A couple weeks ago, the family all got a notification that Pikmin bloom was having their first community day and we, along with the rest of the world, were invited to walk 10,000 steps on November 13th. We were all in for the event!
We've all been playing Pikmin Bloom pretty religiously around here. The Uber Wife is kind of killing the rest of us in the family as she's now level 19 . . . or maybe even 20 after yesterday! I've been the slowest of the bunch, but still I was sitting at a respectable level 14 at the start of the day yesterday.
But is it that respectable? No way. The real fun doesn't start until level 15 when you can attack mushrooms with your pikmin for cool postcard rewards, and believe me, the rest of the family all let me know that I needed to start walking my weight and get up to level 15.
We decided to start our day out with a Donut Adventure in downtown Austin TX to try some seriously amazing donuts at a place called The Salty Donut. It was soul crushing to watch the kids enjoying a horchata donut. Um, donuts are 100 percent off the menu for me these days as a diabetic, but man they looked good.
After this we drove down to the south shore of Lady Bird Lake in Downtown Austin and walked around the shore's excellent trail system. For us it had TONS of flowers waiting to be bloomed, and we all launched our detectors here hoping for a riverside pikmin.
In case you're unaware of how it works, Pikmin come from different locations. Most pikmin are "roadside" pikmin, but others come from restaurants, grocery stores, cafes, movie theaters, zoos, forests, post offices, art galleries, airports . . . the list goes on and on. You can see it for yourself here. When a pikmin gains four hearts of love and attention, it sets out to retrieve a gift box and then its silly decor is manifested on its body.
By the end of the day I had walked my 10,000 steps (and then some), dinged level 15, and earned my new badge . . . kinda. Apparently it'll take a while for that badge to show up in everyone's inventories. That's ok though . . . the badge doesn't really do anything but it's kind of cool to earn it yesterday since there's really no other way to get that badge.
Anyway, after I hit 15th level, I was super happy to participate in my first mushroom attack with the entire family! We crushed it.
To be honest, the best part of the day was simply being out with the family walking around and having fun together, and that's really what Pikmin Bloom is all about.
Happy Dueling!
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