Benedict’s Goodbye

Re-Tail was selling turnips for 171 bells this morning, so I decided to cash in my 1,000 turnips.

When I talked to Big Top, he asked me to return an item to Rolf. Sure, no problem. I found Rolf in front of my metal bench, but he pinged me and asked me for an orange. I gave him a perfect orange and he loved it.

He rewarded me with a tiki torch. I then talked to him again and gave him the delivery from Big Top. He gave me his picture! Again!

I now have four Rolf’s pics! (And still none of Big Top).

Thanks to yesterday’s tip from PRT, I found out I could customize the stewpot I got from the igloo. I could change the menu to curry, consumme’, or borscht. I decided to give the curry a try.

It takes Cyrus half an hour to do the cooking customizing, so in the meantime, I went to say goodbye to Benedict. Today is his last day in Forest, and he’s all packed up and ready to go.

I spotted Crazy Redd’s tent, and I took a chance on this perfect painting.

A bit later on, the curry was complete, so I picked up my stewpot.

After that, I found today’s snowballs and rolled up a flawed snowboy. I also went up to the Dream Suite, where I learned that Maria from Lakewood was my most recent dream visitor.

Tom and I decided to see if we were able to connect (since we had trouble last time). So first, I went to his town and we connected on the first try. I stopped to check his bingo snowmen.

And in his house, he showed me the snow machine he got from scoring a bingo. It was pretty cool the way it spits out snow. Most of the ski set doesn’t interest me much, but this snow machine sure does. I can’t wait to get one for myself.

I then invited him to my town so he could get #8 punched off his bingo card from my snowman. When he saw Redd’s tent, he told me to stand behind it and press up (so that the tent disappears). He then went into the tent, and it looked as if he disappeared. Then when he came back out, his silhouette appeared out of nowhere.

It was late for him, so I ended the party. But as soon as I came out of the train station, Phineas was there with a new badge for me! He gave me the Great Host badge, for having 200 Wi-Fi visitors. Tom was #200 apparently, although that’s only because it didn’t count Wendy’s visit the other day for some reason.

Skye asked me to collect signatures to ban bubble gum on benches. But nobody on my friend roster had an open gate except for Tiffiny, and I was unable to connect to her town today.

I eventually found Saarah, who offered to open her gate for me. So I headed off to her town, SQville.

She helped me track down six of her villagers to sign the petition. Erik the reindeer provided the sixth and final signature I needed.

I headed back to the train station after posing for this picture.

Thanks again, Saarah! Once I got back to Forest, I took a look at the completed petition. T-Bone, Sterling, Poppy, Flo, Violet, and Erik were the animals who supported the cause.

I took the petition back to Skye and she rewarded me with an Arc de Triomphe. It’s not her picture, but it’s not a bad reward.

It used to be a Gulliver item, at least on GameCube.

On the friend exchange page, I saw someone (Brittany/Leah) looking for a new villager. I asked if she wanted Benedict, and she said yes. So I let her come over and she adopted him. I like Benedict, so it’s good to see him find a new home.

That’s all I have for now, but I’ll be back with more tomorrow. Have a great weekend, everyone!