Let's Go Surfin' Now!

Lludmila learns the meaning of the expression "Poking Ten"

I just love this shot. Notice how the other surfer's feet are poking out the bottom of his surfboard. This was so much fun and very easy. The waves are pretty fake looking, but the ride is convincing. I had to go back to the Weather Channel sim to take a screen shot of this (and then photoshop out the SecondLife elements like buttons, etc.) because I couldn't use the in-world camera while surfing. When I returned, there were other surfers and I ran into one every now and then, but it's about impossible to wipe out. Kasia confirmed that surfing was easy, but the skiing was hard.

I'm sure everyone will be tired of looking at Lludmila's backside, lovely though it may be. Without my camera controls (and it all goes way too fast to move them), that's all you can see.

Mountain Biking

To warm up aprés ski, Lludmila goes mountain biking in the desert

and contemplates the meaning of existence.

I guess skiing wasn't dangerous enough. However, as she is ever conscious of safety and the possibility that children might be reading this blog, Lludmila dons a bicycle helmet and goes for a pedal in the desert. Virtual bikes ride much easier in sand than real ones! The Weather Channel was nice enough to add a point of interest here and there. Lludmila just loves dinosaurs! But she wishes she could reach her handlebars. Oh, well!

Skiing the Weather Channel

Lludmila skis unsuccessfully

Someone else, perhaps Kasia, recommended the Weather Channel sim in SecondLife. Fresh from her successful jaunt into Chichen Itza, Lludmila tried out surfing and then went for the slopes. Skiing is not as easy as surfing, but she did not give up.

"I wanna try that again!"

There's nothing like a challenge. This time Lludmila bypasses the ski-lift (which was entertaining once) and takes the tp (teleport) back to the summit. On this run, she lost a ski ... and her foot. That's right, my avatar lost her foot. It's just a good thing the avatars don't die, or Lludmila would be in serious trouble: frostbite (she's still in Mayan princess garb), windburn, freezing temperatures, avalanches, blizzards, lost limbs ... Too bad I didn't think to take a picture of her with the foot gone, but it would probably only look as if her foot were in a snowbank.