#also there is a reason I put 'this time' after the paragraph on Smiler letting Leila down gently

[victorluvsalice]

And even better, when I looked on the porch, there was Smiler's missing drone! Reloading the lot had also reloaded it! I had Smiler go activate it while Victor and Alice got up and swam back to shore to retrieve their dinners (I also tried to have Victor set the outside table, only for him to protest he couldn't reach every seat after the first two -- I guess the little cabana-thing I put it under is actually too small! Whoops, my bad) and attempted to have them do their sand sculpture video --

Only for the actual building of the sand sculpture to never complete. Smiler just -- stood there while the drone filmed. I could not get them to actually complete the action. I finally got annoyed and canceled out the video -- which the game informed me was a "Charisma Video" when it prompted me to name it. I was like "...I know Smiler is everyone's best friend, but -- seriously? Charisma for just STANDING there, not even facing the camera half the time??" Sims 4 be weird and glitchy, yo.

Oh, and speaking of both that and best friendship, who should come running up around this time but Leila, with that "I wanna be best friends" pop up that annoys me so much! Smiler wasn't interested, as they'd just met a few hours earlier, but let her down easy with a quick brightening of her day before sending her on her way. Might as well not make a big thing of it -- she's not the first to do that (by a long shot -- again, need a mod to stop that if possible), and it already triggers a bad sentiment, so...we can be nice. This time.

With Leila on her way back home, the trio had a nice little family dinner together, Victor and Alice enjoying the fish (yeah, I know fish isn't usually Victor's thing, but I suspect he can make an exception for a) a special island vacation meal and b) a fish he caught himself) while Smiler had a plasma fruit. Victor and Alice then went to bed properly, in an attempt to sleep through the night, and Smiler went to jam on the back porch for a bit before trying again to make their sand sculpture video. And THIS time, thankfully, it worked, with Smiler making another cowplant-head sculpture for the camera. So that's nice! :) And once that video was in the can, I had them work on upgrading said camera, so future videos would be even better quality. :) Gotta think of the SimsTube channel, after all!

And so the day ended with Smiler back on their laptop, creating a proper social media profile online and making a few posts on a forum. What a lovely day for a honeymoon. :) Next time, though, the rain returns, prompting an early trip home to celebrate a certain fall holiday I added to the calendar...see you then!