The first fireworks festival of the season was held today. Beth is five hours ahead of me, so she invited me over to her town Acorn to see them. While I was there, Isabelle gave me a flower bopper to wear.
Beth also showed me her new suspension bridge, which she just paid off the other day.
She also gave me a fortune cookie from Crazy Redd; it contained a crackle prize. I went over to Redd’s tent to redeem it, and he gave me an Ultra Hand. That came in handy, because I actually gave Beth an Ultra Hand a while back to put in Buster’s room in the town of Arrested. So I can put this one back in storage.
Shortly after that, Beth kicked me out. Back in Forest, the animals were looking forward to the fireworks.
Once 7:00 rolled around, I headed over to the event plaza. Isabelle gave me a fountain firework.
I stood on my bridge to watch fireworks for a bit, including the firework of my CLE pattern that I gave Isabelle earlier in the day.
I was having a good evening, but it got better when I saw Phineas in town! All this relentless bug-catching lately has paid off! He gave me the Master Bug Catcher badge! Phine-ally!
It’s my 17th gold badge, and I only need seven more. My current badge collection looks like this:
I didn’t get the fishing badge yet, but it was more important to get the Master Bug Catcher one before most of the insects go away in the autumn. Fish are plentiful year-round, so that wasn’t as urgent to get done. But hopefully I’ll get it soon too.
Several of my villagers were out enjoying the fireworks tonight. Although Rolf’s worried expression didn’t seem to match his words. Maybe fireworks scare him, and he just doesn’t want to admit it.
Luna told me that Chad from Haven was my most recent dream visitor. Thanks for stopping by!
And just a reminder that the New Leaf update is coming at some point this autumn. No specific release date yet, but you will be able to use Amiibo Cards to invite villagers into your town. If you’d like to stock up on cards, here are Amazon links for each series:
Series 1 – Series 2 – Series 3 – Series 4
Update: There is one other thing I want to mention. Instead of having Friday Night Forest this coming Friday, I’m going to be opening my gate next Sunday (August 14th) for fireworks, probably around 8:00 p.m. Eastern time (5 p.m. Pacific time).
Beth also came over to Forest for a short visit. She picked up my toy hammer and started hitting me with it. But the game was laggy, so I was nowhere near her most of the times my head reacted with the shocked emotion. I wasn’t able to get a picture that showed it as well as I hoped, but this one shows my eyes reacting to a hit even though Beth was facing the opposite direction.
Gulliver was down on the beach, so I used the megaphone to wake him up right away. He was talking about the Cossack dance and matryoshka dolls, so I knew he was headed to Russia. My seagull comrade will be sending me some of those dolls in the mail tomorrow.
I bought the pickles, since recycling and being green is good for the environment. But I didn’t stop there: I took the pickle jar to Cyrus and had him customize it for me. That’s right, I’m turning Agent S’s unwanted pickle into a carrot! Orange you glad I’m getting to the root of the problem? Or maybe you just don’t carrot all.
Saharah was also in town tonight, and I paid her for some new wallpaper and carpeting. She put in an industrial wall and a playroom rug. What an odd combination.
When I put some money into my bank account, my balance topped 77 million bells.