I got a letter from Del, thanking me for giving him medicine the other day. He’s feeling all better now. It seems like 2012 is starting off pretty good. The UFO flew by today. I wasn’t lined up correctly when it first entered town (I need to add some pattern markers in the one area), but I chased it down before it left town.
I recovered the spaceship part and Gulliver will be in my town tomorrow. Will I finally get my Metroid?
As I watered my flowers, I also talked to some animals. Bob told me he only goes to town hall on Pelly’s shift.
And Del was…Del.
But Del did inform me that the sky would be colorful tonight. That means the northern lights (aurora borealis) would be appearing. It took longer than I expected, but I did eventually get to see them.
That included New Year’s greetings from Mint, Ruby, Bob, and “Mom,” who sent me 1,000 bells. I also got the usual Sunday letter from the Happy Room Academy (my house scored 103,418 if you’re wondering). I received the monthly ABD Notice, telling me I earned 49,800 bells of interest on my bank account.
Even besides the 7 letters in my mailbox, I got another letter handed to me by Pete. It’s the new DLC for January, the snowman vanity. My snowman themed room is too messy right now (due to all my party poppers), so I took a picture of my snowman vanity and the piggy bank downstairs.
There was no snow today, so I had to water my flowers. I saw a wilted tulip that I didn’t need, so I decided to kill it and take a picture mid-pluck.
When I circled around to town hall, Tortimer was there, giving out the New Year Shirt for 2012. It has “2012” on the back and a dragon on the front. If you’re wondering why a dragon, it’s because it’s based on the Chinese calendar. Year of the dragon, baby!
Later in the evening, Abbey (the Swiss Miss) invited me over to her town Freak. She had her town set to New Year’s Eve.
She let me run through her maze again, that was cool. And she showed me around town and we ice skated for a little bit. I also saw her snowman Frosty, who I recognized from a picture she posted on ACC.
She had a nice selection of sweaters and scarves in her Able Sisters shop, so I picked up a couple of them.
She also showed me her potato farm.
We went in Joey’s house. He’s a duck who has his own rubber ducky. Abbey said it’s really his daughter Tina. I put on my beak to fit in.
I also talked to Rolf (who is named Boris in her game), whose house landed where she used to have her sumo arena. It seems like all of my friends have Rolf except me. I hope I can steal one of them. Anyway, we stopped in one of Abbey’s houses for some soup and bread.
And before we finished up, we watched K.K. perform a couple of songs. I’ve said this before, but Abbey is the best host. She has interesting things going on, both indoors and out, and has creative ideas on things to do with the game. I hadn’t played with her in six months, so it was nice to finally get another chance to visit Freak.