Being a virtual Valentine

Wanted to take a few minutes and look around at what Valentine’s Day related events are happening inside Second Life. I fired up the search and entered the query “valentines” to find 18 event results:

I was intrigued by the Mystery Isle event description (could have done without the all caps):

COME OUT TO MYSTERY ISLE AND SEARCH FOR ALL THE LITTLE LOST HEARTS! EACH OF THE 50 HEARTS HAS A SPECIAL GREAT GIFT INSIDE PLUS 25 UNIQUE GIFTS WILL BE HANDED OUT RANDOMLY.

Upon arriving at Unicorn Woods dAlliez 142, 161, 28 (SLurl) I learned that the event tickets cost L$300.

I didn’t really have time to go on the treasure hunt but maybe some other VTOR readers or authors will today. If I wasn’t taking my sweetheart out in RL this afternoon I probably would have thrown down the L$300 and gone exploring for a few.

Searching classifieds
Next, I searched in the classified section for “Valentine’s Day” and learned about The Gift - World Class Gift Boxes at Plush Pi 93, 89, 22 (SLurl). They have an impressive looking sign:

Inside the store a couple tables neatly aligned in a U shape displayed the different gift boxes available for purchase.

A bouquet of roses cost L$50 and most of the boxes I clicked on, true to the advertising on the notecard, cost less than L$100. A single red rose in vase cost L$20.

I remember buying my wife a dozen long stemmed roses and paying $75 USD one year. That would buy a lot of virtual red roses but, since she’s not a big fan of virtual worlds, probably wouldn’t carry near the sentimental thought.

This morning on the Howard Stern Show, Howard announced his engagement to his girlfriend of seven years, Beth. This got me thinking about asking my wife if she wanted to be my partner in Second Life. We talked about it in the past and she wasn’t totally against the idea but I never made the move.

No offense intended to others who already have partners, but the whole partner thing still seems a little cheesy to me (and more cheesy to her, I think). Perhaps on our car ride later today I’ll approach the subject again. I guess if I’m serious, I need to investigate what the actual process of partnership is in SL. I remember fellow VTOR author and our group Romeo Weirdharold writing about it in day’s past, but I don’t think any tutorial has been posted here yet detailing the process.

(might be a good idea for a future post)

On this day of roses, I’m looking for different and/or original ways to say “I love you.” We’ve been together almost 20 years now and I like coming up with new ways to surprise her. She seemed a little miffed that she sent me this test last night about her and I failed it.

I found a dozen long stem roses with customizable notecard system so you can write some personal thoughts to your sweetheart when they open them at the The Red Room Jazz Lounge first floor (take the teleporter if you don’t go there directly). Location: Coral Reef 22, 151, 23 (SLurl).

Now time to ponder something good to write in there before sending these to her avatar later. The gift won’t be spoiled, she doesn’t read this blog. This concludes the time I alloted to stop in and check out the virtual world Valentine’s Day happenings but I remain curious what other valentines did today in virtual worlds? My son told me that inside World of Warcraft they were having special Valentines-oriented quests which sounded kind of fun.

What did you and your virtual Valentine do today? And if you are partnerless inside SL, how did you spend the day? Just another day?