After Big Top unsuccessfully tried to tell me he was moving out on May 1st, I tracked down Joan to buy some turnips. She was selling them for 96 bells each, and I bought 1,100 of them.
And of course, I made sure to check out my new round topiary!
Big Top asked to visit my house, so I agreed to let him over. He said my house smelled great…as he was standing next to my garbage can.
I found a lost item near the coffee shop, and it belonged to Nan. To thank me for returning it, she gave me her electric guitar. Funny, I never pictured Nan as someone who would own an electric guitar!
Near my western bridge, I noticed some new flowers blooming on my bush.
After 6:00, I went to attend the completion ceremony for the round topiary. Isabelle, Nan, Molly, Big Top, and Gala helped me celebrate.
When I went up to the Dream Suite, Luna told me Stephani from October was my most recent dream visitor. At the Emporium, I remembered to buy some medicine before they closed. I then took it to Rolf, and he said he should be better by tomorrow.
Gala told me she was going to replace her piggy bank! I wonder which one of her kids she’s throwing away? She asked for a replacement, and I gave her a black bass. I was hoping she would give me her piggy bank, but instead she gave me a minimalist minitable. That’s a mini-mouthful!
The square topiary looks similar, but with more squarish layers instead of having rounded off corners.
And last but not least, there’s the tulip topiary. It’s completely different from the other two, resembling a giant tulip.
The round one is my favorite, followed by the tulip one. Each one costs 93,000 bells to install, and I chose to put in the round topiary. After walking around town, I ultimately decided to put it near my police station. From its location, you can also see my illuminated tree, metal bench, and even my fountain through the bench. So this is an extension of my central park.
After taking some money out of my bank account, I paid it off. So it will be built by tomorrow.
Unfortunately, the Emporium was closed before I even started playing for the day–so I couldn’t buy medicine for him. Ugh. So I had to make a sacrifice for Rolf: I purposely got stung by bees.
However, my plan backfired this time. None of my villagers gave me medicine! So Rolf and I both need medicine now. Thanks a lot, villagers.
And today, being the last Friday of April, was Weeding Day! Leif 
So I qualified for the Special Cleanup Award. I’m now able to decorate the town with topiaries that Leif designed. They’re available as public works projects (PWPs) at town hall. I headed there right away to take a look at them, only to find out that I can’t do anything because today is an event day.
But these are my rewards for the event, Isabelle! Let me look! I’ll have to take pictures of them tomorrow. But for now, I made my usual walk around town. When I put some money in the bank, my account balance topped 12 million bells. And in the Emporium, Leif’s garden shop section was roped off (since Leif is at the event plaza).
I went to Mark’s town, because he has a sci-fi set for me that I’m going to use for another giveaway coming up soon. While I was there, I saw that Leif was asleep.
I also looked at Mark’s house, which is in the process of being changed from a castle to an astro-themed house. I was afraid some medieval robotic bees were going to swarm out of there.
He also gave me an extra lily record player he got from Leif. Thanks for everything, Mark!
At 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. David and Squishy came over to visit. They were nice enough to help me clean up (and eat) all the extra candy I had at my plaza. All that candy gave me a big bellyache.
When we were done, we watched the history of Forest and then hung out in Re-Tail of all places. When we went back outside, David found the daily pitfall seed.
About 10:30, Jessica also came over to visit. After greeting her with a friendly hammer to the face, we all went out to the island. One of the island tours available today was the hide-and-seek one! Yes! On the first one, we found all four animals in less than a minute. That was good for an easy nine medals.
I chose the same tour again, and we finished in just over a minute. And this was despite hearing a sales pitch from a Progressive insurance saleswoman.
We also went on a gardening tour and aced it as well.
David had to leave after that, so we headed back to Forest. Jessica also left. But just a few minutes afterwards, Meli came over to visit. Squishy and I glitched into the river and we raced around.
I won the race! Of course, Squishy didn’t know we were racing, but I’ll take the win however I can get it! I then surprised them both by eating another famous mushroom I found today.
We were encouraging Meli to glitch into the river to join us.
But that’s when someone else tried to join the party. But as they were about to come in, we all disconnected. I reopened my gate and Georgie came in.
Mike also came over to visit, and he admitted that he was the one who caused the first disconnection when he tried to come in. Using my tweeter, I was able to smack both of them at the same time.
Meli returned and Forest had a full house once again. We went out to the island… I’m tempted to say again, but it’s not again. This is an entirely different group from the first island trip. How rare is that?
We also went on a gardening tour and an elite hide-and-seek tour. The elite one has pitfall seeds that turn it into a falling-in-holes competition. I found more worms than villagers, but I finished the game in-style (and in mid-air).
We returned to Forest and I tried glitching off the dock as someone was playing with a timer.
But I think her grading scale is a bit different from Lyle’s. My back room, which has creepy furniture, is a bit cluttered. In fact, it’s completely blocked off by modern wood furniture that I moved out to make room for my egg room. But Meli didn’t seem to notice how scrambled it was, and rated it high for being colorful.
Meanwhile, Georgie saw my egg room and–like a superhero–turned into the Easter bunny.
She told me not to look behind her. I was wondering if her bunny suit had a zipper like…Zipper. But it didn’t. I’m just glad she didn’t lay an egg.
After the house and bunny inspections were complete, we headed over to Re-Tail. But Re-Tail was closed.
At this point, we got disconnected. I was basically done for the night, but I reopened for a couple minutes so that Meli could catalog the Aries rocking chair again. And with that, I ended my night in Forest. I’ll be back tomorrow with pictures of the topiaries. I may choose to install one in my town too, but I’m not sure where just yet.