Gifts From Isabelle

My first stop today was to talk to Big Top, who was out walking around. He told me he turned 180 degrees in his sleep and woke up on the opposite end of the bed. I’m having trouble picturing an elephant just fitting in a bed, let alone having room to turn completely around.

Big Top: I woke up this morning, and my pillow was at my feet! I did a complete 180 in my sleep!I then went into the Re-Tail store and saw that they had a metal guitar. I bought it.

Reese: Oh, the metal guitar? This item belongs to Tex from here in Forest.Outside, Yuka was dropping hints that she wanted me to write her a letter. She then compared Pete, the letter carrier, to a matchmaker. Uh, no. No. No. No. Don’t get any ideas, Yuka. I don’t like you in that way. Or in any way.

Yuka: In a weird way, he's like the town matchmaker...I quickly ran away from Yucky Yuka. I’d rather go to work than talk to her! So I went to town hall and talked to my assistant Isabelle. I decided to change my town tune to The Final Countdown. Animal Crossing: New Leaf comes out one month from today (in America at least), and I know a lot of you are counting down to that. I’m also counting down to the 4th season of Arrested Development, which will be available on Netflix later this month. If anyone wants the notes to The Final Countdown, enter BAB-e–zCBCBA-zz.

Isabelle: Oh my! What a wonderful theme! It's like...music to my ears! Literally!I continued talking to Isabelle, listening to all her tips for living in Forest. She then asked me to get a seashell for her.

Isabelle: If you happen to go down to the beach and remember that, it would be a nice thing to do...for me.The way she was talking, it almost seemed like she had a crush on me. But when I came back with a shell for her, she thanked me by giving me three cherries from her hometown. I planted them near my house.

Isabelle: My mom recently sent me a box with a cherry. Actually, she sent 3!Her mother sent them to her, and told her to share…because that’s what good puppies do. That sentence left me rather speechless. So she’s a good puppy? Am I supposed to give her a treat now or something?

Isabelle: And she specifically told me I should share them with people because that's what good puppies do.After finishing up listening to her tips, she gave me a watering can. That was nice.

Isabelle: It's a watering can that you can use to water flowers here in town!However, I’m probably not going to be doing a lot of watering. In Animal Crossing games, flowers are not a priority–at least not at first. For now, I have projects to fund, a house to expand, ugly animals to evict, and so on. (Just kidding about the evictions). I’ll deal with flowers later on. For now, I want to be able to run around town and get stuff done.

Anyway, I headed over to Nookling Junction for my fortune cookie. I knew which item I’d be getting after reading this fortune.

It's dangerous to go alone. Take this. (#35)The Master Sword, of course!

Timmy: Ah, congratulations! The prize for Number 35 is great--a Master Sword!You know, in previous Animal Crossing games, the Nintendo items like this were relatively rare and didn’t come along very often. But in just a week, I’ve already got the Mario Kart kart, a green shell, the Master Sword, and two masks of characters from Zelda games.

I have to wonder, are these things too easy to come by? I guess it depends on how many of these Nintendo items are in the game, but it seems odd to be getting a Nintendo item practically every day–and without spending a bell too. But for now, I’m not complaining. I just realized I’m going to need a dresser for storage though…

My battery was about to die at this point, so I stopped playing for now. I might go back and play some more later to try to earn some bells. I’d like to pay off my bridge and then get started on some other community projects. Well, bye for now. See you soon!

UPDATE: After my 3DS was done charging, I went back to Forest for some nighttime fun. I took the boat to the island, and caught some new bugs and fish.

I caught a ribbon eel! Good for tying on to presents!While diving, I also pulled up some seaweed.

I got some seaweed! I just couldn't kelp myself!I then decided to try another one of the Tortimer tours. This time, I did the dragonfly one. You have five minutes to catch as many dragonflies as you can. I caught five, which earned me a Silver Tortimer award (whatever that means) and four medals.

Tortimer: That's enough to net you a Silver Tortimer award and 4 medals!The tours always seem to take place in the daylight, even though it was after 11 p.m. when I played. I’m not exactly sure how that works, but oh well.

After that, I returned to Forest; I donated my new catches and sold the rest. I paid 70,000 bells towards my bridge; it still needs about 58,000 bells before it’s paid off. I also tried out my watering can. The flowers glisten after being watered to let you know they’ve been watered. But the surprising thing, at least to me, is that they keep glistening! I watered some before I left for the island, and they were still shining when I got back. Okay that’s all for tonight, see you tomorrow!

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