Late last night, I played some more New Leaf. And I noticed that animal footprints actually depend on the animal! Here you can see Benedict’s chickeny footprints.
I also saw Big Top, and he asked me if he smelled good. Uh, I guess so? He said it was because he was using a shampoo that smells like cheesecake. At any rate, he was happy.
Then today, I got a letter in the mail from Gulliver. Even though he was mostly talking about Hollywood, the gift he sent me had nothing to do with movies. It was the Statue of Liberty. It’s nice to see Lady Liberty back in Animal Crossing, after skipping City Folk.
And on the bulletin board, Timmy and Tommy posted a notice that the T&T Mart will be closed for remodeling tomorrow.
And the campsite didn’t sit unused for very long after all! There was a summer camper in a tent there today! I must say the tents looked better on GameCube though.
The camper inside was a cute duck named Molly inside.
She asked if I wanted her to move into Forest, and I told her yes. So she suggested we play a game to decide. If I got her question correct, she would move in. If I got it wrong, she would take the peaches in my pocket instead.
Her question involved her using emotions. She said in a certain game, if you knock things down, you’ll feel like this…and then she did a happy emotion. And if you miss, you’ll feel like this…and she did a sad emotion. The correct answer was clearly bowling, so she’s going to be moving in! She’ll soon be a villager instead of just a camper. 🙂
Shortly after leaving her tent, I saw yet another tent in town! But this one was Crazy Redd’s. I inspected his four pieces of art (two paintings and two statues). I felt like the paintings were fakes, but I wasn’t sure which statue was the correct one. Ultimately, I decided on the beautiful statue.
I’ll find out tomorrow if I made the right choice or not.
Back outside, Tex wanted to read me a poem in exchange for a gem I dug out of a rock. I said no, and that made him depressed.
After digging up four fossils, I went to Main Street for my shopping run. T&T Mart had a cheese wall for sale, and I bought it.
I then headed over to Re-Tail to sell some stuff and I got quite a surprise when I walked in the door. Cyrus, the blue alpaca who had been asleep all month, was finally awake!
He asked if I was bothering his wife. Wife? I thought Reese was his mother! She talked about him as if he was a kid. Oh well. I had him all wrong. In fact, he’s a pretty big jerk. A jealous, threatening jerk.
But he isn’t completely useless; he can customize furniture for you. He can change paint colors, redo upholstery, and put patterns onto furniture. I had a cabin low table in my pockets, so I thought I’d put him to work on putting a JVGS pattern onto it. Basically, I just wanted to test it out.
I had to wait half an hour for him to finish the job (knowing him, he probably needed time to nap). But when I returned, I got the table back and this is how it looks:
After going back outside, I ran into Fuchsia. I hadn’t talked to her yet today, so I said hello. She asked me for a fresh peach to eat, so I found her one. In return, she gave me a brown pot from her pot stash…Â That was an interesting choice of words.
With that, I finished my night in Forest.
Nintendo is concluding their Inside the Treehouse series with one final video from Isabelle. Here it is:
Basically, a star falls down, hits you in the head, and bounces off.
Back outside, Big Top asked me if I liked his outfit. I said it was cool, and that made his day. He said he was going to eat some french toast to celebrate. Can I have some?
I then stopped to take a look at my town tree. It’s getting big.
Next, I made sure to attend the ceremony celebrating the opening of the campsite. Yay!
But there’s a bit of a problem with the campsite–I don’t know how to use it! It’s fenced off and I can’t go inside! 
Down on the beach, I ran into Gulliver once again. Wow, this sure is infinitely easier than stalking his UFO in City Folk! Anyway, he was talking about a hurricane. No really, he was.
He then gave me the easiest quiz question ever.
I got the question correct of course, and he told me he’ll be sending me a gift from the USA soon.
After going back up the ramp, I ran into Big Top again. He asked me to catch a river fish for him, so I went and caught a black bass. I gave it to him, and he thanked me with a flame shirt. In the picture below, he doesn’t really have a halo–he’s just standing with his head right below the moon.
Right after that, I heard a balloon present! I got my slingshot out and shot it down! It contained a balloon table, which I put on the second floor of my house. I hope it doesn’t pop. 😉
And in T&T Mart, I saw a DJ’s turntable.
I bought it and put it in my house. I was finally able to play my song from last Saturday, K.K. Flamenco.
Look, I’m DJ 
That wrapped up my night in Forest, but that’s not all I have for you. I made a video today–it’s a quick tour of Main Street and the shops that are there. It’s not the final result of what the shopping district will look like, since I still don’t have all the shops yet and others still have upgrades yet to come. But it gives a look at what it’ll look like about 4 weeks into the game:
That’s right, I caught my first coelacanth in New Leaf. Niiice!
As I made my way to the museum to donate it, I ran into Fuchsia. Because it was so dark, she thought I was a…big wet deer?
Then she scolded me for scaring her. Hey girlfriend, it’s not my fault you’re blind!
I then continued on to the museum, where I donated the coelacanth. I also went into the aquarium to take a look at it.
Then today, someone on a certain community asked if fruit could be sold at the flea market in Re-Tail. I wasn’t sure, so I tried it out. The answer: Yes.
Yuka then asked me to fetch her a cherry. I decided to be nice for a change (but only because I already had a cherry in my pocket) and I gave it to her.
She gobbled down her cherry and thanked me by giving me a vintage telephone. I then realized it was almost 8:00, so I rushed to Club LOL. I gave Shrunk three peaches and he taught me the sighing emotion. City Folk had an emotion (disappointment) that involved a sigh, but it wasn’t called sighing. I’m not sure if this is a replacement for disappointment or a new, separate emotion.
At any rate, I gave it a try:
In the Able Sisters, there was a catcher’s mask for sale. With baseball season underway, I went ahead and bought it.
As you can see by my bell total in the above photo, I’ve accumulate a bunch of money. I decided to add a new community project. After looking over the list, I chose a campsite to be the new addition. Isabelle warned me that unlike most other projects, the campsite can’t be removed once it’s installed.
I decided to put it near the edge of the cliff, overlooking the beach.
Since I already had enough money for it, I paid it off all at once.
I returned to town hall and Isabelle confirmed that the campsite will be completed tomorrow!
After selling some more stuff, I had about 80,000 bells. So I took 70,000 and paid part of my house loan with it.