Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

As expected, Carrie the kangaroo has quickly hopped on out of town. I got her goodbye letter in the mail.

I went to shop at Nookington’s, and when I went upstairs, I was greeted by the big creepy face of a totem pole!

I hadn’t changed my shirt in months, so I decided to buy this deep blue tee.

After putting it on, I continued my walk. Puck told me he was one day away from forgetting all about me.

It’s not that funny, Puck. Moving along, I soon saw a new house. It belongs to my new neighbor, Bertha the hippo.

She lives in acre E-5, next to Maple. I believe it’s the same spot where Hank used to live. While making train rides years ago, I was shocked to find that Hank had moved to my secondary town Ohio. I was determined to get him back, so I had my Ohio character travel to Forest a bunch of times. It resulted in a lot of movement of characters from Forest to Ohio and vice versa. It got crazy when Belle from Ohio moved into Forest…because Forest already had a Belle! My original Belle moved out eventually, but the Ohio Belle still remains. Eventually, Hank moved back to Forest and I decided to stop traveling by train; it’s too risky!

Just down the ramp, Static was his usual friendly self.

Meanwhile, Hank was looking forward to seeing the flowers bloom. And nearby, Sydney and Baabara apparently just had an argument. Baabara was feeling a little blue.

And Candi was expecting me to change the weather, just so she can use her umbrella. Yeah, I’ll get right on that.I finished up with a stop at the post office and then returned home for the night.

Mitzi the cat has wandered away from Forest; I got her goodbye letter in the mail today.

I had been asked by Savannah on Youtube (another Animal Crossing player–not the zebra) to send her a green bed. So I went up to Nookington’s to do that today. Nook generated the password for her, and I sent it to her in a Youtube message. It’s interesting when you think that City Folk and Wild World will soon be losing their ability to trade items with players over the internet, yet trading in the GameCube game can continue indefinitely. Animal Crossing was ahead of its time.

I found Gulliver down on the beach, and he told me another tall tale of how he ended up in the ocean. He then gave me a shogi piece as a reward for “saving” him.

I talked to Sydney today, and apparently that’s the first time I’ve spoken with her in two months. She was looking very mopey and depressed.

She cheered up briefly when she went into her sales pitch mode, though. She tried to talk me into buying some wood paneling for 3,000 bells. However, her frown quickly returned when I declined the offer.

I circled around town and I soon bumped into my new neighbor, Carrie the kangaroo (and her child). They seem nice, but I’m afraid they won’t stick around long. I bet they’ll be hopping away in a matter of weeks.

After stopping at the post office and pulling the last few weeds I saw, I returned home and ended my game.

When I started up the game today, Tortimer was waiting for me outside my door. He scolded me for not turning on the lighthouse every day. I got news for you, old man: It’s not my job!

Of course the snow has melted since my last update, so that’s nice to see. I checked my mail and found a goodbye letter from Petunia.

I also got a bunch of fossils back in the mail. But I couldn’t sell them, because today was Nook’s raffle day. And I didn’t have any raffle tickets, so I couldn’t do that either!

I ran into Hank, and I accidentally asked him for a job. He told me that he needed his videotape back from Tom. What exactly could be on that videotape? A version of the chicken dance that nobody wants to see? I was afraid to find out!

So I tracked down Tom and asked him for the videotape. Fortunately, he didn’t send me on a wild goose chase to ask 57 other villagers for it. Fortunately, he had it right in his pants.

I returned it to Hank and he rewarded me with a gray tartan. After that, I checked my map and found the new neighbor’s house. I went to introduce myself to Freya the wolf.

While going up the ramp, I saw Kody and spoke with him. It was kind of awkward, because I was still on the ramp and he was looking down at me.

I then stopped at the post office and checked out the dump. There were some items in there I normally would have taken (some furniture and paper), but my pockets were full. I blame the Nook man.