First Rainbow

It was raining in town when I first started up the game. But fortunately, the rain went away, and the sun came out. And with it, a rainbow also appeared! It’s the first rainbow I’ve seen in New Leaf (I still have yet to see one in City Folk).

A rainbow appears over the fountain in my New Leaf town.Here’s a look at the rainbow from up on Main Street:

The rainbow as seen from the bench on Main Street.Up at Re-Tail, I had Cyrus modify my LED display again. I wanted to see how it looks with a pattern instead of the leaves. I used my JVGS logo; it looks alright.

My LED display, showing my JVGS logo pattern.Tabby approached me with a petition. She wanted six out-of-town signatures to outlaw “icky stuff.” In hopes that the petition includes Tabby herself, I agreed to help.

Tabby: I need signatures from folks in other towns for my petition... No More, Like, Icky Stuff!Katt came up to me and wanted me to get some furniture for her. So I gave her the crappiest thing I had in my pockets, a darner dragonfly.

Katt: A darner dragonfly?! As a decoration? Well...I guess so...I worked a shift at the cafe, and I did pretty good today. I got three customers’ orders perfect (including Queenie from out-of-town), and had the other customer’s order partially correct. So I ended up getting some superb coffee beans for my work.

Queenie: Thanks, Jeff! I'll definitely be back for more of this.Benedict asked me to come over to his house, and he made me schedule a time. I chose 4:30. By the time I remembered about him, it was 4:42. But fortunately, he was still in his house waiting.

Benedict: Yay, you're here! I've been waiting ever so patiently, J-bot!I made myself comfortable.

Lying on Benedict's lawn chair in his house.Eventually I got tired of Benedict not doing anything and I left. He asked how I liked his house, and I told him I liked it a lot. It is really nice, especially for summer. Nice backyard theme, with a crack shaved-ice machine, a barbecue, a pool, and so on.

When I went back outside, I heard balloon present and saw a big shadow on the ground! Attached to three gold balloons was a golden slingshot!

A golden slingshots floats overhead on three gold balloons!I shot it, but only popped two of the three balloons. Because a house was in the way, it continued to fly, but vertically. I easily shot it again to finish it off and grab my new fancy slingshot.

I got a golden slingshot! I can shoot three pellets at once!Tex wanted me to deliver something to Benedict, so once again, I headed back to find the red rooster. The package contained a grape shirt, which Benedict tried on.

Benedict, wearing a grape shirt: What do you think? Do I look good or what?I told him it looked “okay.” He got offended and said that I should have it instead, so he gave it to me.

Molly found me and asked if I wanted to buy a classic clock or something. I declined, so she gave it to me for free since I’ve been “good to her.” How nice.

Molly: Great! I'm happy if you're happy, Jeff!When I took a couple peaches to Shrunk at Club LOL, he taught me the sunniness emotion.

Using the sunniness emotion inside Club LOL.Later on tonight, I opened my gate to let Dash buy a fortune cookie. Wendy and Ben also stopped over. But I was having serious connection problems and we kept getting disconnected. Constantly. I managed to save one picture from the extremely short gathering.

Me and two visitors using emotions.Eventually, I gave up and decided to try to fix my connection problems. I followed the instructions on Nintendo’s site and started over from scratch. The only real change was that it un-did the “fix” (manually assigning an IP address to my 3DS) that worked for me a few weeks ago. To test it out, Wendy opened her gate. Surprisingly, we didn’t get disconnected. So I started asking her villagers for signatures for Tabby’s petition.

Miranda: Well, there's my signature. I just can't believe how far you traveled for No More, Like, Icky Stuff.And she showed me her newest project, the illuminated heart. It looks better than I thought it would, especially with the way it flashes.

Animated GIF of the illuminated heart PWP in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.I also liked her bridge right at the top of the waterfall. That’s where I want to put my third bridge when I eventually get one. You can also see her heart from here.

Wendy's bridge atop the waterfall, with her illuminated heart in the distance.I finished getting the signatures I needed, and then (after saving), we hung out a little longer before she ended the session.

Petition signatures for No More, Like, Icky Stuff: Miranda, Angus, Kabuki, Colton, Pango, Mira.But I wasn’t done just yet. Later on, I opened my gate again. Wendy, Annissa, and Aaron came over to visit.

Wendy, Annissa, Aaron, and me hanging out on my bridge.We found Tabby and smacked her around some.

Smacking Tabby with toy hammers.I also “accidentally” whacked Wendy in the face a few dozen times.

Smacking Wendy in the face with a toy hammer. She deserved it.We went to the cafe for some coffee, some laughs, and some sneezes.

Hanging out in the Roost.After that, we went to the island to do a few tours. The balloon hunting tour was littered with pitfall seeds. Very annoying.

Jeff struggling to get out of a pitfall on a balloon-popping island tour.But I actually won that tour! I rarely win any of these things. 😛

Tortimer: Jeff gets 6 medals, Annissa gets 4 medals.We also did a scavenger hunt tour and a fishing tour. I finished 2nd to Annissa in the scavenger hunt, and I came in dead last at the fishing tour.

After that, we returned to Forest and I ended the multiplayer session for the night. It was a lot of fun today, so thanks to everyone who visited Forest (and everyone who tried to, but couldn’t get in or got disconnected). Hopefully my connection will be more reliable for a while now.