Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

I started up the game and got a goodbye letter from Rocco.

I also went to meet my new neighbor, Oxford.

I ran into Puck, and he gave me some helpful advice about not eating igloos. Good thing he warned me!

I also saw Static and went up to talk to him. I regretted it immediately. He again did his shopowner routine where he lists five items and forces me to buy one. He always does this to me!

I ended up buying a haz-mat barrel for 490 bells. I then made my way around town, and dug up four fossils. I saw Tom, and he’s apparently been turned into Saharah’s spambot.

I then went to the post office to mail those fossils away. Phyllis was overjoyed.

After stopping at Nook’s to sell some fossils I got back in the mail, I made my way around town. I talked to Static, who told me that he painted my roof black.

Continuing on, I spotted an igloo. It’s the first one I’ve seen this winter.

Genji the rabbit was inside.

I talked to him a few times, but he didn’t ask me to play one of his igloo games. That was fine with me, since I wasn’t in the mood to get ripped off anyway.

I then talked to Rocco, and he was complaining about Totakeke (better known as K.K. Slider or just K.K.).

I also talked to Hank, the green chicken. He’s a night owl like me.

I stopped in the police station to grab some free paper from Booker. I had a bunch of new fossils to mail away for identification.

After a stop at the post office to mail those fossils, I pulled a few weeds and then headed for home.

Even though I didn’t watch the New Year’s countdown at the lake, I did start the game up about 20 minutes into the new year. I got a goodbye letter from Grizzly.

I then headed over to the lake, where the celebration was still going on.

Static, Tom, Kody, and Robin were there. (All blue animals?)

And of course Tortimer was there as well.

On my way back, I ran into Wisp. He asked me to find his five spirits.

Even though there is some festive music that plays at the lake, the music away from the celebration is even better. It’s a soothing rendition of Auld Lang Syne. So I hunted for spirits while listening to some cool music…not a bad way to start out 2013.

Along the way, I met Rocco, my new neighbor.

After three trips around town, I had only found four of the five spirits I needed. I didn’t really need my weeds pulled, since I already had perfect town status, so I just gave up the search. I then released the four little spirits into the night.

Happy new year, everyone!