Dream & Tours

Today, the snowboy mailed himself to me! Well actually it’s just a different snowman.

A snowman for my house.As I began my walk around town, I found both of today’s snowballs…right next to each other! Lucky me!

Two snowballs side by side.I put them together and made another perfect snowboy! That’s the fourth day in a row! I should only need to make one more after today. And my snowman head almost lined up with the snowboy’s body…we looked a bit weird.

Snowboy: You did it!I went up to the Dream Suite and updated my dream town. I also decided to make a dream visit to a town that’s supposedly based on Final Fantasy VII. The bad thing is that it’s been so long since I’ve played Final Fantasy VII that most of the references went over my head.

Also, it was a Japanese town, so the characters and their phrases were in Japanese. I did recognize the chocobo song as the town tune however, and it quickly got stuck in my head! Anyway, this was my favorite room:

A cool sci-fi room.And even though it’s a Final Fantasy town, one room was devoted to Bob. The purple cat. Somebody is a HUGE Bob fan!

A shrine to Bob.All of those Bob patterns are available from Wendell. It’s a really good dream town, but I chose not to make a Dream Suite Adventure of it. If you’d like to check it out, the dream address is 2400-0255-4927.

When I woke up from the dream, I did some shopping on Main Street. Up at GracieGrace, I bought the gorgeous seat and gorgeous lamp. For now, I’m putting my gorgeous furniture in an exhibit room at the museum.

Several pieces of gorgeous furniture.Tiffiny invited people to go touring with her, so I joined in, along with Cameron and Raven.

Tiffiny, Raven, Jeff, and Cameron.We went on a giant petaltail tour and won the gold prize.

Tortimer: That's enough to net you a Gold Tortimer award and 20 medals!Nobody seemed to want to pick the next tour, so we all sat down and just waited.

Cameron: So...Tiffiny eventually chose the elite balloon tour, but we had some connection problems. My character lagged while walking in place on a pitfall seed for a good 10 seconds or more. I couldn’t do anything!

Walking on a pitfall.Unfortunately, we disconnected. But later in the night, I returned to Tiffiny’s town and did a couple more tours with her. She also gave me a pinwheel, so thanks Tiffiny.

That’s all for today, but I’ll be back with more tomorrow!

Splurging on Gorgeous Furniture

Late last night, after I delivered the mermaid set to Cloudie (sapphirecrossing), Ash came over to drop off Katie. Ash had an odd-looking thing in her hair; she said it’s sold at the store in preparation of Festivale (her town date is set a couple weeks ahead of the actual date).

Ash dropping off Katie.This was Ash’s first time in my town, so she explored a little bit. At one point, she typed “Aurora!” So I looked up at the sky and I was thinking “Uhh, no there isn’t.” And then I realized she had just seen my penguin villager Aurora, who she apparently likes a lot.

Jeff: LOL I looked up at the sky.She told me that she’s thinking about customizing her chess set in gold. I didn’t even realize that was possible, but it would look awesome. Unfortunately, you can’t customize them with silver. Gold vs. silver sure would have been cool. We made a quick trip out to the island, where we tied on a giant dragonfly tour.

Tortimer: Jeff gets 3 medals, and Ash gets 3 medals!Then today, I went looking for Joan. She was selling turnips for 93 bells each, so I bought my usual quantity of 1,200.

Joan: So 1,200 turnips comes out to be 111,600 bells altogether. Do you wanna buy them?There was an igloo in town, and when I went inside, the camper looked like Teddy from behind! But Teddy already lives in Forest, so I was confused for a second. But then he turned around and I saw that one-of-a-kind green unibrow. “Hello, Nate.”

Nate: Camping in the winter gets pretty chilly... But the cold just makes the fire feel even nicer.When I checked my mail, I saw a letter from the snowboy; he sent me this snowman head.

