Thanks guys, for all your comments in the last post. Yus, he's totally adorable, awesome, and makes a Sai happeh happeh. :D And, he lets me drag him around to see pretty places on the grid, go shopping with me, and all kinds of stuff. So, we went to visit the Las Lagunas sim a while ago - but, I just now got around to editing pictures and blogging them.

I should mention first that I have begun slightly post processing scenery pictures, to make them a little brighter and more lively, but I'll never take away the true beauty of a sim ^^


Anyway, Las Lagunas reminded me a bit of like, a really spiffy and posh resort thing. It was filled with sculpties everywhere (which, honestly made my PC run a lot slower), but it looked really pretty.


The majority of the sim seemed to be empty rooms, open for rent for a store or something. Kind of a pretty place to open up a store, I think.


This place just has tons and tons of photo opportunities and can come up with some really great shots.


And, it even has a pool that uses system water, which I think its a brilliant idea. Kamian seemed to find his way into this picture - taking a swim when he thought no one was looking, I guess. XD


Another picture of the pool, closer, and a different angle. Totally pretty.


There was also some kind of club thing here, it looked like. It had something that looked like a DJ table, and stuff. ^^


While all that was pretty, my favorite area was behind the resort thing, where all the palm trees and open sand was.


A few months ago, I would have went to Bora Bora Isles for some beachy pictures. But now I don't think I can imagine going anywhere else - because this sim was just way too photogenic. ^^


Seriously, it is really beautiful, even without post processing. I think if you haven't been to check it out yet, you definitely should soon.


I even managed to sneak this picture of Kamian while I was there.


I always have to take a picture of us, no matter which sim we visit, so here is the one for Las Lagunas.

In-World Location: Las Lagunas, Las Lagunas (128, 128, 2)

I bought a pro flickr account! That means, I can take tons of pictures of my virtual adventures and not worry about hosting space! Yayz! I tested my new account by visiting the Evolutions Museum and taking as many pictures as I could. This museum was quite cool because it shows how things in SL have improved since the beginning. Pretty amazing.


Ok, I am strictly a Camaro girl, and love my '88 Camaro Iroc/z28 IRL, so Mustangs are bad news for me. :P But, I have to admit, this prim Mustang was indeed pretty darn cool.


One of most interesting exhibits for me was this. I like the idea here, very interesting.

I did take tons more pictures, but blogger would dislike me if I posted them all here. So, check them out on flickr, if you are interested!

SLURL: Evolutions Museum, Arcana (220, 102, 23)

Its been a while since I went exploring. I love The Far Away, with all its wheat field goodness, so I was curious if there was something similar. After coming across this post, I did an "OMG!" and tp'ed there as soon as I could log in. This place is really pretty with corn fields, tall grass, and I managed to get some pictures.


Though, this latest version of Windlight messed up almost every good photo opportunity I had. Transparent items are visible from a distance, and almost every shot I wanted, I was able to see gross, distracting white boxes.


But, I did find a few places to take pictures. This place was fun, and I'll definitely be returning to get more pictures in the flower fields.

SLURL: The Garden of Afterlife, Southhampton dAlliez (63, 124, 22)

Wow, its been a while since I posted here. I've been so busy with running the shop, shopping and my Fashion Labyrinth blog. So, anyways, someone was talking about a Christmas sim on the Fashion Emergency group, so I knew I had to go check it out. I love Christmas, snow, and Rezzable. Rezzable has done many of my favorite sims, including Toxic Garden and the Greenies Home. I had to go check out their Christmas sim.

Bats and I teleport in - and it doesn't seem to be Christmas-y at all. It was a race track. However, It had snow, and adorable little penguins, the fact of it being a race track didn't stop me from wanting to explore! I set my windlight settings to the "Blizzard" preset, and started snapping pictures.


Under the ground, there was an actual race track. It was indeed pretty cool, with falling ice and all. But, you also see some really cool things, like this mammoth that had fallen through some thin ice.


Also - don't forget to go under the racetrack to see the underwater city. This place was oddly beautiful, in a grungy, ghostlike way. Getting pictures underwater is a pain with all the fog and all. Luckily, I found out how to turn off the Fog rendering in the Client menu. Made exploring and picture taking a lot more enjoyable.

SLURL: Stratos, Stratos Home Rezzable (157, 33, 71)

Wow, its been a while! What have I been up to? Well, for starters, I've visited the awesome sim, TheAbyss! If you haven't been there, you are really missing out. This place is incredible, and kind of reminded me a little of "The World That Never Was" in the PS2 game, Kingdom Hearts II. Its very beautiful, in its surreal way. No picture can show the true beauty of this place, you should really check it out in world. SLURL: TheAbyss, The Abyss (96, 136, 237)

I've also learned a lot about animation overrides last night. I had purchased a Vista AO, and decided I didn't like the walks. So, I set out to find a new walk. I purchased a walk, put it in successfully, then decided I wasn't fond of the fly animations. I waited until Bats came on, and we spent a few hours looking for fly and landing animations. (Well, I was looking for fly ones, he was looking for ground sits).

