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Generation One: Black

Appearance: Black hair, siren-like clothing style
Traits: Evil, Non Committal, Kleptomaniac
Aspiration: Renaissance Sim
Occupation: Collector/Random careers of choice
House Goal: 10,000 worth

Fun in the Sun

The next day started out ordinary enough. Homework, chores, and showers. But I had a surprise, since today was an off day for everyone.

After, of course, I finished fixing the toilet. At least things don’t seem to break as often around here as they did when I was younger. I don’t know how Mom dealt with it!

While everyone was off doing their own thing, I made some phone calls. All the plans were now in place, and I got everyone rounded up to go.

“Where are we going, Mom?” was all I kept hearing, but I refused to respond, letting it be a surprise. Obediently, my family followed me

… On a family trip to the beach! We were the first ones there, and Rangi and Austen were quick to add to the sand castle collection there.

Before they finished, however, the rest of the family showed up. Mom, Dad, Kaleb, Tevin – everyone was here. Tevin apologized for Everett and Kyler not coming, but apparently they had had plans they couldn’t break in the city. This was the first time we’d really been able to get everyone together, and it was fantastic.

Mom immediately found time to play with her grand-kids, and Kimber was overjoyed. It couldn’t have been a better day for it, either!

Tevin cornered me to apologize for his behavior at dinner yesterday, but I just laughed it off. It had definitely been weird, but I’m used to my family being a little “out there”.

Speaking of which, Mom had brought her action figure toy to the beach – and was now playing with it by herself at the picnic table. She was voicing a whole story about him, too.. which was garnering some weird looks. As a family, we all chuckled about it, and let her have her time to “herself”.

Kaleb decided to try to make some lunch, but he burnt it badly.. so he asked me to step in.

I was more than happy to do so, and I threw some juicy steaks I’d brought with me on the grill, which immediately caught the attention of everyone at the beach. The steaks smelled absolutely delicious!

Another sandcastle was built while the steaks cooked, this time by Kimber and Austen. We can forgive them for it being sub-par because they were terribly distracted at the time!

I took a break after cooking, enjoying a beach towel in the setting sun. Mom and Rangi chatted, planning an all out assault on the ocean by the Naiades family.

It was hectic. Fins everywhere! I participated for a while, then reminded everyone that the steaks were probably getting cold.

At that, everyone rushed the beach and hurriedly grabbed their steak. Then we all spread out to eat.

Dinner was fabulous. Everyone cleaned their plate – even Rangi. Apparently steak is more his thing than lobster!

After dinner, we all ended up in the cool ocean water again.

We all splashed around and generally had a great time. There were races, and some swimming lessons for the little ones.

By this time, most everyone else had left the beach, so we had it pretty much to ourselves. Which was just as well. We were certainly making plenty of noise!

I managed to get some great pictures, too. Like this one of Vaea’s tail framing my sleepy little Austen. And the earlier one of my mother treading water with a big grin on her face. I’m not sure how Austen slept through all the splashing and the noise, but he definitely enjoyed a little nap.

Best of all, Mom and I finally had a chance to talk and work things out. Being that we were both mothers, the worrying comes natural, and I let her know I completely understood her concern. – But the volcano really wasn’t that dangerous. It dropped a few rocks around the outside of our house, sure, but it had never caused any damage, and it had never done anything more than scare us. By the end of the evening, we had come to an understanding, and I had finally put her mind at ease.

By the time we got home, it was way past bedtime, and we were all exhausted. It took only moments for everyone to fall into bed and head off to dreamland.

What a wonderful day it had been!

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