The Gavigan-Landgraabs: Week 2

For the previous week with Gesine Gavigan after graduation, click here.
For Lance's first week after graduation, click here. 
For the previous week with the Gavigan family, click here.

We are now going to spend a week at this apartment building, mainly at the apartment with the telescope on the balcony. Who lives here?

Gesine Gavigan (Gerlinde's twin sister) - but not on her own.

She has long been an item with Lance Landgraab, one of Malcolm Landgraab's half-Alien twins.
Gesine studied Biology and graduated Summa Cum Laude. She wants to become Space Pirate but did not find a job in the Adventurer career during last round.
Lance, on the other hand, is doing well in the Culinary career; he wants to be Celebrity Chef, and we see him on this Monday morning on his way to work as Executive Chef.
The other man in the picture is Prezioso Landgraab, the man who married Lance's twin sister Lilo last round.

Lilo and Lance live in the adjacent flat, and the two ladies spend part of the day Hula-dancing together.

Lance brings colleague Matthew Cho home from work, and of course Matthew stays for dinner.

In the early hours of Tuesday, Lance is stargazing. Gesine has gone to bed after checking the job adverts online, but once again to no avail.

Once she is up, she wants to work out, and work out she does.

Then it is time for this week's visit to a community lot - and you can guess why I decided to send Lance and Gesine to St. Simius, can't you!

They both rolled the wish to get married last round, and it was locked. Here they are in church, waiting for the ceremony to begin.

A mix of friends, family and random visitors (such as the Unsavoury Charlatan, sitting next to the groom's sister, Lilo Landgraab) make up the congregation.

The new Mrs. and Mr. Landgraab have just cut the cake. Lance is commenting on a subject that Gerlinde obviously finds embarrassing - she looks firmly down at her plate.

But never mind her earlier embarrassment - the two of them are very much in love, as is evident to anyone who watches them dancing.

Later, the dancing becomes more lively. Gesine dances with her twin sister Gerlinde and Lance with Lilo. The wedding will be a wonderful memory for everyone who attended.

The new Mrs. Landgraab is again unsuccessful with her job search on Wednesday morning. "Will I ever even get started on my lifetime want?" Gesine muses.

"Will we ever move out of this slightly glitchy rented apartment and live in the Landgraab Mansion again, the house I was born in?" her husband muses while making lunch.
It is nice that he has today and the next day off; quite by coincidence, but good for settling into married life.

At the wedding, Gesine did not have much chance to talk to her Dad. She invites Nathan over in the afternoon.

Thursday is rather uneventful. Although the Landgraabs invite their next door neighbours over - Lilo is, as you know, Lance's twin and now Gesine's sister-in-law; she is married to Prezioso Landgraab - they never manage to eat together.
The glitches on this lot make every one "jump" out of their current action repeatedly, so that they simply do not sit at the table at the same time. I really hope to move them to the Landgraab Mansion soon, but for now, it is still occupied by Castanea, the widow of their father Malcolm. The young Landgraabs hardly know the woman who is not much older than themselves; she married their Dad while they were at uni.

By Friday morning Gesine still has not found a job in her coveted career. Lance cheers her up by jumping into her arms on his own initiative. "Why don't you ask your sister and her husband over to spend the day with you, darling?" he suggests, knowing that he won't be home from work until late afternoon.

And so Gesine asks Gerlinde and Sirius over. The sisters have a hot drink at the bar in the aparment building's court and catch up with what's been going on in their lives since the wedding.

Lance returns home with a promotion to Restauranteur. He needs a few more skill points but is not far off from reaching his LTW. If only Gesine would finally get a chance to start on hers!

A winter BBQ is held to celebrate Lance's promotion and the visit from Gerlinde and Sirius.

It is Saturday morning, and the young Landgraabs finally make a wish come true they have both been harbouring for good part of the week: to woohoo in their car.

Lance is already off to work by the time the customary Saturday afternoon pizza ordered by the landlord for everyone in the block of flats is delivered. The idea is to have the tenants meet each other - but Gesine ends up being the only one to sit down in the courtyard for a slice.

She invites her older brother Isaiah over. He married into the Capp clan and brings along his wife Ariel and their sons Cataldo and Calogero.

When it gets dark outside, Gesine prepares dinner.

Lance is glad to see his father-in-law and other members of his wife's family are there when he comes home from work. It is good to see Gesine sharing a lively meal with them instead of grabbing a bite all on her own.

On Sunday morning, Gesine unclogs the toilet. She could just as well ask the Landlord to do it, but she wants to feel useful - and still no job has appeared for her on the Simternet.

The lot is getting more and more glitchy. This graphics bug - blinking blue strips on the bed, and the duvet looking as if someone were still in bed when really there is nobody there - is the latest in a series of bugs/glitches/hiccups, whatever you want to call them.
When it is the other Landgraab couple's turn to be played (Lilo and Prezioso live next door in the same block of flats), I shall move them elsewhere and bulldoze this lot.

The day passes uneventfully. While Lance is at work, Gesine talks to friends and family members on the phone, plays computer games and dances a little to the music from the stereo placed in the communal hallway.
When her husband comes home, she sits down with him while he has a bowl of leftover chili, and tells him that she is bored to death with no job and nobody and nothing to really focus on.
Lance kindly suggests they move elsewhere, which could give Gesine the chance to finally find a job. Yes, that sounds like a plan.

I truly felt sorry for Gesine. Day after day, she looked for a job that would allow her to become Space Pirate, and day after day, the adventurer career simply would not show up.
She filled her time as best as she could by inviting family over most days, but it was frustrating to see Lance advancing towards his lifetime want with big steps while she did not even start.
The couple are cute together, I think, and the family gatherings were nice to play. And of course I loved the wedding!