time flies when you...

having fun or so they say anyway :) I have been so busy in RL that I have hardly had time to enjoy my SL. I jump on every day for a bit to grab my free lindens LOL but that has been about it. Hopefully I will be able to budget my time a little better and be able to play once again. Treasure Quest new hunt began last night and I won't even be able to get to it until Sunday this week...late start for me for sure! For the first time since I have been in SL I wasn't able to finish the last one either and that made me sad :( Alas carry on and see you on the grid!

Harvey's New Place

After the Pirate Dance Harvey invited me back to his new Island to check it out. Here is a broad view of the back of the house. It was late so I didn't stay a long time...need my beauty rest you know! But I did click a few pics and watched the sun rise there with him and Galfar.

The sun is just cresting the horizon here - look at all the rich colors out over the water! See the hot tub there in the left corner too! Ohh what a treat until Harvey said it was the stew! LOL

Here I am looking off the back deck and watching the sun creep higher and the Marlin swimming in the water. What a gorgeous fish!

Here Galfar and I are watching the sun coming up from Harvey's back deck - this is an awesome place! I am glad to have friends with such wonderful homes and toys where I can come to visit and play! Harvey has some water toys I will be checking out soon and I might even creep back into the stew again! he he!

I changed the time of day here to get a picture of us all standing on the back deck, great furniture set and such wonderful area surrounded by water! Can't be much better than this!
Harvey got himself a great deal! Next time I think I will leave the Pirate garb at home and come in my beachwear, ready for a swim!

Yo Ho and a bottle of RUM!

you guessed it there was indeed a Pirate Dance at EC on Saturday night! I am glad I decided to stop in and see what was going on :) I love being a pirate and treasure hunting and the most bestest thing? Why the RUM of course! I had a bottle of rum that if you click on it would give you a glass full so I was sharing with everyone although not many took it so I kept draining the bottle myself...I was being warned no driving! Good thing I was only sailing a ship! ROFL!

After dancing a long time on the center floor area I grabbed a camp pad when it opened up - figured I would earn a few bucks while I danced with my rum!

There were tons of pirates there and a good time was had by all!
yes even the mouthy parot that was there LOL! We rolled him in bread crumbs and threw him on the fire spit! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Hot Air Balloon Ride!

I was off exploring with a friend and we found this marvelous Hot Air Balloon ride! It went across 4 sims and there was a whole lot to see! There were mountains and flowers and the most gorgeous eyes to stare into...oops LOL! Yes it was a cozy balloon ride but we had a blast seeing what the island was all about. It is amazing what people can turn a simple little prim into!

you can see the mountains behind us, I kept toying with the settings to see what it would look like at various times of day. For real the sun was going down and it was the most wonderful experience, floating through the air and watching the setting sun!

The end of the ride was a little rude it just sorta dumped you off and you "SpLaT" on the beach!
Lucky for us there was a nice soft rug ot land on and a few pose balls to try out too. So we settled in and watched the rest of the sun set :)

I will be going back here again - they showed a ride the orca's too and also some other things I still want to check out

Etopia

I found a new place in SL called Etopia. It is a wonderful area where being "green" is flaunted and encouraged. I haven't done a whole lot there yet but will definitely be exploring more. I did take a ride on the tour though to catch a feel for what was around. Let me tell you in one word...
BEAUTIFUL!

They also have a mad lib game on Saturdays -
I was too late yesterday but am hoping to check it out soon!

Let me know what you think if you get a chance to stop by there.

Cool Shortcut list!

Got this today and thought it would be helpful so I printed it. Thanks to the SL Blog that I read I sometimes get cool tips to help out...this new blog looks like a great resource too!

Second Life Viewer Cheat Sheet

Galfar Visiting

My friend Galfar came over last weekend to visit and we sat by the fire and talked. It is a lovely place and quite relaxing . I need to get the chair script working so more people can come over and enjoy it also.

Here is a close up of Galfar - pretty good looking guy isn't he :)
He also has a great heart and is super friendly! I am blessed to have met you Galfar!

before signing off for the night he wanted to show me his new AO and he has some great stances now LOL here is his thoughtful listening pose, or at least that is what I call it.

My new house

Placing the house turned into a bit of a challenge as the land is not level and I haven't yet figured out how to manipulate it. It does fit onto the edge of my lot nicely though. I left a small area behind it and you can sort see through the house there is Pampas Grass all along the back of it. On the front corners I used some plants and grass to cover the part that doesn't meet the ground until I can figure that out LOL! It does look nice though and actually several people commented on it so hmmmm maybe I will just leave it there. You can also see where I added some furniture to the upper level in the house - it has quite a nice view!

here I have added some furniture downstairs also and took a pic looking long wise at the house. I left the land lines on so you can see I still have quite a nice front lawn area to work with. and some water although it is not deep enough for my fish they looked like flying fish up out of the water - so again have to learn that land thing :)

I have added a dock to the front and will try to get the fish out or perhaps my canoe or something but for now it is nice to sit on and stare up at the sky or out to the ocean.
I also added a place to lay out - yep that is me there working on my SL tan he he.

here I am taking a shot from the back corner of my lot where I places a fire pit and 2 lawn chairs to relax in and cook marshmallows! YUM! You can also see my lava fountain and some of the butterflies flying about. I will get another pic of that so you can see it better soon.

here is the fire pit area - see it also offers a nice view of the water inlet and some palms.

