Chapter 2.1 - July 2021: Summer Holiday Day 1 - Getting ready to go...

As june turns to july, Solvej entertains Rune with some guitar playing. Patrik is asleep and so is the Chitrakaar-Bråheim family. They (not counting Patrik) have to get their rest, because Leya has decided that her little family (herself, Gaute and Bodil) should spend their summer vacation visiting her parents in Bewickton! Bewickton is another coastal community located on the west coast of Simbria (where Sprottenham is located on the east coast), so a quick ride to the regional airport, a couple of plane trips of about 1 hour each, and finishing the last stretch with a rental car from the airport in Cyme Ixotic, and they should be there...

At the breakfast table the first july morning.

Gaute: Once we get back from Bewickton I think we should start looking for our own place to stay.. especially now that both you and Solvej is pregnant and all. I feel it's starting to get a little tight in here...

Gaute: And I don't like this flirting that goes in between you and Patrik..

Leya immediately chokes on her food.*

Solvej: Oooh, ooh, oh.. *regurgitating sounds*.. oouuhwæææh...

Leya: Bodil! .. You're going to get a new brother or sister!!

Bodil: Haha, oh!! When will I get them??

Leya: Oh, it's not going to be for a while yet.. but now we must hurry up and get ready, Bodil! The plane leaves in three hours!

And it will take them one hour of driving just to get to the airport.. 

While they are getting ready, Solvej and Patrik gets romantic again.

 Flight attendant Berta Selstad (plane intercom): Good morn' la'ies and gen'lemen, welcome on'oard this flight BD455 to Anilam and Cyme Ixotic with Simbria Airlines. We kin'ly ask that you please fas'en your seatbelts and secure all baggage und'rneath your seat or 'n the overhead compar'ments. We also ask that your seats and table trays are in the upright posh'on before take-off. Please turn off all person'l items and mobile devic'...

While she is talking, the plane is slowly pushed away from the terminal building as the sound of jet engines is heard starting, slowly increasing in volume.. this made Bodil feel a little anxious as this was her first time travelling by plane..

Bodil: Are we going to crash, mommy? 

Leya: Haha, no sweetheart, we are not going to crash! Traveling by airplane is one of the safest things you can do! I am sure we are save.. uh, safe here!

The plane didn't crash, and they arrived safely at the airport in Cyme Ixotic..
..but they didn't make it to Bewickton until night time, because of some delay during transfer at the airport in Anilam.. of course.. but hey, the airline company didn't loose their luggage, so it's not all bad!

Leya is really excited to finally be back in her old hometown.

It was to late for them to go visit Leya's parents at this hour, of course, so they went straight to bed in their hotel room at Bewickton Downtown Hotel, just above Drea's Beauty Salon and Tattoo.

They had rented the family suite on the top floor, and the hotel room was nice enough, except that it could be a little noisy from the dance club, „The Century Fish“, just across the street.

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* I did play a little bit on this save file with another family (did not save), and then they did just that – found another house. So I take that, and Gaute talking about homes, as a clear indication that they actually want to move out and have a place of their own. That makes sense, because it is probably a little cramped with two families in the same household, so I will have them looking for a new home once they get back.