Jennifer's 365 Project

There's a meteor shower on my island tonight, so Uncle Jeff and Quinn stopped by and the 3 of us hung out and had fun together for a few hours.

Quinn found a beard accessory in Animal Crossing, so he immediately found a red shirt and blue jeans, which are the signature outfit Chris wears regularly. It's was adorable to watch him create and to see how amused Chris was.

At lunch I went out to pump up the tires in my bike a little more (they were still low). The inner tube split, which isn't surprising given it's 11 years old.
Instead of riding around, Quinn and I took a walk at the local park.
Then we spent a few hours outside in the yard playing, and doing sidewalk chalk art.
We had a lot of fun and enjoyed the sunshine very much.

Popped into Animal Crossing for a little bit and was happy to discover that my town has achieved Perfect Town status.
Now to keep this up for the next several days so I can collect more Jacob's Ladder plants.

I was never much for breeding flowers in the other Animal Crossing games, but I've decided to try my hand at it this time. I don't have a full blown field of flowers going, but I am getting there. First orange and purple. Next will be black roses.

I love this game. Have I mentioned I love Animal Crossing? Because I do. The whole idea of being able to visit someone else's town in your sleep is kinda awesome.

I've played a LOT of Animal Crossing New Leaf lately. This super casual, slice of life game is addictive. I loved playing it on my GameCube way back when, and on the Wii.

Mostly I just love booting up the game, talking to the animals and just get their reactions to things. Bee stings, mail sent, gifts given, and so on. And then there are the whole plethora of visitors that come and go throughout your town, like a shady fox selling "priceless art" or a turnip seller that lets you play the Stalk Market (get it?). It's adorable.

Plus they've added cool new things, like special items from other Nintendo games that you can pick up by eating fortune cookies. Who can say no to Midna's Mask?

New Leaf is as addictive as the first one I played back on the GameCube, and more portable, which is probably a dangerous combination.

The latest Animal Crossing game is out and it's adorable. I spent quite a bit running around collecting fish and talking to my neighbors in game.
In the afternoon we headed out downtown to play some Ingress. I could lie and say it was for the Grand Rapids Festival of the Arts, but we honestly spent most of the time avoiding the festival area and walking around downtown by the river.

We had a pretty good time and got a fair amount of exercise walking back and forth and all over the place.

And then I went home and played a ton more Animal Crossing.