The Kids Go Off To University

The Watcher: Alas, we now move from Generation One to Generation Two, it has been a long road watching Haruo and River go from teen to adulthood and watching them raise their children. Now it is the children's story and well...the Watcher will keep narrating from a omniscient viewpoint so that everyone is covered, but I will be more interested in the children's story as opposed to the founder-parents.

When Brianna came home elated after a successful win at the courts, she realized that the university mascot had left gifts for everyone who was still residing at the house-hold of university age. Getting a degree was one of the hallmarks of becoming a well-rounded young adult and frankly, the Chikamoris all went to university...asides from the parents of the founders. Anyways, Brianna coaxed her siblings and their significant others (those siblings who had significant others) to take their entrance exams and see what sort of mark they got.

The only one who didn't get in was Shigeo Kanzaki, who unfortunately didn't receive a good enough passing grade on the entrance exam to be able to register. He'll have to work on his skills and hopefully go in the future or he may just try his luck at life without a university degree. After all, there's a lot to be said for entrepreneurship which there was a lot of opportunity for in Sims 3. So off they went to try their hand at getting university degrees while their parents and grandparents and poor Shigeo stayed home. Greta enrolled in Business, Braden and Aidan enrolled in Science/Medicine and Brianna, Alanna and Kunio enrolled in Fine Arts. It would be quite the adventure as this was the first time that the kids had been outside of the house without their parents supervision and as young adults setting forth on their life-course, they had to do this alone. Fly little birds, fly!

It was a couple days travel...but well...they came upon UBC at a time where the grass was still green and the leaves were just turning. Just like their mother's and father's alma mater, they were going to the "blue and gold..." "Hail to the Blue and Gold, Hail UBC"...Winter had yet to make an appearance here in Vancouver's University Campus. The kids found themselves a home here and proceeded to make it their own.

A lot of the students at the University were students that their mother and father knew but were a lot older. Some had matured, others hadn't and were still loafing around looking for parties. But Brianna and her siblings and friends were there to study...get their degrees and get on with their lives. But firstly after such a long trip, they had to fuel up and where better than to go get some food than the diner. No Mahmoud, you're too old for Brianna, get lost.

Being consciously aware of the environment (yes, we Vancouverites are tree-huggers) the kids rode bikes, with the exception of Greta who decided to use Grandma Fiona's limousine. Who knew that thing was still around?

CKNW Weather noted that there was going to a major cold-snap coming in so "button up those jackets and get those toques out, because Vancouver's going to be having a major cold snap. A cold front will be moving in from the Juan de Fuca strait and sitting over the city for a long while..." Yeah...that wasn't going to be fun at all. Some measures were going to have to be taken like going to the grocery store to stock up on food because they were going to have to cook mostly at home. Alanna painted and Greta went out to work on some weights in the backyard.

A paparazzi had followed them to UBC and well, she got a comeuppance from the Watcher.

Brianna's first attempt at cooking mac and cheese was not very successful, which meant that she had to go back out to the grocery store and really do some stock-up shopping.

Well at least it wasn't bad bike-riding...as it was mostly downhill enroute to the grocery store; the downside being that it was uphill on the way back.

While she was out, her brother, Braden, and Aidan (who was her grand-uncle's son) decided to do a little martial arts training outside. When Aidan was done, he came into complain that there was no food. Well, Bri will be back in a bit and she'll get something together.