Mom and dad go to Egypt!

So, I'm checkin' my email and Vanna's blog post, and I find out that she's filled out papers to try to adopt these 2 Egyptian kids.

Personally, I think she's crazy.

Not that the kids aren't cute, from the pix she posted they're adorable... but I'm not sure about this.

Apparently mom has found out about Vanna's plan, too. Of course she's found out. It was in the paper! If mom wasn't already teed off at Vanna, if they hadn't already had this big blowup over her book, then this latest thing has really set her off. So much so, that she and dad booked a flight and headed to Egypt themselves! Since I still have school, I plan to stay at Noah and Neil's while they're gone. I can't see myself in this house by myself.
I'd only been to Noah's place once before, when I was still little and Neil's parents were getting married.

Interview with a Mummy

Hey, it's me, Bas. My globetrotting sister is in Egypt (again), lol.

Welp, here it is. It's my sister's book. It was published the day before she came back from China. It's caused all hell to break loose in the house and the whole town is talking about it. Daisy, who works in the bookstore, says it can't keep enuf copies on the shelf to keep up with all the peeps askin' about it. I'm not gonna read it, myself; heck, I've heard more than enuf about it from mom and other folks. Daisy says she's started to read it and she's like on page 49 or somethin.'

I do think the hoopla over the book caused Vanna to leave this time. She and mom had this huge fight right after she came back from China and they're not even speakin' to each other now. Mom is upset over the book; she says Vanna painted an unfair picture of her in it. For the record, Vanna says it's all fiction.

What I do know is on the front page of it there's a dedication in it to Aunt Margaret. I didn't know her that well, she died when I was a baby. Vanna says she was a 2nd mother to her, though.

Breakfast with Bassy

Very early the next morning, after the dust settled, Bassy and I were eating pancakes in the kitchen. He was starting to fill me in on what was going on while I was in China.

Then, he told me, "Vanna, mom's upset about your book. She said she didn't like what you wrote about her in it."

I shook my head. "Bassy, mom is upset about more than the book. This has been building for some time now."

"But why? Why can't you get along?"

"Bassy, sweetie," I told him, "a lot of the stuff that happened between us happened well before you were even born."

"What kinds of things?" Bassy was really, really pressing me. He was pressing me to answer questions I wasn't ready to answer.

"She doesn't like what I do for a living, for starters."

"For what it's worth, I think it's pretty cool what you do." He flashed me his gigawatt smile. It's the same one dad has, the kind that lights up an entire room. "Everybody at school wants to know where my sister is going next."

"She wants me to get a nice boring office job or to sit at home waiting for some mythical prince to rescue me."

"Say," Bassy asked, his eyes lighting up, "how'd you get that gig? And why do you do it?

"I signed up for it, at this website. Easy peasy. "

"Why do you do it? I mean, why'd you sign up for it?"

"'Cause I like to push myself, test my limits. 'Cause when I was younger I used to like to explore the catacombs in the cemetery."

"You went in there?"

"Sure did. Plenty of times."

I would have continued the conversation, but my plane was leaving for Egypt. I had a mission to finish.

Continued on The Savannah Plumb Chronicles

Me and Daisy sittin' in a tree....(cont'd)

Hey Vanna, u'll never guess what happened...

It all started, oddly enuf, when I confronted Daisy 'bout Ernie. I made her promise me it would never happen again.

I couldn't jus' throw away our friendship over him.

Had to admit, she felt really, really good in my arms. I still have the scent of her perfume in my nose.

"Baby, you're like a masterpiece -- you get better with age."

"Ohh -- say it again!" she cried.

Well, you can guess what happened next. Haha

Yep, it was pucker-up time. They say there's no time like the first time. Ahhh.

To top off this really, really good day, I'm chillin' on your bed, Vanna.

Luv u. Later, Bas

Me and Daisy sittin' in a tree....

Yo, Bas here. Vanna's in China. The woman does not keep still.

Ain't seen Ernie since that day I was at his house. But I rode home with Daisy on the bus. She was kinda shifty, but then I asked her if she hooked up with him before I got there that day.
"U think I was with him?" she asked me.
"Sure looked like that 2 me," I told her.
"Bas, c'mon! Ernie & I, we homies! You know I wouldn't do nothin' like dat 2 ya."





Daisy & I ran off the bus and towards her living room. She said she had somethin' 2 show me.



"Bas, I saw this yesterday at the bookstore."
My mouth fell 2 the floor. It was my sister on the cover of a magazine. When did she even have time 2 do this spread?
I'm used 2 seein' mom and dad on these, but my sister too???
"I knew she was your sister so I bought it and I looked at the pix. Most of 'em are in Egypt. Is she some kind of adventurer or something?"
"That's exactly what she is," I told her. "She says she's studying ancient history, but she's doin' more than that."




I realized I was alone...with Daisy. Her 'rents weren't home. I had a few butterflies in my stomach, 4 sure. I needed 2 know da truth.
"Did u hook up with Ernie be4 I got there?"
"Bas, you know that ain't true. Ernie jus' pullin' yo' chain."
"So u think Ernie's lyin' 2 me."
"He got 2 be. I ain't nevah touched him!"
I wasn't sure whether 2 believe her or not. Should I? More later, got 2 do my homework, Bas

Sebastian Speaks!

Hello everybody and Happy Holidays! I'm Sebastian, filling in for Savannah while she's off in Egypt searching for these three pieces of ancient sculpture -- relics they're called, I think.

I was reading her latest dispatch from Egypt. Gotta tell you -- my sister is badass. Really, she is.

You know what she's like? She's like, a comic book heroine, Wonder Woman or something, I dunno. Some kind of cartoon character. Not a real person.

But dang it, she's my sister, you know? My only full-blooded sister. I mean, I have half-siblings but she's the only full sibling I have. Same mother, same father. I mean, I live with her. We're under the same roof. I kinda secretly hope some of her genes would rub off on me but so far they haven't. I'm just a normal teenage boy -- no superpowers at all. I wonder if she's the last of some master-race of super-sims. She certainly isn't 'ordinary,' for sure.

I definitely think she's got some kind of superpowers. No way anyone survives that much electricity going thru their body. Maybe I've read too many comic books, I dunno. But there's something going on that she isn't telling me, and my mom has kept mum about her too.

I went studying at the library with Daisy and Neil. Neil is my nephew, though he's actually four simdays older than me. He'd asked for tutoring in Simlish, and then he started asking about "Aunt Savannah's latest exploits." Gotta admit, those tall tales she's writing about from Egypt about mummies (she started writing her novel before she left) surely have everybody curious.

Sebastian Becomes a Teen

Well, when we got back from France, guess what? Yet another birthday! The little tyke won't be so little anymore.

Mom threw him this ginormous birthday party at the house, pretty much inviting all of our inner circle, and they came, too. Even Billy and Nathaniel showed up. I sneaked an invite to his little galpal, Daisy Ramsey, who herself was already a teen.

Well, there he is. Isn't he a cutey?

And right on cue, he walks up to Daisy and asks her to dance.


I wasn't without a partner either, however unwilling I was. My dance partner was Mitchell Castillo, son of some old family friends. Apparently his mother's a member of the orchestra. We tried to make some small talk while we were dancing, but the fact of the matter is I'm just not that into him, you know what I mean? Some folks might accuse me of being 'picky,' but I just want to be with the right person. You understand, right? Right??