Relay for Life of Secondlife 2025 - The Magic of Hope

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And with last weekend another Relay season has come to a close,  It was grand fun even if missing a few people.  

Great music from the DJ's and I had a fun time switching clothing or avatars! And taking friends about the track.  Crashed hard in that first lap about the sims,  twice,  but then not really any crashing after that.

We DID loose a sim for some reason and kept having to by pass it. Never did hear why but it came back about two hours before it ended.

oh and I made it 15 laps and I wasn't even trying!

Track stats

Avatars:     1249
Laps:     5254
Distance:     47,433,942 meters
Course Length:     9,029 meters

36 sims unless I counted wrong

They said we circled the world if this was one long track!

Photos!

 I tried to get a photo of each camp sight before relay started, can be seen here I think I got them all 

All the fun photos of actual Relay day here! Fun with avatars and other things! 

 And deeper visits in to some camps can be seen here Sadly the Labyrinth build was picked up by the time I got to it. I did go into detail with the stunning Fantasy Faire build. 

 And lastly photos of the annual sink the sims end party I think the water went up the highest it has in a while this year! 

Relay Grand total  L$: 110,802,508
USD: $443,210.00

Steelhead Grand Total L$: 64,521
USD: $258.08

Fantasy Faire L$32,289,022
USD: $129,156.09

More on Fantasy Faires camp on the track 

Next years theme!! 

Wild for a Cure! Steelhead is already making plans!

The Light in the Darkness

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Its time to take a break from the Fun of being at Relay to Remember just WHY we are here.  The Luminaria Ceremony.

We Relay for those we have lost.

We Relay for those that are fighting.

And we Relay for Hope that one day we will never need to Relay again.

For any that may want to watch the Luminaria Ceremony    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY_FVWbyIjA

 

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Lets Get ready to REEELLAAAAYYYYY

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Steelheads camp sight is done and ready. I took an image Fuzzball posted as an idea *the mad hatters hat as a house* and ran with it.  It was my first time doing the theme for us!  So you gotta come see it! Big Magic Hat houses ALL over!   Represenging the many hats that Cancer Survivors and Caregives have to wear!
There a LOT of amazing Camps this year.  The Theme is the Magic of hope so LOTS of magic!  Theres a Hogwarts,  Fantasia, The Labrythin,  An entire forest of Disney stories, wonderland, Oz, Lots of Draqons, lots of Fairies. And Sayige has, for Fantasy Faires build, taken over an entire Sim with  ghosts of Junction.  Bits and pieces from several of her past builds for Junction and its breath taking!

We have reached SO MANY fun raising milestones this year! Including SIX MILLION USD raised over the entire time that Second life has holding Relays!

LOOK AT THIS TRACK 

 

Watch the opening ceremony and other ceremonies on Youtube !  https://www.youtube.com/@RelayForLifeofSecondLife

Listen along https://t1radio.com/  Great music and lots of fun!

Relay schedule, Theme hours! Dress up and have fun CLICKY CLICK 

 

 LETS DO THIS!!! 

TIME TO RELAY FOR LIFE!!

TWENTY THREE YEARS

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Be a quarter of a century soon... Adar and I got married on June 1st 2002

Time to Drift into the Mists - Farewell to Fantasy Faire 2025

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This year my posting of Fantasy Faire started with a dream of Junction. and now its time for Junction to drift into the Mists once more. Becoming just a dream again. 

But Junction will rise once more from the Mist and bring with it new worlds to explore and fall in love with in 11 months time. And we will spend that 11 months dreaming of it and how we can help Fight the Unweaver and eliminate the Cancer he brings. Till then we keep dreaming of her. 

 This year my Faire started with me being preforming for the first time! With Merryjests Wonders show! *photos* and a *video* . It was great fun even if it was mostly standing backstage. But hey, thats theater for you! 

This year the annual Kids Roleplay was a little short for a few reasons and almost didn't happen. But the Fantasy roleplay sim Astrium stepped in to make sure something happened! And so that is how we got The Travelers - The Echowrite Quill Which you can read about on the link there and see my photos from it at this link. I'd like to thank Astrium for doing this so last moment and it was still fun!  

 Now I did miss out on a bus ride this year, not sure how that happened, I'm blaming the power outage we had on that. Nearly three days with out electricity! I Missed Beltane! It also took out some of my planned time to chill and go to shows and things! So I do feel I missed out on a lot of things I did get a few random photos though *link*  

 I also did a thing halfway through faire that I don't know how many noticed! I'll be making a post about that later this week. But it was TOTALLY MerryJests Fault!  

 And of course we had the annual year in Meeting. It was totally not a rave. And I did not dress as Jem for it! Photos of the meeting are at here 

Some of the regions added things to their build over the run and I took a walk about to try to get photos of those after the faire was closed to the public. You can see those here

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 Being in Junction as the sims are sent back to the Mist is a lovely special tradition Ive grown to look forwards to. Though this year Junction had a bit of a fit and crashed everyone three times before being officially sent to the mist! Photos here You can watch the last minute of Junction 2025 here, enjoy the music! 

I still want that recorder..OH WAIT I FOUND IT Enjoy... 

 Now to prep for my 23rd Wedding Anniversary on June 1st and for Relay Weekend on June 7th & 8th. I think I may be the main person making Steelheads camp sight this year. ..thats not nerve wracking or anything...

Floating away - Fantasy Faire 2025 Memory

The waters about Mire of Whispers weren't deep but you could still float if you tried. 

 

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The Ancient One - Fantasy Faire 2025 Memory

He was so much bigger in person as he wandered The Wraithwoods 

 

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Dandelion Daydreams - Fantasy Faire 2025 Memory

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Flying feeshes - Fantasy Faire 2025 Memory

More memories before the wrap up post.

Scrunkle Gulch was such a special sim.  Even the mega sized TWI cat was small compared to the cat tree in it! I will miss it so much.

But I have small bits of it to take home thanks to the quest!

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Sunset of the faire...

And the sun has set on Fantasy Faire 2025

Junction has faded into the mist, now its time to go Second Star to the right...

I'll have a proper wrap up soon. Probably over the weekend.

 

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