What happened in your sims 3 game today?

Hi Everyone!

Hope that you're all having a Marvelous Monday and continued happiness this holiday season!

HotBlackSand​ Enjoyed the recent pictures of your sims.  Hope that Rebecca & her family also had a great winter season in your game and a fun 'Gift-giving' party if they had one. My Sims did those many sim moons ago when playing all of the packs together.  Since I prefer World Adventures to Seasons and found that things didn't go so well with all of the packs working together back then, I've been reluctant to activate them all at once since the game is working quite well at the moment.  Congrats on young Hanna's recent birthday and my Munson & Crockett families wish her all the best in school.

If I end up moving Jarvis & Bella into their own save, I may try activating all of the packs for them to see how things go with it.  Will probably put them in a world that makes sense to have winter in like Starlight Shores or Hidden Springs (then we could pretend that they would be neighbors of Rebecca).  Now that I'm back to playing Sims 4, I'm just playing Sims 3 on weekends at the moment so it will be awhile before deciding on that.  Next weekend, I'll be visiting the Munson household, so will see how things go in protecting the Eternally Faithful relationships of Jarvis & Bella and Jarrod & Holly to see if separating the two families would be better.

ck213​   Nice to meet you and welcome back to playing Sims 3.  I play both Sims 3 & 4 but tend to focus on the one that gives me the most inspiration which is Sims 4 at the moment since treating myself to another expansion pack and a few kits but still enjoy Sims 3.  Right now, I'm playing Sims 4 during the week and then Sims 3 on the weekend to continue with my visits (aka: game play) with my households there.   Am thinking about changing that to a three month rotation with the two Sims games but that's just me brainstorming.   Since I like playing both Sims 3 & 4 for their own reasons, you should be able to play both although sometimes it takes a bit to get used to each different style with the open/closed worlds, camera modes, color wheel, etc.  Each of the sims versions have their own pros & cons but then again all games have that.  

LonaBoom​  Nice to meet you and it looks like you have a couple of really nice sims in your two saves.  Hopefully the first one will be able find time for a relaxing vacation or unwind at a party or two from her busy schedule.  Hope your other sim has lots of fun in his adventures and stays safe.

Now for an update from Chang & Honey (Darnell) where he returned to Egypt to complete a fitness challenge to run for four hours in the desert.  While he was their this time (Egypt seems to be the only country this family travels to so far since getting my new laptop), Chang began the 'Searching for Love' adventure series with Layla Lufti & Samir Amin which was unexpected for me since I thought he'd get the Black Bag jobs after completing the MorcuCorp series on his last visit.   Since this adventure came up earlier than expected, Chang didn't have to break into the Ameen house to search their basement since Fikry's wife is still alive in the game as are most of the senior Egyptian sims there. 

Chang's game save is into it's 7th Sim week so the initial seniors in Egypt seem to be living longer than usual this time even with the long life span that I normally use.   Since I opted to send Chang for five days instead of the eight, he'll be doing the last part of the Finding Love series in his next trip there after Honey returns to the country to  earn some tips in guitar playing for her boss and finish disarming the traps in the Rashid household's basement.   Now that young Holly is in high school, she may get the oppoturnity to interview a local in France to begin the French adventures.  Before getting my new laptop, Chang had traveled to the country a far amount in his first game save while living in Appaloosa Plains and had completed many adventures there. Not sure if the game will remember that he's been there before if he gets a chance to go but his daughter, Holly should be able to begin with the Lost baseball job.

Now that Chang & Honey's daughter, Holly is a teenager she's already had her first prom where her friend from grade school, Callie Moyer, invited her to attend with her and during their evening together Callie asked Holly to 'go-steady' with her so now they are a high school couple'.  Holly was also voted by her peers to be the Prom Queen.

Now for the pictures of my visit where I decorated little Chauncey's bedroom as he will soon be starting school.  He is Callie's little brother and since Chang & Honey want another girl, they will probably soon try for their third child.  I also had to change the staircase to the downstairs hobby room since the original one didn't work very well directly beneath the stairs to the second floor.  While Chang & Holly were able to go down them to take pictures of their completed Egyptian Statue and Canopic Jar sets, they had problems coming up the stairs so I had to move the staircase and change it to a circular one in the corner by the garage door and switch the nectar making corner and future downstairs spa locations to make things work.  Not sure exactly what all will be down there but am thinking of making the downstairs main area a games room of sorts with a pool table as well as a ping pong table and shuffleboard since the workout and musical instruments are part of the upstairs landing area.

This is Chauncey's future bedroom which is decorated using shades of his favorite color 'sea foam'  including the lighter shade of 'tea green'  (D0EDC2) and a dark 'sea green' (2E8B57).

Might as well share pictures of the changes to the downstairs nectar/future game room and then the inside of the garage.  This room also uses a light shade of seafoam called 'White Smoke' (F5F9F3) and Myrtle Green  (21421E).  It's amazing what comes up when googling hex codes and shades of sea foam.

After  putting in the circular staircase to the downstairs, I moved the washer & dryer back against the wall under the staircase.  Had to remove the plant to the left of the archway and move the machines up one space since it turned out that the stairway to the upstairs was in the way of accessing the dryer.   

Since Chang has completed his 'zoologist' LTW, I cut the critter 'homes' down to one for each type except for the snake one for now.  He'll now just keep one of each critter for now in the garage except for the two big bird trees upstairs.  This leaves more space for other things in the garage like Holly's future rescued pets and/or a second vehicle.

Now for pictures of Chang's trip to Egypt where he jogged for 4 hours in the desert and helped Layla Lufti in her 'Searching for Love' series' .  Here, Chang decided to read a book in the early morning hours at base camp instead of disturbing his fellow traveler's sleep.

Later Chang tried charming his snake before continuing with the new missions.

After meeting and chatting with Inji Ameen, Chang found a switch hidden inside the hole that opened a secret staircase to the basement.  

Chang finishing up this part of the mission before reporting back to Samir Amin who is the other contact in this series.  Haven't been able to figure out if the movable statues in the living area of this part of the downstairs under the Ameen house open anything but my Sims haven't been able to find anything by moving them.

Before entering the Servants' Quarters at the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Chang saw this wannabe acrobat practicing outside.  He later took a break by sitting on the couch in the entrance part of the Queen's side of the tomb.

Beginning his search of clues the Servant's quarter's for this part of the 'In Search of Love' missions.

After reporting back to Samir about his findings in the Servant's quarters, he played his guitar for tips while Samir & Fatima danced together under the stars at the fishing pond behind the Pyramids.

The next morning, Chang's basket snake seemed to really enjoy his charms.  Either that or is laughing at them.

Later Chang was able to find the special relic that Layla needed from the Queen's secret hideout under the markets before his trip ended but he'll be back at some point to finish his missions.

Will leave you with Chang training his daughter on the weight machine before she heads to school for the day.  Until next time, Chang says to 'Keep fit and have fun' as one of the local TV commercials where I live used to say.