I arrived at the hotel on Friday at about 3pm so I could start meeting people and I could try and secure a room at the sold out hotel. Rooms were still not available but I hung out in the lobby as people started to arrive! I started recognizing people from last year as they arrived and a few from videos I have seen. Time went on and I started socializing with people who I kinda new from last year like Bill & Ev, it seems that they were recently married after meeting at last years' party. They are an older couple Ev as I remember can take quite a spanking and seemed to be over someone's knee the entire weekend. It seemed that most people were hanging around the lobby and chatting. After a while, the lobby filled with people greeting and meeting and introducing people that they knew... I started to meet and talk with a bunch of new friends. It began to look like it would be a GREAT weekend. I also ran into Rick I guy whom I had met through one of my own ads.
A group of us were chatting with Ev (Ev is the older lady 58 yrs. who loved to be spanked. She loves to say that she is a naughty 10 year old.) We discussed where and when our interests began and such and she invited us up to her room so each of us could give her a spanking. We went up and for some reason I got to begin the proceeding. She was so eager for me to get down to business that she balked at me starting over her skirt. I gave her a few over her panties before baring her for a good hand spanking before letting her move to her next spanker. When the five of us were done she was eager for us to go for seconds. I declined but some of the others obliged. It was sort of strange when her spouse Bill arrived to watch the end of the proceedings.
As the evening went on I began seeing some of the woman I have seen in various videos. There was Pat/Michelle (she uses different names) from the SHE videos. Finally my idol, my dream girl, Jennifer Brooks arrived and she looked absolutely great!! After a while, I went up to introduce myself as one of her fans and one of the people who wrote her. She knew exactly who I was!! In fact she told me that she just published the letter that I sent her in the issue that she just sent out that morning. She also said that she wasn't sure if I wanted her to use my name on the letter so she used "Matt." I later told her that since I have a personal in her mag that I would have preferred for her to use my name and refer people to my ad. She said she hadn't even thought of doing that and that she would write a little blurb in the next issue explaining that "Matt" was me after my ad in the next issue! She agreed that an endorsement might make woman more likely to contact me. We chatted a bit and she asked what I would be wearing at the party so she would know who I was! She also introduced me to her husband...oh well.
Some of us hooked up with a group from Chicago that is headed up by Sandy Allison. The group is called TSOSF-The Society Of Spanking Friends and is based in Chicago. They are a private club that's been in existence for one year which caters exclusively to well-educated, sane, professional people who enjoy traditional, consensual, OTK spankings. They meet as a group 6 times a year and plan to host a large spanking party similar to this one in July. Sandy Allison is a black girl about 30 yrs old who also has appeared in several Shadow Lane videos. We all went to dinner at Jerry's Deli. I also met Debbie, a girl from the bay area (a sub) who wants to organize a singles spanking group.
After dinner we headed back to the hotel. After a while an informal gathering began in the hospitality suites. Sandy Allison seemed to take control of the group and I got my first spanking from her. She tried to organize a hat draw to pair off tops with bottoms. This idea immediately deteriorated when there were just too many tops and seemingly no female bottoms willing to participate. Eventually some couple played a few scenes in public but it seemed that many things were going on by invitation only in the private rooms. Sandy came back after a while and tried to organize a few public scenes and gave me another spanking. I roamed the hotel for a while and was amused to hear the sounds of spanking coming from all directions. I had learned that this year Shadow Lane people only occupied about 80% of the hotel, The other 20% were "residents" displaced by the earthquake. I mused at how weird it must be for them. After hanging around a bit I went home about 12:30pm. During all this time I checked for room cancellations about a half dozen more times.
I packed my costume after realizing that Rick would probably let me change in his room so I gave up the idea of getting a room. I arrived at the hotel about 1 PM and met Jeff so we could go to lunch. We went to Jerry's again. After lunch we gathered and chatted with people around the pool for a couple of hours. Again, let me say that it's great to be able to talk about this subject in public. At 5:30 I went up to Dave's room for a mixer for the "On-line" computer users. I met a bunch of the people that post on Prodigy and the internet.
At about a quarter till 7 I went down to change into my Dr. Denton style red drop seat PJ's. At 7p.m.I went to check into the party. I stood in line in my PJ's with people dressed in various costumes. There were school girls, devils, there was a Uncle Sam, and (as if for equal time) a Castro. There were Judges and Nuns, school masters and mistresses and of course people in regular party clothes and in standard Halloween costumes. The evening began downstairs in a room by the pool with an appetizer buffet and bar service. We were given two tickets for wine, beer, or soft drinks. Harder drinks were available for extra money. I partook of the buffet and chatted with people that I knew from previous parties and Threshold. I mingled around and received plenty of complements on my outfit.
