Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

The fall sports fair was held today, to celebrate the beginning of autumn. The sports fair consists of four events: aerobics, foot race, ball toss, and tug-o-war. But because I didn’t play early enough in the day, I missed the first three events; only the tug-o-war event was still underway. But before I left for the fair, I had some mail to read first. One of the letters was a goodbye note from Robin, who has moved out of town.

Usually the animal that moves out is my newest animal, but not this time. Robin has been in my town since May 20, 2012.

Anyway, I headed over to the wishing well. Belle and Baabara were up against Team Pink (Velma and Candi).

Velma felt like her arms were going to fall off. (Zoinks!) Sadly, they never did.

Puck was the judge, and he was really getting into it. Actually he only seemed concerned with waving the flag as vigorously as possible. But he was doing it well.

Did you notice that migratory locust in the background of that picture? I sure did, and I went to catch it. A bit later on, Maple offered to buy it from me for 1,710 bells. Deal!

And of course, I had to go check and see who Robin’s replacement was. Turns out it was Aurora the penguin. She lives in my New Leaf town too.

Even though I didn’t see all of the sports fair events this year, I have seen them all in previous years. If you’d like to see what they look like, here’s a video that shows them all:

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UPDATE: Here’s a recent Animal Crossing GameCube video I’ve made, consisting of clips that I’ve taken since last December. If you read this blog regularly, you may remember most of these happenings:

Tonight was the night of the harvest moon, so a moon-viewing party was held at the lake. After a quick stop at Nook’s, I made my way there. I saw Sydney and Hank enjoying the view.

Velma also seemed to appreciate the heavenly body above…

…until I realized she was only talking about herself. I think she’s been eating too many Scooby snacks.

Tortimer was also there, lamenting the loss of warm, summer nights.

Emerald also came out to take a look at the moon. Naturally, she chose the spot nearest the lily pads in the lake.

After I left the festival, I ran into Candi. She informed me that I haven’t spoken to her in four months! I wonder if she’s still mad about me pushing her into the river.

I pulled a bunch of weeds, and then I spotted a blue balloon present!

I followed it, but it didn’t get caught in a tree. So I had no choice but to helplessly watch it sail over the cliff and out of my life forever.

Here is a video of the harvest moon festival that I recorded two years ago. Interestingly, Emerald chose the spot by the lily pads back then, too.

Olivia the cat has become the latest animal to scamper out of town. I got her goodbye letter in the mail today.

It was raining as I made my way around town. When I got to Static’s house, he was being unusually rude.

So I had to put him in time-out. He wasn’t happy about that.

I soon reached a new house. Velma the snooty goat has moved into Forest. Apparently she went to the Static School of Manners.

Hmm, she looked a bit familiar… “Hey Velma, can you get me Scooby-Doo’s autograph?”

After making my rounds and stopping at the post office, I decided to do some September fishing. As you may know, there are no sea bass or jellyfish in the ocean in early September. This means the only ocean fish are red snappers (3,000 bells), barred knifejaws (5,000 bells), and if it’s raining, coelacanths (15,000 bells). So this time of year is great for making lots of money…especially if you play in the rain. I decided to fill my pockets with 15 fish. Two of my 15 catches were coelacanths.

I also caught ten red snappers and three barred knifejaws.

I sold everything to Nook and scored an easy 75,000 bells.

The sea bass will start to return in a day or two, but they won’t be back in full force until mid-month. So you still have a few good days left for some lucrative fishing. Just remember to avoid the acre with the mouth of the river and good luck catching those coelacanths! See you all next time!

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Updated to add a photo of my Animal Crossing GameCube disc and memory card. If you’re wondering what case they’re in, it’s the clear case that came with the Game Boy Player.