Katie’s Pic

Even though Katie didn’t get on the train with me yesterday, she still sent me a letter today. She said she hopped on the next train and she thanked me anyway. Along with the letter, she attached her picture.

Katie's picture, next to K.K.'s pic on my fireplace.A few days ago, I realized I haven’t been getting the gem rock in a while. Then it hit me: When I got my golden shovel, I started using that instead of the silver shovel. And you need the silver shovel if you want gem rocks, so I put the gold one in storage and started using the silver one again. It paid off today, as I got my first gem rock in quite a while.

Lots of ore from the gem rock.Since the gem rock gave me two gold nuggets, I also grabbed one out of storage so that Cyrus could make me a piece of golden furniture. But Molly saw my gold nuggets and wanted to trade a shirt for one. Sorry Molly, but no.

Molly: You could have my three-ball tee in return! How about it? Will you trade?After giving my nuggets to Cyrus, I watered flowers around town. I also built a snowboy, and he was perfect this time.

Snowboy: This head! This body! This is exactly the perfect balance I love!When the time came, I returned to Re-Tail. Cyrus turned my nuggets into a golden woman. I already had a golden woman, but thanks anyway.

Take home the golden woman?I spoke with Agent S, and she said she was trying out some new makeup techniques. I don’t think anyone can tell the difference when she’s always wearing that helmet of hers.

Agent S: Recently I thought I'd try out some crazy makeup techniques. You know, just for fun?Later on, I saw that Tiffiny was opening her gate for some tours. So I headed over to her town Auctus, and it’s looking great as always.

Tiffiny's beautiful town of Auctus.Julio and Alex were also there. I love how she has the windmill behind the bench like this.

A windmill behind the bench in Tiffiny's town.Once we got to the island, we did a bunch of tours, including a few bug-catching ones.

Celebrating a successful island tour.We also did an elite balloon hunt, better known as a falling-in-pitfalls tour.

Falling into pitfalls on a balloon tour.I did pretty bad in the tours overall, especially the bug ones. The only tour I did well at was the ancient fish encoun-tour, where I tied with Tiffiny for first place. After several tours, I guess someone had to leave and they disconnected instead of returning to shore and leaving through the gate.

When I got back to Forest, I noticed the northern lights overhead. So I took a few pictures of them from various spots around town.

The northern lights as seen from Main Street.The northern lights behind a house.The northern lights as seen from Forest's central park.