My First Transformus Continued!

We started the construction of the Hippie Helicopter on Friday Night! It was an exciting time for me. I had been waiting 2 days to get it ready! It came together nicely! It had Art all around the bottom of the trailor the Helicopter was built onto focusing on the elements Earth, Fire, and Water. The tubing that shaped the Helicopter was wrapped in both Blue and Red LED Flashing Lights. Propellers on the top. It even had a Tail! We rode it around much of the night. At one time we managed to squeeze 12 people on it…It was AWESOME!!!

Saturday Morning!

Jeremy and I got up at 8:30am for the ICE RIDE!!!!!We rode around and took up orders for Ice and Delivered! Kane rode along with us announcing Ice over the megaphone. He’s good with those things! He enjoys having his voice heard! As a result of not everyone stepping up and claiming their ice, We Ended up with several bags left over that no one claimed after 1 hour of over due time with the Ice Truck.( It was suppose to be gone at Noon but Jenn & Bubba John arranged for one extra hour in hopes of getting ice to everyone who ordered it.) After the extra hour was up we loaded up all the extra ice onto our Trailor and went around donating Ice to who we thought needed it the most. Earlier while we were taking up reciepts we had 2 older gentleman come up and ask how they could get ice. At the time we had to break the news that it was all pre sold. After we got the extra Ice we remembered those 2 men and took them both a bag of ice. Also gave the lady making all those smoothies across from the Upper Lake Ice as well so she could continue to create her wonderful Refreshing Chilled Smoothies and Fresh Juices. She gave us some of the best Orange Juice I had ever Drank that morning as well! Thanks Smoothie Lady! (Can’t remember names!) We also refreshed all of the BOD’s Coolers up on Center Stage with the Extra Ice, and left the remainging extra bags of Ice at Center Stage to be gotten on a First come First Serve Basis. Kane Also Annouced that while traveling from the Ice Truck To Center Stage! It felt awesome to give someone ice when they had completely given up hope on getting any due to the fact that it was pre-sold.

After Breakfast we decided to take a trip to the Upper Lake for a Swim. It was fantastic! I myself am not a big fan of swimming in water I can’t see through, but this seemed different and not like a Regular Lake. We had a Water Battle so to speak. Months before Transformus we had picked up these water tubes. Was the best $11.00 Spent!! They were so much fun. We left them on the bank of the Lake for others to enjoy. I seen several people waring it out with them. It was Awesome to see others having just as much fun as we did with them.

Saturday Night: The Burn

We Arrived In The Hippie Helicopter That we Decorated to the max before the Main Event. We had the lights on, Glow Sticks on Corner Dip and Rail. Smiley Faces Hanging from the tubing on the Helicopter construction. A Peace & Love Placque. Beads Hanging In Various Places. Also Had Beads To had Out, Apple Pie & Naughty Girl Juice! ) The Effigy was awesomely Constructed and the art work on it was great. The Fire Dancers were spectacular, Kane, Jason, Caroleeena, Sarasvati, just to name a few. Everyone who was Dancing around the Effigy were amazing. Just to stand there watching the twirling flames as each performer passed by and hearing the constant beat of the drums was truely amazing! It was unlike anything I have ever encountered! Also to stop and think that we all as a community made all this happen made it that much more emotional and amazing. It’s truely beautiful to see so many people come together and create a place so magical and spectacular! Those letters up on the hill saying “You Are Beautiful” was a message to the whole community, cause we all were truly Beautiful! As the Effigy was being lit you could hear the anticipation. It combed over my entire body. As the flames rose to the top of the Dancing Man it was wondrous. The Bright shine of the flames with that Bunring Sensation all over relieving oneself of all the negative, Or so thats how I seen it. That’s What it was to me. I put forth all my negative energy and thoughts to be burnt with the Firey Hot Flames that Danced around the Effigy in such A Beautiful Manner. A Sense of Healing.

After the burn we rode around Mysteria where everyone was just enjoying one another and everything we as a communtiy had created. You could feel so much love and appreciation. I recieved a Chocolate Dum Dum Sucker that night. On the Stick it had a piece of paper attached to it that read “Everything You’ve Heard Is True!” I couldn’t have gotten a better message at a better time. Cause at that point Everything I had heard about Transformus was true, and I was there to Witness all the Beauty!

Thank you Hot Witches Brews for allowing me to be a part of your camp and allowing me to Radically Express Myself through my Art & Mobile Art the Disco Ride On Thursday Night and The Hippie Helicopter on Saturday And Sunday. I enjoyed drawing and painting the The Goddesses Athena, Freyja, & Idun for the Goddess Shrine. It was a lot of Fun! Even more Amazing when I burnt my Art on Sunday.

With that being said this brings us to The Sunday Night Art Burn. A Touchy Subject for a lot of Mysteria, if not all. It seemed we were the last to arrive and get our Art in the Pile. Jeremy was Hauling the Lighthouse to the Art Burn, and asked them to wait on him til he got back with our Art. We took all the panels off the Helicopter and had them placed in the fire. Along with my 3 Goddesses I had Did for the camp and their Goddess Shrine. This Burn had so much energy. It was Amazing. I had been standing there taking a few pictures when my camera went dead, and I didn’t bring spare batteries down to the Burn Field with me. I was Switching the ones that were in there back and forth and squeezing those Duracells for every lil bit of energy they had in order to get a few pictures. I had given up for a lil bit and my attention was drawn to this guy who was dancing around very close to the fire. I remember looking at him several times and then back to the fire. The thoughts “What if someone ran into that fire” went through my head. I just kind of snapped out of the thought almost instantly. Then Jeremy and i had decided to go have a lil chat with Wordplay who was close by on a golf cart. 5 minutes later, I heard the Gasp of the crowd and turned around to a flaming man being pulled out of the center of the fire by a man in a thong! They immediately rolled the man on the ground and walked him to center stage where the cries for water filtered the air. They Drenched him in water and insisted we all head down to PEX so we wouldn’t be in the way of the Emergency Team. All the Volunteer Fire Team and Rangers Were Awesome! Jeremy took us all down to PEX and dropped the Hippie Helicopter and went back to help Clear the area and keep people from re entering the Burn Field. At Pex Everyone was Low Key. There was a Big Energy Circle and a Huge Group Hug. It was very moving to see everyone come together they way we all did. After the Burn Field was Clear of Emergency Vehicles we were all allowed to go back to out camps. It was a quiet night and we were in bed early.

Monday Morning it was time to pack up and say your goodbyes. I really hated to have to see all the Magical Beauty Disappear little at a time. It seemed we were nearly the last Camp out of Elysium Fields. The Guys did give people in our camp and surrounding camps shuttles to their vehicles so they could bring them back and load up and head out.Rj Spread Grass Seed All Over Elysium Fields. One of the Effigy Builders came by and took our picture of all of us gathered around our heavily loaded 16 ft Trailor ready to head home. His name was A-el or something like that. He was Mid-Eastern. I would like to get in touch with him and see that picture!

Thank you Deerfields, Mysteria, and Transformus For one hell of an experience.

I hope to be a part of this for years to come.