The Fourth Generation

So now that Corey's moved in, and there's a new baby, the house is really getting too small again.

They've already rearranged some of the furniture, and moved the new laundry appliances to the garage. (Laundry is a new and exiting thing in their lives - for now, anyway!)

Corey usually gets home much earlier than Jesse - she tries to wait up for him in the evening, but she often falls asleep on the sofa, so they hardly seem to have a chance to really do things together.

So Corey and Jesse decide it's time to take a vacation. And since Samantha is just moping around the house waiting for Tom to age up, they invite her to come with them.
They leave Victor with his grandparents and great-grandmother, and go to China.

Corey is a bit taken aback by all the staircases she'll have to climb to get to the sitting room.

They brought a lot of skill books, and a guitar, and they're looking forward to a relaxed vacation, doing nothing but reading, playing, resting, and maybe a little bit of sight-seeing. And maybe improving some skills.

Samantha has other plans. She wants to work on her athletic skill.

Although taking her mother's squadcar to the Acacademy instead of going on a bike doesn't really show the proper mindset, maybe?

(I didn't know it was in her inventory!)

Anyway, Samantha does a lot of training, and soon earns an orange belt:

They do a bit of sightseeing, and Corey enjoys collecting the rocks and metals they find on the way - she doesn't go out of her way to get any, but she still manages to find quite a few.
She also got the very weird wish to buy a martial arts training pole - I figure she means to give it to Samantha as a present...

In he meantime Samantha buys herself a board breaker. And then it's time to go home already.


After they get back, they make good use of some of the items they brought home. Samantha, of course, continues to work on her martial arts.

While Jesse feeds one of their expensive new Chinese books to his mother's omni plant, and makes a lot of money selling the copies.

Victor becomes a toddler.

The day after they get back, Samantha invites Tom over, and he is finally a young adult! So she loses no time asking him to marry her.

They don't waste time being engaged either. They just marry right there and then, in the front yard.

They do have to change their name at city hall, though - probably because Samantha was the one doing the asking...

So this is where I had another major aging glitch. I quit without saving the next day when the game insisted that Tom wanted to age up into an adult. Again!
When I got back into the game, I experimented by making Tom eat two lifefruits before the game announced his birthday. It looks like this 'reset' his age bar in some way or another. From then on, he aged normally.