Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

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!

On Thursday (Feb. 20th), I received a goodbye letter from Buzz in the mail. This breaks a three-month streak of the most recent villager moving out after just a month (or less).

Buzz moved in back in early September, so he lived here for five and a half months.

I also found some valentines in the mail from Baabara, Maple, Belle, and Sydney.

Kind words, scary stationery, and she even included a garbage can with the valentine. Talk about mixed messages.

Puck was talking about igloos, and he gave me some helpful advice about them: Don’t try to eat them. Thanks for that ProTip, man!

I met Buzz’s replacement, Boris the cranky pig. After insulting my fashion sense, he gave me a star shirt.

I found Gulliver down on the beach, and he told me his tale of fighting off pirates. Or sharks. Or driftwood. Whatever it was, he was lucky to survive! 😉

He gave me a matryoshka, just like the one he gave me in December. And yet, he assured me I won’t find another like it. 😛

I was surprised to see Tortimer hanging out near the wishing well, and I was trying to figure out if it was a holiday I wasn’t aware of. It wasn’t, but it was time for his annual vacation.

He asked me to turn the lighthouse on each night for a week, but I’m not going to do it this year. Sorry, Tortimer.

I asked Tom for a job, and he asked me to get his camera back from Bangle. I agreed to help out, but I ultimately had to get the camera from Boris…despite him just having moved in. But Tom thanked me for getting it back, and he said he was wrong for thinking I was such a big dweeb. Wow, thanks. (He also gave me a pineapple bed.)

I played again today, and I saw a notice about a treasure hunt on the bulletin board. A jukebox is buried somewhere in Acre F-3.

Baabara asked me what I thought about how she dresses, and I said “It’s OK, I guess.” She got furious at me for that, saying I should look in the mirror…where I’ll see “an idiot…wearing moldy trash!” 😮

That was very uncalled for. She specifically asked for my opinion, and there’s also the fact that she doesn’t actually wear clothes. She wears a scarf, and that’s it. So I got out a pitfall and re-introduced her to the ground. But don’t worry, because her “clothes” didn’t get dirty!

I found Static inside an igloo today. Unlike Genji, who recently boasted about building his igloo himself, Static said that he got someone else to build his igloo. (Maybe that was Genji.)

When I spoke with Emerald, my speech options were “other things” or “I’d like to sell.” I chose the latter, because I wouldn’t mind selling something in my pockets. But she took that to mean that I thought she was Tom Nook. She “corrected” me, informing me that she’s a girl and Tom Nook is a guy. 🙄

She told me to never say anything like that to her again! Wow. All I did was say I wanted to sell something.

Before saving my game for the afternoon, I went down and picked up that treasure hunt item. The jukebox was buried right next to the lighthouse. It was so easy to find that there might as well have been a spotlight right on it. 😛

Later on, I started up the game again and returned to the lighthouse to turn it on for the night.

However, this is the only night I plan on doing this, so Tortimer will be mad at me when he returns next month. Oh well. 😛

I uploaded my latest video this weekend, GameCube Moments #23:

See you next time!