The Relay for Life of Second Life Main Event starts today (Saturday, 7/17) with opening ceremonies at 10am SLT. The Survivors will hit the track at 11am, with Caregivers walking at noon. Then we are ALL on the track until tomorrow morning! 24 hours of Relay for Life in Second Life…we are here, are you? It is an amazing journey and we would be thrilled to have more join us on the track. Yes, there is LAG; yes, you will crash; yes, you might cry; and yes, you will feel good about being out here supporting all that suffer from this disease.
The Riders for a Cure – Surf for a Cure Marathon was held yesterday, 7/10/10. The event was deemed successful as the riders met their goal – raise more linden than in 2009! Lissa Pinion put this event together and really brought a lot of people out to surf the waves of SL – 7 sims were visited, or maybe the better word is ‘invaded’ in nearly 13 hours. The Surfers raised linden for Relay for Life in Second Life to benefit the American Cancer Society. Sebastian Saramago of SSi designed a special board to be sold to benefit RFL of SL too… all in all, the event raised $82,754L!!!
Tremendous words of thanks go to all that took part, shredding the waves from 9am to 10pm – the sim owners, the surfers, the supporters! Thank you to Sebastian for creating a limited release board with 100% of sales going to the RFL of SL campaign. HUGE HUGE thank you to Lissa for putting this together and sharing her sentiments and thanks all day long, encouraging others to get out and help raise funds.
The RFL of SL team that I am on, Eternal Beacon, is thrilled to have helped and sponsored this team of surfers through their incredible day of fun, laughs, surf and togetherness. It is events like this that bring a community together… 🙂
This photo is from Sebastian Saramago’s flickr. My own photos never show Sebastian from the front, and he managed to get most of us facing the camera (an amazing feat). Pictured in the photo are from top clockwise: Max, Nash, Sunshine, Cloudy, Bobbi, Syx, Thalia, Sebastian, Luscious, Surf, Colleen, Lissa, Emma and Bandit. This photo was taken during the last hour of the day at Mori Pwani…
As you saw from my previous post, a “Bid Me Bald” event to raise funds for the Relay for Life of Second Life campaign was held on Sunday, March 21 at Sol Mañanero Surf. The RFL of SL team Eternal Beacon, hosted and our team captain, Dione Kohime, pulled double duty and DJ’d as well.
It was a fun-filled event. I had opposing kiosks set up. One asking party-goers to bid for me to be bald, and one asking to let me keep my hair. There was a definite push as it was evident just who wanted me bald and who loves to see me in hair! LOL Each time Linden were paid to the “Bid Me Bald” kiosk, I would groan…and then Linden would drop into the “Keep Me in Hair” kiosk to which I would cheer! For 2 hours, we were entertained with the music that DJ Dione laid down from awesome mash-ups to songs about Sunshine/Sunny/etc… we danced, chatted, hoo’d and laughed! One of my friends, Kekoa Arbizu, filmed the party and put together this video…take a look, it tells you a bit more about the “Bid Me Bald” event and shows us having a great time!!
At the end of the event… looking to the kiosks, I found that those that favored the Baldness came in a bit higher requiring me to be bald for 2 days! And then after some late breaking donations were made through Monday night (after this photo was done), I was up to 3 days bald!
A Successful Event for Relay for Life of Second Life!
Now…the coolest thing about this whole event?!? We raised over L$126,000 Linden for Relay for Life of Second Life benefitting American Cancer Society (late donations totaling an additional 2800L were received after above photo done). The generosity of all amazed me and while I know that many might have wanted to see me bald for more days, I think that the offsetting kiosks worked to bring in more linden!!! Thank you all to those that joined me and that paid my kiosk through Monday night for that reason. The “Bid Me Bald” event for Sunshine is over… hmmm should I do another one? 🙂
Bald IS Beautiful!!! 🙂
‘Til Next Time…
~Sunshine
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