Seeking Saturday

Yesterday, Wishy sent me a podium in the mail. That wasn’t what I wished for. I won’t stand for this!

Gulliver was down on the beach, talking about an island famous for giant heads. He was clearly talking about Easter Island.

Gulliver: It's famous for giant heads carved out of rocks. Ever seen 'em? Some are buried, though.And today, he sent me one of those giant heads–a moai statue–in the mail.

Right outside my house, Aurora pinged me. She told me she was going to move away on the 4th of this month. Wait, what? The 4th of this month was nearly four weeks ago! She meant the 4th of next month, of course, but chalk that up as a mistake by Nintendo. (And yes, my date is set correctly). Regardless, I asked Aurora to stick around.

Aurora: Well, that really resonated with me. So I've decided to move on the 4th of this month.I went to visit Big Top, and I saw that Kabuki was also visiting him. Three’s a party! Apparently.

Big Top: Now that you and Kabuki are here, it's a party, lil top!Kabuki, who seems to be feeling much better now, appreciated the medicine the other day. He thanked me for nursing him back to health.

Kabuki: I was suffering, but you helped me the way my own mother would have!He gave me a rugby tee for my trouble. When I went back outside, Agent S asked me to play a game of hide-and-seek. I had ten minutes to find her, Aurora, and Dizzy.

Agent S: Here are the rules: the three of us here will hide, and you'll have 10 minutes to find us. Got it?I found Agent S almost immediately.

Agent S: Well, good for you. I guess I'll just hide way better next time, up a tree.
This is why you’re not good at hide-and-seek; you keep telling me where you’re going to hide!

With five minutes to go, I spotted Aurora hiding behind my zen bell. Ding dong, you lose.

Aurora hiding behind the zen bell.I then found Dizzy down on the beach, trying to hide behind a palm tree. Elephants just don’t understand.

Dizzy: Darn. I guess you found me. I never thought you'd look here, woo-oo.With everyone found, that meant I had won the game. Agent S rewarded me with my prize: an air conditioner. In winter. Thanks a lot. (Do I look like a penguin?)

Agent S: Either way, you get a victory prize for that, pookie. So here's an air conditioner!I found today’s snowballs, and I was trying to make a new snowmam (since my last one died overnight). However, I started to make the head a bit too big. But instead of shrinking the head, I made the base a bit bigger. Sure, the proportions ended up perfect, but the bigger base meant I made a snowboy instead of a snowmam. Oops.

Snowboy: This head! This body! This is exactly the perfect balance I love!Up at the Dream Suite, Luna told me that Shelby from Petville was my most recent dream visitor. (Jacob from Sea Town was the visitor named when I checked yesterday).

Tomorrow brings the beginning of February! February 25th will bring the melting of the snow, but before that, we have Festivale coming up on the 16th. For more info, check out my Festivale Guide.

Deep Diver

Last night, Rolf told me that people are saying I’m a deep diver. (He also repeated it to a dream visitor of mine). I guess it’s because I’ve been doing a lot of diving lately. Well not the past couple days, but prior to that. Still, “deep diver” isn’t a title you see every day.

Rolf: Hey, you know what people are saying about you lately? that you're kind of a deep diver?This morning, Reese was paying 148 bells for turnips. That was a bit lower than yesterday’s price, so I figured the peak had passed. So I sold all my turnips at this price. (My suspicions were confirmed later in the day, when turnip prices dropped to 55).

Reese: Currently, I'm buying each turnip for 148 bells.When I put my new turnip money into my bank account, my balance topped 33 million bells. I’m approximately one-third of the way to the gold savings badge now.

There was a meteor shower in town tonight, so I wished on a few shooting stars. I also sat on my metal bench and watched them fly by.

Sitting on the bench watching the meteor shower.Dizzy asked me for an apple, so I went to a nearby tree and shook one down for him. He enjoyed the apple and rewarded me with a “fantastic” gift of a bug zapper.

Dizzy: A fantastic piece of fruit deserves a fantastic gift! Here--take my bug zapper!I had a painting to give Sammy, so I dropped it off at his town around 9:30.

Delivering a painting to Sammy.Madisyn invited me over to her town, so I stopped over for a visit. Her friends X and Cedric were also there.

Hanging out with Madisyn and her friends.I had a little snack while I was there; I ate a famous mushroom that I found back in Forest.

Turning into a giant after eating a famous mushroom.Madisyn joked that her villager Olaf was Cedric’s dad. Went he went to visit his anteater of a father, Madisyn trapped him.

Cedric: And I need to go.Cedric had to go though, and Madisyn let him leave. Madisyn joked that X was in her math class, and she was tired of having to solve everything for him. She told him to solve things for himself. 😀

I got my beans out and started spraying them everywhere. X told me he’d prefer not to have giants climbing down any beanstalks into town. I figured that would be Madisyn’s problem, not mine, so I kept tossing beans everywhere. 😀

Me throwing beans everywhere.After a little while, Madisyn had to leave…for pizza! She ditched us for pizza and didn’t even offer us any. Just for that, I hope a bunch of beanstalks grow all over your town! 😛

After she ended the session, I continued my walk around Forest. I found Saharah, and I hired her to put in some new wallpaper and carpet. She installed a shoji screen and a lunar surface.

A shoji screen and lunar surface.The lunar surface is a keeper, and I’m glad I finally got it. I haven’t been as lucky in ACCF, where I still haven’t come across a lunar surface in 6+ years.

Kabuki was sick today, so I bought some medicine for him. It seemed to have an effect on him.

Kabuki flips as he takes his medicine.Agent S asked me to take something to Big Top, so I made the delivery. It turned out to be a mango.

Big Top: It's my mango!In return, he gave me his picture again. I’ll have to have another villager picture giveaway at some point.

Up at the Dream Suite, Luna told me that Lewis from ToonTown was my most recent dream visitor. Thanks for visiting! See you all next time!

Aurora’s Birthday

Pete met me outside my house today, giving me a letter from Nintendo. It says that items from the Japanese version of the game will be available at Nintendo Zone locations. I’ll have to check it out when the time comes.

Dear Jeff, Starting February 1st, we'll be releasing a new item every two weeks that has only been available in the Japanese version.Over by the train station, I noticed that the northern lights were up in the skies above.

The northern lights above my train station.After reading the bulletin board, I saw that today is Aurora’s birthday. So I went in to visit her, and Drago was also there, helping her celebrate.

Aurora: Awww, J bear! You came to celebrate with me? I'm so happy, chilly.I had a customized lovely lamp in my pockets, so I gave it to her as her birthday present. She really seemed to like it.

Aurora: It's a lovely lamp! I've been wanting a gift like this.Back outside, I saw today’s snowballs and I started to push them both towards the plaza. But I lost track of where I left the bigger ball, and I accidentally pushed the small one onto it! I accidentally made a snowmam! Oops! Even though she said I really knew what I was doing (no I didn’t), she was far from perfect–so she requires five snowflakes for ice furniture.

Snowmam: This balance of head and body... It's quite excellent! You really know what you're doing!When I shook one of my perfect peach trees, it died and lost its leaves. That in itself isn’t surprising. But I was surprised to see Dizzy standing right there! What was he doing hiding under the leaves of the tree? Having a snack?

Dizzy's presence revealed by the death of a tree.When I spoke to him, he just started talking about wanting to do chores with his feet. Uhh, that’s kinda gross. Mental note: Do not eat any of Dizzy’s cooking.

Dizzy: It hurt so much I cried, but I still want to learn how to do chores using only my feet.I finished up my night on Main Street, where Luna told me Adina from Serenade was my most recent dream visitor. I’ll see you all next time!