Aurora’s Birthday

Pete met me outside my house today, giving me a letter from Nintendo. It says that items from the Japanese version of the game will be available at Nintendo Zone locations. I’ll have to check it out when the time comes.

Dear Jeff, Starting February 1st, we'll be releasing a new item every two weeks that has only been available in the Japanese version.Over by the train station, I noticed that the northern lights were up in the skies above.

The northern lights above my train station.After reading the bulletin board, I saw that today is Aurora’s birthday. So I went in to visit her, and Drago was also there, helping her celebrate.

Aurora: Awww, J bear! You came to celebrate with me? I'm so happy, chilly.I had a customized lovely lamp in my pockets, so I gave it to her as her birthday present. She really seemed to like it.

Aurora: It's a lovely lamp! I've been wanting a gift like this.Back outside, I saw today’s snowballs and I started to push them both towards the plaza. But I lost track of where I left the bigger ball, and I accidentally pushed the small one onto it! I accidentally made a snowmam! Oops! Even though she said I really knew what I was doing (no I didn’t), she was far from perfect–so she requires five snowflakes for ice furniture.

Snowmam: This balance of head and body... It's quite excellent! You really know what you're doing!When I shook one of my perfect peach trees, it died and lost its leaves. That in itself isn’t surprising. But I was surprised to see Dizzy standing right there! What was he doing hiding under the leaves of the tree? Having a snack?

Dizzy's presence revealed by the death of a tree.When I spoke to him, he just started talking about wanting to do chores with his feet. Uhh, that’s kinda gross. Mental note: Do not eat any of Dizzy’s cooking.

Dizzy: It hurt so much I cried, but I still want to learn how to do chores using only my feet.I finished up my night on Main Street, where Luna told me Adina from Serenade was my most recent dream visitor. I’ll see you all next time!

Scoring a Bingo

Tonight, Rolf asked me to play a game of hide-and-seek. I had 15 minutes to find him, Molly, and Aurora. I found Rolf first, trying to hide behind the lighthouse. He may be a big tiger, but he still acts like a regular cat sometimes. He couldn’t resist rubbing his head up against me.

Rolf hiding behind a lighthouse and rubbing up against me.A few minutes later, I found Aurora hiding behind Agent S’s house and Molly hiding behind Rolf’s house.

Molly hiding behind Rolf's house.I think it’s a bit unusual that none of them were hiding behind trees. For winning the game, Rolf gave me an office chair as my prize. Oh joy.

Rolf: Well, I have no choice. Take my office chair in memory of the great game we had!Over by my bridge, Octavian was talking about spaghetti. He’s making me hungry! As long as it’s not squid-ink spaghetti.

Octavian: Spaghetti?! Right on! Gimme some of those hot noodles right now, and I'll be a happy octopus.I then decided it was time to play some bingo!

Let's play bingo!My existing snowman rolled a #11, which I marked off on my bingo card. It still didn’t help me that much, though. So I looked for today’s snowballs and rolled up a new snowman. This one rolled a #29…BINGO!

Snowman: BINGOOOOO!He took my bingo card and gave me a snow machine.

Just a heads-up that the snow melts in less than a month. It’ll be gone on February 25th at 6 a.m.

Visiting Appleby

Yesterday, I did some more diving in the ocean and I caught another scallop. This time, Pascal popped up to ask for it.

I got a scallop! Hey, this isn't a potato at all!I gave it to him, and in return, he gave me some pirate’s armor. He also left me with these words of wisdom about weeds.

Pascal: Weeds are just flowers that no one thinks are pretty. Maaan, that's sort of depressing, isn't it?The pirate’s armor isn’t clothing or even a regular furniture item that you’d set down on the floor. It actually hangs on the wall.

The pirate's armor displayed on my wall.And then today, Joan was selling turnips for just 93 bells apiece. I bought 3,200 of them.

Joan: The asking price is 93 bells per turnip. What do you think, kiddo?I had ordered some DLC items for Beth, so I went over to her town Appleby to drop them off. Andy and Naomi (StarClan) were also there. They surprised me by popping off some party poppers when I arrived!

Party poppers in Appleby.Beth also made this big “thank you” sign with patterns.

Me in shock.That was very nice of her, but she didn’t have to go to such trouble! But she told me that wasn’t all…

Jeff: BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!She buried a bunch of presents (30 of them, I think?) all around her town for me to dig up.

Look! I dug up present!
Shouldn’t that say I dug up *a* present?

But because I’m a pretty strict ‘legit’ player, I don’t like accepting large gifts…namely the 99k money bags she was trying to give me. Not to mention I wouldn’t have had space to take that many items anyway. She was using sad emotions each time I would drop a gift back down, which made me feel kinda bad. Sorry, I appreciate the thought, but I did tell her ahead of time I wouldn’t take any extra money. That’s just how I play the game.

So I only accepted enough money to cover the cost of the items I ordered for her. But one of the presents contained some beans, and that was a gift that I gladly accepted. The beans are always fun to throw around, and we had a bean fight right there.

Everybody throwing beans at each other.We started talking about beans in general, and Mr. Bean in particular! There is actually a Mr. Bean Wii game that I didn’t even know existed. That might be fun to pick up some and laugh at/with it. We also fed the fish, and we talked about how there should be ducks that show up in the river too. It would be hilarious to see Molly or Freckles jump in the river for a swim.

Feeding the ducks.After an hour in Appleby, I returned home for the day. Thanks for everything, Beth! (And Andy and Naomi too!) I turned the game off for a while, but I returned to it in the evening. Octavian told me he was going to move out of town on January 29th, but I made him change his mind.

Octavian: All right! Forget anything I just said about moving and stuff!Sprinkles asked me for some furniture, and I gave her a customized regal armoire I had in my pockets. She liked it so much that she gave me her picture again!

Sprinkle: It's Sprinkles's pic! Thanks so much!
Shouldn’t that be Sprinkle’s pic?

A bingo snowman (that I built yesterday) rolled a #28 for me. I punched it off my bingo card, and that gave me a double ding. Maybe I’ll get a bingo soon.

Snowman: DOUBLE DING!I finished up my night with a trip up to Main Street, where Luna told me Felix from Windrush recently visited my dream town.

Thanks, everyone. I’ll see you next time.