After a while the upstairs "playroom" and hospitality suites opened. The "playroom" was set up in for sections. There was a "beginner area" with a sign that limited users to 25 swats-no implements. An "intere 8iate" area, 50 swats-implements permitted. "Advanced" 100 swats-implements permitted. Lastly, Expert-?. The activity began in the intermediate area where I received the second "official" public spanking from Stephanie Locke one of Shadow Lanes premier Disciplinarians. She gave me a 30-swat "birthday" spanking with my drop seat PJ's opened. After a short while people pretty much got into the playing mode. Eventually everyone pretty much ignored playing in designated areas. It was a good idea while it lasted, I guess. No one seemed upset by this turn of events and limits seemed to be respected. There was a nice skit performed by a group who came from Texas based on Little Red Ridinghood. It seems that while on the way to her grandmother's house Red is caught smoking by the big bad wolf. The wolf tells her that he has some "idiosyncrasies" and that she has a choice of being eaten or taking a spanking. Who would have guessed, Red opted for the spanking. The wolf proceeded to give her a sound spanking till she is saved by her dad who chases the wolf away. After confessing that the wolf was spanking her for smoking, she got another spanking from dad. Meanwhile back home the wolf took to spanking red's mom - pretty much for the hell of it. This skit went over real well. While this was going on many more spankings were being given throughout the room. I went out to check the hospitality suite and hear that I missed a skit featuring court and Judge Ito.
In the hospitality suite I met this renaissance couple talking to one of my acquaintances (who was dressed as a priest.) He was asking if he could paddle her with his "blessed" Shadow Lane Blue leather paddle. She turned him down but suggested that she would use it on him. She was real cute (even if she was with the renaissance guy) so I suggested that she could use the paddle on me. She agreed and had me remove her lace gloves so she would have better use of her hands. She undid my drop bottoms and gave me a nice hand spanking followed by a couple dozen with the paddle. I got my "after spanking hug" and went on my way.
I wandered back into the "playroom" and observed some more scenes. All of which were fun. Downstairs food was still being served and a DJ had set up to play music. Some people were dancing or just taking a break from all the activity that was going on throughout the hotel.
Back to the "playroom" to find that my idol Jennifer Brooks was beginning to dole out spanking and hairbrushings. I immediately got in line and watch greatness at work. She finally got to me and, with a gleam in her lovely eye, she took me over her knee and undid my drop seat. She began my spanking and I have to say that "she does know what she's doing." She really has a talent for making people feel at ease so we kidded around a bit before she proceeded to the hairbrush. (I still can replay the encounter in slow motion in my head) For those of you who don't know, the hairbrush is the most feared spanking implement in the world. It is made of thick unflexing wood that it is weighted by the bristles and when handled by an expert like Jennifer it can really grab your attention. She gave me 20 of "Jennifer's medium" which stung quite a bit. (Then again I probably wouldn't have given up that position for anything. Spanking is such a weird fetish.) She had me count them out loud and "we" decided I needed 20 more. After a bit of massaging using the bristle side of the brush she began the second batch. After about 7 or 8 swats she realized that I kinda forgot to count. One of the standard rules of spankers (and whoever thought thiq rule up is very cruel) is that if you forget to count or mess up the count the count begins again (silly rule ain't it.) Anyway the count began again and I survived Jennifer's hairbrush with a smile on my face. After Jennifer finished with me Tara, another well-known disciplinarian from Chicago, took over the line from Jennifer. I had chatted with Tara before via America On-line and she too had expressed an interest in lowering my drop seat for a spanking. I wasn't ready for another one right away so I went downstairs for a break.
After a bit, I went back upstairs. I chatted with some friends, mingled about, watched some scenes and wondered around the hotel. I ended up back in the playroom just as Jennifer arrived back carrying a mean looking strap. She "worked" the room a bit getting more names for her mailing list and eventually had to show her prowess with the strap! She took a "bad boy" who has appeared in several of Tara's videos and bent him over one of the spanking benches. He had some home made drop seat PJ's also. His drop-seat was dropped and she went to town on him with her strap. He must have received 80-90 whacks before he was done. The strap is a fierce sounding implement that really leaves a nice sting but because its flexible leather it's bark is worse than it's bite when it's used correctly and Jennifer does know how to apply it well. You have to have good control over it and know how to place the tip so it doesn't wrap around the sides to much. Jennifer has real style when she's at work with the strap. She can apply backstrokes and forestokes equally well. She uses both hands and grabs the end of the strap with her free hand each time it comes back so the can release it (more accurately) for the next stoke. Her coordination is amazing in that she can do this quite rapidly. She seems to have the endurance of a marathon runner. For the next couple hours she seemed to be working on one person or another constantly. She gave one more strapping in this area of the room before taking a break.
