Month: December 2013

Today was New Year’s Eve, so I went over to the event plaza to check everything out. Crazy Redd had a stand where I could buy party poppers, yellow New Year’s hats, and green New Year’s hats. All of his items were 300 bells each.

And of course Isabelle was there, next to the big countdown clock. She was handing out sparkling cider.

I took a sip to try it out.

But the big event was still hours away, so I walked around town to do my normal tasks. I spotted Phineas, and he gave me the Villager of Honor badge for playing 500 hours!

I built a snowman and got a new bingo card. I also spoke with the snowtyke, who was on his last legs. So to speak. He asked me not to step on him.

I went up to Main Street for my shopping run, and Luna told me that Jamie from Whimsy was my most recent dream visitor. After I was done, I turned New Leaf off for a while. But after 11 p.m., I started the game up again. When I would talk to villagers now, they would put on their New Year’s hats.

And Tabby laid some words of wisdom on me. Well, not really. Just another of her Tabby-isms.

I opened my gate at 11:30 and Patty came over to visit. But we got disconnected soon after. So I changed some router settings and reopened my gate; she came to visit again. She stayed a little bit, but had to go shortly before midnight. Right as she was about to leave, we got disconnected once again.

I reopened again, but nobody else came. I noticed the outdoor villagers started to gather over by the event plaza.

The clock counted down the final seconds of 2013. Three, two, one…HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The fireworks began and I finished off my cider.

As Isabelle said, LONG LIVE FOREST!

Even though I didn’t have any human visitors, I still kept getting disconnected from time to time. And that’s not something that used to happen, so these connection problems are getting really frustrating lately. Eventually, I gave up on opening the gate and just sat on my bench to enjoy the fireworks.

Have a happy new year, everyone! I hope you have a great 2014!

Kidd approached me, offering his expertise in slinging his noodle around. Uh, no thanks.

I dug up a tootoid today (that’s the farting gyroid). I decided to display it in Club LOL, so I headed up to Main Street to make the change.

While I was in the shopping district, I stopped in the Dream Suite to update my dream. Luna told me that Kacey from Twinkies was my most recent dream visitor. And T&T Emporium was starting to look like Best Buy, with two TVs on display right next to each other.

Back in town, I went looking for snowballs. I was trying to build a snowboy this time…and I did. But it wasn’t a good one.

And my snowtyke was talking about how much he admired child actors.

My face-cutout standee was still displaying my gravestone, which was really out of season. So I decided to make a new one for New Year’s, where your head makes the zero in 2014. I’m not very artistic, so it doesn’t look all that great, but at least it’s not a Halloween decoration. 😛

If you want the pattern for your face-cutout standee, you can scan the code from my QR Codes page.

As I was making one last stop at Re-Tail, I spoke with Skye. She told me she saw a cloud that reminded her of gingerbread. I think she was just hungry.

I actually played New Leaf in the morning today, because I wanted to buy some turnips for a change. Once I finally found Joan (the megaphone proved to be useless in my search), she told me she was selling them for 97 bells apiece. So I bought 1,000 of them for 97,000 bells.

I then stopped over by my bingo snowman and I rolled his eyes. He spun a 37 for me, and that’s the number I needed! Bingo!

He gave me a ski-slope wall in exchange for my winning bingo card.

There was an igloo at the campsite today, and Rhonda the rhino was inside.

Believe it or not, I still hadn’t read today’s mail yet (because I was rushing to find Joan before noon). So I returned home and found a letter from the snowtyke. He sent me this snowman matryoshka. When you press A, the snowmen pop inside of each other, just like the dolls of the regular matryoshka.

Benedict pinged me and told me he was going to move out on January 3rd.

Even though I like him, I’m not trying to stop him this time. My town hasn’t seen any villager movement in two months, so it’s time to change things up a bit. And it will give me the ability to take in a new villager from the campsite or from a friend.

I saw Skye walking around and I spoke with her. She told me she was reminded of a favorite book of hers, Business Strategies for Dolts.

I also ran into Teddy, who asked to visit my house.

After he was done hanging out, I went looking for today’s snowballs. I was trying to build a flawed snowboy (it sounds crazy, but having imperfect snowpeople is key to getting all of snowtyke’s items). But instead of a flawed snowboy, I made a flawed snowmam by mistake. She won’t even accept my snowflakes. Fail.

The snowtyke was just sitting there being cute, however. He told me that if I ever get a sunburn, I should go to him and he’ll cool it down for me.

As you may know, I’ve been trying to get Big Top’s picture for seven and a half months. While other villagers hand pictures out like candy, Big Top has been reluctant to hand his out.

So when Big Top asked me for a coelacanth, I actually decided to help out. So I went fishing. And I kept fishing, until I finally caught a coelacanth. I returned to Big Top and gave him the big, rare, valuable, back-from-extinction fossil fish.

And in return, he gave me….*drum roll*…. a regal sofa. WHAT? Are you kidding me?

Needless to say, I was furious at him. I haven’t decided if I should cook up some elephant steaks for dinner, or if I should just send him to the circus (from whence he came). Regardless, this elephant man is walking on thin ice right now.