Summer may be winding down, but there’s plenty going on in Animal Crossing!  I still had to catch the Giant Petaltail and Jellyfish this month.  As I explained in my previous entry, I recently chopped down ALL the trees, and dug up and hid my flowers.  I did this to give rare bugs a better chance of appearing more often, as well as to give myself a better chance at actually chasing them.

It seems to have paid off already!  I got my tarantula the other night, and then yesterday while playing at around 6:15 pm:

I think I got really lucky with this catch.  I noticed it zooming West from the Town Hall… which meant there wasn’t much space for him to get far away from me.  I chased it to the wall, as you can see.  Then the GP had to turn south to try and escape me, so during it’s slight pause I swiped my net and snagged it.  What a relief, I caught it without having to destroy the grass much at all!

This basically means that I can start reconstructing Shaolin again.  Yay!  I think I will wait until next week.  I will have my gate open TOMORROW (Sunday!) starting at 9pm for the Fireworks Show.  Leave a comment if you’re planning on coming!  Or send me an email.  Or whatever, be mean and don’t come!  😦  lol

Today is the 15th.  That means “mid-August,” which is the only time that Jellyfish can be caught.  Not only that, but apparently August 15th is DLC Day – all three major regions received DLC today!  USA, EU and JP!  I haven’t managed to take a trip to the UK yet (hopefully soon!) but I did receive the USA DLC, which is a “Hopscotch Floor.”  I placed it in my room… and was a little disappointed.  But I think it would probably match the Chainlink Fence wallpaper pretty well.  The JP DLC is called the “Eggplant Cow.”  Obviously, I went to Japan to pick it up for myself and Vella.

Chokomaru had built himself a cool throne room.  You can see the Eggplant Cow on the table, next to the crown.  I tried to ask Chokomaru what the Eggplant Cow is for, and he couldn’t explain.  I asked if it was for kids and he said no.  Soooo I’m at a loss lol!  His throne room looks awesome.  I didn’t realize he was THAT rich!  lol  Anyone who has 12 thrones and a royal crown in their room has GOT to be loaded.

I’m going to be setting up a throne room in Dan’s house soon.  He actually REQUESTED it.  Shocking!  Anyway, back to the story…

After checking out the new throne room, we set off for the beach.  I needed to catch the Jellyfish!  I wasn’t sure how small the shadow was supposed to be.  I saw a tiny shadow, but it was only a clownfish.  Then I tried a shadow that looked like it would be a horse mackerel.  But instead, a jellyfish came out!  Hooray!

So it was a VERY productive morning.  Today is now the Bug Off and I’m going to see if I can submit one of my scorpions.  I might add to this post later today if anything exciting happens.