Today is the winter solstice, which marks the official beginning of winter (in the northern hemisphere) and it’s also the shortest day of the year in terms of daylight hours. Animal Crossing: New Leaf takes this “shortest day” stuff to the extreme: The sun never rises all day! This picture was taken at 3:45 p.m.
I got a letter from Gulliver in the mail, and he sent me a gift from Mexico. He said it was a creepy doll called a calavera, but the item itself was just called a skeleton figurine. I put it in my World Wonders museum exhibit.
Isabelle was at the event plaza talking about the winter solstice and how cold she felt.
She also gave me a blue glow wand to mark the occasion (and to help me see as I walked around town).
The bulletin board announced that Timmy and Tommy had a queen for sale! What? How? Why? …How much?
I built a new bingo snowman, and I got new bingo numbers from it and my other bingo snowman. I needed both numbers…yet I still didn’t get a bingo! That’s a total of 18 numbers marked off, too! There’s no doubt anymore: These snowmen are clearly trolling me!
I then went up to the Dream Suite to revisit StarmanPhantom’s Tazmily town. That’s the Mother 3 themed town I featured on my Dream Suite Adventures page before. He’s added some new projects, so I updated that page to reflect the additions.
After I was done dreaming, Luna told me that Ryan from Rosewood was the most recent visitor to my town.
Later on, I noticed the northern lights (aurora borealis) up in the sky. This is the first time I’ve seen them in my New Leaf town.
Chris came over to collect signatures for a petition, and we stopped for a picture at the winter solstice face-standee cutout.
But he needed six signatures, and we could only find five of my ten villagers in town! I eventually found Big Top hiding in the fossil room at the museum.
Chris was done with his petition, so I ended the party. Before I quit for the night, I remembered to go up to Club LOL to get a song from K.K. He performed Mountain Song for me. I was thinking I already that song, but apparently I didn’t.
I hate to say it, but Tabby’s actually been pretty useful when it comes to suggesting new PWPs. Rolf and her seem to suggest the bulk of my projects. Anyway, the illuminated clock may look great at night, but it sure looks ugly when it’s not lit up. But I play at night a lot, so I will consider installing it in my town.
I was by the edge of the cliff when a balloon present smacked me in the head. OW!
Jessica needed signatures for a petition, so she asked me to open my gate. I did, but she was unable to connect despite numerous attempts. So she invited me over to her town instead, and oddly enough, that worked just fine. Jessica had a perfect snowmam in her town, which means it only required three snowflakes for a piece of ice furniture instead of five.
So I took advantage of the snowmam by catching snowflakes and paying reduced prices for her services. There was one part of Jessica’s town that really impressed me: The area around her town tree was surrounded by a circle of trees. This picture doesn’t quite do it justice, but it’s really cool.
It was getting late, so I returned home for the night.
Gulliver was down on the beach today, and he’s headed off to Mexico. He will send me a gift from there tomorrow.
When I made a snowman today, it turned into another snowmam. It wasn’t even a perfect one, so it didn’t help me out very much. Well, I guess it gives me one day longer to collect the full ice set, but that’s not a big deal.
He told me this situation was even more rare than a completed bingo!
I’ve punched 15 different numbers, and I still don’t have a bingo. This is my failure of a bingo card:
I spotted Phineas, so I went up to him and asked him for a badge. He gave me the Village Gardener silver badge for planting lots of flowers.
Skye was on the metal bench, and she invited me up to sit with her so we could warm each other up.
So I joined her for a quick snuggle. I think Big Top was getting jealous.
A bit later, Big Top asked me for some furniture that could sit on a table. I wasn’t sure what to give him, so I just caught a fish (a bitterling) for him. He said he would take care of it and raise it as if it were me! That’s kind of an odd thing to say.
Out of curiosity, I decided to see how much ice furniture sells for. Reese will pay 8,888 bells for each piece. Of course, the reason for that price is because the number 8 resembles a snowman.
At 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Patty, Squishy, and Nick from Ylisstol came over to visit. Both Squishy and Nick have had trouble connecting to my town in the past, but they were able to visit tonight without problems. Squishy gave me some perfect oranges, so thank you Squishy! I told them to explore, but after a while we ended up in my house.
While Patty was sitting on my bench and Squishy was by my illuminated tree, I surprised Squishy with a party popper to the head.
She must not have appreciated it, because she got her hammer out. Now this is a face that wants revenge:
After a while, Patty left and the rest of us went out to the island. I chose the giant dragonfly tour and we got an easy 20 medals, not counting our bonuses.
We also did a hammer tour (which Nick won) and an ore mining tour (which I won). We then did a little fishing and bug-catching.
And then we headed back to Forest. Kapp’n called Squishy a queen and said that Nick and I were her servants!
Around 11:30, Squishy left (it was 4:30 a.m. for her!). I started catching some snowflakes for my ice furniture collection, and Nick left a bit after that. So I closed the gate around midnight. I now have eight pieces of ice furniture, plus the wall and floor. So I believe I only need three more pieces and I’ll have the whole set! Good deal.
And today, Skye (the wolf) asked me to collect signatures for a “Scamper to Victory” petition.
Benedict told me that he wants a doll for Christmas. Really??
Maybe I’ll buy him a bus ticket to 
I then went out into the cold to hunt for snowballs. I put two of them together and fortunately, I created a snowmam!
I think she was hitting on me!
I gave her five snowflakes I had in my pockets and she gave me an ice wall. But the best thing is that while she’s here, new snowflakes will appear randomly…even if it’s not snowing! So I kept my eye out for more snowflakes as I made my way around town.
Rolf asked me for some furniture, so I gave him a balloon sofa I shot down from a balloon present. I didn’t think he’d enjoy junk like that, but I was wrong. He liked it so much that he gave me his picture again! I now have duplicates of Rolf, Molly, and Benedict. Yet still none from Big Top, Kidd, Skye, or Teddy. (Well I don’t have Tammy’s either, but I don’t want hers).
Every now and then, I’d notice a snowflake and catch it.
Later on, Tiffiny let me know she was opening her gate. So I went to her town Auctus to get my petition signatures. I also met Mikki and Jet while I was there.
I tracked down six of Tiffiny’s villagers, including Bob, who was hiding in the bug room of the museum! Bob was the final signature I needed (even though I stupidly forgot to take a picture of the completed petition). But Bob didn’t remember me from ACCF, so I was heartbroken. 😛
I took the petition back to Skye and she rewarded me with an oil lamp. It made me want to set myself on fire, because I was really hoping for her picture.
Anyway, I caught five additional snowflakes and took them to Snowmam. She gave me an ice floor this time.
I’m going to keep looking for snowflakes so I can hopefully complete the set before she melts. I think I’m going to keep it all in my main room, because from what I’ve seen, the ice set is probably my favorite new furniture series in New Leaf.