Jeff's New Leaf Blog

This morning, I found Joan selling turnips for 99 bells apiece. I bought 3,100 of them.

When I started up the game again later, Pete was outside my house. He handed me a letter from Nintendo, which said that a ceramic hot pot is available at Nintendo Zone locations today (March 15th) through March 28th.

Once connecting from a Nintendo Zone location (wink wink), I went to the post office and Pelly gave me the ceramic hot pot.

It can be ordered from your catalog for a price of only 1,000 bells. Good deal!

Even better, the menu can be customized at Re-Tail with any of these options: Sukiyaki, oden, hot pot, or tofu hot pot. If any of you have a restaurant, kitchen, or other food-related room in your house, you may want a few of these.

Anyway, Dizzy offered to sell me a trash can. There’s nothing wrong with that in itself, but what he said next was a bit insulting.

Anyway, I was having a bad luck day; I kept falling on my face all over town.

Merka came over for a very short visit to buy some tools and get her hair done. Looking much better without the bedhead, Merka.

Later on, I wrapped up my night at the Dream Suite. I updated my dream town, and Luna told me Hannah from Helgen was my most recent dream visitor.

Rolf was telling me a tall tale about how he almost caught a coelacanth, saying it got away at the last second. He then asked me to catch one for him so that he could have his revenge. Fat chance of that, tiger.

It was raining in town tonight though, and that gave me a rare break from having to water flowers. All the animals in town and on Main Street had their umbrellas out.

I made a stop at the Dream Suite to update my dream town, and Luna told me that Graham from Rockford was my most recent dream visitor. I also stopped in Club LOL to check out K.K. Slider’s Saturday night performance. He played some disco music for me.

After the show, I returned to town and Aurora was loving the rain!

Not much else was going on, so I went out to the island to earn some medals. I chose the evening firefly tour.

It was pretty easy to score the gold Tortimer award (and 12 medals) each time. You just have to catch ten fireflies in five minutes. I played it several times before returning home and ending my night.

Last night, I went to visit Big Top and he told me to pull his trunk!

Tonight, I found Sprinkle on the metal bench near my central park.

She asked me to join her, so I did.

I put up a new design on my face-cutout standee: It’s a Butch faceboard created by Beth. It’s available on the QR Codes page if you’d like it. Thanks, Beth!

At 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Even though it’s Friday the 13th, I didn’t dress up as Jason this time. It’s Mohawk McClover season, after all. BranDex came over, followed by a green Squishy!

Then Merka from Bribs also joined in, so I had a full house…literally. Merka was enamored with the picture of Tabby.

Merka merged into me, pushing me into BranDex.

In the basement, Merka tried out my throne. At least the one that doesn’t flush.

Once we were done, we headed out to the island.

We started out with an official hide-and-seek tour. I found two of the animals, including Lyman. He and I were wearing matching shirts.

We ended up with a silver Tortimer award. Next, we went on a fossil-finding tour. I hadn’t done this tour in a long time, and I forgot how it worked. There are eight houses in total (two sets of four). Each set has one example house and one display house. You have to dig up fossils around town, then put them in display houses exactly as they are shown in the example houses. It’s a time-consuming process, and we failed. Badly.

After that, we went on the labyrinth (maze) tour. We came close, but we failed once again.

The only other tours available were diving tours, and those are no fun. So we stuck to what we were good at: Hide and seek. We played three more times, winning gold Tortimer awards each time. Each game only took about a minute each, that’s how good we were doing.

So despite the two failures, we still scored some medals for the night. We then took the boat back to Forest.

Back in town, Merka was trying to trick someone into falling into a pitfall, but nobody fell for it. So she took the plunge into her own pit.

Squishy went home, and I jumped off the cliff for some swimming and diving.

After a little while, I ended the session for the night. But I had a dozen baskets of perfect peaches to sell, so Merka let me sell them in her town.

Once I got back home, I noticed a gold rose missing. Uh-oh.

Have a good weekend, everyone! I’ll be back with another entry tomorrow.