I nearly forgot about Joan this morning; it was about 11:56 a.m. when I turned the game on, and I still needed to get money out of the bank. Once I did, I had trouble finding Joan. I found her at 11:59, and the clock struck noon as I was buying my turnips. The good news is that she was selling them for only 90 bells apiece, which is the lowest I’ve seen. I bought 1,100 of them for a total of 99,000 bells.
After putting them into storage (except for one bundle, which I keep to remind me to check prices), I checked my mail for the day. Teddy and Molly sent me letters, and so did Gulliver. He sent me this conical straw hat from Vietnam.
Festivale is tomorrow, and Agent S told me I’ll get to see her amazing dance moves!
Copper told me Phineas was in town, and I had no idea why. But when I tracked him down, he told me I earned a new Expert Angler badge because I’ve caught a lot of fish.
I guess that 45 minutes of fishing for Teddy yesterday wasn’t a total loss after all! Now I feel a bit guilty for drowning him.
Here is an up-to-date look at my badges.
Skye asked me to check out her house, so I reluctantly agreed. But not before dragging her to the pyramid for a picture!
Once we got to her home, she was telling me about her wharf roach.
She told me she’s learned a lot from the roach! I was afraid to ask what exactly she’s learned.
After taking a short nap on her bed, I left and headed up to Main Street. Luna told me that Scott from NYC was my most recent dream visitor. And at Able Sisters, I bought a Festivale tank. I’m hoping I don’t need to wear this Festivale clothing, but I’m equipping it on my mannequin for now–just in case.
Tiffiny was looking to go on some island tours, so I joined in. Bre and Kelsi were also there at Tiffiny’s town.
First, I stopped at her Re-Tail to sell some perfect peaches. I had ten baskets, which I sold for 270,000 bells. After a brief walk around town, we headed off to the island.
We went on a bug-catching tour, a hide-and-seek tour, and a fishing tour. I did okay at the hide-and-seek one (finding two of the four villagers–and a tree!), but I did very bad at the fishing and bug-catching ones. But it was still fun and we all earned some medals.
After that, I returned home. I was selling an item to Melly, so I headed to her town Rotledge. I didn’t see much of her town, but I definitely liked what I saw. She had patterns of a river (or brook or stream or creek, I don’t know) and some flower bed patterns too.
She also has flowers lining the river. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have a dream address to visit, but her town looks great from what I saw.
Later on, Wendy asked if she could sell some stuff in my town. She also invited me over to her town, where she put down a yellow brick path.
She asked to borrow my gold axe, which she needed to cut down the trees that were in the way of her path. So she cut the trees down and I was the designated digger.
At one point, I “accidentally” stood in a blank spot as she was trying to lay the path down. She kept trying, but she ended up putting the tiles down everywhere except where she wanted. I joked that Oakville will have a roundabout.
After that, I returned home and ended my game for the night.
One other topic I’ve been meaning to mention: I’m considering switching from a night owl town to a beautiful town. The main reason of course is that I wouldn’t have to water my flowers. That would save a lot of time and effort. There are negatives though, of course. Naturally, stores would be closed earlier than I’m used to, which could be very inconvenient for a night owl like me. Also, flowers won’t wilt, which means I can’t create new gold roses. Also, fewer weeds will appear, making the weed badge much harder to get.
Ultimately, I think I will switch between the two ordinances. For summer, which is prime bug season, I’d definitely want those night owl store hours. Night owl would also be good for rainy seasons, where the beautiful ordinance wouldn’t be as helpful (since I wouldn’t need to water every day anyway). But for those dry days of autumn, I’d definitely want the beautiful town ordinance. I haven’t made a switch yet, but I think it’s just a matter of time.