Thursday
Yesterday, Able Sisters had a football shirt for sale. Even though it’s technically red, the front panel looks orange to me. I put it on for now.
I found a lost item, a book, next to the toilet outside Rizzo’s house! Someone must have been reading it while they used the toilet!
When I asked Claudia about the book, she said it looked like Hornsby’s type of thing. I showed it to Hornsby, and he said it was his diary! He thanked me for returning it, and gave me a wrestler uniform.
Today, I’m “crafting” a custom gift for Rizzo as I write this diary entry. Almost done…!
-Hornsby’s diary entry for May 7th
Redd’s ship was docked on the northern beach, so I went inside to check out what he had. I felt pretty confident that the serene painting was legit, so I bought it.
I decided to put in a new bridge. And this time, I sprung for a stone bridge…which looks so much nicer than the log bridges. I put it in the northern part of town, connecting the east part (near Midge’s house) with the north-central part (near Rizzo’s house). It’s not far from a waterfall, so I think it’ll look really nice there. I also remembered to pay off the bridge before the day ended. 😛
Even though it’s been quite a while since I unlocked the island designer app, I still hadn’t used it to make paths around town. But that has now begun to change. I started with a horizontal path in the south-central part of town; it connects my house, Nook’s Cranny, the museum, airport, and both southern bridges.
Friday
I got my serene painting in the mail from Redd, but I realized I made a huge mistake after talking to Blathers. No, the painting wasn’t fake, but I already had the serene painting! I was so focused on picking out a painting that looked legitimate that I failed to see which paintings I already had. Dumb mistake on my part. 🤦
Rizzo taught me the agreement reaction, but I didn’t thank him. All I did was smile and nod.
I then attended the completion ceremony for my new bridge. From here, you can get a good look at it…including the two waterfalls in the background.
When I visited Tia at her house, I saw that Apple was also visiting. So I was rather surprised when Tia said she could have made an apple strudel! Watch out, Apple! Tia wants to eat you!
There was a visitor at the campsite, and I didn’t browse for long.
Because as soon as I saw Hazel, I was going, going gone!
As I got my net out to catch a bug that was on a tree stump, Rizzo went over to the stump and plopped his mouse butt down on the bug!
The bug wasn’t hurt, and in fact, it wasn’t even scared! It wasn’t until Rizzo got up off the tree stump that the bug flew away!
Friday Night
Around 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Logan, Marlie, Timo, Dylan, Jesse, Jeremiah, and Ryan came over to visit. After Marlie was the unlucky victim of a pitfall, we headed over to the sumo ring for some leaf sumo. (I covered the sumo ring with piles of leaves.) 😛
I announced that, for once, I actually had a prize for the tournament winner: a serene painting! The match between Timo and Jeremiah resulted in the first true draw I’ve seen in New Horizons sumo. Even when I looked at my recording frame by frame, both players fell at the exact same time. This is the frame where dust clouds first appeared under both players.
The first round winners were Jesse, Ryan, Jeremiah, and Marlie. I had to go back to my house to get more pitfall seeds, and I returned to find Timo releasing more coelacanths and oarfish into my pond! A couple minutes later, I cut down a tree that fell on Timo. 😛
In the sumo semifinals, Jeese beat Jeremiah and Marlie beat Ryan. Jesse then beat Marlie in the finals, winning the serene painting.
After that, we did some pillar jumping. These are temporary pillars that I set up before opening my gate, just so that we could jump around. I thought it would be fun. 😀
When we were done there, I let everyone browse over to see my camper. 😛 However, Jesse got disconnected and that kicked us all back to the airport. And Jesse quickly returned.
We hung out in my house for a bit, and then I suggested a bug-hunting competition. I set my timer for five minutes, and I quickly noticed a big problem: There are hardly any bugs when playing online!
Jeremiah won with TWO bugs! I barely caught one (a mole cricket right before time expired)! I really hope this isn’t the case with summer tree beetles!
Next up, we played some museum tag (by popular request). Logan and I were apparently the worst hiders, because we kept getting found over and over. 😛 But the game went well, so I was happy about that.
About midnight, I ended the session…but I told everyone I may reopen with a Dodo Code (and to check Twitter for it). This time, Megan, Timo, Maria, Marlie came over. Timo started releasing a bunch more oarfish and coelacanths into the pond! 😮
I gave Megan and Maria a quick tour of my obstacle course, and then they raced on it (Maria won). Marlie and Timo were in mid-race, when Jesse returned. Timo won the re-match, and then Jesse raced Megan.
Iggy joined in, and we did some more pillar jumping.
After Jesse again disconnected and returned, I decided to call it a night. Thanks to all who came, it was fun! Have a good night, and I’ll see you next time! 🙂