Toy Day 2014 – Christmas Eve

I got two letters in the mail today. One was a letter from Gulliver, who sent me a tribal mask from Kenya. The other was this letter from Dad, wishing me a happy Toy Day. He attached a record player to the letter.

Dear Jeff, Remember when I dressed up as Santa to give you your presents? I always got a kick out of seeing you smile. -DadMy villagers were initially fooled by my outfit, and they thought I was Santa. Even though they’ve seen me wearing this outfit for weeks already.

Molly: Santa?! Did you get my suggestions for improving the aerodynamics of your sleigh?But they kind of figured out I wasn’t Santa…but only because Jingle wasn’t in town yet.

Big Top: Oh, wow! SANTA! But...you can't really be him. After all, Jingle's not in town yet.Jingle doesn’t show up until 6:00 p.m. though. But once the time came, I found Santa’s deer friend by my eastern ramp.

Jingle: Happy holidays! I'm Jingle, the black-nosed reindeer!He asked me to help him out by delivering the presents to the villagers in town. He gave me Santa’s bag to carry around.

Jingle: That Santa bag is a magical sack filled up with presents for everyone here in town!So I began giving out presents to my villagers. Thanks to the notes I kept of the hints my villagers gave me throughout December, most of the presents were pretty obvious. For example, Sprinkle wanted yellow food, so the banana in Santa’s bag was clearly her gift of choice.

Sprinkle: I must've been SUCH a good penguin this year!A few of them weren’t quite that obvious, but they weren’t that hard to figure out. Amelia’s “yellow doll” turned out to be a lucky gold cat, and Kabuki’s “brown toy” was a foosball table.

Kabuki: Ooh, a foosball table! My wish came true! Hooray!The gifts made all of my villagers quite happy.

Big Top: Awesome! Thanks! This is proof that there really is a Santa!I delivered nine of the presents, but I was having trouble finding Drago. It turns out, he was down on the beach!

Drago: Not to sound greedy, but where's my present?I gave him his yellow clothes (a leopard tee) and I was done! I then returned to Jingle and he took Santa’s bag back. He congratulated me on a job well done; I delivered everything to the right person animal.

Jingle: Let's see... Yup, yup! You've indeed delivered everything perfectly, kid!He gave me a festive wreath as my reward.

Jingle: Since you did such a holly-jolly job, I'll give you a special little present. It's a festive wreath!I should be getting Jingle’s picture in the mail tomorrow for completing the event perfectly.

Thank you all for visiting, and I wish you all a very Merry Christmas! 🙂 I’ll be back with another blog entry tomorrow, so I hope you’ll stop by again!

Capricorn Ornament DLC

The latest DLC item came out today, so I picked up my Capricorn ornament from Pelly at the post office.

Pelly: Sorry to keep you waiting! I hope you enjoy your new Capricorn ornament!An ornament? That sounds like something small enough to put on your Christmas tree, right? Yeah…no. It doesn’t matter how stubborn you are, you’re going to have trouble getting this to fit on any tree.

The Capricorn ornament DLC.Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and Big Top is getting pretty excited about it. He even said he’s going to go to bed early tonight so that he can properly greet Jingle tomorrow.

Big Top: I wanna be able to give Jingle a proper welcome, so I might turn in early tonight.I only found one of my snowballs today, so I didn’t make a new snowperson. But I did speak with my snowman from yesterday, and I rolled his eyes for another number: 21.

My bingo snowman rolls a number 21.Kabuki mentioned a dreamer, J.C. from Chokolat, and said that he was a deep diver.

Kabuki: That reminds me! I recently had a dream involving J.C. from over in Chokolat.I met up with Gulliver down on the beach, and he was talking about giraffes, lions, and elephants. He’s headed to Kenya, and he’ll be sending me a gift from there tomorrow.

Gulliver: There are giraffes, elephants, lions, and of course, GULLIVER! At least there will be when I show up.Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and I’ll be back with a Toy Day blog entry. I have all of my Toy Day clues, so it should be a quick and easy event for me. I hope you all have yours! Good luck with your Toy Day adventures, have a great Christmas Eve, and I’ll see you tomorrow!

Dreaming of Hotel Dojo

Today, I made a Dream Suite visit to a town suggested to me by gg last November. Yes, that’s November of 2013. That shows you how far behind I am on dream suggestions. The dream address is 3300-0197-4819. The town name is in Japanese, so I don’t know what it’s officially called, although gg referred to it as Hotel Dojo.

This town's Dream Address: 3300-0197-4819.One of the first things I noticed when looking at the map was that the villager houses are pretty much all in a row in the southern part of town.

The town map of Hotel Dojo.A ninja suit is available near the starting point, so I put it on as I began my tour of town. Looking over the cliff, I saw an ocean of blue roses! I’ve never seen so many!

An ocean of blue roses.My favorite part of town had the illuminated public works projects (PWPs): The illuminated heart, tree, clock, and the arch (just out of view in this picture):

Illuminated public works projects.But there are many picturesque spots all around town, with tons of hybrid flowers just about everywhere you look. It’s a very pretty town.

A hot spring and bamboo trees.A pretty area near the wooden bridge in Hotel Dojo.If you’re looking for a good dream town to visit, you can’t go wrong with Hotel Dojo.

A fire pit, windmill, and campground in Hotel Dojo.There is one thing keeping me from doing a full Dream Suite Adventure write-up of the town, though: The houses. Don’t get me wrong, the houses are very nice and well-done. But nothing in any of them really blew me away. Maybe it takes a lot to impress me now that I’ve seen so many good dream towns, but the houses didn’t have that “wow factor” for me.

I’d love to see something truly unique that hasn’t been done; even one signature room can turn a good outdoor town into a great dream town. But with that said, Hotel Dojo is still a very good town well worth a visit. The dream address again is 3300-0197-4819. Thanks for the suggestion, gg!

Flowers around the fountain in Hotel Dojo.Once I was done dreaming, I returned to Forest. I found Aurora by my town tree, and she said there was something magnetic about me today; she wanted to keep following me around. Maybe the North Pole vibe of my Santa suit was attracting her South Pole penguin roots.

Aurora: I don't know why, but I just want to follow you around town today... Sheesh, what's wrong with me?I rolled together today’s snowballs into a snowman; this was my first bingo snowman of the season. He rolled his eyes at me and rolled number 29. I needed that number on the bingo card he gave me, so I punched it off.

Snowman: Aha! It appears you do have 29! Please punch a hole in your card!I’m not really concerned about completing my own bingo card though, since I’ve already collected all of the snowman’s items last winter. I may be able to help some of you out, however. Some days (or nights, to be more accurate), I’ll be posting that day’s bingo numbers on Twitter.

I’ll be back with another blog entry tomorrow, so I hope to see you then. Have a great day, everyone!