Nature Day

Today is Nature Day (Earth Day) in the North American versions of Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Isabelle can be found at the event plaza handing out a cool globe. She told me to never forget the importance of a clean town…as the area around her is flooded with leftover candy from Easter. Oops.

Isabelle: It's a cool globe! Please take it and never forget the importance of a clean town!For the event, there’s also a face-cutout standee where two players can hug the world. Awww.

Hugging the world in the Nature Day standee.Here’s a look at the cool globe.

The cool globe.Up in the Dream Suite, Luna told me Caitlin from Albany was my most recent dream visitor. And when I went into Able Sisters, Gabi quickly walked to the window and kept staring out into the sunlight. She’s an odd one.

Gabi mindlessly staring out the window.And Kidd told me he was moving out of town on April 24th (as Nan looked on). However, I’m not ready for him to move out just yet. I’ve grown to like Kidd, so he’s sticking around a while.

Kidd: I'm making my big exit on the 24th of this month. At least that's the plan, oh pooh.Agent S asked me to make a delivery to Gala, and I was surprised to see what was in her house. She has two piggy banks! Are they her kids? Pets?

Gala: Yay! OK, let me open it!The item Agent S sent her was a blue check shirt. She thanked me and gave me a biwa lute for my trouble.

As a reminder, the three giveaway winners will be announced in tomorrow night’s blog entry. Good luck, everyone!

Tweeter

It was raining as I started up the game today. And a message posted on the bulletin board said that tomorrow is Nature Day. Wow, that makes three events for this week: Easter was yesterday, Nature Day is tomorrow, and then Weeding Day is coming up on Friday.

Anyway, I saw I had a StreetPass from Ian, so I quickly went up to the Happy Homes Showcase. This was apparently the 10th time I got his character in the showcase, so that means I get the ultimate StreetPass prize: A tweeter! Yes! Finally!

Blowing my new tweeter from Ian.I had fun blowing it for a while, but I eventually returned to town. In the police station, I was surprised to see it was completely full of items for the first time ever. Aside from the four tricky pitfall seeds that were already in there, the rest was filled with candy!

The Lost and Found full of pitfall seeds and candy.The reason it’s there is because Crazy Redd’s art gallery displaced my candy collection. Crazy Redd didn’t have any art that I needed though, so I didn’t buy anything from him today.

I stopped over Kim’s town briefly to make a trade.

Visiting Kim.When I returned to Forest, Agent S asked me for a new greeting.

Agent S: Who stole my nut?And Kidd told me how he thinks umbrellas are mostly for show. That’s only because video game rain isn’t real.

Kidd: This umbrella is mostly for show. Even if you use an umbrella, you're still gonna get wet, oh pooh.Tia asked me for a Forest pear. But I didn’t give her a Forest pear, I gave her a perfect pear from Auctus. She loved it, and she finally gave me her picture!

Tia: I'm so satisfied! Here. I'll give you my Tia's pic as my way of saying thank you.Here’s a look at it:

Tia's pic.Her favorite quote is “Tea is a cup of life.”

Quote on Tia's pic: Tea is a cup of life.Back outside, a fake rock gave me a gold nugget. I grabbed two other gold nuggets from storage and took them all to Cyrus at Re-Tail. He turned them into a golden wall torch! That means my golden furniture set is complete at last!

Take home the golden wall torch?I returned home and hung it on the wall.

Hanging up my golden wall torch.I got a lot accomplished today! The tweeter, Tia’s pic, and the golden wall torch are things I’ve been trying to get for a while now. That wrapped up my day in Forest, but I’ll be back with more tomorrow to see what Nature Day has in store for us all.

Thank you for reading! 🙂

By the way, Chrissie from Astoria was my most recent dream visitor.

Bunny Day (Easter)

This morning, Joan was selling turnips for 108 bells apiece. I bought 1,000 of them.

Joan: So 1,000 turnips comes out to be... 108,000 bells altogether. Do you wanna buy them?Between my fountain and metal bench, Gala gave me a grapefruit table. It made for a very colorful photo.

Gala: Oh, um, if it's not your taste, you can just throw it away.And of course, today is Easter–also known as Bunny Day in Animal Crossing. Bunny Day first appeared in City Folk on Wii, but it’s more complicated this time around. It still has eggs you can dig up from underground…

Look! I dug up an earth egg!But there are other types of eggs, too: Six in total. Zipper T. Bunny will tell you about them.

Zipper: Check the trees, the rocks, the water... Don't forget to look on the ground or up in the sky!Aside from the buried earth eggs, you’ll also collect stone eggs from fake rocks, sky eggs from balloon presents, water eggs from fishing, tree eggs from shaking trees, and deep sea eggs from diving. So you’ll probably want a shovel, a fishing rod, a slingshot, and a wet suit.

I got an egg from the seabed! I'd better take it to Zipper!You need to find one egg of each type before Zipper will give you the egg basket. At first, I thought that meant it would require six eggs for every piece of furniture. Fortunately, that’s not the case. You can eat any other eggs you find: Most of them will contain candy, but some will contain a winning ticket or a grand-prize ticket.

The candy isn’t helpful as far as Bunny Day is concerned. But the winning tickets can be exchanged for other pieces of egg furniture. The grand-prize ticket can be exchanged for Zipper’s pic. Each time you get a new item, Zipper sings a little song.

Zipper: You've done a great job with your eggy search.Zipper: I'll give you a prize! It's fun bunny merch!Zipper seems to be rather depressed and he hates his job. He also doesn’t like when you waste his time.

Zipper: Hey! Kid, I don't know what you're playing at here, but c'mon.When I spoke to Kidd, he mentioned talking to Allie from Destiny. Allie is someone who came over once to get a bingo number back in February.

Tom wanted to stop over briefly, so I opened my gate for a bit. He came dressed as an Easter bunny…if an Easter bunny wore a dress.

Jeff: Nice dress.He offered me a couple of his egg furniture items, but I declined; I wanted to complete the set on my own. After he left, one of the trees I shook contained a bee that I didn’t quite catch. It caught me instead. But with a swollen eye, I continued searching for eggs and checking their contents.

Sweet! I got a winning ticket!It took me a few hours or so, but I managed to collect all 15 items. That includes 12 pieces of egg furniture, one wall, one floor, and Zipper’s pic. If you’d like to double-check to see what you may be missing, here is a full list of everything:

  • egg basket
  • egg bed
  • egg bench
  • egg chair
  • egg clock
  • egg dresser
  • egg floor
  • egg lamp
  • egg stereo
  • egg table
  • egg toy set
  • egg TV
  • egg wall
  • egg wardrobe
  • Zipper’s pic

By the time I finished, I also had 39 pieces of candy leftover.

All of my leftover candy.I then went up to do my shopping run. Rolf wasn’t very supportive of my eye accident.

Rolf: GAHAHA! You must have been stung by a pretty ornery bee!But I bought some medicine for my eye and then put my egg furniture in one of my rooms. This might make a good prize for a future giveaway, don’t you think?

The egg furniture set.And before I ended my game for the night, I decided to take a look at Zipper’s favorite quote. I wonder what inspirational message he might have for us all on this Easter Sunday:

Quote on Zipper's pic: Hippity-hoppity wish-wash-whoa!“Hippity-hoppity wish-wash-whoa!” I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Happy Easter, everyone!