Don, the Patels, and DeBateaus
Hey,
So after getting to the Autumn mark of the Calientes, the last house of Pleasantview was Don Lothario’s. A bit of background is that he is the town cassanova, and his deck is said to be the last place Bella Goth has been seen. He is involved with both Calientes, as you remember, and I 
made sure he didn’t marry Cassandra. His first adventure showed up with the new nanny, because the other one married Daniel Pleasant…
And would you believe her name is Shenene? I think that’s how it’s spelled, I just know that when I read it aloud it was “shah-NAY-nay”. 
After spending the entire night with Shenene, Don got to take her to his room. I love how it’s decorated with pictures of women, one of them being Bella Goth. The one on the right can only being Nina Caliente, even though her hair isn’t that short, and the one in the middle could be Kaylynn or something. Meh, I’m only analyzing the pictures because the one on the left is intended to be Bella.
So I said goodbye to Pleasantview and moved onto the town I’m most excited to play, seeing as TS3 is coming out so soon, Belladonna Cove. I should have played them in expansion order, but whatever. Belladonna Cove came with Apartment Life, the newest expansion.
I love babies, so the first house I stopped at was the Patels. Ramir and Ana are expecting; Ramir is in the political career track and Ana is a 
hostess. Ana’s super feminine face made me hope that this baby was going to be a girl, but I’ve decided NO RELOADS! Once the baby is born, I will not reload the game to get a different gender. So, unfortunately for me, the baby was a boy.
I named him Cruz, to keep with the theme of Spanish names. I love how Ramir is smiling in the background, as if he’s like “oopsie daisy!” with the Simpson’s Dr. Nick’s voice. He’s an oddball. Ramir loves to cook and then eat outside.
The last family I played were the DeBateaus. They live in the ritzy part of Belladonna Cove in a high-rise apartment suite. Armand DeBateau was originally married to Jessica Peterson, and 
according to the game wanted an heir, but Jessica wasn’t interested, so they broke up. What’s odd to me is the memory of her cheating. I’ll have to check out her memories later tonight. Armand adopted Tara after Jessica moved out, and she is his pride and joy, and wears lots of eyeliner. I thought it was weird she was supposedly so smart, when she autonomously went and checked herself out in a medicine cabinet. See, there’s one WITH and one WITHOUT a mirror. Her’s has no mirror.When I loaded up this house, they already had a mission and had no idea – Marry Armand to Dina Caliente.
I spent days and days waiting for the right sims to walk by so he could greet them and possibly meet her, but it just wasn’t working. I tried going to community lots and spamming walk-bys. Eventually preggo Nina walked by, and I had her invite her sister over. Hooray!
I can’t decide if I want Dina to be very easily impressed or very good at finding the right tree to bark up. The DeBateaus are LOADED, and Dina’s finally going to be able to live the life she really, really wants to.
It took a little while, but I
eventually coerced Armand into falling for Dina. I figured Dina would want a big beautiful wedding, but neither of them really knew anyone that would come. They invited some friends and tried not to get the hideous bartender lady in any shots.
Tara was dancing the whole time, and was really good at getting her head, or at least the back of it, into a few otherwise decent shots. When Dina moved in, so did her baby, and for a few hours I got nervous about where it was going to show up because I couldn’t find it. Sure enough, on schedule, it popped up on the sidewalk by the edge of the lot. Tara ran over, scooped the baby up, and ran back in the house. I don’t need anyone calling the cops on a wedding.
Everyone went to go get cake, some danced, some were in the hot tub. It was a good night, and after the party, Dina hopped into HER new hot tub to soak for another 8 hours like she did before the party.
TTYL
Janelle
