but stood up early just to be with us, and to everyone else for sharing your time and support with us. If you want some of the pictures - just send me an IM and i will upload them for you.
It was such a day again. I was sleeping so well, and woke up so nicely, by the ringtone of my cellphone. It was Jasp, “Jaspar Gates”. We know him and his adventures. Finding National Treasure(s), and Secret Book(s). But this time it wasn’t about his family, but about something, I already experienced. The collection demon was free again, and they asked him for help.
And he, asked me, his best friend. So once again we dressed up, and started.. at grandpas house….
We fought us through lag, relogs, and dumpsters … and finally arrived at the magic shop. I lost my drive … this time when I used the evil tester, I lost two ranks… probably a malfunction…
Sand in my boots … sand in my pants, sand at places where never a men was before! One of the last pieces, i am tired, i hope we will be able to stop the demon this time!
Finally the mansion, mosquitos ate me alive, and Jasp as well. Without these lanterns, we would have been lost in the woods. Now the really dangerous part begins!
After all.. the silver vault guest book. We made it, we survived! the demon is defeated and Jaspar can grab his prizes. And i know which one he is drawn to the most…
The Bandit Madpea, we found this old, vintage boat, and fixed it. After some calm moments at Hay Harbor, we jumped on it and sailed straight home!
On the way back we found Garith waiting for us. So he jumped aboard as well! The three of us on the Madpea… what a great feeling, after so much adventure!
This weekends cruise was brought to us by Tad Loonie, and gee it was tots loonie…. Thank you very much, I am almost sure, it wasn’t your fault that we had lag.. but just almost!
When I first saw the cruise chart, I was intrigued to do it the masochistic way, and choose the IF. But after some thinking.. I dropped that idea pretty fast, and decided to use myNacra. She got finally her paintjob done, and a name. Nemo - shall it be and dang! Even with a broken fin Nemo is FAST!!
I have to admit, I had a blast, was first at the first rendevous point, and had time to work on my tan. But then it happened … the big and bad Lag-Monster finally started to play “Finding Nemo” with me.. and the pity.. it found Nemo ALL the way back on the second and third leg of this wonderfull cruise. We saw spots we all know but with some work and tacking and racing - everything was in this time.
My fazit: “Thank you Tad and next time, leave the lag at home! :-) “
My joke for today:
A depressed young woman was so desperate that she decided to end her life by throwing herself into the ocean. When she went down to the docks, a handsome young sailor noticed her tears, took pity on her, and said, “Look, you’ve got a lot to live for. I’m off to Europe in the morning, and if you like, I can stow you away on my ship. I’ll take good care of you and bring you food every day.” Moving closer, he slipped his arm around her shoulder and added, “I’ll keep you happy, and you’ll keep me happy.”
The girl nodded ‘yes.’ After all, what did she have to lose? That night, the sailor brought her aboard and hid her in a life-boat. From then on, every night he brought her three sandwiches and a piece of fruit, and they made passionate love until dawn.
Three weeks later, during a routine inspection, she was discovered by the captain. “What are you doing here?” the Captain asked. “I have an arrangement with one of the sailors,” she explained. “We’re going to Europe, and he’s screwing me.” “He sure is, lady,” said the Captain. “This is the Robben Island Ferry."
Today Hera and I took the liberty to have a small cruise with the Madpea. After a long time of trouble and trouble shootingwith the new Firestorm and Firestorm-Team, we finally got rid of the lag and could have a nice small test cruise. Hera never had been too the Rene Marina, so I took her there, with OVER 100 knots windspeed.. .. to make the Madpea run a bit.
That sweet small boat hit on the way back the 21 knots and made it a fun ride. The other way around the Firestorm works, less bandwidth less lag. Thank you Hera for this nice afternoon, and thank you again to Analyse Dean, for this awesome price boat.
And a small joke for the ride:
Why do seagulls fly over the sea? -Because if they flew over the bay, they’d be baygels!
My day wasnt that good today, butJasp always know how to get my sad look changing into a smile. He asked me for a last sail together, cuz he will be on a trip for a week, and he suggested, to take the newMadpea, I call my own.
I love this boat. Its something for the lazy peeps, being lazy without being the one to blame for being lazy. Awesome! With her autotrim sails, and the great cinematic cam, it’s easy to make great pictures, and I really enjoyed the fresh sea breeze on my face, cooling of some of the tears.
But Jasp don’t just know how to make me happy but jealous to the bone. I am such a green eyed monster at the moment. A trip to a sailing race…. hrmmm why couldn’t you invite me?*pouts and makes puppy eyes*
I will miss you all week long J, and the only thing that will keep me from messing up your IM box is.. sailing the new awesome Bandit Madpea - special boat, special prize and special memories!
… or how Quron Jones and Lara Silverfall saved the world …. somehow…
It all started with an invitation.. doesn’t it always?Quron my boyfriend got a golden ticket, for the newest Madpea production, the collection. He wanted me to come along, so thanks to Fukuju Amaterasu, i got a golden ticket myself. She gifted me her second one - lucky number 5 … or unlucky?
