Having written my CNN report 'All a bit Dodgy' http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-47395?ref=feeds%2Foncnn, regarding my bad experience when I tried to get to a Charity Show for the Relay for Life cancer fund the other night, I'd like to say that, although I didn't manage it, lots of others did and they had a great evening, plus lots of money was raised for the good cause. I'd spoken to my friend Pinkie Delcon and she said 'I was surprised how smoothly the show ran, the performers were excellent. Hats off of Osprey Therien and the gang for delivering a great show. Monet Fitzgerald's Titanic was a fantastic setting, so elegant that you could very easily forget where you were and slip back in time. You missed a real treat Janey'

And miss a treat I did, Monet collected around 115,000 Lindens for the Charity and as this is the first time she has run the event, she says she plans on collecting even more next year. Monet is a real business lady and doesn't enter into things lightly, she has foresight and plans her business strategies well in advance of any ventures that she is interested in pursuing.
I went back to see Monet last night, not only to express my apologies for missing her lovely evening (with my SL technical difficulties!!), but also to see if she had been pleased with the way things had gone. Monet told me that she had had a lot of fun creating the evening, a lot of work, but a lot of fun, saying she had a wonderful team to work with as well. As Monet's real life internet connection is by satellite, she told me that she had spent 10 hours at an internet café to make sure that everything went well for the event. Looking round again I could see all the wonderful settings that she had created, the luxurious dining room with its round tables and chandeliers where the show had been held. The whole of her Titanic replica is breathtakingly beautiful.
Monet owns the Waverly Yacht Club. A luxury marina on mainland SL, connected to 40 sims and the seas of Corsica, also surrounded by protected water sims. You can enjoy the romantic island and yacht club. There is dancing, dining, sailing and much more. Monet told me that the clubhouse is available to rent out for special occasions like wedding receptions, anniversaries or birthdays etc.
I asked Monet how she first heard about Second Life and she told me it was actually on CNN television. She had joined SL with plans to have somewhere to keep her virtual yacht that she had bought (designed and built by Blaze Neilsen). She soon realised that you could not use your yacht in any SL waters and that's when she decided to buy her first Marina slip. Although her first marina was beautiful, with pretty waters including little sea creatures and boats all round, within a week her neighbours had started to build the area up destroying the beautiful setting. Monet also needed more prims (primitives, basic blocks for creating objects in Second Life), to create the marina she had dreamed of. Monet decided sell the slip for more than she had paid for it, so business lady Monet was on her way to buying her perfect marina.
After her first experience she rented a sim, but soon discovered that the waters connected to it were not sailable. Then after about a month she said she literally stumbled on an island with protected waters around it attached to the Sea of Corsica, which has the 40 sailable sims.
Monet has recently expanded her business again by adding another island with an open space sim as well. You can moor your yachts at Monet's place as well as renting out the fantastic Titanic for special occasions.
I asked Monet what she does for fun in SL, apart from running her business, which I know she loves. She says she likes to go dancing, although she does not have any emotional attachments in SL, she does have a mysteriously handsome dance partner called Robert though, whom I had the pleasure to meet, and Robert is as elegant as Monet herself. They make a fine couple. Monet works really hard in SL and provides a beautiful environment for people who wish to experience style and luxury in the virtual world. Well done Monet on holding the charity event for 'Relay for Life' (Waverley Yacht Club, Wyrldmaker 34 161 23)