Chapter 2.3 - July 2021: Summer Holiday Day 3 and 4 - Summer Festival and Udishas house...

Day three -  Summer Festival

As the family spent such a long time over at Leyas' parents house, they slept for well into the afternoon the following day. Leya is the first to wake up.

And goes to eat some left over tofu hot dogs, probably prepared by another one of the hotel guests.

Gaute wakes up next, and goes to make a macaroni and cheese lunch. Can't call it breakfast at this hour.

„I miss Rune“, Bodil thinks. „Why couldn't Solvej and Rune come with us?“

In the evening they call a taxi* and head to the park to check out the Bewickton Summer Festival, with music already blaring from the nearby nightclubs and the community theatre. „Next time we go somewhere, we are not getting a hotel downtown!“ Leya says to Gaute.

(*their rental car(s) must be very unreliable, typical vacation trouble I guess, but at least they're not stuck on a highway in the middle of nowhere..) 

„I have always enjoyed a lively town“, Gaute replies. „Maybe we should head out for a drink later.“

„Not as long as I'm pregnant, Gaute!“ Leya ends the conversation.

The festival grounds wasn't to lively at first. Leya and Bodil decide to get each their slush (Leya already finished hers) and Gaute decides to practice football (in the background), when a mother and her baby toddler comes along to interrupt the peace..

It starts to get dark, and Leya goes for an eating contest with some of the locals.

Gaute takes Bodil roller skating.

Gaute: Come along, Bodil! Don't be afraid, it's very fun! Just follow me and I'll show you how to do it!

 Bodil doesn't want to stay out so long after dark and rents a bike to get back to the hotel. Gaute and Leya follow shortly thereafter, so that they can rest and get up at a better time for the next day.

Before going to bed, Gaute takes a bath and the bathtub breaks.. so he calls the hotel reception to have someone come up and fix it. „Maybe Leya is right and we should get a different hotel next time..“ Gaute thinks.

 

Day four 

The next morning Leya hangs out in the hotel lobby, where she meets another of the hotel guests, Synneva Seljeseth, that also have the virtuoso trait.

Once Bodil has finished eating her breakfast, Leya wants to visit her sister, Udisha. Their rental car looks a little different today..

This is Udishas home, where she chose to live with her husband, Dudleif Chitrakaar-Skurchk, much to the Narrators displeasure! She had such a nice home in the better part of town, with her own atelier upstairs for painting.. and she chooses to marry that old fart and live out here...Dudleif is the same age as her dad, Deepak... but if that is the life that makes her happy, then so be it..

Now, lets see if Udisha is home.

 

 

„Nope, nobody is home“ says Leya, „She's probably working overtime chasing her next promotion.... It's raining and I'm getting hungry, let's go have lunch at the bistro“.

Poor Bodil has to eat her meal alone, because the game does not allow for children to part of the friend group, which is just silly.. Sims just weren't meant to do things together, such as eating, like a unit or family, I suppose....

The restaurant had built roofs over the outdoor dining areas, because summers in Bewickton are very rainy which is typical for the west coast areas.

 After lunch Leya wanted to go to the art gallery, but was downvoted by both Gaute and Bodil, so they went to the local indoor swimming pool instead. Good wonders, they have the entire pool to themselves.

 It's not until they are about to leave and go back to the hotel that the swimming pool gets another visitor, Natalie Gregers, a local paparazzi. Sorry, hon, you won't find any celebrities here, just some tourists. ;)

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