So on Thurday noon, it was time to visit the red carpet, for the early opening to “The Collection”. The mood was high, but we all could feel … something was in the air… not right… a tiny shiver on the back, goose bumbs all over the arms … after a warm welcome, Kiana and Madpea itself send us on the mission!
A sad one, our Grandfather died, and we inherited it all. We got the key to his appartment and a letter, now we had to find it!
From the appartment it sends us to the pawn shop. We didn’t knew that Grampa was into such things … after some trying, we finally could open the irons and walk in.. just to smash the probably antique vase.. right next to the door. Just good its ours now.. noone could send us a bill!
Sniffing around.. thats something Q and I are very good at, so we didn’t need much time, to sniff all we needed out.. and we even had a nice little break at the diner! I took the time, while we waited for our late lunch, to read the journal we found. it was very old, and cryptic.. I felt with the poor soul who worte it. >Never trust american men.. mother always said…<
We found also a weird trumpet… and it played a strange.. sad melody all alone… what is behind this… at first.. we thought it was just a game?!
In the laundry we found a card from a magic shop.. on the way there, to get some information and explenations… someone tried to throw us off the road. Our car was smashed.. we had mad luck that we survived.
Strange was, the truck was without driver… and there was something weird under it.. but I couldnt reach it tho…
After a long trip Quron and I finally arrived at the magic box.. erm.. shop, no Buffy no Angel but a slightly creepy, very friendly old Lady, who needed our help. In return, she would give us the missing journal pages. Hrmm missing.. well I should probably read it again…
She asked us for help, and we agreed. While Quron talked to her about the terms, I tried the Evil-Tester… it seems that I am the devil herself. Awesome! Me likey!
Some sniffing around and snooping through books later, we finally took on the journey, to find the things the old Lady was asking for.(Considering you want to play to, I wont spoiler here!)
Complete Journal, check! Reading the complete journal, check! Getting stuff to survive.. check.. but… do I believe in demons?!
We followed the journal, in the footsteps of the female author. We found secret places, and know ones. At Dutch Harbor, we discovered a new old design by Analyse Dean, the Bandit Madpea … we hijacked the prototype, to set over water to the Dixie Queen…
Many waters we had to cross, many lands. By plane, car, bike or boat. At Gabriel we took a break, and made some music together… but all we were able to play, was this melancholic walz. it frightened us… while Quron tried to find logical expanaitions, I froze more and more.. from the inside… feeling my blood coldening….
One place was very strange, I found a shack… it must have been there for ages, in front of it was a semi tame leopard… I was able to come closer… but suddenly it hissed at me and growled .. so we ignored it, and kept looking, for the missing bass drum.
After we collected all the missing instruments… it wasnt even our decision, it was a drive… insane… to collect them. I feld a bit lunatic, but that’s not unnormal for me … so after we collected all of them … something happened. A music sheet appeared… with this same melanchilic and frightening song.. and while we could hear it.. the sheet turned into a map.. and pulled us.. out of the.. space-time-structure, and we woke up.. at a weird place. It was old.. smelled like mold and rotten wood.. and it was pitch black. Not even lanterns could help us to see more.
Without the flash of my camera, we would have been uber blind!
A long way through dark woods and over old bridges later, we found stairs in the darkness. Climbing them was the only other option, or fallowing the path back into the woods. The clock must have turned midnight, when Quron and I finally arrived at the top of the cliff, and found the old haunted mansion, just like the journal described.
Doubts came up. Was it right what we did? Someone went through great length to hide the instruments. She died, to keep the world from harm.. and now.. we are here, at this haunted.. crused place, bringing the instruments all back….
The Mansion was huge, and it smelled weird. Not like molt but old, spider webs covered most of the rooms, and the rest was dusty and yet.. it didn’t seemed as if so many years have passed…
In the garden… we could still smell the blood. The chaos was… it was as if it just happened … and not over 200 years ago. When I put the music sheet on the podest, the instruments flew by itself to the chairs.. and started playing… again this.. weird… melody … my blood froze to ice.. and it still does, just writing about it.
I dont know why, but while the music was playing a wind came up, drawing me to the huge stone symbol. Quron and I started to examine it when we heard this voice.. a dark voice… straight from hell! The amulett i wore for safety, bruned ice cold into my skin, and Q hold me close, tossing holy water all over the creature.. but before it could harm us, the demon dissapeared, and the seal beneith our feet cracked …. while we fell and fell … I lost my consciousness.
As I woke up, I still rested in Qurons arms. He wasn’t hurt either. the dimmed light of the candles, seemed bright for the first moments, but then.. we discovered, we were save… in a vault, filled with… gifts, for those who survived… the game!
One day later….
An award was handed to me, for being one of the golden ticket owner, and for finishing the game. My bottom line, it was it worth it. Every single, breath taking, goose bumpy, blood freezing second. Thank you to the Madpea team, for your awesome work. It was my first, but it wont be my last.