Kriti's Escape!

Well I did it - I took the plunge into Land Ownership in SL.

There was some things not working with my previous arrangement and I
looked around some, pretty much didn't find anything I really had to have so had decided
I was going to meander around and just wing it become a wanderer :)

Well in my wandering I came across some land that was for sale and I hemmed and hawed about it as it was on a side of a Sim with limited water and also went uphill the entire way - no place to make a sitting area or place to put my tube in the water to play. I decided ok I would try it cause there was a really good deal on the land and then the tier was extended for a bit. Kinda like a holiday sale I guess. So I messaged the guy and he goes ok but he just sold the plot I had looked at. I said ok never mind but, he was persistent and had me come look at one other. He wanted more for it I didn't want to pay more so we worked it out and this my friends is Kriti's Escape! Water on both sides. my own little piece of the pie so to say. I can put what I want up when I want to and tear it all down and start over if I like without having to worry what anyone else is wanting to do. Quite liberating. However, it caused some hurt between my friend and I and that was the bad thing about this. I do think we have it worked out now though and SL is moving on.

I will share more snaps of it as I built the house and added plants and all kinds of goodies :)

Three Doors Down Concert

I often use the search and then the today button to find things going on in SL. I happened upon this Three Doors Down concert the other night and so decided I would give it a go. I had a blast, until my computer decided I had enough and restarted itself LOL! I don't think it had anything to do with the concert but as it was my first I don't know so will have to give another concert a try someday. Anyway this was very cool and much like being at one in RL minus the sweaty people smashing up against you! LOL Above is the band on stage singing away if you make it larger you can see their names floating above them I believe.

here are some people dancing, my map showed way more green dots but I guess not everyone was rez'd when I was snapping this one. I love dancing away! I never did figure out if there was a dance ball there or not I was jut using my animations which reminds me I need to get some more dances as I had a pretty limited choice!

Here is the lead singer getting everyone to clap - I couldn't get my animation to work while I was dancing so had to stop then restart if I wanted to clap, I finally gave up on that and just danced :)

Guitars rock! he he

More closer shots of the band.

In this picture I think it is totally cool how this other girl and I were dancing separate but just at the click we kinda look like we are back to back with our hand touching twirling around. I have no clue who she is and since the hover names aren't on the pick no way of letting her know I captured this shot so maybe she will come across it here or maybe someone knows her and can tell her. Anyway it was fun and right after this is when my computer said ENOUGH!

Western Dance at Club Eternal

We had a Western Dance at Club Eternal not that long ago and it was fun to see everyone interpretation! There were people with guns, people dressed like the law, people just in jeans and cowboy boots as well as a few other things :) Above are Jacen & Kaylee - Jacen wore his hat well and Kaylee was looking fabulous in her dress and boots! Love the boots Kaylee!

andsim showed up on his painted horse LOL and pretty much stayed there for the night. They even had the horse dancing a bit I think. I stayed out of the way!

I did the whole western gear thing from the boots to the chaps, the belt buckle, the gun and the lasso. I topped the outfit off with a fine white hat and danced the night away.

There were so many who did not have hats that I started passing the cowboy hats out that I had. It was fin to see everyone putting them on!

Then surprise to me...I won the contest for that night for my costume! I was shocked - Western is my thing and I was just having fun - totally did NOT expect that!

4th of July in SL

I spent some time in SL on the 4th and took a few snapshots along the way. This was a sample fireworks display you could try and it was very pretty but a little beyond my reach so I just hit the demo button and watched it LOL! Someone else was behind me I see too. There was also a hunt there and I ended up getting some pretty neat things.

Here was the greeting I got when I went to the house that day - I was totally NOT expecting this. It was very festive and loud at the house. I didn't really spend much time there - too busy too much going on for me :)

I met up with Lav for a bit at her Morag land (which she has since sold) and we were sitting on the couch wearing our TOO HUGE hats LOL! Check out Lav's shoes too - I teased her about them as she more often than not isn't wearing any let alone some killer heals!

After a bit I went to the ocean side to watch the orca's jumping. Very peaceful and calming.

All in all a good day in SL!

Black & Blue Dance

This dance was held awhile ago at Club Eternal and I am sorry I don't remember whom everyone went as so here are just a few shots to show you some of the ideas
people had for Black and Blue Night

Smurfs!

I went as some winged creature and had a nice outfit with both black and blue that I was luck to find matching wings to go with. Here I am with a dance attitude on LOL

and her I am in the sky above my house.