Unfortunately, it was raining in Forest today. I went around town and found the daily money rock. For the second time, it gave me gems instead of money.
When I went into the museum to get my fossils identified, Blathers was deep in thought once again. I asked him what was wrong, and he said it was about his friend Brewster. He said Brewster was a master brewer that didn’t have a place to open up a coffee shop. But he remembered that I was the mayor, and he made sure a cafe was added to the list of available town projects.
Next, I headed over to Club LOL to get another emotion. This time, Shrunk taught me the sneezing emotion. The sneezes you can perform are nice and juicy.
Then, at 8:00, I opened my gate to visitors for the first time. Chris, Taylor, and Peyton came over to visit. We went into Club LOL to do some dancing.
After everyone did a little shopping, we headed over to my house.
As Taylor burned to a crisp, I couldn’t help but point out how annoying it is to have to use the touch screen to type, as opposed to using a USB keyboard in City Folk. It’s so much harder to communicate this way.
And not only that, but the question mark is hidden away on page two of the symbols page. It should be easier to access. Also, I must say I hate how messages are only displayed for about five seconds, as opposed to 30 seconds in City Folk. If someone types a message as you start going through a door, forget about it. It will be gone before you come out the other side.
Anyway, after Taylor was done burning, I shot him.
We then took a trip to the island.
Everyone got rental wet suits so we could all swim. I had to laugh as I witnessed Peyton getting stung by a jellyfish.
We started to do an island tour to catch dragonflies, but we got disconnected as soon as the tour started. So I reopened my gate. Chris and Taylor returned, but Peyton didn’t come back. Instead, Dash came over to visit.
Molly asked for a butterfly, and I gave her one. She rewarded me with a rocket. Sounds like a fair trade.
Once again, we headed out to the island for a dragonfly tour. This time, we didn’t get disconnected. But I didn’t do very well, I could hardly find any at all!
After that, we did an easy hide-and-seek tour. On the way, I saw an unusual fruit, so I shook the tree to see what it was. It’s a lychee.
And I spotted a new animal, Ken–an unusual-looking black and purple rooster.
But the hide-and-seek games were very easy and quick. We earned 7 medals each for the easy one and 9 medals each for the regular one. And I just had to take a picture of a windmill I saw while in the game area.
We stopped in Yuka’s house to say goodbye to her. Although she’s not packed yet, so she’ll still be in town tomorrow too.
Chris left around 9:45 and Joey came in to replace him. We went in for a quick dance at Club LOL.
I then ended the party at 10:00. I went over to town hall to see how much the cafe would cost; it’s 298,000 bells. Yikes.
I chose a spot for it (near the center of town) and paid almost half of the amount due.
At this point, I was done in Forest for the night. But I wanted to make a stop at my friend Wendy’s town. But as much as I tried over and over again, I kept getting error message 018-0512. Wendy and I both tried restarting our routers, turned off other Wi-Fi devices, and tried everything we could think of…but still, no luck.
Well that’s all for now, thank you all for visiting. I’ll be back tomorrow with more.
After rearranging my furniture a bit, I went into the back room. I wasn’t expecting a big cake and unlimited juice, but I was hoping for more than this…
Ugh! Four squares by four squares! Again! For the prices Tom Nook charges, he should give you bigger rooms! You definitely get less for your money from Tom Nook in New Leaf. But still, it is nice that the room is an option…’cause at least now I have it.
So I thought I should do something nice for her. You know, as a going-away present.
She never appreciates the little things.
In case you’re wondering what I’m wearing on my head here, it’s a DJ cap.
I was going through the options to see what I could have done. But Cyrus has no patience at all. He’s more unlikable than Phyllis.
You can have the outside modified with a pattern or fabric, or you can have the screen modified. Unfortunately, you can’t customize it with a text message. But you can change the scrolling stars into hearts or leaves instead. I went for the latter. But his projects take half an hour to complete, so I went up to Main Street to kill some time. Today, the museum gift shop had a silver fishing rod!
Celeste told me it’s available because I’ve donated 30 fish to the museum. Next, I headed over to Club LOL. Shrunk taught me the shyness emotion.
I finished up my shopping run, and after enough time had passed, I returned to Re-Tail. My LED display was done. Even though it’s not a text message that scrolls, I must admit the scrolling leaves look pretty good. I’m not sure why he uses Nook’s logo though…aren’t the Nooklings in direct competition with Re-Tail?
I then took a break from playing. But Saturday is traditional K.K. night, so I started the game back up after 8:00 to get a new song. I got to Club LOL and saw Yuka was in there! Whyyyyyyy?
You country music loving animal, you. I wasn’t about to request that song for her; I just told K.K. that I was in a good mood and I let him pick the song. He ended up playing Bubblegum K.K.
It was okay. Until I got home and saw the album cover. Francine?!
I never thought I’d see the day that “Frankengaga” was on an album cover! She and Chrissy are rabbit impersonators! They’re humans wearing bunny suits! Maybe the fake ears can trick K.K., but they don’t fool me!
He asked me to find one for him. Since peaches are my town fruit, that was an easy thing to do.
I took one to him and he thanked me by giving me a lovely love seat. How lovely.
I have no idea what that means, aside from the fact that I’m supposed to wear blue gym shorts. How could it possibly be related to the harvest festival, which is more than five months away? I’m so confused. Well, I didn’t have any blue gym shorts regardless, so it’s a moot point.
So we went to my house, and she seemed to enjoy it. Don’t be fooled by the following picture, it’s not the mystic statue talking to me.
She then asked about the rest of my house, so I took her upstairs. My upstairs room is small and doesn’t have much in it. She wasn’t a fan of this room.
After going back downstairs, she said it was time for her to go. She didn’t stick around as long as Aurora did the last time I had a visitor over.
And after collecting my 5,000 bells for updating my dream town, I had enough money to finish off my house payment! And this time, I actually had a choice. I could get more space (which would presumably make my upstairs bigger) or I could add another room. I opted for a new room.
In Super T&T, there was an LED display available. The stars would scroll across the screen and it looked pretty cool, so I bought it.
And in the museum, I thought of a good use for my exhibit room: Gulliver items! Even though I still have my balloon furniture in there too (for now), I think a collection of Gulliver’s items from around the world would be perfect for a museum exhibit!
I actually had to re-order my tribal mask from my catalog since I sold my original, but that’s okay. After that, I headed back to town.
But while I was in Katt’s house, I noticed she had a drum set. So I banged on her drums for a while. Musical instruments are a bit different in New Leaf; they don’t play the whole town tune like they did in previous games. They just play one note. So you have to keep mashing on the A button if you want to make some 
My last stop of the day was a return home. I put up the LED display in my house. I was hoping there was a way to customize a message that could scroll across, but apparently there isn’t. A bit disappointing, but it still looks pretty cool.