New Year's Eve party at Moonlight Pier
Actually, it was supposed to be a public party tonight. But Misty and I decided to cancel it and instead invite our friends to our private sim, the Moonlight Pier. So we quickly together our guest list and invited our friends.
Silver and Gold Formal
The highlight of this month. We went back to the Sunshine Temple to celebrate with this event our great Christmas Gala Night. And it was the last official public event in 2019 too. Our end-of-year celebration. And its formal again and was a dream in gold or silver. It was a strict formal event, we expected evening attire. And it should be gold & silver.
Ugly Sweater
The holidays can be a stressful time. And maybe you have enough of the serious and contemplative Christmas celebrations. And it seems like there is a never-ending list of invites to sort through for the entire month. And this in real life and SecondLife. We can't help you in real life, but we can try it here in SecondLife. We invited our friends, group members and guests to break this stressful cycle for a little Christmas fun. We celebrated our naughty Ugly Holiday Sweater Party.
Christmas Morning breakfast
Christmas is so wonderful. And if you see the wide open and bright eyes of children with mirroring of sparkling lights and candles in it, the Miracle of Christmas and Santa Claus come be true. Here in Germany it is the evening of 24th, the Holy Night where children gets the gifts. And parents visiting the church in the night for a very special Christmas Mass. The night where Jesus Christ born. In the USA its the morning of 25th and Santa Claus came in the night and brought the gifts. We have already hang our stocking at the fireplace last week, so we returned for this special event to the Sunshiner's Pub tonight to follow the imagination of the Christmas morning, if we ran down the stairs to the living room only worn the pajama and socks and Santa Claus was there in the night before and brought the gifts. This is a magical moment and we wanted repeat this.
Santa's Helper
So far we have started the Christmas season rather cautiously. First we opened the Christmas market, then our new winterland and finally we went to the fireplace to hang up our stockings in the Sunshiner's Pub. But it was always rather festive. But the Advent season is a colourful and exciting time and that's why our event today it's called "Santa's Helper Party" today. Now it was finally time to put out special Xmas Clothes. Our guests were invited to come as Santa or one of his little Helper to the Sunshine Realm. We went to the Christmas Market again and celebrated colorful that Christmas so close.
Christmas story time by the campfire
This was our 3rd pre-Christmas event. At first we opened the Christmas Market last Saturday with "Winter Wonderland" and celebrated together with our friends in our Christmas decorated Sunshiner's Pub on Tuesday at the event "Hang your stockings by the fire". Now we opened finally the new Winterland 2019/2020 today. And a lot people came to to us on the frozen pond to have 2.5 hours fun with the Sunshine Family.
Hang your stockings by the fire
Now it was time to celebrate our first Advent event in the Sunshiner's Pub. Misty had found some nice textures again and decorated the pub for Christmas. And with the Christmas market on the street and the winter landscape around it, it is again a cosy place to relax. So we met with our friends and guests for the event "Hang your stockings by the fire" in the Sunshiner's Pub. And as the name already suggests, actually you could wear anything tonight, as long as you only came in socks.
Winter Wonderland
Now it was finally time and we went with our friends and guests to the new Winterland 2019 / 2020. Our first Advent Event and all of us were very happy. We were at the Christmas market and celebrated together. There is a special atmosphere at our Christmas market. Since DJ Yuimetal was busy with a project of their Baby Metal tribute band, Polpeta and Yuimetal exchanged their shifts, and DJ Polpeta took over the entertainment for the main part of the evening event.
Winter Wonderland will be open today
We're running late. We already had our "ice fishing" and the "Winter Penguin Formal" ball, but this year we haven't really started into winter yet. But now it's time. And as in the years before there will be a winterland again, and of course also a beautiful Christmas market.
Nightmare before Christmas
Wow, now this event is over too. And it was really something very special again. The Realm of Shades was the perfect place for this theme and DJ Polpeta put together an amazing set to entertain us. And most of us had a lot of fun. I had already started to write about the preparation of the event and maybe some of you got an idea what an event here at the Sunshine Realm means. It starts with choosing the theme, then we choose the right place for it and develop an idea of what it should look like. Then we decorate the venue, write a teaser and later group notes. We add the event mostly to the SecondLife Scheduler. This is the first part. For our friends and guests it is then the choice of a suitable outfit. But this is also a part of our agenda, because after we have prepared the place, we also need a suitable outfit. And that can drag on for days and then change a few times. So the last decision is sometimes made just before an event.
