Mayor’s Day

It was snowing as I started up Forest this evening. Today is Mayor’s Day, which coincides with Election Day in the United States. So I found Tortimer at the wishing well, and he seemed to think he was just elected mayor!

He was so happy that he even said it was the greatest day of the year.

He will give you a well model if you haven’t already received one in a previous year…but I have. So I’m including a picture of Scott with his well model. If you look closely, you can see Farley.

Not surprisingly, Alfonso has already hopped and bopped his way out of town. I got his goodbye letter in the mail.

I found his replacement, who just moved in next door to Belle. It was Rollo the hippo, and he asked if I brought him some dinner. I guess he was a hungry, hungry hippo.

Not much else was going on in Forest, but I want to give a quick update about Ohio. I played on Sunday, during the fishing tournament. I met up with Tortimer, and he gave me a fishing trophy! Unlike in later games, the trophy isn’t the prize for winning the tournament. It’s just something that Tortimer gives you to commemorate the occasion.

I got a goodbye letter from Chuck the bull. He lived in Ohio for many years, so I was surprised to see him go! You may remember I put him on the cover of Animal Chopping: New Beef. 😀 His replacement was Kabuki, who I’ve always liked.

Lulu reminded me of something else that goes way back. She used to live in Forest! Back when I used to do a lot of train traveling (2004 or so?), a number of villagers went from Forest to Ohio and vice versa. I know there was a lot of switching around, which is why I eventually gave up train travel (after getting Hank and Genji back to Forest). But I had forgotten that Lulu was one of the animals caught in the shuffle.