4th Fashion Check Passed

I got a letter from the Happy Home Academy in the mail today, congratulating me for scoring 70,000 HHA points. They sent me a gold HHA plaque to celebrate the achievement. I put it in my trophy room on the second floor of the museum.

My new gold HHA plaque from the Happy Homes Academy.I customized my first piece of modern furniture with emeralds. I’ll use my back room for this set, since it’s the only room of mine that doesn’t have a real theme so far.

My modern end table customized with emeralds.While I was out watering flowers, I saw a lost mitten on the ground near by zen bell (and on the cliff above my private beach).

A lost item (a mitten) on the ground near my zen bell.And over at the event plaza, I spotted Gracie! The theme for this fashion check was rock ‘n’ roll! I can do that!

Gracie, telling me the theme of this fashion check: Rock 'n' roll, you troublemaker!I found out that the lost item belonged to Aurora. She rewarded me with a jungle-camo shirt. (Why not your picture?)

Aurora: It's half of my favorite pair of mittens, so I'm awfully glad you found it!I then went up to Main Street, and saw that Ethan from Habitat was my most recent dream visitor. Hi, Ethan!

Fashion Check Time!

When I was done with my shopping run, I returned home to get my rock ‘n’ roll clothes on. I wore my skull tee, arctic-camo pants, lace-up boots, and skull mask.

Me wearing a skull tee, an arctic-camo pants, lace-up boots, and skull mask.I passed Gracie’s fashion check!

Gracie: I suppose you did your best, honey. And for that, I'll be kind enough to let you pass for today!That was my fourth passed fashion check, so I have now met all of the requirements for T&T Emporium! It, along with Gracie’s boutique, will be opening soon! 🙂

Gracie: And I think I'm going to open a new boutique right here in town! Now, don't go getting all emotional.She also gave me this flan tank as a reward for passing today’s fashion check.

Trying on the flan tank from Gracie.I’m really glad to have my four fashion checks out of the way. I had been dreading them for a long time, although they’re not bad once you plan in advance with all of the clothes of each style. I’m just glad she didn’t ask for modern clothes today; that’s the one style I was not prepared for.

Golden Roof & DLC Day

When I started up the game today, Pete was at my door with a letter from Nintendo. This shogi piece was attached to the letter.

A shogi piece on display in my golden room.But that wasn’t the only DLC available today. If you go to a Nintendo Zone location, you can also get this sushi platter.

Sushi platter DLC: 1,680 bells.Both items can be re-ordered from the catalog.

Tom Nook has installed the golden roof on my house. Unfortunately, it just looks like golden tiles, as opposed to the solid gold I was envisioning. 😛 It’s okay, but I’ll probably change from the golden roof back to the astro roof when I get the chance.

The golden roof on my otherwise astro themed house.When I went to the Roost, I saw Kapp’n enjoying a coffee. He told me that inside, he’s really an awful tyrant.

Kapp'n: Aye, I can be sweet and such, but in me heart I be an awful tyrant. Least me wife and girl love me.I worked my normal shift, and Tucker came in for coffee. That is one ugly elephant; he makes me glad that I have Big Top in town.

Tucker: Coffee, please! Make it a mocha!I checked out a StreetPass home I got at the Happy Homes Showcase, and it had some modern furniture that was customized with sapphires. It looked really nice. I’m going to try to get some modern furniture and customize it with emeralds, if I can.

Modern furniture customized with sapphires that I saw in a StreetPass home.Over by town hall, I listened in a conversation between Rolf and Skye.

Rolf: Hmm? Skye! You've...got something on your face!Rolf was convincing Skye she had something on her face, and when she falls for it, he says it was just her nose.

Rolf: ...Oh, what's this? Now that I look a little closer, it's just your nose! GAHAHA!With my house fully paid off, it was time for me to add a new public works project. So I went inside town hall and looked at the options. I decided to remodel my train station.

Modern train station reconstruction: 498,000 bells.I think this is the one that people refer to as the modern train station, even though it doesn’t actually have a name.

Molly asked me to make a delivery to Benedict. So I took him the package and he rewarded me with a lychee. That’s an unusual gift.

Benedict: You must be hungry, right? Then here, have a lychee!Before I finished up my day in Forest, I made one last stop at Nook Homes. I decided to cancel my theme challenge (which judges both the outside and inside of your house) and go back to the indoor-only scoring. I still need some of the regular HHA awards, so I’ll try to get those first before switching back to the theme challenges.

Lyle: Listen. Quit your theme challenge now...and I gotta bump ya down to our interior-only service... Got it?My latest dream visitor today was lillylei from GigVille. So if you’re reading this, hello lillylei!

One last note: Happy birthday, Beth!

Explorer’s Day

Happy Explorer’s Day! I’ll get to the festivities in a minute. But first, I got a letter in the mail from the Happy Home Academy today. They congratulated me on scoring over 300,000 points in the theme challenge, so they have a special home-exterior part for me.

I went up to the HHA to see what the part was, and Lyle told me it’s a golden roof. I don’t necessarily think it will look good with my astro exterior, but I decided to give it a try anyway to see what it looks like. It will be done tomorrow.

Lyle: You'd like to place an order for the golden roof. Bang.A letter from Big Top was also in my mailbox. He thanked me for letting him visit my house yesterday, and he also sent me this sconce to hang on my wall.

I hang a sconce on the wall of my house.Explorer’s Day

For Explorer’s Day (also known as Columbus Day), Isabelle was handing out sailboat models at the event plaza.

Isabelle: It's a sailboat model! With it, you can really get into the excitement of Explorer's Day!There was also a special Explorer’s Day face-cutout standee at the plaza. Oh, I think I’m getting seasick.

Me looking seasick on the ship shown on the face-cutout standee for Explorer'r Day.Back at my house, I took a look at the sailboat model.

The sailboat model I received on Explorer's Day. I watered my flowers and then headed up to Main Street. I updated my dream at the Dream Suite, where Luna told me that Lori from Olympus recently enjoyed my dream town. Hi Lori!

Luna: According to the latest feedback, a client named Lori from Olympus enjoyed your dream.In Able Sisters, I saw Gabi standing next to Canberra. They were just standing there, looking guilty.

Canberra and Gabi standing next to each other in Able Sisters, looking guilty.I actually hadn’t seen Gabi on Main Street for a while, so I had been hoping she was gone for good. Not so.