Island Hop & Shop

In the mail today, I received a snowman carpet from the snowboy and a crew’s monitor from Wishy. Here’s a look at both items (and a white wet suit I bought yesterday).

My new snowman carpet and crew's monitor.Aurora approached me, telling me she was going to move out of town. I declined her request. Over by Re-Tail, I saw a shadow in the pond! I didn’t think there were fish in the pond this time of year! I tried fishing it out…

Fishing in the pond.…and I caught a boot. I don’t know what I expected.

I caught a boot! Now where's your mate?Big Top invited me over to his house, but when I got there, he said I was making him nervous by inspecting his house. So stop inviting! He also said he was hoping he’ll get X-ray vision. Uhh… don’t worry about what’s under my wet suit, pal!

Big Top: I'm hoping I'll get some X-ray vision going soon!By the way, virtually everything in Big Top’s house came from me. I’m always helping him out.

After building another perfect snowboy, I headed over to Tom’s town to check his bingo numbers. He saw my wet suit and suggested we go for a swim.

Swimming in Tom's town.Kim contacted me and told me that she StreetPassed someone who had a Sagittarius arrow (Japanese DLC) in their home. So she asked if I wanted to catalog it, and I said yes. I put it up in my house to take a look at it.

The Sagittarius arrow.As I was about to give it back to her, she said I could give it away like I gave away a silver axe yesterday. So later on, I offered it on Twitter to the first person who responded. The winner was Meli, who was already on my friend roster. She was unable to pick it up tonight, but I’ll try to get it to her tomorrow. For the record, it can be ordered from the catalog for 4,800 bells.

Sagittarius arrow: 4,800 bells.Up at the Dream Suite, Luna told me that Carly from Hogwarts was my most recent dream visitor. Later on, I decided to do some island hopping and shopping. At one of my shopping stops, Sloan asked me to do a tour with her. So I agreed, and we actually did two tours. One of them was a shark-catching tour in which we finished tied.

Tortimer: Sloan gets 2 medals, and Jeff gets 2 medals!I got several new pieces of mermaid furniture today, but nothing new from the cabana set. I currently have eight of 13 pieces from the mermaid set, and only four pieces from the cabana set. If I have trouble completing the cabana set in a timely manner, I may just make the upcoming contest for the mermaid set (instead of giving a choice). And then I could have a separate contest for the cabana set later on. I’ll keep you posted.

Anyway, here is a look at the mermaid stuff I’ve collected so far. (The clock isn’t in the picture because it’s way up on the wall, out of view).

My incomplete mermaid furniture collection.I went to say hello to Agent S, and I had to question her furniture placement. Her TV faces a dresser. Why would you do that? Then again, she is a squirrel, so I suppose she could just sit on top of the dresser. Now that I’d like to see.

A dresser in front of Agent S's TV.

Silver Axe

The snowboy sent me a snowman chair today. I can’t wait until I’m done with this set.

My new snowman chair.Big Top didn’t give me his picture today, but he did give me a new nickname: Chap. Ugh.

Big Top: Right on! Here it is, your brand-new nickname: chap!By the way, Big Top is now on Twitter! His username is @bigtophero, so follow him if you dare.

I built another snowboy, and he turned out perfect. So I’ll be getting another piece of snowman furniture tomorrow. Over by my bridge, I noticed the sun was starting to set. So I took this picture.

A pretty sunset in Forest.Up at the Dream Suite, Luna told me that Charlie from Banyan was my most recent dream visitor.

I then had an idea occur to me. I have 700+ island medals and I rarely spend them. So I thought, why not collect the mermaid and cabana furniture sets, and then give them away in a contest? It allows me to have the items added to my catalog (even though they can’t be reordered, there are badges for catalog completion percentage) without having the items go to waste.

So I did some island hopping and bought a few pieces of each set. Once I complete both sets, I’ll announce the contest details. You’ll be able to enter on JVGS and/or Tumblr. The winner will get to choose one of the sets, and the other will be given away in a future contest.

Anyway, as I was island hopping, I finally saw the silver axe at the gift shop! It’s the axe that will produce the (otherwise rare) tree stump patterns when you chop down a tree. It’s not unbreakable, but it will reportedly last four times longer than a regular axe.

Grams: Aye, a silver axe? Ye be seein' a nice item tharrrrrr. I'll give it to ye for 8 medals.I bought one for me, and a couple extras. I gave one away on Tumblr to the first person who responded. The winner was Leah, so I took the axe to her tonight.

Visiting Leah.As I was leaving, I saw that she had a meteor shower in her town. So I wished on a shooting star.

Wishing on a shooting star in Leah's town.So I should be getting something from Wishy tomorrow. Anyway, that ended my night in Forest. But I’ll be back with another blog entry tomorrow, so be sure to check back!

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Katie’s Pic

Even though Katie didn’t get on the train with me yesterday, she still sent me a letter today. She said she hopped on the next train and she thanked me anyway. Along with the letter, she attached her picture.

Katie's picture, next to K.K.'s pic on my fireplace.A few days ago, I realized I haven’t been getting the gem rock in a while. Then it hit me: When I got my golden shovel, I started using that instead of the silver shovel. And you need the silver shovel if you want gem rocks, so I put the gold one in storage and started using the silver one again. It paid off today, as I got my first gem rock in quite a while.

Lots of ore from the gem rock.Since the gem rock gave me two gold nuggets, I also grabbed one out of storage so that Cyrus could make me a piece of golden furniture. But Molly saw my gold nuggets and wanted to trade a shirt for one. Sorry Molly, but no.

Molly: You could have my three-ball tee in return! How about it? Will you trade?After giving my nuggets to Cyrus, I watered flowers around town. I also built a snowboy, and he was perfect this time.

Snowboy: This head! This body! This is exactly the perfect balance I love!When the time came, I returned to Re-Tail. Cyrus turned my nuggets into a golden woman. I already had a golden woman, but thanks anyway.

Take home the golden woman?I spoke with Agent S, and she said she was trying out some new makeup techniques. I don’t think anyone can tell the difference when she’s always wearing that helmet of hers.

Agent S: Recently I thought I'd try out some crazy makeup techniques. You know, just for fun?Later on, I saw that Tiffiny was opening her gate for some tours. So I headed over to her town Auctus, and it’s looking great as always.

Tiffiny's beautiful town of Auctus.Julio and Alex were also there. I love how she has the windmill behind the bench like this.

A windmill behind the bench in Tiffiny's town.Once we got to the island, we did a bunch of tours, including a few bug-catching ones.

Celebrating a successful island tour.We also did an elite balloon hunt, better known as a falling-in-pitfalls tour.

Falling into pitfalls on a balloon tour.I did pretty bad in the tours overall, especially the bug ones. The only tour I did well at was the ancient fish encoun-tour, where I tied with Tiffiny for first place. After several tours, I guess someone had to leave and they disconnected instead of returning to shore and leaving through the gate.

When I got back to Forest, I noticed the northern lights overhead. So I took a few pictures of them from various spots around town.

The northern lights as seen from Main Street.The northern lights behind a house.The northern lights as seen from Forest's central park.