How I Spent My Holiday - Inga Beaker’s Journal

Mr. Halfdanarsson said that we have to write a holiday diary about our holidays, but we also have to introduce usselves first and he is going to read it, which is not okay, because a diary is private and nobody is allowed to read it, but I guess he’s a teacher so he can tell us to do this and we have to, because we get grades from him.

My name is Inga Beaker and I’m eight years old. I like flowers and ponies, but Daddy says I can’t have a pony, so I like flowers better.



My Daddy is my favoritest person in the world. His name is Loki Beaker and he’s a scientist, but not a crazy scientist like the Curious brothers who keep making green babies. That’s what Daddy says. I don’t know why making green babies makes you a crazy scientist, and I asked him if Mr Smith was a crazy scientist too because he makes green babies, but Daddy says he’s not because he is already green.

I like green. It’s a very nature color and flowers are green at the places where they’re not other colors.



My Mommy’s name is Circe Beaker and she is very beautiful. I want to be as beautiful as she is when I grow up, but she says I probably won’t be. Mommy works a lot, because she needs to stay a head in the business world. That’s what she says.



I have a baby brother whose name is Bjorn Beaker. My Grandpa was also called Bjorn Beaker, but he died a long time before I was born. Daddy says he was a wonderful person and that he hopes that Baby Bjorn will be just like him.

Baby Bjorn is very cute and I play with him a lot, but I think Mommy likes him better than she likes me and that makes me sad.

Dear Mr. Halfdanarsson, please don’t show this to Mommy. I don’t want her to think that I don’t like her or Baby Bjorn. I like them both, but I like Daddy the best.



I wish I had an older brother, like Justin Simnitch. Some kids were bullying him at school and his older brother BEAT THEM UP!

…Oh, Mr. Halfdanarsson, please don’t read that part. Beating people up is bad.

I have an older cousin. His name is Maximillian Curious. But I’m not allowed to play with him or my other cousins, because Daddy doesn’t like the Curious family and he doesn’t like that aunt Erin married one of them. He says I can play with my other cousins, but they are boring. They don’t have green cousins. Andromeda Curious is my best friend, even if Daddy can’t know. You won’t tell him that, right, Mr. Halfdanarsson?



Anyway, Daddy said that we were going on vacation to Three Lakes this year and I was really really happy! He has rented a villa for us there and we can take lots of walks through nature. I like nature.



Mommy said that she doesn’t like nature and wants to go to somewhere with less nature and more wellness thingys, but Daddy said he had to do some research and Bjorn said he wanted to throw axes, because you can do that at Three Lakes, so we all went.

I told Bjorn he can’t throw axes because he’s too small. He said of course he can, but I said Mommy wouldn’t let him because he might get hurt. Then he said he would only throw small axes.



So then we all packed our bags and went to Three Lakes!



Three Lakes was so cool! I took all the walks and I had a hammock! And Bjorn threw axes everywhere, until Daddy told him to stop throwing them in the lake, because he was trying to fish. But then Bjorn caught a fish with his axe and Mommy cooked it for dinner. We all laughed.



But then something very scary happened. Bjorn and I heard weird noises in the night. Something grunted and made noises like a monkey at the zoo, or a big dog. We climbed out of our window and looked everywhere for it, but we couldn’t find it. Bjorn thought he saw a big monkey, but it ran away. Then we were tired and wanted to climb back inside, but it was too high up. I tried to give Bjorn a lift, but we fell down. So we rang at the doorbell and Mommy woke up and let us in and gave us a big big scolding.



We told them about the noise we heard, but they didn’t believe us. We kept hearing the noises every night, but we didn’t go outside to look for them anymore, because we didn’t want Mommy to scold us.

Then we went back to Strangetown without solving The Mystery Of The Strange Noises At Night, which is very sad and would not have happened in a book. And this is the story of how I spent my summer vacation, by Inga Beaker.



Dear Diary,

I really like having a real diary that Mr. Halfdanarsson can’t read, because Daddy says I can write what happened today in my summer diary. Bjorn and I heard the weird noises from Three Lakes again, but this time they came from upstairs! And they were in our home!

I went upstairs and I saw the Monkey Man Bjorn said he had seen! Then I screamed, but Daddy came in and said it was fine and it wasn’t a Monkey Man, it was our new friend Armin and he was going to live with us.



Daddy had believed us when we had told him about the Monkey Man, and he had looked for him and found Armin living in a cabin in the woods! And he had made friends with Armin and invited him to live with us! Isn’t Daddy the coolest?



Armin is very funny and not scary at all when you get to know him. Even if he did say that I smell weird and not like Daddy. That made me very sad.



Bjorn screamed too when he saw Armin, but he likes him too now and Armin gives us both big hugs when we come home from school.

Armin says he likes hugs and he likes children.



And that is the story of how we have a Bigfoot living in our house now.


That story took a few attempts, mostly due to my game hanging up several times when vacation started. And the fact that I didn't know you couldn't take toddlers on vacation. So Bjorn had to grow up, but Inga still had to be a child and Loki still had to be an adult, and and and. In the end, Loki hopped off alone for a second vacation to invite Armin to his house. Anyway, he now has a live bigfoot. Hope he's happy.

Justin Simnitch is part of an abandoned storyline. He's a cuckoo child like Inga and originally the two of them were going to end up together, but then he became a romance sim.


Coming up next: a Curious family party (because those are always fun, if hard on my computer)