In between trips, River and Haruo did get a few things done. Haruo is steadily working on the amount of fishing that he needs to do in order to reach level 10 in his angler career. And River having managed to get her lifetime wish fulfilled, is now working on sculpting as well as painting.
The new house was quite the home; much more massive than before, just one floor was easily half the square footage of the entire lot and considering that there were three complete floors above and 2 partial floors below ground, it was well over 1.2x the lot square footage (guaranteed to make any RL city planner go pale white and start screaming about zoning violations). There was a rather expansive dome fountain out front, with two large geyser fountains: one to each side. and four spray-jets...two: on each side of the large geyser fountains, pointing at each other.
The garage was also quite large with a sculpting room up stairs and a visual mausoleum of photographs was on the third floor.
Asian families love water, it is a symbol of purification and of peace, the stillness of a pool of water at rest; the constant flow of motion of the fountain.
Haruo and River went out for dinner...which after having kids had been a long time before they had had time to themselves. After all...being able to spend quality time with each other enabled marriages to be stronger.
Satoshi had to go to the bookstore as he'd read through all his charisma books and had to get Volume 3. He ended up buying out the entire bookstore of skill books: one copy apiece. Perhaps he'll get the hankering to learn mixology which might come in handy when the Chikamoris get a home bar.
And lo and behold who should appear, but three ghosts... The ghost of Simis Bachelor showed up and Haruo greeted him. "It's good to see you, Dad..." Haruo said to River's step-father. And peering out the kitchen window, River saw her mother and ran to greet her. "Yes...dear River...there is another world beyond this one..." "I miss you so much, Mom...so much..." And of course...having died of of a heart-attack while hungry...Mayumi came over to raid the fridge...but disappeared before she could eat it. Guess her time haunting in this world was up...for the night. The Creator had to "hocus pocus" the dish back into the fridge again before it spoiled.
It wasn't long before Haruo got the itch to go world travelling again and booked tickets for Al Simhara, but until the departure date, Haruo, Hiroko, Yasunobu and Satoshi went fishing in their backyard pond.
Their trip to Al Simhara went off without a hitch.
Their first stop was at Al Simhara Market where they stocked up as it was uncertain as to when they would ever be back.
Unfortunately it was very tiring for most of the group and it appeared as though the Market was the highlight of the trip. Haruo let his inner photographer roam free and spent a lot of time photographing the sights out in the desert and dodging cerastes cerastes to boot. Let's just say that you had to watch where you step and getting bitten would have not been fun at all. Of course there was also the Saharan Horned Viper to contend with too.
Photographing the Pyramids and the Sphinx at night was the real highlight of the trip. And they all came home happy, but only two days till Yasunobu ages up to elder...
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