Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Today was the first day of the Cherry Blossom Festival, so I headed down to the wishing well to check it out. Animals are eating, drinking, laughing, and dancing…as pink cherry blossoms fall from the sky.

Sydney and Hank sat at one table, Static and Candi sat at the other table, and Belle was the dancing freak this year. 😛

Static was having a good time, and Candi offered me some sandwiches.

In addition to the music at the festival, the regular hourly tunes are also jazzed up a bit. It’s definitely an enjoyable time of year to play the original Animal Crossing. 🙂

When I ran into Emerald, she was sad that she hasn’t been able to catch a snail yet. Poor froggy.

Then, at the town garbage dump, I found myself a toilet! Why would someone put this here? Maybe they wanted to take a dump in the dump.

Sadly, Egbert has already moved out of town. But I met his replacement, and he’s pretty cool too. It’s Cube the penguin; I like how he wears a GameCube shirt.

Genji asked me for a new catchphrase to replace “right here,” so I told him to say “on a bun.”

I was chatting with Baabara on a bridge, and she asked me what I thought about Cube…as Cube was standing right behind me! Was she trying to get me in trouble? 😛 I told her Cube was a nice person.

I hope you all enjoy the festival! It runs through Saturday (April 7th), so check it out for yourself if you can. If you’d like to see an old video of the event, here’s one I recorded three years ago:

I played a little Animal Crossing yesterday, and I saw that Stu has already moved out of town.

Stu’s replacement was Egbert the yellow chicken. I’ve had him in my City Yolk town before, but now I get a crack at him on GameCube too. I’ve always liked Egbert, and he’s my 2nd favorite chicken in the series, just behind Hank. Benedict is a close #3, in case you were wondering.

At Nookington’s, I decided to buy this train car model.

I have the locomotive model (from Father’s Day) in my basement, and I decided to put this train car model behind it. Even though I don’t have a full track across the room, I still like how this looks here. I decided to remove two of my lighthouse models to make some room down here.

I didn’t speak to everyone yesterday, so it was a quick session. But I made sure to play again today. I accidentally asked Puck for a job, and he asked me to deliver some clothes to Maple. He said I could use the exercise…

This isn’t the first time he implied that I’m overweight, as you may remember from my Animal Crossing Rudeness video.

Static asked me for a new catchphrase to replace “in a flash,” so I told him to say “it zaps me.” He hasn’t used it in any funny way yet, but maybe next time.

When I chatted with Hank, he noticed the kiddie bookcase in my pockets. He offered to give me a strange painting for it. I gladly agreed to the trade, even though my museum is already complete. It’s a good deal to get a painting in a trade, especially on GameCube, since there are no forgeries.

A strange painting, huh? How strange could it be?

Just kidding, that’s not what it looks like. 😛

I then found Maple standing near a pond, and I gave her the shirt from Puck. She was thrilled with the shirt, and she was very sweet and grateful. And yet, she only gave me 223 bells as my reward. 😛

Today was the day of the spring sports festival! Unfortunately, I played too late to attend the first three events. But I did get to witness the tug-o’-war. Candi and Genji (Team Big Ears) were teamed up against the chicken-and bear cub team of Egbert and Kody. Let’s call them Team Banjo-Kazooie. Sydney was the referee…or flag-waver, to be more specific.

Honestly, the tug-o’-war is probably my least favorite event of the sports fair. It gets boring quickly. The aerobics is more fun because you can participate, and the foot race is unique because you get to see a villager fire a gun (the starter’s pistol). 😛 The ball toss is my favorite of all; it’s just fun to watch.

If you’d like to see all of the events, here is an old video of mine that shows all four events.

After a stop at the dump (where I found a picnic table and a retro TV) and the post office, I returned home for the day. If you participated in the sports fair, I hope you had a good time! Remember, there will be another one in September if you missed out today.

Thanks for stopping by the blog, and please come again! I’ll see you next time! 🙂

I got a letter from the snowman I built last time. Despite being murdered, he somehow managed to send me a snowman wall in the mail. I also received a goodbye letter from Anchovy. He has moved on to another pizza town.

When I spoke with Tom, he said he recently had a chat with Crazy Redd. He said Redd really turned him on…to the idea of running his own business.

He told me he would list five items, and I would be forced to buy one of them. I hate these games, but I was happy to see his first item was a cream sofa for just 170 bells. It’s rare to get an item priced that low, so I jumped at the chance and bought it.

Down by the beach, I ran into my newest neighbor: Stu the blue bull. I didn’t chat with him much, but he seems pretty nice so far; I don’t have a beef with him. His catchphrase is moo-dude.

My house had some roaches in it, so I tried to squash them. At one point, I killed three of them at once just by pushing an asteroid around. That’s particularly interesting, since asteroids don’t actually touch the floor. So how did it kill them? 😛

I went around town shaking trees, and I got stung by a bee (or three). My villagers would then comment on my face. Even Stu joined in the fun.

I pushed a volleyball in to a pond, and then tried to fish it out. Well okay, I knew it wouldn’t take the bait. 😛 But it was a bit interesting to see that the ball would bounce off of the bobber (with the same sound effect the ball makes if it bumps into a tree or other obstacle).

I was hoping to build one last snowman for the winter, since the snow will be gone as of tomorrow (February 25th). But I didn’t find a single snowball anywhere in town. Oh well. See you next time!