Like a lot of you, my wife and I have been stuck at home trying to pass the time watching

our favorite movies or playing games.

One day kind of flows into the next, you know, it was getting hard to keep things from

being too boring, not being able to hang with friends, and then we got our stimulus package.

My wife surprised me with an Nintendo Switch Lite.

At the time, the things were pretty hard to come by, but somehow she found a guy who had

one on eBay for decent price and it arrived around early April.

She even bought me a brand new game to go along with it.

Something we could play together.

Animal Crossing New Horizons

After I met when I first uploaded the game, I wasn't familiar with the mechanics or

the previous entries in the series, but after only about an hour of playing, I found myself

hooked.

It was just so much to do in the game and none of it even felt tedious.

Before I knew it, I was chopping, fishing, bug catching, and crafting for hours on end.

My wife made me take a break and created her own character.

The named our island, Amity, to represent friendship with the animals.

And before long, we were fighting over who's turn it was to grab some nook miles for

to purchase furniture from the store.

There's always something to do in the game, and I appreciate the fact that it ran in

real time because that encouraged a more relaxed play than the usual games I was accustomed

to.

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