Raoul Mendez proposes to Tracie Bernard. They're second cousins - their grandmothers are sisters. Samantha Thao is the great-grandmother of both of them.
He actually manages to drop the ring (clumsy) and then lose his fiancee when she is abducted by aliens.
In the meantime Raoul's mother is working on her ranking as a martial artist. It's difficult to spar in Shang Simla when every partner either mans a register or feels the need to become a paparazzo. But Colleen mangaged to kick the stuffing out of a number of (mostly elderly) Shang Simla residents, and is now at level 4.
Raoul wants to be a horseman, so he needed to work on that skill - but of course there are no horses in Shang Simla. He did take his riding skill books to study them while his mother was beating up the locals, but somehow I think learning to ride goes faster when you actually own a horse...
Dominic also brought skill books, but Regina prefers novels.
Colleen decided meditation was a less painful way to gain martial arts skill.
The next trip is to France. Raoul's father Dominic wants a bottomless nectar cellar, but he doesn't quite know where to start.
At least he's had no trouble finding the bottom of the nectar maker.
And some good advice from Champ-les-Sims locals gets him started on a grape collection.
After this trip, Tracie and Raoul get married. Apparently it was a very moving ceremony. Russell Mendez performed the actual ceremony and held a (very long, boring) speech, while Raoul was most looking forward to the wedding cake, apparently.
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Meanwhile, elsewhere in town the McGoverns unexpectedly had another baby and this time it's a girl. They call her Margaret.
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And in the Roomies household, Xiu Ying Kim choked on a bad jellybean.
I've been trying to get a few more interesting death types in the local cemetery. Normally all my Sims die of old age unless there's an unfortunately accident (like when David electrocuted himself), but I thought I'd add a few splashes of colour here and there.(What a callous reason to kill someone... LOL!)
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Colette and Matthew Younger had a daughter, too, but she was fully intended. Although Matthew doesn't look like he planned it this way... :)
Tracie is the new baby's first cousin. This generation has a wide age span - Michael Adams is almost an adult and Celestine Younger is only a few days old.
Next round I'm going to just play, without babies. I have to try to get most of Generation 6 married and/or going steady - those that are teens and older, that is.
