I actually played New Leaf in the morning today, because I wanted to buy some turnips for a change. Once I finally found Joan (the megaphone proved to be useless in my search), she told me she was selling them for 97 bells apiece. So I bought 1,000 of them for 97,000 bells.
I then stopped over by my bingo snowman and I rolled his eyes. He spun a 37 for me, and that’s the number I needed! Bingo!
He gave me a ski-slope wall in exchange for my winning bingo card.
There was an igloo at the campsite today, and Rhonda the rhino was inside.
Believe it or not, I still hadn’t read today’s mail yet (because I was rushing to find Joan before noon). So I returned home and found a letter from the snowtyke. He sent me this snowman matryoshka. When you press A, the snowmen pop inside of each other, just like the dolls of the regular matryoshka.
Benedict pinged me and told me he was going to move out on January 3rd.
Even though I like him, I’m not trying to stop him this time. My town hasn’t seen any villager movement in two months, so it’s time to change things up a bit. And it will give me the ability to take in a new villager from the campsite or from a friend.
I saw Skye walking around and I spoke with her. She told me she was reminded of a favorite book of hers, Business Strategies for Dolts.
I also ran into Teddy, who asked to visit my house.
After he was done hanging out, I went looking for today’s snowballs. I was trying to build a flawed snowboy (it sounds crazy, but having imperfect snowpeople is key to getting all of snowtyke’s items). But instead of a flawed snowboy, I made a flawed snowmam by mistake. She won’t even accept my snowflakes. Fail.
The snowtyke was just sitting there being cute, however. He told me that if I ever get a sunburn, I should go to him and he’ll cool it down for me.
As you may know, I’ve been trying to get Big Top’s picture for seven and a half months. While other villagers hand pictures out like candy, Big Top has been reluctant to hand his out.
So when Big Top asked me for a coelacanth, I actually decided to help out. So I went fishing. And I kept fishing, until I finally caught a coelacanth. I returned to Big Top and gave him the big, rare, valuable, back-from-extinction fossil fish.
And in return, he gave me….*drum roll*…. a regal sofa. WHAT? Are you kidding me?
Needless to say, I was furious at him. I haven’t decided if I should cook up some elephant steaks for dinner, or if I should just send him to the circus (from whence he came). Regardless, this elephant man is walking on thin ice right now.
Then today, I tried making my first snowtyke (using two small snowballs that were just barely big enough to be pushed instead of kicked), and I was successful. The tyke was happy with his appearance.
He then asked if his family was nearby (they were). He said they’re the perfect snowfamily and he’s going to send me a gift in the mail for making them all so perfect.
I had to walk up in front of the town tree to catch them all in the same picture, but here they are.
A bit later, Kidd asked me to visit his house. He again told me not to look in his dresser, but this time he said it’s because his baby pictures were in there.
So of course, I just had to take a look. Apparently the pictures look just like him?
Well, they are him, of course. But maybe that means he looks the same as he did in the pictures. And that made me think, maybe “baby pictures” doesn’t mean pictures of Kidd when he was a baby…maybe it means pictures of Kidd dressed up as a baby! That would explain the baby binky from yesterday! I didn’t dare open up any more dresser drawers, because I was afraid I’d find a box of diapers next.
After learning way more about Kidd than I ever wanted to know, it was time to leave.
I found a lost item near the town tree, and I eventually tracked down its owner, Teddy. He said it was a good thing that I found it instead of an evil genius. Excuse me? What makes you so sure I’m not?
Then today, I got my basic painting in the mail from Crazy Redd. I took it up to Blathers, and he informed me that it was a fake. What a disappointment.
Rolf asked me to collect signatures for a petition called “Against Judging Faces.” Tom invited me over to his town to get his bingo numbers, so I decided to try collecting the signatures there. He had some interesting tiles that seem to warp when you walk across them.
Three of his four snowmen had numbers I needed, so I got them all. I’m still one number short of a bingo, though.
Quite a few of his villagers were already in bed, but I found enough to complete my petition. Apollo, Sylvia, Marshal, Amelia, Cheri, and Angus joined the cause.
It would have been funny to have that petition signed only by ugly animals (Jambette, Tabby, Katt, Hazel, Beardo, etc.). But ain’t nobody got time for that.
Soon after that, I found Rolf and gave him the completed petition. He rewarded me with his picture again!
I continued catching snowflakes and trading them in for ice furniture. That helped my bank account balance top four million bells for the first time.
I spoke with Teddy, and he told me that he’s afraid of his own strength. He may be strong, but he’ll always be a big teddy bear to me.
At 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest and Patty came over to visit. After she shopped at GracieGrace, she showed me her new look.
We hung out for a while and she left around 10:45. By 11:00, I closed my gate for the night. I was surprised nobody else came. I don’t know if they were having trouble connecting, or if just nobody was interested in visiting.