Today was the day of the fishing tournament. When I went over to talk to Chip (the judge), there was an option for me to tell him to look at my collection. He saw that I have caught every type of fish, and he handed me the golden fishing rod!
But before I started fishing, I made my usual rounds. I talked to villagers, watered my flowers, found the money rock, and made my trip up to Main Street. I bought a party popper at the Emporium, and updated my dream town. Luna informed me that my town has had over 3,000 dream visitors now. Thanks to everyone who has visited!
She also told me that Dan from Peloma was my most recent dream visitor. When I was done in the shopping district, I returned to town to go fishing. I caught several fish, which I donated in increasing size order. This is possible because New Leaf tells the sizes of the fish when you catch them. These are the four fish I gave to Chip, along with the reward he gave me for each:
- Olive flounder, 29.30 inches. Chip gave me an exercise bike.
- Olive flounder, 31.75 inches. Chip gave me a sea-anemone bed.
- Sea bass, 35.95 inches. Chip gave me a dotted wall.
- Sea bass, 41.25 inches. Chip gave me a crab clock.
I was also going to give Chip an 85.65 inch tuna I caught, but I was late by literally one second. The clock struck 6:00 right before I could give it to him. But that was no problem, because I still won the tournament easily. Skye won 2nd place and Teddy won 3rd place.
Even though I sold the exercise bike before the tournament ended, I took a picture of my remaining prizes: the sea anemone bed, dotted wall, and crab clock.
With the tournament over, my focus turned to snowmen. I found my daily snowballs and built my fourth bingo snowman. I couldn’t help but think they looked a little creepy staring at me like this.
After giving them all a spin, today’s numbers were 2, 3, 30, and 34. I’m closing in on my first bingo.
I then took my gold fishing trophy up to my trophy room on the second floor of the museum.
Later on, Skye (the human) came over to get her bingo card punched. I used the opportunity for a surprise attack with my party popper.
And after 8:00, I went up to Club LOL for some traditional K.K. I asked him for a random song and he performed K.K. Swing.
When I went to visit my previous snowmen, they let me reset their bingo balls.
I also built another bingo snowman near them; my numbers for today were 7, 24, and 46. But to get a good picture of all three, I had to cut down a tree. Fortunately (or is that unfortunately), the toppling tree didn’t damage the snowmen. Admit it, it would have been cool to witness a snowman screaming as a tree clobbered him. It’s a murder mister-tree!
But on the bright side, I got my picture of them all.
I then made my way up to Main Street. At the Dream Suite, Luna told me that Edward from Aquaria was my most recent dream visitor. If you haven’t yet seen Forest in the snow, my dream address is 4300-2003-9889. So feel free to visit in the dream world.
At 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. My town filled up instantly as Meli, Tiffiny, and Louis-S came over to visit. As I said hello to everyone, I accidentally erased a tile as I took this picture.
After stopping at the snowmen so some of them could get their bingo cards stamped, we hung out at my house for a while. Louis dubbed me the Dancing Santa.
When we went outside, Louis suggested we do a little swimming. So Dancing Santa became Diving Santa.
And it wouldn’t be a Forest party if Tabby didn’t get hammered.
We went up to Club LOL for some dancing. Yuka and Rolf joined us there, too. Rolf was really getting into it, shaking that tiger butt of his.
Louis left shortly before 11:00, and Jessica came over to take his place. We headed out to the island, where we did some tours. The tour selection wasn’t very good today, but we went on two bug-catching tours and one labyrinth (maze) tour. We failed the labyrinth one, but we got gold Tortimer awards for both bug tours: Jessica won the first one and Tiffiny won the second one.
Once we returned to the mainland, we went back over to the snowmen so Jessica could check her numbers. The sky was very clear tonight, so this made for a very nice pic of the snowmen and the moon.
Meli sat on my town tree to view my town history. She soon found out it was a violent history.
Tiffiny left before midnight, and Rodney came over to take her place. He’s a person who had trouble connecting with me before, but he was finally able to visit tonight. Anyway, I invited them all over to the modern clock to see it light up at midnight.
Forest’s violent history soon become Forest’s violent present, as we all got our toy hammers out.
A bit later, the Santas were sitting on the metal bench when I realized we were actually on a sleigh. So we called in a reindeer to get this sleigh off the ground.
We took turns being the reindeer, but nothing would work. Not even Rodney the red-nosed reindeer could save us. Even with three reindeer and no Santa, this sleigh was grounded.
Around 12:35, I ended the party for the night. I had a good time, and it was nice to see Forest with a full house virtually the whole time. Have a great weekend, everyone!
When I talked to Copper at the police station, he told me there was a camper in town. But of course during winter, campers don’t use a tent…they use an igloo! So I quickly made my way over there to check it out.
Alice the koala was inside, talking about how much she loves the crackling of the fire.
She also told me she was cooking an interesting recipe she got out of a book about shoe polish! I didn’t stick around to try it out.
My dynamic painting from Crazy Redd turned out to be a fake, unfortunately.
I talked to my snowman from yesterday, and he told me to give his eyes another spin. Once again, they came up showing eleven. 
Today’s snowballs were much easier to find, and I pushed them together to make another bingo snowman. This one’s number was 45, which was another number I needed.
I decided to take a picture of them both. There’s actually a tree in between them, but the tree disappears when I went in for a closer view.
This is what my bingo card currently looks like:
Skye (the wolf) asked to visit my house, so I reluctantly invited her over. I played my harp just to make her applaud for me.
After she left, I went down to the beach to see if there was a lost item on the sand. I didn’t find a lost item, but I found a lost sailor instead. It was Gulliver of course, and he (shockingly) woke up the first time I talked to him! He was clearly on his way to Canada, so he promised to send me a gift in the mail. I’m hoping it’s not a polar bear.
I went out to my island to catch some bugs. Earning money wasn’t my goal; I was trying to catch every bug I saw to see if I would catch one I still needed. I even cut some trees down so I could get stump bugs.