An Unlucky Day 2

It’s Day 2 for me in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. I headed over to Nook Homes to see how much I owed him; the total is 10,000 bells. He needs that money before he can start building my house.

Tom Nook: So the down payment is nothing more than a paltry 10,000 bells.I then headed over to Nookling Junction. I bought another fortune cookie and ate it. My fortune was the same as yesterday’s, #42. I redeemed them both for two pairs of Varia Suit pants. It’s pretty cool that you can get items like this just using play coins, not bells. Definitely helpful when you’re just starting out and don’t have many bells yet.

Tommy: Ah, congratulations! The prize for Number 42 is great--some Varia Suit pants!So I tried on the Varia Suit pants. Uhhhh these don’t look so good on me…

Me wearing the Varia Suit pants.The worst part? I can’t take them off! There’s no option to take your pants off! At least not that I can find! I’ll have to buy some other pants to replace them with, I guess. Until then, I’ll be walking around with spacewoman legs.

In New Leaf, you take pictures by pressing L and R at the same time. Unfortunately, I tend to take pictures by accident when running or when trying to speed up speech bubbles. I’ll have to get out of that habit of pressing them both unless I’m purposely taking a picture.

Anyway, I decided to shake my first tree. Just my luck… BEES! I tried to escape into a nearby house, but Aurora wasn’t home…

Sign: I'm not at home right now. -AuroraNeedless to say, I got stung. On the bright side, you can pick up the beehive after you’re done getting stung. (It sells for 500 bells).

Ow! Ow ow ow... I got stung by bees!After collecting some peaches, I headed back to the store to buy a shovel and a fishing rod. I also checked to see what that item was in the back of the store. A potty? With…handlebars? Whatever floats your boat, man.

Tommy: Ah, a potty! A fine item, yes?I then went around town, looking for places to use my shovel. I ran into Yuka, who promptly insulted my face.

Yuka: Oh, Jeff, I'm sorry about your face. Although...the bee stings do make you look kind of tough.When I went around banging some rocks, one of the rocks shattered!

What's this...? The rock broke apart and something was inside...?There was a ruby inside! Nice!

The ruby that was inside the fake rock.I wanted to see how much the ruby was worth, so I took it to the Re-Tail store and Reese paid me 2,000 bells for it.

Reese: Ooh, a ruby! I can take that item off your hands for 2,000 bells, if that's OK?As I was leaving, Yuka came into the store. She bought something, and then said she was going to go on the internet to see how much it’s really worth.

Yuka: I'm pretty sure I got a good deal... but I must know exactly HOW good. To the internet!Back outside, I dug up my first pitfall seed. Who should get it? Yuka or Gabi? Decisions, decisions…

Look! I dug up a pitfall seed!I headed over to town hall, where Isabelle informed me of my approval rating: 17%. That’s fine by me, because my approval rating of my villagers is also 17%; Aurora is the only villager I like.

Isabelle: Now, according to a preliminary survey, your current approval rating is 17 percent.I then remembered I had a fishing rod, so I headed south to the ocean. I saw my first fish shadow and…wouldn’t you know it? My first fish is a sea bass.

I caught a sea bass! See? A bass!I caught five fish in all: sea bass, sea horse, horse mackerel, rainbow trout, and a zebra turkeyfish. As I returned up north, I saw a piece of land marked off. “This spot reserved for Tex’s new home.” So it tells you which animal is about to move in. That’s a nice feature.

Sign: This spot reserved for Tex's new home. -Nook's HomesMy last task of the evening was a stop at the museum. I donated my five fish and a fossil I dug up, which turned out to be a Peking man.

Blathers: Oh my! Upon examination, it's most certainly a Peking man!And that about wraps it up for today. Just a note though…there may be times I go back and play the game more after I post my blog entry. If anything eventful happens, I may add an update to the blog or possibly even another blog entry. Probably not tonight though, so check back tomorrow for another update.

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