And with tears in my eyes, i accept this award, and wishing for.. world peace!
For all the fotos in big, color and uhm.. big … you are welcome to check my Flickr-Collection!
This cruise was very special to me, cuz it was the first cruise I ever made. Jasp had no idea for the cruise, so I offered my help and in teamwork, we build it. A slow cruise for mostly small boats, especially the IF, with slow wind speeds, and rare tacking.
SL was a bit mean with me today, so I have not as many pictures as I would have liked, but it was fun. Especially the longer break at St. Martin with the Libelle Racing, sitting and chatting, and enjoying the warm summer sun and our great boats.
Without further talking I WON …. i know I know, this is no race, but in the end i was over a sim behind the other two IFs but!! I managed to keep up and finally getting in lead!!! and i stayed in lead untill the last waypoint tho I WON!!! Whoop whoop! Thank you Jasp for this awesome cruise, it wont have happened like this, if it wouldn’t have been for you. And thank you to all the rainbow sailors, taking this one on, and having fun with us.
If you wanna check all the pics, here is the link to the matchingFlickr-Album!
Freitag, 7. August 2015
When a person tells you you hurt them, you don’t get to decide you didn’t.
Smooth stones beneath me Cool air surrounds Soft and savory Take me to God, you can take me to God No it doesn’t take your Will to set your brace on me I never doubt your possibilities Please let go of my sleeve
Today started easy and smooth, I spent the day on the beach, close to the appartment of my boyfriend. Soaking sun, and just enjoying the heat… untillJasp started to ask, if I show him my new Narca 17.
The Narca 17 is an olympia class catamaran made by Dutch in cooperation with Motor Loon, Analyse Dean and the BWind designer. Especially for this boat, there was made a new BWind system 2.5 - with gusts and slacks and water streaming, in a way we already know from Zephiweather, but now.. BWind has it too, with the common easy BWind features.
I fell immediately in love with my Narca 17 after a short demo-ride and baught it. But today was Jasps time for a testride, and guess what?! He fell in love as well. He was so brave not getting new boats lately.. but I fixxed him on again.. so I completely take the blame for that one!
But the Narca 17 just speaks for itself, you really gotta check this catamaran out! You can adjust the Gennaker by hand and seperated from the jib and main. You can actually plane this vehicle, like a RL catamaran, and this baby has the perfect mix of being a bit bitchy, being a lot of work and being just fun. so for all the experienced sailors out there, who really wanna work a bit .. come and get it!
Usually when I participate on the Saturdays cruise, I leave the Sunday out of it, but I was quite unhappy, that I had such a bad lag, I couldn’t make nice pictures, and I wasn’t sailing one of my boats. Today, Sunday, I decided, to give my Dakota a run. She is my Shileds class Sailing boat .. obviously, considering the pictures with me… on .. that.. boat.. yah ….
So this time was better, less lag .. a bit … and finally some time to surf! ”WHEEEE!” I love surfing!!! And my Dakota loves the Finnvard, cuz I never crashed so often into another boat … except this one time… hrmmm never mind.
I decided I like it -the cruise not the crashing into other people boats-, even if I am no fan of the Fruit Islands tho .. thank you Kovu and you are the one to blame.. and if not now.. maybe tomorrow! *free hugs to all the rainbow sailors out there, i even add some gropage!*
On Sundays it’s Commodores Cup Day, for the Rainbow Sailors and the 12M yachts of trudeaus. Today we were just three participants, but Jaspgot me for the weight on board as crew.
Uggostarted in his blue 12M, Kovuin white and Jasp as always in creme - well his shirt was pink!
We had some bad issues, with getting hit by an MLC Oceanic, lag and a very rare brief moment, of me calming Jasp down, not the other way around. The collesion damage messed the boat a bit up, but in the end, we… crashed … and had to rerez. So the race actually happened between Uggo and Ko.
After almost one hour, we finally arrived, and here comes the racing data:
Trial Race Results:
1. Uggo Vieria IDUGGO – 00:44:30.16
2. Kovu Kumel IDKING – 00:45:36.11
3. Jaspar Recreant ID#181 – 00:54:47.95
Big congratulations to Uggo for the first place, and to Kovufor comming in second. Well third place wont be so bad.. if there would have been more participants. Jasp.. i’ve got a plan! We have to… train more!
Kovu took us this time to the Fruit Islands and Eden, for a nice short round, with time to surf and to enjoy the diving place he picked for us. I took a ride with Jasp like Uggo did, but after the surfing spot, he hopped to Kovu, cause Zo had to leave early, very unfortunate.
We had very different boats around this time and the usual suspects sailing them. I had the same issue as always, the Fruit Islands are very laggy for me, so it took ages to rez, and there aren’t as many good shots as I hoped there would be.
Anyways, we had some fun and.. I saw merfolk! *.* <3 Thank you Kovu for this so .. long … planned cruise. I remember well what Zo said earlier today! But pretty much fun, maybe I will offer my help some day… in the far future.
To see all the pics I made, you can check my Flickr-Album!
