Day: May 7, 2013

I noticed another house going up just south of my own house. Big Top will be moving in tomorrow. I’ve never had Big Top in the earlier games, but the three superheroes (Big Top, Kid Cat, and Agent S) are definitely some cool characters to have around.

I then headed south, to the dock. As expected, Kapp’n was there, ready to take me to the island! He does charge 1,000 bells for the round trip, but that’s okay.

As expected, he still sings about cucumbers…

…and other topics as well.

Several members of Kapp’n’s family can be found in the shop there.

But then I want out to explore the island. At last! Animal Crossing has bananas!

I had to borrow a wet suit, and then I could swim!!

The island has summer bugs, so I borrowed a net (you actually can’t use your own because Kapp’n keeps your equipment until you return to the boat). I caught a number of summer bugs on the beach and on palm trees.

When I was done there, I signed up for the shellfish free-for-all tour. This is one of the games that Tortimer hosts. You have five minutes to catch shellfish by diving underwater. The goal was to catch three of them, and that’s exactly how many I caught.

Because I met the goal, I earned one medal.

Back at the shop, items can be bought using those medals as currency. They actually don’t accept bells there. A wet suit is available for 40 medals. If you buy it, you can go swimming back in your own town. I definitely want to get one of these, but it may take a while.

I then headed back home.

With my mini-vacation over, I needed to get back to work. I am the mayor, after all.  My development permit is complete and I can now start my mayoral duties. There are two main things I can do right now. One is to enact ordinances. You can make your town a night owl town, where stores are open later and animals stay out longer. Or you can have an early bird town, which is just the opposite. You could also choose to have a beautiful town or a rich town. There is a 20,000 bell fee to enact the ordinance though, and I was a couple thousand short.

The other thing I can do as mayor  is to begin public works projects. You can choose various town upgrades; I looked at the list and decided a bridge was the most urgent need.

I chose a spot near my western waterfall. Lloid the gyroid is placed at that spot to accept donations. The bridge will require 128,000 bells before construction can begin.

With my mayoral duties done for now, I went shopping. I bought my fortune cookie at Nookling Junction, and I got fortune #50.

I redeemed it and got a Fi mask. Great, now I can annoy myself.

I wanted shop at the Able Sisters, but they were already closed. Wow, they close at 9:00 p.m.?  They close earlier in each game. On GameCube, they stayed open until 2 a.m.  In City Folk, they closed at 11 p.m., and now 9:00.

That’s exactly why I need to convert Forest to a night owl town. So I sold some things and then returned to town hall. I quickly signed the Night Owl ordidance into law.

That’s all for today, check back tomorrow for another update!