Fall Festival at Coolidge House Country Inn

October 2086. 


Here is where the girls went while the boys were left home alone. Sharon asked Stephanie and Maria to bring their kids into work today—they have a very important job to do. They need to brainstorm ideas for the fall festival. Sharon doesn't have any kids of her own, so she needs to borrow her employees' children for this task.


Stephanie supervises her little ones with the pumpkin cutting knives. Maybe a bit advanced for a four and five-year-old.


Or maybe not. Willow's pumpkin came out great.

(Mostly I wanted to test whether sims could visit this lot as visitors, carve a pumpkin, and take it home with them. Which they can! Just how I wanted it to work!)



The stuffed animals are a hit with the kids.


Stephanie also tells Sharon about a brand new rock climbing wall she saw on the news that shoots fire out of it!

That sounds a bit extreme for a family-themed fall festival, but Sharon will keep it in mind.

The fall festival will happen here at the Coolidge House Country Inn from mid-October through the beginning of November. Of course, Sharon also hopes that it will give her a chance to meet more constituents and secure more votes for her campaign. But that isn't the only reason she's doing this. She's wanted to host a fall festival here on her property for a long time.


But what is there for the little ones to do? Maria lets Johanna wander around and see what fun she can find.


The light display is amusing. But, as they expected, they need to brainstorm a little bit more for the toddlers. Maria suggests that Sharon might order one of those ball pits for the little ones to play in.

That sounds more family-friendly than a fire-spitting wall—Sharon isn't sure that third-degree burns would look very good for her campaign—so she makes a note of the website to order from.


But a safely contained bonfire for marshmallows adds nicely to the fall ambiance.



In other news, Sharon has hired a fourth employee to help with the workload. This is Drake (perhaps better known as Bentley's little sister's boyfriend), and he'll start working with them this fall. He is a student at Dresden College this fall, and he would love to earn some extra cash by bussing tables and washing dishes.

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notes: it looked like she might climb right into the water and my imagination got overexcited, lol! But no, she can only sit on the edge of it. I wish... 

Maybe I can fake it! :D


I was super disappointed to discover that these very expensive paintings do pretty much nothing. They change into spooky paintings, of course, but the sims do not react at all to them and they don't get a moodlet, either.

Believe it or not, this will be my first season ever playing with the spooky pack stuff! The last two falls in story time, we skipped right over most of the fall for plot reasons. And the years before that in story time, spooky stuff hadn't released yet. But now that I'm in rotation mode, I was really looking forward to trying this stuff out. 

My sims' favorite objects were the light show, the pumpkin carving, and the candy bowl. The paintings were blah. The spooky party will be fun when I get around to that, although I'll be hunting through the toddler downloads to see what costumes I can make for them. There were no toddlers when the spooky pack was released, so they don't have any, unfortunately. 

I attempted to build a haunted house kind of structure. It looks cool, but there isn't anything for the sims to react to or interact with. They can only look at the objects like they would look at any painting. Kind of boring, lol! 

Has anyone done a haunted house in game before? Or seen one done? Any ideas?