I finally found some that looked halfway decent, but then decided I might as well update to the newest version of the Zhao II. Bad idea. I picked up a copy, and Bats did as well. So - we spent the rest of our night in utter confusion of how to program these things. We finally succeeded, just in time for us to test our animations and Bats to go to bed. *Sigh* Someone needs to make a "Zhao II for idiots" guide. Actually - I learned so much about what NOT to do last night, I could probably write that guide on the Zhao II.

Anyway. So, I woke up this morning, logged in at class, and decided I didn't like the fly or jumping animations this time. Yep. I went animation hunting again. I think I finally got my AO working how I want it this time... but - I can't seem to stop the face plant animation. You know... the one where you fall from a high distance and fall flat on your face? Yes, I hate that, but can't figure out how to make that go away. Ah well.

I am a major fan of horror movies - I love them to pieces. So, I immediately caught some of the movie references that was in this house. Pieces from Saw, The Shining, and more were used in this house. Creepy. As if watching horror movies all night tonight isn't going to be enough for me tonight...


If you make it to the attic, you even get a prize for braving the scary house! That is ... if you want to fight the giant spider for it. O_o


And yeah - I had to.

SLURL: Rave Nation Haunted House, Candyland (83, 198, 421)

If you are into Halloween things, there are a few places you can visit to get into the Halloween spirit. Two of the most popular places are Octoberville and October Country. Because Bats loves Halloween, I decided to take him to these two sims. So, we both dressed up - him as Jack Skellington, and me in a Last Call costume called "Enchantress".

Octoberville is only seasonal, so you should visit now, before it turns normal again. They have some weird hunt going on in this sim, and you have to find tons of items through the island. You do get a HUD to keep track of the items you have found, and it lets you know how many you have left. Lots of weird things are hidden in this sim. SLURL: Octoberville, PixelTrix (159, 105, 22)


Another popular one is October Country. Here, they have ghost stories being played for a good portion of the day, and many places to explore. This place made my computer spaz with all the particles and stuff, but it was an interesting place. I am told that this sim stays open all year round, so that is good for those of you who can't make it here by Halloween. SLURL: October Country, October Country (81, 184, 65)


And, here we are in our Halloween gear. We were trying to be as silly as we could be in this picture - because we just looked so goofy. O.o

I love anime. So, when I visited Yaoi Kingdom, I really had no idea what to expect. After doing a search on shrines, that came up as a search result. So, me, being the curious oddball I am, decided to sneak in there and see what its about. Many nekos seem to hang out here, which is cool, because I sometimes put on a pair of neko ears myself. This place was surprisingly interesting.


I managed to find an interesting shrine hidden away in the corner of the sim. It was apparently on someones land, who decided to keep his house public. I went in, quickly snapped this shot, and ran away quickly. Shh~ don't tell anyone!


A second part of Yaoi Kingdom, an additional sim called Yaoi Providence, is apparently under construction. Its a beautiful lake and filled with hills, landscape and trees. It kinda of reminded me a little of StrayLight, with the light beams and textures, but it was plenty beautiful itself.


Throughout the two sims, there are plenty of poseballs all over as well. This is a cool place to explore, whether you are into the yaoi thing or not.

SLURL: Yaoi Kingdom, Yaoi Kingdom (166, 187, 24)

I've been a little busy neko lately, even if it doesn't seem like it! I've been doing tons of work for my shop, I haven't had any time to do much of anything else in SL. But! I finally finished it all! Oh? What have I been doing? Well, I updated all my images for my vendors in my shop with new pictures, backgrounds, and more detailed layouts. (Gah~ that $400L in upload fees killed me!) But thats not all I did. I also updated every skirt in the shop with the new SmartSkirt script.

But no, thats not all~ I also updated the boxes in my SLExchange vendor and my OnRez vendor. Now, all landmarks are correct, SmartSkirt is up, and vendor images look great. Now, all thats left to do is package the new skirts up and put them up in the shop on Wednesday, so I can send my FashCon notice out.

I am excited about the new SmartSkirt script as well as the new vendor ads. I think this will make my shop more attractive, which is really cool. Shameless Plug: Flounder (46, 120, 33)


Ah, and on a side note... check out what I hatched! In search of a dragon avatar, I came across Grendel's Children, where you can buy an egg for $30L, and walk around the sims for a place that your egg will hatch at. I spent the next hour looking for somewhere to hatch this egg. It was, without a doubt, one of the weirdest things I've done. But - It hatched, and I got a gnarly, scripted dragon out of it. I call him Chi. ^_^

It seems I haven't wrote about a shrine in a while. I have been coming across a few here and there, but never really took any pictures. However, when I saw this amazing Inari shrine, I knew I HAD to get some pictures. This shrine is actually part of a shop. I purchased some sculpted tiny prims from someone on SLExchange, and this was listed as their shop in their in-world profile. Curious, I went to take a look.


