Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Sadly, Lily the frog has moved out of town. I got her goodbye letter in the mail today. For such a cute frog though, she sure uses ugly stationery.

I found Gulliver down on the beach, washed up after one of his crazy adventures. Once I woke him up, he gave me a plate armor once he was done rambling.

Baabara told me she wanted to see the world, or at least a nicer part of it. (How rude). She told me to tell her if I find a nice town, so she can move away. Gladly!

She said she can now move away without hesitation. Of course, there’s no truth to this. Unlike similar conversations in later Animal Crossing games, on GameCube they don’t actually result in the animal leaving. I wouldn’t mind if Baabara proved me wrong, though! I wooldn’t miss her a bit.

I met up with my newest neighbor, Sandy the ostrich. She seems really nice. Welcome to Forest!

Over by the wishing well, Bill asked for a new catchphrase to replace “quacko.” I told him to say quackpot instead.

Hank was also near the wishing well, and he told me how much he was looking forward to Halloween. However, Static did not share that enthusiasm.

After finishing my walk around town, I decided to drop everything and go fishing.

Early September is the best time of year to earn a lot of bells if you go ocean fishing. Because there are no sea bass or jellyfish right now, every ocean fish you catch will earn you at least 3,000 bells. For more details, check out my September Fishing Guide.

With my pockets empty and only a fishing rod in my hands, I decided to fish until I filled my inventory with 15 fish. That took me just six minutes, as I caught 11 red snappers and 4 barred knifejaws.

I went up to Nookington’s to sell my catches, and I earned a nice 53,000 bells. Not bad for six minutes of fishing!

When I started up the game today, I received Nosegay’s goodbye letter in the mail. Maybe she sniffed out a better town.

To the southeast of Candi’s house, I saw a green frog. I thought it was Emerald at first, and I wondered why she was so far from her house. But then I spoke to the frog, and I saw that it was actually Lily! I’ve had Lily in my ACCF town for a while, until she moved out in June. But now I know where she was moving to: My GameCube town! 😛

After fishing a huge arapaima out of the river, I went up to Nookington’s. I felt it was time to change my clothes, so I bought this MVP shirt.

On the first floor, I also bought some sky blue paint for my roof.

I found Gulliver down on the beach, so I woke him up and he told me his tall tales of how he ended up in the ocean. He then gave me a Chinese lion for listening to all of his lion lyin’.

I met up with Baabara, and she was telling me that August 12th is June 28th according to the lunar calendar. And according to my calendar, Baabara is a bit loony.

Ursala told me my eyes looked bloodshot, so she decided to give me an eye exam!

After a few questions, she told me my answer was wrong (even though it wasn’t). But she said my eyes were okay, and she gave me permission to stay up as late as I wanted. Wow, how nice of her.

I then headed over to the lake. The night of August 12th is when you can see the annual meteor shower, based on the real-life Perseids.

In an apparent glitch, Emerald accused herself of hogging the best viewing spot!

Her next statement was even odder, saying “Emerald’d better leave room for the rest of us.”

After I was done talking to everyone, I went onto the pier and just watched the shooting stars. The calm, peaceful music that plays at this viewing party is one of my favorite songs in the game. In fact, I left my game on for a good part of the evening just so I could continue hearing it play as I wrote this blog entry.

Here is a video of the event, including a couple minutes at the end where I just stand and watch the shooting stars and enjoy the music.

Sadly, I received Bea’s goodbye letter in the mail today. I wish she could have stuck around longer. Dog gone.

Unlike every other Animal Crossing game, this game celebrates the 4th of July. I headed over to the lake for the fireworks festival. I found Genji and Belle there, fanning themselves. I don’t think Belle is very bright though, because she was looking the wrong way.

The mad cow accused me of blocking her view.

Static was in a much better mood.

Emerald was also there to enjoy the show.

Crazy Redd had a stand set up, and he was selling fans. I bought a bamboo fan and a cloud fan.

Once I left the festival, I saw a huge shadow in the river. I fished out an arapaima!

It didn’t take long for my villagers to notice the large fish bulging out of my pockets. Hank offered to buy it for 770 bells. Heck no!

Just seconds later, Sydney wanted to trade me a three-ball shirt for my arapaima. No, no, no!

I found the tent of a summer camper, and I went inside. Woolio the sheep was inside, but he was a bit rude. I didn’t bother playing any of his games.

And in Acre B-1, I found a new house. It belongs to Nosegay the anteater. Her house is full of paintings; she must have a nose for art.

I then wrapped up my night in Forest. Happy 4th of July to all of you in the U.S.! See you next time!