Today was New Year’s Eve, so I went over to the event plaza to check everything out. Crazy Redd had a stand where I could buy party poppers, yellow New Year’s hats, and green New Year’s hats. All of his items were 300 bells each.
And of course Isabelle was there, next to the big countdown clock. She was handing out sparkling cider.
I took a sip to try it out.
But the big event was still hours away, so I walked around town to do my normal tasks. I spotted Phineas, and he gave me the Villager of Honor badge for playing 500 hours!
I built a snowman and got a new bingo card. I also spoke with the snowtyke, who was on his last legs. So to speak. He asked me not to step on him.
I went up to Main Street for my shopping run, and Luna told me that Jamie from Whimsy was my most recent dream visitor. After I was done, I turned New Leaf off for a while. But after 11 p.m., I started the game up again. When I would talk to villagers now, they would put on their New Year’s hats.
And Tabby laid some words of wisdom on me. Well, not really. Just another of her Tabby-isms.
I opened my gate at 11:30 and Patty came over to visit. But we got disconnected soon after. So I changed some router settings and reopened my gate; she came to visit again. She stayed a little bit, but had to go shortly before midnight. Right as she was about to leave, we got disconnected once again.
I reopened again, but nobody else came. I noticed the outdoor villagers started to gather over by the event plaza.
The clock counted down the final seconds of 2013. Three, two, one…HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The fireworks began and I finished off my cider.
As Isabelle said, LONG LIVE FOREST!
Even though I didn’t have any human visitors, I still kept getting disconnected from time to time. And that’s not something that used to happen, so these connection problems are getting really frustrating lately. Eventually, I gave up on opening the gate and just sat on my bench to enjoy the fireworks.
Have a happy new year, everyone! I hope you have a great 2014!