And it was amazing. I've always seen these things in anime, TV shows, and pictures from Japan, so it was pretty cool to see them in Second Life. It seems that the majority of this stuff is sculpted... the pillars as well as the walkway. I love sculpted prims.


The textures on these prims are amazing as well. I mean, how could something be so bright and so pretty at the same time? This has become one of my favorite places... its calming and beautiful. It was a fun trip.

SLURL: Queqiao (180, 200, 21)

Yesterday was September 11th, one of the most known days here in the United States. So, after watching a few hours of 9/11 documentaries on the History Channel, I decided I wanted to go take a look at the memorial for the September 11th victims. It was absolutely amazing to see this sim filled with black marble - with the names of all the people who died. There were flowers left here from other residents, and even some roses stuck into the marble next to a particular name. If you want to check it out, you can do so on the World Trade Center sim.


After the memorial, I dragged Bats with me to Bora Bora to have a photoshoot with my newest bathing suit. I got some really interesting pictures, but the one above was definitely my favorite. Bora Bora is probably one of them most beautiful public beaches I've ever seen. There were just so many great places to take pictures.

Ok, in my last installment of Thursday nights exploration trip, I'm going to talk about Zero Point. This place was insane, crazy and totally bazzar. What made it that way? All the gnarly, eye burning colors, as well as the weird, out of place objects. However, it was pretty interesting and made my computer (as well as my eyes) go into spaz mode. There was only one reason I decided to come to this place for though... and that was:


The Vomit Comet. It is a roller coaster type of experience that takes you through all different textures, particles and it definitely was an experience to remember. ^_^

SLURL: Kelham (162, 106, 0)

Ok, so this place definitely isn't the prettiest place I've seen, but without a doubt - it is the coolest so far. It is the Gallery of Reflexive Architecture. This is one of those places that you just have to experience to really understand it. This place is made up of different sets of prims that do weird, interesting things as an avatar walks near them. One area will raise blocks around you (and as you move, they move with you), while another area will push prims away from you once you get near them. If you have no idea what I am talking about, but care to see it, you can check out a video of it, or just go check it out in-world. Its very fun, amusing, and definitely worth the trip. ^_^

SLURL: Architecture (193, 112, 601)

Bats and I took a small trip across the grid last night to check out a few new places. My favorite, and the one I am going to blog about today, was Clock Island. This place was beautiful, and totally dreamlike. The sides of the giant hourglass is a long, staircase that goes from the bottom all the way up to the top. Me, being the moronic klutz that I am, spent 5 minutes trekking up the stairs, then 10 steps away from the top... I fell. *Dies* Luckily, Bats is not as clumsy as me, so he stayed up there to send me a TP to the top again.


Inside the hour glass was just as amazing as the outside. Numbers fell from the center, just as sand falls in a real hourglass. There were little numbers with feet that ran around the inside of this place, it was totally cute. I was kicked a few times by number 5, and Bats was followed around by number 2. Totally amusing. If you like creative builds, or enjoy dreamlike things, definitely check out Clock Island.

SLURL: Clock Island (184, 79, 22)

I've always wanted to visit this place, but every time I thought about it, I kept thinking it was called Starlight - so I could never find it. I finally remembered it was called Straylight, so I told Bats to put on his hiking boots, because I wanted to go somewhere.

This place looked amazing, I was totally in love with the beams of sunlight coming through the trees, and all the amazingly sculpted prim trees. Straylight is an amazing place to take pictures, and sightsee~

SLURL: Straylight (128, 128, 0)

Bats and I went to the MononoFu Dojo the other day. It was such a nice place, though I can't really figure out what it was used for. Yeah, its a dojo, but do they really practice martial arts there in SecondLife? Still, it was a great place to explore, because they had really awesome scenery with all different things. Totally loved it. ^_^

SLURL: Satbyeul (78, 207, 48)

Its been a few posts since the last picture with Bats... I can't let that happen now, can I? So, anyways, I took Bats to the Neko Gardens, since it was so awesome. I love the Neko Gardens, and to probably answer your questions: No, it is not restricted to just nekos. Furries, humans, and all are welcome there.

Its a beautiful area to explore and is filled with all kinds of areas to explore. From grazing unicorns, wedding chapels and tree houses, this place is awesome. Oh, and did I mention the poseballs? Everywhere you turn is a different set of poseballs. O.o

SLURL: Sweet Reach (55, 40, 101)