Shadowlane: A Wallflower's Perspective Part 2

I wandered down to the casino Friday mid-morning and immediately bumped into D and M who I met at the very first spanking party I went to and who are also members of FMS.

Familiar faces! Yay!

Soon a group was gathering and we decided to head to breakfast. The group got larger as more people joined in. I can't remember everyone who was there and/or if the name I knew them by was real or not so don't want to risk listing people who might not want to be mentioned. Anyhow, D&M were there. D was waiting for her friend G to join the group. D is rather exuberant and the excitement she had waiting for G to show up had me worried. Would the casino stand up to it?

Danny_Chrighton and Sophie were there. It was her first Shadowlane party too. Sophie is incredibly sweet and it was a pleasure getting to chat with her throughout the weekend. Danny is a real doll too, always with a big smile and a hug and made me feel welcome wherever I went. Sometimes it's the little things that are so helpful. Funny note here: One of my friends has a huge spanko-crush on Danny, so every time she saw him hug me, she'd pretend to glare. I'd glance over at her and smirk!

After we ordered, D's friend G showed up with a group of other people: R, M and L. G's husband turned out to be Scary Top. I'd read about him on Erica's blog and told her if I ever saw him I'd run in the other direction!

We had a nice breakfast. Lots of chatting and laughing. It's hard not to laugh when D is around. There was a fellow sitting at a table across from us wearing a Folsom Street Fair t-shirt so I was convinced he was kinky and part of our group. I made the mistake of telling D she should go find out. She'd have been across the room asking him if I hadn't stopped her! She's a brat, that one. She did eventually go over and ask him and of course she pointed right at ME and said, "that girl wants to know if you are kinky." I thought I'd die and I'm sure I turned 50 shades of red. Turns out he was and he joined the table. He was very mysterious, as he would only say he was from Europe when I asked, so I told him I was from North America. Ha, two can play that game! Maybe he was a spy or something.

Scary Top is addicted to his cell phone and texting. I'm pretty sure he was texting L who was sitting next to him. He told a funny story about texting his business partner something spanking related that obviously wasn't meant for him. He was a bit grumpy because he was hungry and his wife wasn't ordering fast enough to suit him. He then came up with this bizarre idea of bottoms spanking bottoms at the top's direction. How lazy. Then he tried to convince me to smack his wife! Hello?? I don't even know this lady and she's informing me on my other side that she hits back! Do I look stupid? If he wants to smack her, he can do it himself! :)

Eventually they got food. G just wanted plain yogurt (thinking plain without granola and stuff in it like the parfait I had). What she got was plain unflavoured yogurt to which she then added packages of jams and jellies. She said it turned out good, so all was well.

After breakfast/brunch I headed back up to the rooms to see if Kat and Aurora were up yet. They were, so I went over to their room and hung out with them for a while. I had intended on going to the newbie suite party before the vendor fair, but ended up missing it. I'm sure it would have been worthwhile going to and I'm sorry I ended up missing it. We went to dinner and on the way ran into D and M. I arranged for a spanking with M, but ended up missing it since dinner took so long and because it never crossed my mind he was waiting for me at my room. I'm slow on the uptake sometimes.

Soon it was time to get ready for the Vendor Fair so I went back to my room to get ready. I forget what I wore, but I remember thinking I looked like a stuffed sausage and was convinced no one would want to spank me. We headed over to the Vendor Fair with our Shadowlane tickets in hand and got in the lineup to get our badges. As I entered the room, Tony shouted out "Iggy!". He's such a nut. Wandered around the fair for a while. Mostly it was videos and nastier (read: wood) types of implements, so there wasn't anything there I was really interested in.

Almost immediately I saw Erica behind the Shadowlane table. I really wanted to meet her as I've known her for several years online. In fact, when I first got to know her I had no idea what Shadowlane even was, let alone that she did spanking videos. I was sure she'd look at me and go "Who?", but as I approached she said with a big smile, "I know you!" She was as gracious as could be and throughout the weekend I got to chat a bit with her and her charming partner J. Very nice people, very charming, very friendly. I also got to meet BradD who I've corresponded with, but despite having attended a couple of the same parties, hadn't met. What a sweetie.

The Northern Spanking group did a kinky dance and there was some spanking going on (in the ballroom, not in the dance), but not as much as I expected there to be. The SSNY group was selling a soothing cream. Luckily someone put some on my hand first because it turned out I was allergic to it and definitely wouldn't have wanted it on my bottom. Everyone else really liked it though and found it very soothing. I wasn't about to get spanked in the ballroom, but it was fun watching others get it.

Soon we decided to leave the Vendor Fair. I wasn't sure where we'd end up going so I was just happy to follow along. The night was still young.

All this writing and she hasn't had any action yet. Will she, or won't she? Stay tuned.