SimGoddesses Vacation Album 2002

Moments like this make life worth living.

 

We flew the BBJ into Athens, where we picked up one of Lake Amphibians for the last leg of the flight to the island. This is our guest house, which doubles as a convenient hangar for the airplanes.

 

When the SimGoddesses go fishing in the Mediterranean, they do it in their own style. Here you see our sailing yacht, The SimGoddess, under sail as she arrived at the island.

 

SimGoddess Serene threw her back out the first night aboard the yacht, about fifteen minutes after Greg snapped this picture. There are some things that one should not attempt while a yacht is under sail in high seas.

 

Serene snapped this photo of Samanatha in the saloon aboard The SimGoddess. Greg said she had just dropped by to discuss the Fourth International Trollops & Johns Tourney, but the goddesses seemed to hold a different opinion. At the time Serene took this photo, Greg was demonstrating the proper way to climb the mast while Byline was exercising on the desk, apparently juggling frying pans in the neighorhood of the mast.

 

Byline doesn't settle for just being the prettiest skipper on the Mediterranean; she also insists on being the most stylish. She likes to tuck her hair up under her hat when she is at the helm of The SimGoddess.

 

We don't overlook the SimAngels when we're on vacation, of course. The SimAngel has enough staterooms to accommodate the whole staff along with the yacht crew, and enough power for one-day shopping trips to many of the Aegean seaports.

 

We spent most of the day on the flying bridge of The SimGoddess. I wanted to put up the sails and take the boat out for a tour of the Aegean, but the goddesses were more interested in tanning and gossiping that sailing. Well, actually, Nancy was tanning; Bibi was freckling. They both have a talent for gossiping, though.

So I ended up serving lunch. That afternoon, though, I did finally talk them into going for a sail, by bribing Nancy with a promise that she could pilot the boat.

That turned out pretty well, hardly scary at all! At least she didn't hit anything. Well, except for a hot-air balloon that was air-lifting a case of Noxema to us. Their fault -- they flew too low, not realizing just how big the boat is.

*sigh* Sorry that the picture is off-center. One of these days I'll have to give a photography lesson to the crew.

 

It gets cool in the wind when the big boat really starts moving, so the goddesses put their clothes back on. (Rats! Whose dumb idea was it to take the boat out?)

See what I mean? It wasn't scary at all! I wasn't nervous, not me. It only *looks* like Bibi is trying to keep me calm. And I'm *not* reaching for the wheel. Nope! It didn't bother a bit that Nancy was waving at the guys in the helicopter (who took the photo) just a few seconds before we bashed the mainmast into a hot air balloon.

Now, to put this into perspective, take a look at the first photo of The SimGoddess that I sent. The filename is thesimgoddess-under-sail.jpg. If you look near the aft mast, you'll see an area outlined in a dark color. That's the flying bridge that you see in this photo.

Well, it's time for me to go climb the mast and see if I can disentangle what's left of that balloon from the boat.

 

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All characters in this story are fictional, though some are based on real people who are staff members and fans of the SimGoddesses web site. Airplanes by Lake Amphibian and Boeing. The SimGoddess sailing yacht, including background interior illustrations, is portrayed in this story by Salperten Yacht. Characters by Bibi Andersson and Gregory Bennett. SimGoddess Serene's green corset is based on a skin by OpenLea. (Mirror site.) Story and imagery by Gregory Bennett. We sincerely thank the SimGoddesses, the SimAngels, and the SimGoddesses staff for their contributions to this story.