It was raining again today in Forest. And unfortunately, I’m starting to notice some grass wear around town. It’s not bad (yet), but there are spots where it’s quite noticeable.
Benedict was out in the rain, talking about eating creamed corn. I guess that makes sense.
Katt was also outside. When I spoke to her, she gave me a free rock guitar, no questions asked.
And then I saw someone I hoped to never see again: Katie.
The whole “lost kitten” routine from City Folk was something I really hated. It was novel the first time, but when Katie kept appearing week after week, I began to detest her. I didn’t want to have to do that routine again in New Leaf. And thankfully, she said that this time, she’s not lost! She said she’s on an adventure, traveling to different towns on her own. What a relief!
But that feeling of relief didn’t last long, because she still asked me to take her to another town!
I wasn’t planning on using Wi-Fi today, so I brushed her off. It’s good that she doesn’t need to go to a specific town in New Leaf (like she did in City Folk), but her presence still annoys me.
I then met up with Rory, and he told me he prefers dampness from sweat over dampness from rain. I’m afraid I can’t agree with that statement.
After finding my fossils and money rock, I headed up to Main Street. I gave Shrunk a cherry and he taught me the showmanship emotion.
And on the other side of the shopping district, I saw some new construction around the Able Sisters! Oooh, I think this means I’m getting Shampoodle soon!
I quit playing at that point, but I returned later on. I found Gulliver on the beach, and he’s going to send me an item from Germany tomorrow. I’ll be back with more then.
In the top-left corner of Forest, I saw a dig spot. There’s where I had buried Big Top’s time capsule, but the “X” spot wasn’t there the last time I looked. I wasn’t sure if this was something else, or if it meant the time capsule was ready to be unearthed. But I dug it up, and it was indeed the time capsule. It had a letter and an item inside–a vertigo shirt. But I got the feeling I wasn’t supposed to have done that… So I returned to Big Top.
He didn’t seem bothered that I dug it up. However…
Oh. Crap. I definitely wasn’t supposed to open it myself. And elephants never forget. Sorry, Big Top. I hope this hasn’t hurt our friendship permanently. I talked to him again to see if there was an option to give him the vertigo shirt; there wasn’t. However, he offered to give me a garbage pail for it.
Even though I wasn’t in the mood for jokes, I headed over to Club LOL. But that worked out fine, because Shrunk’s jokes aren’t funny. He did however, teach me the laughter emotion. It’s the most useful of all emotions, in my opinion, so I’m glad to have it.
Back in town, Tex offered me a wistful painting! Of course he wanted 7,056 bells for it, but that’s worth it if it’s a real painting!
I took it to the museum and donated it. It was indeed real!
Wendy’s house is right by the cliff overlooking the ocean. She wanted to see me jump off from there into the water, so I did.
And we both showed off our frogs that we caught earlier.
After I was done looking around her town, we headed over to Forest. I opened my gate and Wendy came over, as did Dash. We went into Kicks, and I was having a little too much fun with my sneezing emotion. It makes juicy sneezes!
Next, we headed over to Club LOL for some dancing. Nick also came over to visit, so he joined in too.
At one point, I was jokingly telling K.K. “more steam!” and right on cue, more steam came out.
After we were done, we went to my house for a bit. Dash called me outside. He was trying to pitfall me, but I didn’t fall for it. He did catch a blue Pikmin named Nick, though.
Before long, we went out to the island. Everyone got their rental wet suits on and we went swimming. At one point, Wendy and Dash kept getting stung by jellyfish. It was pretty funny.
And Nick pointed out that he was a blue Pikmin, swimming. (Blue Pikmin are the only ones that don’t drown in water).
This was my first time doing this game, and it was pretty fun.
We smacked it 202 times.
And our last event of the night was a dragonfly-catching tour, which Wendy won.
After everyone collected their island catches from the basket and sold what they needed to sell, I ended the party. I definitely had a good time tonight.
When I went into the museum to get my fossils identified, Blathers was deep in thought once again. I asked him what was wrong, and he said it was about his friend Brewster. He said Brewster was a master brewer that didn’t have a place to open up a coffee shop. But he remembered that I was the mayor, and he made sure a cafe was added to the list of available town projects.
Next, I headed over to Club LOL to get another emotion. This time, Shrunk taught me the sneezing emotion. The sneezes you can perform are nice and juicy.
Then, at 8:00, I opened my gate to visitors for the first time. Chris, Taylor, and Peyton came over to visit. We went into Club LOL to do some dancing.
After everyone did a little shopping, we headed over to my house.
As Taylor burned to a crisp, I couldn’t help but point out how annoying it is to have to use the touch screen to type, as opposed to using a USB keyboard in City Folk. It’s so much harder to communicate this way.
And not only that, but the question mark is hidden away on page two of the symbols page. It should be easier to access. Also, I must say I hate how messages are only displayed for about five seconds, as opposed to 30 seconds in City Folk. If someone types a message as you start going through a door, forget about it. It will be gone before you come out the other side.
We then took a trip to the island.
Everyone got rental wet suits so we could all swim. I had to laugh as I witnessed Peyton getting stung by a jellyfish.
We started to do an island tour to catch dragonflies, but we got disconnected as soon as the tour started. So I reopened my gate. Chris and Taylor returned, but Peyton didn’t come back. Instead, Dash came over to visit.
Once again, we headed out to the island for a dragonfly tour. This time, we didn’t get disconnected. But I didn’t do very well, I could hardly find any at all!
After that, we did an easy hide-and-seek tour. On the way, I saw an unusual fruit, so I shook the tree to see what it was. It’s a lychee.
And I spotted a new animal, Ken–an unusual-looking black and purple rooster.
But the hide-and-seek games were very easy and quick. We earned 7 medals each for the easy one and 9 medals each for the regular one. And I just had to take a picture of a windmill I saw while in the game area.
We stopped in Yuka’s house to say goodbye to her. Although she’s not packed yet, so she’ll still be in town tomorrow too.
Chris left around 9:45 and Joey came in to replace him. We went in for a quick dance at Club LOL.
I then ended the party at 10:00. I went over to town hall to see how much the cafe would cost; it’s 298,000 bells. Yikes.
I chose a spot for it (near the center of town) and paid almost half of the amount due.
At this point, I was done in Forest for the night. But I wanted to make a stop at my friend Wendy’s town. But as much as I tried over and over again, I kept getting error message 018-0512. Wendy and I both tried restarting our routers, turned off other Wi-Fi devices, and tried everything we could think of…but still, no luck.