BASH Update Part 1

Wow...just wow!  i could not have asked for anything more from my weekend trip down to Austin for the event, BASH...well, maybe a few less hours in the car but even that was fun since i had ss with me and we made a real go of it!.


We left St. Louis a little before 7pm and arrived in Springfield at about 9:30 pm, #3 lives in Springfield and since i haven't seen him since May we stopped and made him dinner and i got my much needed hugs.  After about an hour we were back on the road.  The highways have high speed limits so it was a rather easy drive and we arrived in Austin around 9:30 in the morning.  Walked into the library and right to @InspireRae!!!  OMGoddess, it was wonderful, she was exactly what i thought she would be...awesome!  We had a yummy lunch at a local Mexican restaurant and then back to the hotel to get ready for the formal dinner.

My gift bag courtesy of @InspireRae!

Dinner was good, it was amazing to meet folks and to see the differences in our communities.  There was a much stronger Leather presence there, we don't have a lot of leather within STL3, there is a separate Leather community here but i love seeing the leather and their house structures.  i would love to be able to tell you about the speech the Sir Stephen gave, i know i enjoyed it at the time but honestly can't remember much of it now, i guess the being up for 36 hours was taking it's toll.


Saturday we attended some awesome classes, the first was by Laura Antoniou on Responsibility, an excellent class.  Our second class was a Sacred Service class with Master Obsidian and his slave namaste, i learned lots in that class on preparing and maintaining sacred space and rituals, and honestly just watching their interaction was pretty awesome. Next we had a buffet lunch with a key note speech from Laura Antoniou featuring the Lion King, it too was well worth the admission to the event.


After lunch we took a class  called Massive Edgeplay with JLubeJack, very fun to watch the mind fuck that went along with the scene.  Ran an errand after and then it was back to the room to get ready for the play party.  


We arrived at the play space early since our hosts were involved with set up which was nice because we got to see the transformation of the space.  The newest piece of equipment that made it's debut that night can be seen here , pretty awesome and it saw a lot of activity that night.  Watching a play party in another city is interesting, although most play is pretty standard there were definitely differences, while i didn't see their play as being quite as hard as some scenes i have seen i was really impressed with the level of eroticism and sensuality...our scenes tend to be more intensely physical but not nearly as emotionally (at least as far as sensualism) charged.  Maybe this has to do with the fact that their parties are "sex positive" and ours are not, there is no penetration (by a body part at least) at our events and although i didn't really see that at theirs there was still a much higher level of kissing, stroking and just general connection, and i enjoyed watching that.  Also saw a scene that totally intrigued me, the submissive was blindfolded and wearing a headset, she had her arms restrained to her waist, the Dominant was touching her in all places and she was totally off her guard, i just recently found out that someone was actually directing her through the headset...that scene is so up my alley, i love sensory deprivation.


Ok, gonna end my summary of the event on that note, i'll probably add more tomorrow...


But seriously, in summary, i had an awesome time and i'm so incredibly psyched to show St. Louis to my new dear friends...it will be awesome for us to be able to get together as two couples, i really missed having Sir with me but i must say that my protector @BigMack61 was awesome and i know that Sir appreciates the fact that he was able to relax knowing i was in good hands.


So, for tonight i'm out, i really need to go and cuddle with Sir for a bit.