Winter Arrives & Aika Returns

As of Sunday, snow now covers the ground in Forest. Snowballs also started appearing, although I didn’t attempt to build any snowmen on the first day.

I had a chat with my newest neighbor Lily, and she told me both of her Toy Day clues. I know she wants pink clothes for the holiday.

On Monday, I bought the Santa beard at Able Sisters. I just need the jacket now and I’ll be all Santa’d up.

The northern lights were on display up in the sky, so I took a picture from my western bridge.

I finally started up a game of Desert Island Escape using my in-game Wii U console. You can use Amiibo cards to select your three animals, or you choose from the villagers in your town. But if you do choose from your existing villagers, you have to pay 2 Play Coins for each one! I decided to use the cards for now; I went with the same trio I used most often on the Wii U version: Goldie, Stitches, and Rosie.

The object of the game is to escape off of a desert island by building a raft from a sail and three logs that will be scattered across the island. Along the way, you may fight enemies, make tools, catch fish, and more. Make sure you don’t run out of food! For a more detailed description of how the game plays, see this blog entry about the Wii U version.

Since I’m already familiar with the game, I had no problem completing the first few levels. Just like the version in Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival, it’s an enjoyable game that will provide hours of fun.

When I had a chat with Hamlet afterwards, he told me he was moving out of town on December 22nd. That’s a week from tomorrow. Carson recently asked me about Hamlet, so please let me know if you’re still interested. You will need to have a vacancy in your town on the 22nd, of course. Or if anyone else wants to be a backup in case Carson can’t take Hamlet for whatever reason, let me know.

Last night, it was snowing in town…and I caught a coelacanth!

After depositing some money into my bank account, my balance topped 86 million bells.

Today, Flandre informed me that Aika Village is now back online with a new dream address. (Update: 2D00-002A-49A0 is the newest version). Many people (including me) had assumed that the town was lost forever in the dream purge of November 2016. But I’m glad to see it’s back!

Of course I had to check it out once again, and I finally got a picture of the room where the eyes look at you if you turn the camera around. I missed that part when I originally wrote up my Dream Suite Adventure of the town, and lots of people let me know about it. 😛

I also found out that another town I’ve featured before, Shamrock, has also been brought back to life with a new dream address (6E00-0026-F069). A lot has changed in Shamrock: It’s winter there, and the mayor has changed the paths to snow-covered patterns that don’t feature all the shamrocks and pots of gold that it had before. I imagine he will change it back once the snow melts, but time will tell.

I also noticed that the player houses are very different as well, although the Irish pub looks even better than ever. It’s still a great town, but I must admit I liked it better when everything was green. Still, it’s good to have another great dream town back online!

There was a meteor shower in Forest tonight, and I sat on my metal bench to enjoy some of the shooting stars. And of course, my illuminated tree looks especially good this time of year.

I decided to change my path back to my winter usual, the icy brick pattern. Hopefully, visitors will remember to wear non-slip shoes. 😉

I managed to build a perfect snowmam tonight, next to an accidental snowboy I made last night. I can now exchange three snowflakes for a piece of ice furniture. It’s a great way to make money in winter.

Camofrog asked me to catch a bitterling for him, so I did a little fishing in the river. It took me a few minutes, but I caught what he wanted. When I took it back to him, he rewarded me with a frog costume!

I’m expecting to receive a pack of Welcome Amiibo cards in the mail any day now. So check back soon to see which cards I get.

And if you haven’t seen my parody of Amiibo cards, check out Amiibo Placebo over on Blah Games. Hopefully it’ll make you laugh. 🙂

Luna told me my recent dream visitors have been Adaline from Willow, BlueHour from Twilight, and Jelly from Roses. Thanks for visiting! 🙂