Friendship Festival Starts Friday!

I am so excited about the start of Friendship Festival on Friday that I can't get a song out of my head. Maybe you know it: 
 
Make new friends, but keep the old.  
One is silver, and the other, gold.

Friendship Festival will be a time to celebrate with the friends you already have, and to make new friends. There will be delightful decorations, extra Quests, and, of course lots of colorful Friendship Bracelets scattered all over Pandanda for you to collect. When you have enough Friendship Bracelets, you can visit Lucy at the Fishing Hole to trade them for special Friendship Fest prizes.

And don't forget, the Pandanda Forecasters predict we will have another heavy snow just in time for Friendship Festival. So don't pack away your warm clothes just yet!

More Snow is Forecast for Pandanda!

Hey there, friends!

Well, the groundhog saw his shadow on Groundhog Day, which means six more weeks of winter. The Pandanda weather forecasters had thought things were warming up in Pandanda, but they now agree with the groundhog's prediction. The new weather forecast is for heavy snow to hit Pandanda again late next week, just in time for the Friendship Festival!

Maggie is so excited for more snow that she is now selling Sled Companions, along with her Horse and Pony Companions. Head over to Farmer Ned's Barn to check them out! The sleds come in 3 color combinations, and will be just the thing for getting around Pandanda after the snowfall.

And here's some great news for those of you who love to shop - you can now buy MORE Vault space! You can buy up to 500 more spaces, for a total of 1000 spaces. The Vault is a great place to store your summer clothes, holiday decorations, or anything else. Putting things in your Vault lets you free up space in your closet and treehouse storage for new clothing or furniture.

I've got some more cool stuff to share with you all, but I will save that for my next post. Talk to you soon!

Henry

Winter Festival Starts Tomorrow!

 

I can already feel the temperature dropping, and the snow clouds are starting to gather. I expect to see Pandanda covered with snow for the start of the Winter Festival tomorrow! The townspeople are ready to "Deck the Halls" with Christmas decorations, and the delivery of a huge and beautifully decorated Christmas Tree has been arranged for Bear Hollow. There will even be festive holiday music!

Chilly the Snowman will be back to trade his awesome holiday prizes for the Stocking Stuffers you will collect from all over Pandanda. Almost all of Chilly's prizes will be available to every player. There will also be some holiday items added to the Clothing Catalog and House & Tree Catalog for Elite members, so make sure to check those out!

In addition to collecting Stocking Stuffers to trade to Chilly, there will be some extra holiday-themed Quests for you to do each day. So you should have plenty to do to keep you moving and warm, even in the snow!

I promised to post some more pictures that you sent in from Red and Green Day last week, so here they are!

Sunnynemi, SelenaAmaris, Alexandru356, Caisa456

Lucca

Thomaz

Cresent1

dirdor

Bundle up, and get ready for Winterfest!
Henry

Winter Festival Starts Thursday!

Hi Friends!

The Pandanda Winter Festival begins in just 3 days! The Pandanda townspeople are working hard to get their holiday decorations ready.  I was checking the Pandanda weather forecast for this week, and it looks like there is a very good chance that we will get lots more snow! I bet it will be just in time for the Winter Festival.

During the Winter Fest you will collect stocking stuffers that will appear all around Pandanda, then trade them for awesome Winter prizes. It will be 20 days of Wintery Fun!

We've started to get lots of entries in the Festive Photo with Your Friends Contest. You can click that link to read all about how to enter the contest. You have until 11:59pm PST on Sunday, December 18th to email us your pictures.

Please make sure to read the rules of the contest very carefully. If your entry does not follow all of the rules, it will not be entered in the contest.

Red and Green Day last Wednesday was so much fun! Everyone looked Christmas-y in their red and green outfits. Here are just a few of the pictures that you sent in from Red and Green Day. I'll post some more this week.

Sherman98cp

 

 

Mistral

Lisiana

 

 

 

 

Pictures from HUGE DAY!

Hey Panda Pals!

I hope you are enjoying the chilly Pandanda temperatures and the snow! The island looks so beautiful covered in a light dusting of snow. And everyone looks nice in their sweaters and coats. Just remember, if you get too cold, you can always take a trip to Coconut Beach, where it always stays nice and warm!

I had a great time during my HUGE DAY visits! It was so awesome seeing Pandanda full of giant pandas! And, boy, if you thought the flying dragons were big at regular size, they are massive after Dragon Tears potion! Check out these pictures from my visits on Thursday, and you'll see what I mean!

Lots of fun stuff is coming up next week. Zing will have his 4th prize on Monday, Red and Green Color Day is Wednesday, and Game Day is next Saturday. And in less than two weeks, the wonderful Winter Festival will begin. I can't wait!! Mark your calendars so you won't miss a thing!

Ooooh, one more thing! Mr. Elmhurst has gotten in some holiday items for decorating your treehouse. Stop by West Market Street to see what he has to get your tree house ready for the holidays!

Party on, Pandas!
Henry

HUGE DAY!!! And SNOW!!! And NEW CLOTHES!!! WOW!!!

December 1st is a triple-great day in Pandanda! Snow, new clothes, and HUGE DAY!

To be a part of HUGE DAY, just visit Paige in Bear Hollow for her Dragon Tears potion - it will make you HUGE! Have a HUGE dance at The Purple Door, go HUGE fishing at the Fishing Hole, play HUGE Bunny Chase and Ghosts of Misty Hill (maybe you will scare the ghosts!) Whatever you do, make it HUGE!

I am planning to get in on the fun of HUGE day myself! I will be visiting at 7:30am Pandanda Time, then again at 5pm Pandanda Time.  You can click the link for both of those times to see when I will visit where you live. I'm going to be looking for lots and lots of HUGE pandas so I can take some awesome pictures for my blog!

And don't forget about the new winter clothes at the Clothing Co. They are sure to come in handy for keeping warm in Pandanda's first snowfall of the season. Yep, the Weather Forecasters were right - Pandanda is covered with a light, fluffy snow! Now it really feels like December!

What a great way to start off the last month of the year! I hope you agree with me - December is going to be awesome!

Keep warm, pandas!
Henry

Pandanda Fun in December

Great news! The Pandanda Weather Forecaster is predicting SNOW sometime this week. I hope it will be on Thursday. Wouldn't that be an awesome way to start December?

It's a good thing Fitch at the Clothing Co. is getting in a shipment of winter clothes on Thursday. You'll be able to bundle up in some warm new clothes for the snow! Hooray!

And that's not all to look forward to on December 1st! Thursday will be Pandanda's first ever HUGE DAY! Visit Paige in Bear Hollow and stock up on Dragon Tears Potions. Drink the potion and become HUGE! I want to see Pandanda full of humongous pandas on the first day of December!

Here's a peek at the other events I have planned for December:

• December 5th - Zing reveals his 4th prize
• December 7th - Red and Green Color Day
• December 10th - Game Day
• December 11th - Zing's last day in Pandanda
• December 15th - Winterfest begins
• December 20th - Special Day (theme to be announced soon)
• December 23rd - Christmas Outfit and Caroling Around the Tree Day
• December 25th - Christmas Day with a Gift!

I will also be announcing a contest later this week! Watch my blog for the details!

I'm ready for December!
Henry