Fantasy Fest 2007

Our favorite week of the year is in Key West for Fantasy Fest and each time we go we have more and more friends who enjoy the fun and festivities with us. This time due to airline schedules and changes we arrived much earlier than expected, which gave us more time to party, which is OK as the first part of the week seems to be getting better and better, then just gets crazier as the week moves closer to Friday and Saturday. In fact we decided to leave on Saturday afternoon so we do not have to worry about the young drunk guys that start flooding Duval Street starting on Friday night.

Again we stayed at The Heron House which is a lovely B & B just a few blocks away from the "street" action but it allows you to relax and charge up your batteries during the day on their clothing optional sundeck. 23 beautiful rooms situated around a serene tropical escape, which is needed after all the late night parties.

Cheri is ready for the street on red night outside The Heron House and all our friends enjoying that sun deck. This year though the deck was hardly used due to cloudy skies and rain showers. We were able to enjoy the annual wine tasting event hosted by our good friends Lance and Libby on Wednesday.

For this pictorial report we thought we would change it ever so slightly and organize it by activities, if that is what you can call them and not by days. First is a look at the daily calendar and a picture for each day through out the week:

Monday: Kelly's Fetish Night

There are so many things to do while at Fantasy Fest, such as eating, drinking, lots of walking, meeting wonderful people, photography, hitchhiking, window "shopping" and of course dancing. So dancing and partying go hand in hand most anywhere, but in Key West it can be a little more exciting whether it be inside or outside, in the sunshine or pouring rain.

Exciting, thrilling, interesting and fun is body painting and over the years we, or should we say, Cheri has become more and more creative. She has come a long way from the first dice or flames artwork five years ago, especially with the help of Pashur. Who can forget Medusa and third place finish last year of the Geisha Girl but this year it was all topped by a first place finish in the 7th Annual Live Art Airbrush Competition with Gnomes, Toads and White Rabbits. It took nearly 4 hours and two assistants for Pashur to finish his master piece on Friday afternoon and this was after 2 hours the previous day with "Welcome to Las Vegas". Fortunately on Saturday morning The Rolling Stones "Lips" was a fifteen minute job but Mick and Keith would have been proud.

One morning Cheri had a special surprise, she found a lady who would make a cast of her nipples and from that cast she could make wonderful chocolate gifts for special friends to enjoy. A little early though so the "headlights" needed some help turning on.

A late night stop a few years ago has now become a wonderful photo opportunity which now draws quite a crowd. If only the shop knew how to capitalize on their nightly window display.

Everybody brings a camera to Fantasy Fest and if they don't they certainly will buy one after being on the street for just a minute or two. It's amazing how many flashes go off as you walk the streets or go in the bars. We all have to be thankful for digital cameras nowadays, because we are not sure that CVS, Target or Costco will print the majority of pictures that are taken with a regular camera. The best part of FF is that 99% of the people will always ask if they can take a picture, unless that's not needed and they can see that the girls are "posing".

Very rarely do we have photographs taken of us together. If we do it's either by balancing a camera on a wall or a table, unless we are able to carry around a tripod, which never makes sense to do at Fantasy Fest but as we attend more and more Fantasy Fest's people are now sending us some very interesting pictures.

Another favorite spot of ours is the Hard Rock Cafe, not just in Key West but any of their cafes worldwide, the exception of course is a slightly different documentation of our visit to this one.

What could be more rock than The Rolling Stones? So they showed us their special room dedicated to The Best Rock and Roll Band in the World and we were wondered if Mick knew about Fantasy Fest.