Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year (in terms of sunlight in the northern hemisphere). Animal Crossing takes this fact and exaggerates it to the extreme: The sun doesn’t rise at all in New Leaf today! It’s dark all day long.
Since it’s such a special day, Isabelle can be found at the event plaza handing out gifts. She gave me this glow wand. Wait, what am I? A Santa fairy? Santa doesn’t need a magic wand to perform his magic!
There’s also a special face-cutout standee for the occasion. Look at me, I’m ice skating!
Wouldn’t that be a cool addition for a future game, though? Imagine if some of the ponds froze over in winter (like they do in some Harvest Moon games). And then you could either walk across them to reach new areas available only in winter, or maybe you could buy some skates and go ice skating! Well, it’s nice to dream.
I seem to be losing my touch at making perfect snowmams lately. Yesterday, I ended up making a snowboy by mistake. And today, I made a snowmam…but not a perfect one. So this one wants five snowflakes for ice furniture. I’ll try again tomorrow.
While digging up a gyroid, I spotted a hidden lost item (a bag) behind a tree. If not for that gyroid, I never would have noticed it! I asked my villagers about it, and it took me a while…but I eventually goat got it back to its owner.
Velma rewarded me with a subdued-print tee. Here are a few other quick notes about things going on in Forest lately:
- I recently got my bank account balance up to 57 million bells.
- Still no sign of the Santa hat at Able Sisters.
- My recent dream visitors were Levi from Greenvil and Timber from Xing.
- Pashmina told me that she was recently sick, but nobody visited her to give her any medicine. Oops!
Thank you for visiting and I’ll see you next time. Happy holidays! 🙂