Re: sims stuck in travel state

yikes! the free vacation is buggy  i turn it down after that happened me the first time round there is a couple of things that may work for you

1. if you have the save game from before the glitch happened launch that to play  although you'll be at the point of where you last saved hopefully with all the family and if the free vacation is offered cancel it

2. if the girls  are still teens then via edit town create a sim and add a young adult to the household to prevent the social worker coming to take them away then go to edit town click on your lot and save a copy of them to the libiary start a new game then from edit town from the libiary place your saved copy into a new lot then the mascot should appear in the new game take the appitude test to enroll to uni

3. if the girls are old enough i.e. are  young adults  then go to edit town click on your lot and save a copy of them to the libiary start a new game then from edit town from the libiary place your saved copy into a new lot  then the mascot should appear in the new game take the appitude test to enroll to uni

tip if this works for you before you have your sims  take the apptitude test and then enroll to go to uni save your game then save as new name then off to uni reason being if the uni trip bugs out (which can happen ) you will have your save game to fall back on

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