Preparation of the "Nightmare before Christmas" event
Normally I always write a report about the events after we finished it. And before that all information is mostly on the blog page "Upcoming Events". Today it's different. I write a blog before an event about the preparations and some surprises. Tonight at 4pm we start again into a party weekend at the Sunshine Realm. And as a contrast to the pre-Christmas time and because today is Friday the 13th, it will be a slightly different event. Today it's time again for a night of nightmares. Our event today is "Nightmare before Christmas", before we go into the winter time and enjoy the advent season.
Winter is back at Sunshine Realm
It's a little late this year. But now it's finally time, the winter is back at Sunshine Realm. And at least in Central Europe the winter hasn't arrived in the RL yet. But now it is finally here at the Sunshine Realm. And it will accompany some of our events for the next 3 months.
A night in the Playboy Mansion
And again should our event today be a change from the pre-Christmas period. But I am pretty sure that some men thought they're got their presents early or it was Christmas and Easter in one day. Today we went to the Playboy Mansion. And it was supposed to get really hot. Women were as sexy as it gets. They put on their sexiest lingerie and heels. Today was skin be shown. And some of us were sexy bunnies, then showed our little tails on our butts and the rabbit ears. Today we could, no no, we should make the men really hot. The air crackled. We were playboy bunny tonight.
ALTs on our Events
It is a constant topic and repeats itself again and again. And it is a constant cause for discussion with guests. We want active guests who participate in our events to really want to listen to music. I think that is a matter of course. But I have already written it. Privacy is an important personal right in the USA and Germany. And I think it's the same in most countries where our friends come from. So fortunately it is not possible for us and also not allowed to check the IP addresses of our visitors. So we don't know who uses ALTs and who doesn't. Of course we also make observations and have theories. And I'm also convinced that there are ALT farmers with tons of ALTs who jump from event to event but park their avatars but don't participate in the action. We call them zombies or contest junkies. But it's not up to us to judge and even less to listen to the constant GOSSIP in SecondLife and therefore judge guests.
I have add this text to the Rules for Events at Sunshine Realm too.
Winter Penguin Formal
As is the tradition of Sunshine Realm; we celebrate each month with a formal dance. Since this month is December and the start of the Christmas season I suspect several Formal dances this month. The first formal dance of December was today at our Sunshine Temple. We called this Formal dance "The Penguin Formal" What did that mean? Penguins are black and white they are also creatures of the snow and ice so our guests were invited to use that as inspiration to picking a formal attire. We couldn't wait to see our friends and guests tonight for this December Formal extravaganza. This was our 2nd winter event this season.
Ice Fishing
It's winter time in the the USA and most of Europe. Time to bundle up and stay indoors. Unless you're a member of the Sunshine Realm Group; instead of being indoors; we went go down to Sunshine Beach for a little ice fishing. We lighted a fire on the beach to keep us warm while we dance on the beach. We asked our guest, "If you're in the Polar Bear club feel free to come in a Bikini with a hat and boots. Otherwise bundle up in winter clothing and bring your fishing pole and come down to Sunshine Caribbean beach to celebrate with us." And many people should follow our invitation to this special event at the beach.
One Love - Reggae Night
Reggae is a style of popular music that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and quickly emerged as the country's dominant music. By the 1970s it had become an international style that was particularly popular in Britain, the United States, and Africa. It was widely perceived as a voice of the oppressed. Reggae has spread to many countries across the world, often incorporating local instruments and fusing with other genres. Today we celebrated the Island sounds of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Sean Paul. We asked our friends and guests to put on Tie Die tops and Jamaican colors (Red, Green and Yellow) and to come to the Sunshiner's Pub to celebrate with us.
Visiting Odette and Phil Conners Thanksgiving Event
We were all very happy when we received an invitation from Odette and Phil to a Thanksgiving concert and dinner. Both had lovingly prepared it, and many of our friends came to the Conner Winterland which we already got to know a few weeks ago.
All were asked to choose a formal outfit to match the occasion, certainly something that many of us enjoyed. The men could say "suit with tie", for us women it was a wardrobe adventure. Who doesn't know that when we stand helplessly in front of the wardrobe and put one dress after the other on the bed and discard the idea.
Review of November 2019
Now the monthly review of the events in the Sunshine Realm belongs to this blog. And even though I'm a few days late, I'd like to take the opportunity to look back at the past month and perhaps remind some of the diverse and beautiful events we've had here. And even though November in my home country is rather damp and dark, and not really one of my favorites, we can look back on a very good month here in SecondLife. The conditions were not really favorable.
