The Ramaswamis - Begging for forgiveness...

How come Sanjay Ramaswami is sleeping on the couch with his wife pregnant and all? Well, he found some interest in their neighbour from across the street, Rosario Caliente and during the Caliente's housewarming he danced with her and flirted a bit. Priya is not the one to take this easy so she banned him to the living room.

No matter how much he pleaded and explained and apologized, she wasn't movable...Hopefully they will have this worked out when their little one arrives.

The Calientes - Every day life...

 Nina and Dina Caliente live next door to the Dawsons with their aunt Rosario. As it was saturday and both girls didn't have to go to school they were a little bored. Ginger Newson visited Dina but Nina didn't have anyone to talk to while the other girls watched TV, so she called her current Date to come over.

 They had some grilled cheese together and chatted away while...

 zit-ridden Dina played SX3 for hours. She doesn't seem to have any other hobby at the moment and since she also doesn't have a boyfriend or someone to date she's living out her nerdy side...;)

Nina and Donald on the other hand had fun watching the game and making out on the couch when Rosario and Dina had went to bed early...

The Dawsons - The grass is greener...

Right across the street (Simona Lakes' famous 'Lakeside Lane' by the way) at the Dawson's house things look peaceful. The Dawsons are the only family in Simona Lakes that moved there just because the town seemed nice to them.

Margot is a substitute teacher at Simona Lakes' elementary school. Her husband Bob is a homemaker who loves gardening.

Their daughter Lexi is only two days away from her transition to a teen. She's friends with little Cassie Goth and loves her cat Lola a lot.

The Dawsons are quite obsessed with their daughters. There's pictures of the two everywhere around the house.

 Little Anthea Dawson was the first child born in Simona Lakes. She's a very quiet baby, sleeping a lot...

The Dawsons spent their first day on official rotation preparing their garden for the winter and scored a garden club membership.

Margot helped Bob impress the garden club members but secretly she's not into gardening. She's more into money and likes the simoleons Bob's gardening helps them save though.

The Goths - Baby born!

This is Goth Manor in Simona Lakes. The Goths were not happy having to leave their original home in Pleasantview but once I'll finish the Simona Lakes Intro, you'll know why it was necessary...

 This morning though, Morty had to leave his lab behind the kitchen early. Bella had finally gone into labour and Morty wanted to be by her side when the little one arrived.

 In the end, Bella couldn't stand any company while giving birth. Morty and Mike were banned to the sunroom. Her shouting "Out of here! Shut up! Mike, keep him company!" might have had to do with Mortimer babbling about hydraulic birthing devices he wanted to build her so that the next birth would be easier though...

 Shortly after Bella seemed to have regained her contenance (and perfect shape) when she handed Mortimer their second daughter: Antigone Goth, born on first official rotation saturday.

 Morty was definitely moved by that little snail, looking just like Bella and stuff...

On the other hand Cassie was definitely not amused...she never is. Right after Andraste's birth she went upstairs painting until it was time to go to bed.

Michael Bachelor - Graduated FINALLY and another accident...

Everybody knows those long term students. Michael was definitely one of them. He took forever to graduate and as he never showed any wishes for a major he ended up studying philosophy like the original Skelljay-Mike.

He seemed to have fun at college though, even when he had to rock the cafeteria because he never seemed to have enough money...

But sooner or later even the latest long term student has to leave and Mike even scored cum laude despite his near-constant ac. probation. Here you see him at his graduation party listening to his second little niece or nephew who's still in utero...

And who's that girl he's dancing with at the party? Right, it's Dina Caliente! Their relationship is strictly platonic though. I just can't imagine Mike to take advantage of an underage girl like that. He seems to be quite the Mr. Nice guy...except for the kiss incident. Just before he left for college Dina and him had one date and they shared their first kiss. They don't have particularly good chemistry so I guess that's all there'll ever be for these two.

Michael bought a small house downtown from the Sim-City handout and that was barely enough to get him some decent furniture. :/

 So the first thing he did when Mr. Humble dropped his computer was looking for a job. He found an opening in science and took it as everything else offered didn't seem to fit him...but a philosophy student in the science career? I don't know. Maybe he'll find something better next rotation.

 Now on to the accident. *coughs* Michael had to go to the corner Shops to buy some shirt (with his last money...) to get rid of the yellow polo shirt he grew up into. That's where he met Sheila...

Being a nice guy he immediately realized how tense she was and offered her a backrub to which she willingly agreed. Then my doorbell rang and I had to answer and when I came back I found I hadn't paused the game and my poor sweet Michael had lost his virginity in the photo booth! Darn!

 At first I thought that was about it...a fling...nothing more. But guess what, he had just arrived home and taken a shower Sheila called again and invited him on an outing. Mike agreed and they went to the downtown karaoke bar...but before Sheila could make another move I had Michael end the casual group and go home. Finally!

 At home he had some salad and then...

...went to bed immediately, before any more unplanned things would arise for him.

Julien Cooke - Trying to impress...

Julien Cooke lives in a very small apartment but as he's single it's not a problem. The room he uses the most is the kitchen anyway.

In an attempt to impress the first person he came to know in Simona Lakes, he even made a berry pie in advance to said person's visit.

 And who was the lucky one? Mrs. Ottomas! Julien himself wasn't hungry but look how he dressed up for her visit. He doesn't have any romantic interest for Samantha but somehow he came across as trying VERY hard to make an impression on her.

She was completely unfazed though. They barely made it to friend status though Julien gave everything. Sad guy. Probably he should just go out and find himself a date. ;)

The Travellers - Accidental pregnancy

The Travellers live right above the Newsons. Trent helped little Tina with her homework and tried to write his first Travelling guide...he was not that successful though until now. Too many distractions.

One of them being his wife and her worries. Their first night at the new apartment resulted in an accidental pregnancy. As none of them have a wish for a baby Trisha took the morning after pill. She didn't feel well afterwards but I think she'll be fine after getting some rest.