Caspin the Tropical Tramp

[Caspin]

Isn't she? Let me spam you with some more cat cuteness (any excuse).

Here's Caspin and Jezebel in the kitchen of our beach hut.

"I'm so cute and fluffy, pet me more" (let's be clear - that's the cat talking, not my sim).




Here we are on the porch, playing with a feather on a springy stick, which is clearly the height of entertainment.




Aw! Anyway, that's enough cuteness for now. Poor Jezebel was getting a bit lonely, as Caspin's away a lot at the moment trying to climb all the career ladders and completing the world adventures. So I did get another cat, an elder, from the cat home, to keep her company. His name is Shadow and he's a funny-looking fluff ball. I'll try and get a picture today.

Moving along. I patched when I got home on Friday night. I didn't intend to patch ahead of getting Seasons, but some nice folk gifted me some new stuff and it wouldn't let me download it without patching. Grrr. Anyway, it seemed to patch OK on Friday but when I started playing on Saturday I had big problems, with saving errors (which I don't normally get because I save frequently) and my first even .bad file. I have never actually ended up with a bad save before. Most upsetting. Good thing I had all those saves to go back to.

I've done a whole load of the France and China adventures, not really tackled Egypt yet.

This is the special merchant in China. As you can see, he is not really ready for visitors. Or maybe he is. I don't really want to speculate. Fortunately Caspin's not easily shocked.






The new 'attraction' system is a bit annoying. Everyone's in love with everyone at all times, with little hearts and magnets all over the place.

But in the end I was glad I battled through the patching and error 12s because I was of course rewarded with the wondrous joy of... swimming in the sea. To not be able to swim in the sea when sims can swim perfectly well in a pool has always annoyed me in Sims 3. Naturally, since Caspin is currently living in Sunlit Tides, she headed straight to the beach to make sure this works out.

OK, I'm going in!




Wait, take off your sunglasses. They'll float away and also it's going dark! Oh well, too late, she's off, swimming out into the sunset.




Yay it works! Look, swimming!




You can swim quite far out. That little dot down at the bottom is my sim.




Did I mention Yay!

Cats and swimming, it's all good