Wearing my new snowman head.While I’m certainly glad to have it, it reveals that I’m not as close to finishing the snowboy collection as I thought. I was apparently looking at a list of snowman furniture previously, so I neglected to notice that the snowman head and a snowman itself are also items you receive from snowboy. So as of this moment, I still need the snowman clock, snowman vanity, and the snowman.

Big Top was being a big gossip today, as he was talking about Teddy’s feet for some reason.

Big Top: Not to be a big old gossip, but I heard that Teddy has really ticklish feet!But the more he talked, the more he sounded like a villain, not a superhero.

Big Top: Uh huh huh... I'm totally going to use that to my advantage next time I want something from him.I built a perfect snowboy–I seem to be back on a roll now. Jessica asked to come over to get a couple of bamboo shoots, and I met her in the Emporium.

Me and Jessica in the Emporium.Gracie had three more pieces of gorgeous furniture on sale today, so I bought them all. I paid 200k for the gorgeous desk, 64k for the gorgeous stool, and a whopping 280k for the gorgeous wall clock! Yikes! My bank account balance dropped below eight million bells, and it’s going to drop further before I complete this set.

Gracie: It's your lucky day! I happen to be throwing a little sale today, so I can part with this for 280,000 bells.Jessica explored my house and then we went back outside. She made the mistake of forgetting her toy hammer at home. But I had mine, and I put it to good use!

Jessica: Bully!We went out to the island for two quick tours and then I ended the party. Later on, I decided to recreate a poster I saw in the police station of the GameCube version of Animal Crossing. Here’s a look at it, and you can scan the code here or on the QR Codes page.

A look at the police dog pattern, along with a QR code.That’s all for today, but I’ll see you all next time!

Nan Moves In

The snowboy from yesterday sent me this snowman table in the mail today.

My new snowman table.I built another snowboy, and he was perfect too. So I’ll be getting my next-to-last piece of snowman furniture tomorrow. After that, I went to meet my new neighbor, Nan the goat.

Nan: I just moved here from Waldovia, so I'm still getting my bearings in a new town.She moved in from Waldovia, which is the town of someone I’ve StreetPassed. Due to the unbalanced nature of the StreetPass relay system, it’s from a person I’ve StreetPassed 12 times…but she has apparently only received my Mii twice (because it still asks me to rate her each time).

Anyway, I have updated my map on my town page to reflect Nan’s arrival. She moved into the southern part of town, directly between Teddy’s house and Skye’s house.

As I was watering my flowers, I found a pitfall seed…the hard way. Oops.

Me struggling to get out of a pitfall.Rolf asked me for a new greeting. He likes to think he’s tough, but he’s really a softie inside.

Rolf: So... ROAR! Scare ya?!Up on Main Street, Luna told me that Devonna from Hillvile was my most recent dream visitor. In Club LOL, I asked K.K. for a random song and he played some salsa for me. But it just made me hungry.

K.K.: Enough tuning--let's groove. This next one is for you, Jeff. It's called K.K. Salsa.At GracieGrace, the sale season has begun! I decided I’ll take advantage of the reduced prices to buy the gorgeous furniture set. The only gorgeous item she had today was the sofa, which I bought for 96,000 bells.

Gracie: It's your lucky day! I happen to be throwing a little sale today, so I can part with this for 96,000 bells!After that, I wrapped up my night in Forest. But there is another matter of business for today…the giveaway for the mermaid set!

I took all of the entries from JVGS and Tumblr and pasted them into a spreadsheet. I sorted the entries to check for duplicates, and I ended up with 273 entries. I used random.org to generate a random number, and it gave me #219. Checking my spreadsheet, that means the winner is…. sapphirecrossing!

Congratulations! I will be contacting sapphirecrossing shortly after posting this blog entry. I will post on the blog when the prizes have been delivered. Thanks to all who participated and stay tuned for more giveaways in the future!

***Update: I got in touch with the contest winner, and her character is Cloudie from Celestia. I dropped off the mermaid set at her town tonight.

Dropping off the mermaid set in Cloudie's town of Celestia.