I Just Want to Bang on the Drum All Day

As expected, I got a letter from Gulliver in the mail today. He was in France, and he sent me a model of the Eiffel Tower. I’ll include a picture later on in this blog entry.

As I started my walk around town, I saw one of my favorite villagers, Big Top. He was talking about how much he loves peaches. In fact, he couldn’t stop drooling, just thinking about them.

Big Top: I love them so much, I'm drooling just thinking about them! Actually, all this drooling is getting gross.He asked me to find one for him. Since peaches are my town fruit, that was an easy thing to do.

Big Top: Will you get me a peach so I don't flood the town with my drool?I took one to him and he thanked me by giving me a lovely love seat. How lovely.

I then spotted Katrina’s tent, so I went inside to have my fortune told. Katrina was talking about the fall harvest festival, and said that blue gym shorts were the key to good fortune upon health.

Katrina, telling me my lucky item: Blue gym shorts...I have no idea what that means, aside from the fact that I’m supposed to wear blue gym shorts. How could it possibly be related to the harvest festival, which is more than five months away? I’m so confused. Well, I didn’t have any blue gym shorts regardless, so it’s a moot point.

After leaving the tent, I saw my newest villager, Molly. She asked to come to my house. Sure thing, ducky.

Molly: I know this is sudden, but would you mind if I came over to your house for a visit? Right now?So we went to my house, and she seemed to enjoy it. Don’t be fooled by the following picture, it’s not the mystic statue talking to me.

Molly, standing behind a mystic statue: My, my! What a great vibe you've got here! Your whole place is just filled with personality.She then asked about the rest of my house, so I took her upstairs. My upstairs room is small and doesn’t have much in it. She wasn’t a fan of this room.

Molly: ...Hmm? I thought something felt off. You're missing all the basic furniture.After going back downstairs, she said it was time for her to go. She didn’t stick around as long as Aurora did the last time I had a visitor over.

Anyway, I went back outside and found my money rock and four fossils. So it was time for my daily trip to Main Street. In Club LOL, Shrunk taught me the sorrow (crying) emotion.

Shrunk, teaching me the sorrow emotion: WAAAAAAAAH!And after collecting my 5,000 bells for updating my dream town, I had enough money to finish off my house payment! And this time, I actually had a choice. I could get more space (which would presumably make my upstairs bigger) or I could add another room. I opted for a new room.

But then I had another choice to make: I could add a room to the left of my main room, to the right, to the back, or I could add a basement. At first, I was going to add a basement, but I saw it would cost 428,000 bells…ouch. So I backed out to see how much a back room would cost: 348,000 bells. That’s a little better, so I went with that.

Tom Nook: Your loan will come to a total of 348,000 bells. This is perfectly acceptable, yes?In Super T&T, there was an LED display available. The stars would scroll across the screen and it looked pretty cool, so I bought it.

Timmy: Ah, an LED display! A fine item, yes?And in the museum, I thought of a good use for my exhibit room: Gulliver items! Even though I still have my balloon furniture in there too (for now), I think a collection of Gulliver’s items from around the world would be perfect for a museum exhibit!

My museum exhibit of Gulliver items from around the world.I actually had to re-order my tribal mask from my catalog since I sold my original, but that’s okay. After that, I headed back to town.

I found a lost item on the ground, so I had to go around asking everyone if it belonged to them. To be honest, this part of the game is a bit annoying. After asking almost everyone, I finally found out it belonged to Katt. As thanks, she gave me a bucket. I was overflowing with joy.

Katt: Take my bucket as thanks!But while I was in Katt’s house, I noticed she had a drum set. So I banged on her drums for a while. Musical instruments are a bit different in New Leaf; they don’t play the whole town tune like they did in previous games. They just play one note. So you have to keep mashing on the A button if you want to make some noise music.

But an interesting thing happened after I was done playing her drums: She started applauding me! That was pretty cool, and I really like the fact that New Leaf has details like this.

Katt applauds me after I bang on her drums.My last stop of the day was a return home. I put up the LED display in my house. I was hoping there was a way to customize a message that could scroll across, but apparently there isn’t. A bit disappointing, but it still looks pretty cool.

My LED display shows some stars.

I know a lot of you will be getting the game this weekend, so I hope you have a great time with it! And remember to check out my face guide to get you started with a face that you like! I’ll see you all tomorrow with another update!