This break was quite short as she soon found someone that she genuinely seemed to believe needed some discipline. She gave him a nice OTK spanking and hairbrushing. When she was done he seemed truly sorry for whatever it was he had done. Her next victim went over her knees for more of the same including some OTK with the strap. When she was done with him I asked that she give me a "birthday strapping" (my birthday was less then a month away) I bent over one of the spanking horse to receive my 30 strokes. It was done in very good humor, and because of some mysterious arithmetic problems I ended up getting about 60 from her. It was great, that strap really has just the right amount of sting. She gave me hug (a moment that I'll never forget) when she was done and went on with business. I am a true fan of this woman. My friend Jeff was astonished at how much I took from her, he was convinced, from how far her back swing was, that those strokes were going right through me. Perhaps if they were given by anyone else they would have. (Grin)
After roaming around for a while, I came upon this older lady named Alice. Alice is in her late 50 who lives in So California and has always had a fascination with this subject. This was her first party. Alice has a great personality and was trying to learn how to give a good spanking. She had received one spanking earlier in the evening and decided that she preferred to be the Dom. She was kidding around while spanking this guy trying to spank in rhythm to some songs that she was singing. After she was finished with the first guy, much to my surprise, Jeff went over her knee to see if he can take a few spanks.(Jeff, you see is a Dom) He only took about 30 hand spanks from her and he was done. She seemed disappointed with this turn of events so I went over her knee so she could continue practicing. She started with her hand and then switched to Jeff's large paddle. She started trying to spank to a beat again and was impressed at how much I was taking. She really wasn't spanking that hard so I stayed over her knees till she seemed to be wearing out. I got up from what was to be my last spanking of the evening happy that I help her have a memorable evening. (Not that this wasn't the highlight weekend of my life.) She did go on to experiment on someone else with a small leather strap before she headed home. It was about at this time that I heard that police had come to the hotel in response to a call from one of the "civilian guests". Tony (out host) settled things pretty quickly. I later heard that the Police were very cool about it. They asked for us to just keep activity off the balconies and walkways and then they left.
I mingled around a bit and watched Jennifer still going strong. She had formed a double spanking lap and gave a couple of double spankings along with another "No Nonsense Lady." Jennifer Antone. They gave some good spankings to about three bottoms including one whom I've seen in several spanking videos. They also spanked Michael a friend of mine from the Theshold parties. At about 2 AM they closed the playroom. I watched some activity in the hospitality suite and at 2:30 things seemed to be settling down so I went home. I had a warm feeling of satisfaction in several parts of the body.
I got up and headed back to the hotel at about 10:30 so I could say good-bye to all of my new friends. I got there, and started chatting with some people when I noticed that in the "playroom" that we had occupied the night before they were setting up for a luncheon with Senator Diane Feinstein. What a difference I day makes. I remembered that I had been carrying a Jennifer Brooks catalogue the night before. I didn't want to continue holding it, so I hid it in the podium. With a grin I hoped that someone would clean out the podium before the Senator got to it. We all joked about this development. Including musing that what would happen if Diane knew she was speaking at a hotel occupied by all of us lifestylers.
I chatted with Debbie the girl from up north. The day before I learned that she collected spanking publications. When asked if she would like to trade she said the she didn't trade she "just kept." I gave her a couple of publications I thought she would enjoy and that seemed to make her happy. I chatted with some more people and made some knew contacts, including an editor from England. His wife Amanda has appeared in several spanking videos. I exchanged card with some more people and they began to leave. I saw Tara before she left and we both expressed disappointment at not having the chance to play. Oh well there's always next year. Surprisingly while talking with one couple the guy expressed an interest at spanking guys in fact we had actually chatted on the phone a while back. We made arrangements to meet up later in the day. He did want to keep this aspect of his spanking activity discreet.
While I was chatting with some other people, one of the Senator's aids came up to us and asked if we wanted to join the Senator for lunch. He said they had extra seats available and wanted to fill the room. If he only knew who he was talking to. I can see the headlines now- "Senator Feinstein Hosts Spanking Enthusiasts." Not one to pass up a free meal, and because I do indeed support the Senator I went up to have lunch with a couple of other people from the group. I walked in the room to find the Senator making the rounds greeting people. I went up to shake her hand and did so in the very spot that Alice was spanking me the night before. I told her I was a big supporter and she was very nice. She looked me in the eye and gave me her undivided attention for the moment. If she only knew what I was doing in that very spot the night before. We sat down and had lunch with a crowd of supporters and local politicians. Again WOW What a difference a day makes. She got up and made a great speech that enforced my support of her. While she was talking I contemplated that she really was the definition of a No Nonsense Lady and really was really the fantasy image of a woman delivering a good dose of discipline to her charges. My favorite line from the luncheon was during her introduction where she was referred to as a "law maker not a law breaker."
After lunch I had the first of three sessions the guy who wanted to spank me and his wife. He gave me a good spanking and paddling with his stuff. I then got my stuff and he tried some of my instruments on me. I then got to give his wife a sample of my instruments. I went back down to the pool relaxed and chatted a bit and eventually had two more sessions with the couple.
At about 6 PM I had dinner (Jerry's again) with Rick and a guy named Phil.Additional thoughts.
This party was much better organized then the last.
It really will be a memorable weekend for me. I think the next
party will be even more eventful. I hope I get to meet Debbie
again, she really cute even if she is a sub. The couples for
the most part seem to play amongst themselves. There are several
cliquish groups but all and all everyone is really friendly.
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