Today, Tom Nook informed me that construction has started on the museum. It will be built in the same spot as Blathers’ tent, which is a bit disappointing because I pictured having it further north in town. I guess I’ll be able to move it later in the game, but this will be fine for now. It will make it easy for donating ocean/beach catches, that’s one good thing! Oh, and the museum will be completed by tomorrow, so I’m excited about that! 🙂
I received letters from several of the people I played with yesterday. Thank you for the letters, and in some cases, the gifts you sent!
But for those who may be new to my blogs, I want to tell you a bit about how I play the game. I don’t time travel, I don’t duplicate items, I don’t accept large gifts like money bags/crowns/thrones, and I generally don’t consult guides (at least not early on). I like to earn everything myself, and I don’t rush through the game.
So for anyone that visits my town at any point, please don’t feel obligated to give me any gifts. In fact, I generally prefer not to receive gifts unless it’s something I’m specifically looking for. But thank you for the thought!
I also received a letter from Gulliver, and he sent me a Kaffiyeh. I tried it on, but I ended up selling it later. At this point, I’m not planning on collecting all of Gulliver’s items like I did in City Folk and New Leaf. But that could always change later.
Anyway, I noticed that Louie and Shari have now upgraded their tents to houses! Louie was so excited about it that he turned into an evil superhero.
I played in the early evening, and I caught a brand new butterfly: a paper kite butterfly! No strings attached!
For the third day in a row, I found a message bottle on the beach! This one was from Penelope, and she supplied me with a DIY recipe for a shell rug.
I got stung by wasps today. I was trying to bring up the tool ring, but I pressed the wrong button, and they got me. The funny part was that my character was kind of dancing as he was getting stung. 😀
Using the Nook Stop terminal, I ordered myself a three-ball tee. It will arrive tomorrow, so I can finally change out of my default clothes. 😛
When I played tonight, Shari noticed my face was swollen. (Saving and quitting does not heal it). So she gave me a DIY recipe for medicine! Thanks, Shari! But it’s going to be hard to make you the town villain when you keep being so nice! 😛
After crafting the medicine and healing my face, I went to the airport. I used my Nook Miles ticket to take a mystery island tour. I landed on a small island, with some spiral-shaped land in the middle. It was raining pretty hard, and Boomer the penguin was hanging out there.
I wasn’t interested in trying to get him to move to Forest. But on the other hand, it’s Day 4 and I still only have two villagers. Not only do earlier Animal Crossing games start with more villagers, but they start moving in pretty rapidly at the beginning. That’s not the case with New Horizons.
Even though the island was small, it had a lot of materials that I needed…including a bunch of iron nuggets!
In fact, I got enough materials to complete Timmy’s shop! So when I returned to Forest, I quickly gave Timmy everything he needed.
He gave me the shop construction kit, and I was able to pick out a spot for the store! I put it near the airport and next to the museum. It’s going to be like a mini-Main Street there! It should be very convenient for donating and selling my catches!
I planted a peach tree, two coconut trees (I got coconuts from the island I visited), and I planted the bamboo shoots from Breezy in this spot here. I thought it might look nice from across the river, like a little wild-looking part of town (especially if the bamboo spreads).
Gulliver was on the beach for the 2nd day in a row, and again, I found his communicator parts. He’ll be sending me another gift in the mail tomorrow. And with Nook’s Cranny and the museum both opening tomorrow, it’s going to be a busy day! See you then!
Update: My 2nd New Horizons video is up, showing highlights from Day 2 and part of Day 3: