Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

On Monday, I received a goodbye letter in the mail from Admiral. He has set sail for a new adventure somewhere else.

Over in Acre B-5, I found a new house just north of Puck’s house. Rocco the hippo (the overgrown construction sign himself) has moved in. I’ve seen a lot of Rocco throughout the series in multiple towns, although he hasn’t lived in GameCube Forest since 2013.

His arrival also means that both of my temporary villagers are hippos, with Lulu being the other one. I can confidently say that a hippo will be moving out next month, although I don’t know which one it will be.

Genji reminded me that there will a fishing tournament every Sunday in June, and there will be a prize for the winner. But he doesn’t care about the prize itself, he just cares about winning.

Over at the dump, I was surprised to find an asteroid! Wow, even space junk is ending up in the dump! It must have really cratered in value.

Today, there was a treasure hunt underway! I saw on the bulletin board that someone buried an ivory piano in one of the “C” acres!

A piano is a big prize! But I know I’ll be able to find it if I just calm down and compose myself. 🎼

Anyway, it was raining pretty hard in Forest today. Candi thought the rain was miserable, but she admitted it must be great for snails. 🐌

She even said she was a bit jealous of the snails! That’s a weird thing to say.

Puck wasn’t a fan of the rain, either. He said he usually just goes straight to bed when it rains like this!

I would have thought penguins would enjoy the rain, but Puck is the polar opposite.

Baabara was down in the dumps too, but not because of the rain. It looked like she must’ve had an argument with Candi. Yeah, speaking to Candi can do that sometimes. 😛

Surprisingly, Belle seemed to be the happiest villager in town! She even said she enjoyed seeing me!

It’s rare to see Belle in such a good moo‘d! You know it feels like a weird day when Belle is happy, and I could actually relate to Baabara! What’s going on today? 😛

But then a few minutes later, I ran into Lulu, and she insulted my clothes.

And with that, order was restored in Forest. 😛

But to be fair, Lulu actually gave me a free outfit (a stormy shirt). It seemed to fit the situation, so I decided to keep it and I later put it on.

Over near the police station (behind the town map to be exact), I found the buried treasure of an ivory piano!

Score! I won the grand prize!

Sometimes you have to just weather the storm and tune out the noise to make it through. Hang in there, fellow Animal Crossers!

See you next month!

Update: I recently posted my latest GameCube Moments video, so I hope you’ll check it out:

I played last week (on April 6th) during the Cherry Blossom Festival. But before I headed over to the wishing well, I checked my mail. Mom sent me a cute letter about moving a painting.

At the event, I found that Hank was this year’s dancing fiend—just like he was on the same date 14 years prior.

Lulu and Kody were seated at one table, and Kody wanted to party down, catch petals, and get funky! 😆

Ursala and Sydney were seated at the other table. Ursala called herself a “discriminating glutton,” as Hank appeared to be almost ice skating in the background. This event has such a fun, festive atmosphere!

After I was done schmoozing and dancing, I continued on with my walk around town. Of course, Candi wouldn’t let me go without demanding to know what I was doing. 😛

I eventually made my way back around to the wishing well. Tortimer was there this time, despite not being around the first time. I’ve never been sure why he does this, but I’ve noticed it at events many times before. At any rate, he was happy to see everyone having a good time.

I played again today, and I found a goodbye letter from Boris in the mail. He must have been Russian to get out of town. 😉

When I spoke with Candi, she gave me a free pear. That in itself isn’t all that remarkable, until you pear it with what happened next: Less than a minute later, Puck gave me a free cherry! That’s two foreign fruits in under a minute! Now that is probably a record for me, although there’s obviously no way to verify that.

Thanks, Candi and Puck!

Boris’s replacment was Admiral, who seems to live in an underground bunker. He was just staring at a static-filled TV screen when I entered his house.

When I went up to talk to him, he did his Robert De Niro “You talkin’ to me?!” routine.

I later ran into Baabara, and she assured me that I’ll never be as popular as her. Aw, what a shame. 😛

She continued to tell me that Pelly and Pete may be dating, but I found a mistake in her dialogue. The second sentence in this part doesn’t start with a capital letter. 😛

Shortly after that, I returned home and wrapped up my game for the day. I hope to see you all next time!

Today, I found some airmail from Bangle the tiger. She has moved out of town, unfortunately.

I just happened to be playing around 5:00 p.m., so Pete dropped in right after I finished reading my mail. He said that I can’t just give mail directly to him, I have to take it to the post office.

And he even told me what Phyllis makes him do in the middle of the night!

At the lake, I ran into Baabara. She said that every time it rains, the weather gets warmer. I don’t think that’s true at all; I think she’s just trying to pull the wool over my eyes. 😛

Actually, there seems to be a series of lies dialogue about the cherry blossoms that start appearing in early April.

Several of my villagers were talking about the upcoming cherry blossoms. Puck wanted to have a picnic beneath them, and that sounds like such a cute idea.

I ran into Bangle’s replacement, Lulu the hippo. She previously lived in Forest back in 2011, and she also currently lives in my other town, Ohio. I’m not a big fan of her, but this Lulu actually did seem pretty nice so far. She gave me a free cherry!

Over at the wishing well, Belle was heartbroken to learn that I caught a coelacanth before she did.

At the police station, I tried on a few shirts that were in the lost and found. I ultimately decided to keep the light line shirt on, even though it wasn’t anything special. I was just tired of wearing the stars, I guess. 😛

Kody asked me if I’d like to manage his new swimming team. I usually answer “yes” to these, but I wanted to see how he’d respond if I declined.

There’s a slight mistake there, with two spaces in between “isn’t” and “very.” 😛

I later ran into Baabara again, and she said she’s going to stay up late tonight.

I can’t argue with her logic this time!

My latest video shows eight things I’d like to see in the next Animal Crossing game. And one event from the GameCube game made my list. Please check out the video if you haven’t seen it yet:

I’ll be back with more in April! Hope to see you then!