Anniversary Party

Today was Hornsby’s birthday, and I made sure to attend his birthday party. I gave him a customized drinking fountain that I made myself. A regular-sized cup isn’t big enough for a rhino; he needed something he could shove his face into and chug. Happy birthday, big guy!

Midge was also in attendance at the party.

I cleaned up my town and made the final preparations for my obstacle course, and then I invited four people over to race. Danny (using the name Hector in-game), Adrian, Meli, and Davy came over. I showed them the course, and then we held a few races. Danny was the ultimate winner. Congrats! Here is my video of the races.

I also updated my dream, so that you can all check out the obstacle course for yourself. Forest’s dream address is 6717-1633-3682. Or if you’ve dreamed of Forest before, you don’t even need to enter the code again…just choose it from the list of previous dreams.

Later on, I attended K.K. Slider’s show. He performed K.K. Country for me.

As you likely know, today was also the 1st anniversary of New Horizons. If you’d like a flashback to Day 1, check out my blog entry or video from that day. Happy anniversary to you all!

After burying about 10 pitfall seeds around town, I opened my gate at 9:00 for my anniversary party. Bran, Timo, Logan, Sacky, and Xavier came over. Then Sacky left and T Zelda joined in. We held several obstacle course races, and they even let me race a couple times. 😉

But once, I went into a pipe and it spit me back out! I didn’t think that would happen during a race, but it did. I’m considering adding a 2nd pipe in the “jail” to reduce the odds of that.

At the end, Logan defeated Timo in the finals. Congrats, Logan!

T Zelda left, but the rest of us held a sumo tournament. Since we had an odd number of people (five), I didn’t participate. But in the finals, Xavier defeated Logan for the win. Congrats, Xavier!

We wrapped up sumo with a 5-player battle, and Logan won that one. Congrats!

The third event of the night was a bug, fish, and sea creature-catching competition. I set the timer for ten minutes, and the goal was to catch the most (obviously). But about halfway through, William joined in the party. Fortunately, the timer kept going. Thirty seconds later, Alex from Pawnee also tried to join in. But this time, we all disconnected.

I reopened, and Logan, Timo, Sacky, and Alex came over. We visited Hornsby briefly, and then we prepared to restart the fish/bug competition. But then Sacky left, Alex left, and Xavier rejoined. We started the timer and it was going well. But with 46 seconds left, Ryan from Petal Burg came over. By the time the arrival sequence was done, the timer ran out. Timo won the competition with 22 catches (all sea creatures). Congrats, Timo!

As Timo drew on the bulletin board, I showed Ryan the obstacle course, and we did a quick race (I won). I just had to check out Timo’s art, and it was worth the wait. Timo’s “squish” seems to reference a fall into (at least) one of my hidden pitfalls tonight. 😂

We sat down for a K.K. song; Logan requested “Welcome Horizons” in honor of the anniversary. I thought we were all sitting for the show, but Timo got up and started using emotions and being funny during the show. 😛 However, I noticed that the lights from my Festivale stages no longer show up during K.K.’s shows! I don’t know why Nintendo took that out; it wasn’t hurting anybody!

The final event of the night was museum tag. I was the first seeker, and I was having no luck. Twice, it felt like I found someone, but the camera angles wouldn’t allow me to see for sure. Of course, there’s always a chance it was some phantom lag…but it turned out it was actually Logan in the art room and Timo in the fish room. Timo doesn’t normally talk anyway, but Logan was clearly trying to cheat by acting like I didn’t find him. 😛

In the next round, Timo found me very quickly. 😛 But then it was revolving door time. Alex returned, Cat came over, Cat left, Logan left, and Ryan left. Those of us that remained played a couple more rounds of museum tag. But by about 12:30, I ended the party. Thank you to everyone who came! It was fun! 🙂

I’ll be back with another blog entry tomorrow. Hope to see you then!

Update: Here is a video showing highlights of the party. Enjoy!