Carnivale Amusement Park - Nice Way To Kill Some Sunday Hours

Carnivale Amusement Park (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Carnivale%20Quarry/117/121/50) unpon arrival doesn't look like much, but somehow my friend Dregg and I spent two hours playing around here.

After spending a good amount of time in the photobooth, there was a loto of things around this place that needed to be looked at. You walk though this place, and there is consession stands, and couple pose balls (a good place for a date?), and a bunch of rides. There is about 10 rides here total, and not to mention some carnival games that do entice you. The rides here have the typical themes, the haunted house, wooden roller coaster, the storybook ride (and in this case Alice in Wonderland), the tilt-a-whirl, not to mention a graviton. All the rides are duel seater, and run with scripts and when you sit in them you are automatically put into 1st person or 3rd person depending on the ride.

The Alice in Wonderland ride is gold. The only draw back is the ride can only be activated one at a time. Our problem was we had a group of people who kept trying to activate the ride because they didn't READ the directions properly and that in turn kept restarting out ride about 5 times. Once they read the directions (not to mention a few comments from Dregg and myself) we were on our way. A lot of original textures and design went into this ride as well as sound effects. Honestly, this alone was worth the trip not to mention a great way to kill 2 minutes :)

xxoo,
Karia

Drowsy - A Horror Festival

Drowsy (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Drowsy/113/97/24) is having its horror festival (I saw this link for the sim thanks to http://nwn.blogs.com/) for the summer. I was surpised when I entered the sim because you actually arrive at a little store, and then are enticed to head 2-3 different directions. This sim has SO much to look at. I had to explore it, not only because the idea that it was having a "horror" festival, but because someone also put a lot of idea and thought into this sims actual design, down to the very little detail and as simple as it is, it was implimented nicely.
The festival is really a small area of the sim. Its maybe a good 1/8, however, the theme is more like a haunted carnival that has very few things to buy, but you are able to just take pleasure in the oddities that are there. It was one of those experiences that unless you looked, you are going to miss it. They have these little carts that have almost little scenes in them, and they seem to have a lot of detailed plants and other items on the cart. The above image is actually a cart where you can buy the skirts the "worked to the bone" ladies model. I did have my share of fun at the broke down playground for a bit, but I had no one to push me on the swing, and then I got surrounded by dogs. They are running their summer horror festival until the end of august I believe, and then there are rumors they are turning that area into something else for halloween.




xxoo,
Karia