There's enough grand pianos in the house for the three sims who have maxed their piano-playing up to level 10. Yasunobu and Haruo played piano which was a balm in itself. Haruo poured out his emotion into his piano playing when he wasn't busy causing havoc causing TNT blasts at Grady's.
It had gotten too much to live in the house that Fiona died in (too many memories)...so they built another one on the same lot in Riverview. This time, Haruo went all out on the home and they had a beautiful pool, a hot-tub and a wonderful mini-lake stocked with fish that they could use. The hot-tub immediately got some use.
...as did the pool.
Satoshi made his interest known to Constance who of course...accepted. After all...what girl doesn't love a long-haired party animal? Oh, Satoshi had his quiet moments too. He was also a bookworm and their equivalent taste in classical music clinched the deal.
...and Constance made herself comfortable...as Mrs. Satoshi Chikamori...no fancy wedding, just two people in love.
Several Sims had the desire to go to Shang Sim La so off the family went (The game started crashing on the WA travel load screen...so I nearly went crazy trying to figure out what could be causing the corrupted file. Sure enough, it was a .bad file and deleteing that (having saved multiple separately named files as backup) plus clearing the cache files...caused the travel to work again...so luckily the Chikamoris were able to make it to Shang Sim La finally. Let's just say that they took the wrong turn at Albuquerque.
What Shang Sim La vacation could not start with a trip to the marketplace. Yasunobu and the whole family headed off to Shang Sim La's market to partake in some victuals.
It was after they had fed themselves that they decided to make the trek up the mountain to see the Chinese graveyard. It was a beautiful, serene place during the daytime, but there was no way that Haruo and the rest were going to stick around to see what the place looked like at night.
Next on the list was to be able to visit the Martial Arts Academy. Getting back to the main-road took them past some beautiful scenery of some abandoned chuán and a fishing dock.
It was late afternoon as they came up on the familiar Academy grounds. There Haruo asked a brown belt to spar and quickly showed him that despite having come from Canada, his black belt still took the same effort as having practiced in Shang Sim La. 2-0 Haruo...won.
The next two days were filled with visiting sites in Shang Sim La that were of interest to all of them, especially to Constance since she was one of the ones that had a wish to go to Shang Sim La after marrying Satoshi.
And the hostel was just as wonderful with all the family together. Haruo cooked and provided Chinese style cooking having learned his cooking skill to level 10 many years ago. He cooked stir fry and egg-rolls. But all too soon their vacation was over and they wouldn't be able to travel as much together as a group when Yasunobu became an elder...which was one of the reasons why they were travelling again, to allow Yasunobu to see the world again before aging up.
Upon the Chikamori's return to Riverview, Yasunobu feeling spry despite his closeness to elder age, decided to jog home. Haruo and River had an intimate moment in the kitchen latched to each other's faces and Satoshi decided to turn the stereo on waking Constance out of a deep sleep which she much "appreciated".
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