December 28, 2008 Sunday

Yesterday I went to Nguzo Saba Park for a candlelighting as part of Kwanzaa. I toured the small but well done park that had prim sculptures of the seven symbols.

Today I had a magic carpet ride tour of the Germania Seagull sim. Pretty good, especially when I got to sunset and the moon rising. There was an airport.

I have continued to aggressively organize my inventory. I have everything from A to Z lined up nicely now. However, for example, there is a LOT of loose stuff, say, in "Clothing" that I will soon turn my attention to.

I did have a lifechanging day or two as I went to a garden in SL that gave a podcast of Eckhart Tolle's book, a couple chapters, "A New Earth". It was just what I needed to hear, for some things in my RL. Met the lady who made the garden and put out the podcast and then the next day went to her class.

These last few weeks and until early January is what they call Winterfaire. I think basically what that means is that you go to Showcase: Hotspots, and then there are a long list of winter places and sims. So I went around to several of those last night. I went to a Cherokee park -- saw a wolf (an avatar) and went into a cave with 2 bears (prims) and walked by deer. There was a horseride there, but I couldn't get it to work. But the forest and lake and mountains were gorgeous in the snow and then with the Native American music going, amazing, spiritual. I will return there again; it will be green. I also went to a place called Greenies which is basically a giant house and my avatar was very, very small in comparision. An interesting eye's view. Other than that there was ice skating, and a place where I went on a sled ride, and a place where I went on a motorboat ride through a jungle-y cave (not Winterfaire, but I happened to see it across the road from the ice skating rink), Santa's workshop, an English horse farm. I also went to the sim with St. George Church (Eastern Orthodox). Again, very lovely trees and mountain, and the music was what I call "cathedral" music, utterly lovely.

I also want to put in a plug for one of my favorite shops, Coconut Ice. Cute, romantic, unique. I also found a place that does superb fantasy and role playing outfits, Suki's Silks. Huge selection.