When I visited Tia today, I was a bit surprised to see that her house is turning into an aquarium! She has fish stacked on fish.
At 9:00, I went over to Logan’s town, Moonscar. He was having a New Horizons anniversary party of his own. Alex from Pawnee, Timo, Jed, Nicky, Jesse, and Jj also joined in. Logan made a Mario obstacle course too, and Jesse raced against Alex.
After that, we went up to the movie theater and watched a movie about wind turbines. I wasn’t a fan; the movie blows. 😛
Next, we had a fish/bug/sea creature-catching competition. I learned from last night that diving is the best way to go. So I put my wet suit on and hopped into the ocean. By the time the ten minutes was up, I caught one fish and 20 sea creatures…I actually won!
But I lucked out that Timo didn’t participate; Timo is always really good at these things.
We went to the shop to sell our catches, and I tried on a new hat while I was there. Even though it was plenty big enough, it still pinched my head.
Feeling cute, might delete later.
We hung out in Logan’s house for a while, and then Jj left. The rest of us went outside and took a group photo.
Shortly after that, Nami joined in. We visited Logan’s 2nd house (which belongs to Luigi), and then we played some museum tag. But after a couple rounds, somebody disconnected, and Logan ended the party.
When I returned to Forest, Apollo asked for a new greeting. I told him to say “It’s showtime!”
Wisp was in town, so I gathered up his spirits in return for a lawn chair. And before I shut off the game for the night, I finally picked up my Festivale stages and put them in storage. Without the ability to use them as colored spotlights during K.K. shows, I have no need for them now. 😛
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!
It was raining in town yesterday, and Midge wondered if we’d see a rainbow!
That’s something I haven’t even thought about much. I don’t think I’ve seen a rainbow in New Horizons yet, and they’re generally pretty rare throughout the series. It kept raining into the night though, so my rainbow-less streak continues. 😛
Hornsby was in an unusually bad mood; he was really upset. I’ve never seen him in such a dark place before.
I hate seeing my buddy so sad. 🙁 Even if he was only feeling so bad because he couldn’t find his jar of jam.
I’m wondering if the recent update added new dialogue. Because lately, I’ve been seeing a number of things I don’t recall seeing before.
Redd was in town, and he had a real wistful painting, a fake scary painting, a sinking painting that looked real, and a wild painting left half that I wasn’t sure about. Since I already had the two real ones in the museum, I took a chance on the wild painting.
Xavier came over last night for a test run on the obstacle course. We discovered that during online play, it is possible to come out of the same warp pipe that you went into (at least if multiple people are using pipes at the same time).
I have three pipes, let’s call them A, B, and C. Xavier went into pipe A and came out pipe C. I went into pipe B, and came out of pipe B. I’m guessing the game determined we would both come out of pipe C, but since C was occupied, it sent me back to B. However, I don’t think it’ll be a problem during races, because everyone will be going into pipe C and coming out A or B. So two pipes won’t be in use at the same time.
Today, I received my wild painting left half from Redd in the mail. Unfortunately, Blathers informed me that it was a fake.
I listened in on a conversation between Louie and Tia. Apparently, Louie called her “Miss Tia,” and Tia said it made her feel like a teacher. 😛
Tia responded that maybe she should call Louie, “Mr. Louie.” But Louie said he’d rather be called “Boss,” so he could feel like he’s in charge of something. 😛 It was a cute conversation.
Flick was in town, so I grabbed some insects out of storage and sold him over 150,000 bells worth of bugs.
It was raining again today, so I postponed my initial obstacle course race. I’ll try again tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully Mother Nature will provide some (Super Mario) Sunshine for the race. 🙂 If all goes well, I might even post my video of the race tomorrow evening.
But my anniversary party will be held tomorrow night regardless of weather. Anyone on my friend roster can come at 9 p.m. Eastern time.
