Halloween Pt. 1

So the Halloween event has been ticking along nicely and I must say it is seriously spooky how much I started missing Pidgey! Sadly my town has an overflow of every "spooky" Pokemon other than the ghosts, the one type I need. But that said I have managed to get enough ghosts to get my silver medal, so I am pretty happy with that. I don't see myself getting the gold just yet though, but it is good to have future goals.

So I decided to hatch my 10KM eggs as the candy was so tempting and then I found an additional two more so in total I have hatched 7 in the last two days. 

Needless to say I have plenty of Electabuzz candy! I was pretty thrilled to hatch my second Lapras - she is nowhere near as good as my original one but she is still super sweet. Plus she gave me enough candy to finally max out Light. 

She made her gym debut this afternoon. I'm so proud of my girls!<3

Trick or Treat?

Today a Halloween event was announced! From the 26th of Oct until the 1st of November players will receive extra candy for various activities and there will be extra spooky Pokemon around. I'm not a Halloween person but I am excited nonetheless!

I am most excited about the buddy candy bonus, with  4x candy I might just finally max out my Lapras. And then the extra ghosts will be delightful. I went looking for the rumoured Gastly nest on the weekend only to find unexpected rain so only ended up catching one of the two I saw. I would be really happy to work on my Hex Maniac badge a bit over the next week, In Canberra/Sydney I found a Gastly most days but they are pretty rare over here.

Since there is a double candy bonus on eggs I am thinking I'll have to crack open my 10KM eggs early (I told you I was impatient, but double candy is like gold if there is anything good in there!). In good news I rolled 2 more 10KM eggs today so there are now five of them waiting. I really love the update feature that landed today with the different coloured eggs because when you spin a Pokestop you know immediately what type you got: green (AKA Yoshi) 2KM, gold/orange 5KM, and purple 10KM.

 

Some Rat Stats and More!

It's been nearly a month now since my last level up, but I have finally made it to level 28! I am in two minds about nearing level 30, excited because it seems like a huge milestone but also apathetic because of the deep widening void once I get there. 

I am currently attempting to collect nine 10KM eggs to do a big ol' hatchathon. So far I have 3 collected, 2 of which I found in Sydney Harbour. Time will tell if I can be patient and wait until I have nine of them. 

Other than that I have been working on my badges, I finally got my 50th tiny Rattata today! My house is full of rats, just big fat ones - according to my Pokedex I have caught 413 in total (that's only 12.1% which are under nourished).

For my records: 

GOLD
Kanto 142 registered in Pokedex
Collector 4343 Pokemon captured
Scientist 501 Pokemon evolved
Backpacker 4970 Pokestops visited
Jogger 486.7KM walked

SILVER
Breeder 320/500 eggs hatched
Battle Girl 493/1000 Gym battles won
Ace Trainer 225/100 times trained
Youngster 50/300 tiny Rattata caught

BRONZE
Fisherman 42/50 big Magikarp caught
Pikachu Fan 26/50 Pikachu caught 

+ 3 Catch Bonus
Schoolkid (normal) 1702
Bird Keeper (flying) 1030
Punk Girl (poison) 831
Ruin Maniac (ground)322
Hiker (rock) 209
Bug Catcher (bug) 511
Kindler (fire) 391
Swimmer (water) 1063
Gardener (grass) 335
Psychic (psychic) 232

+ 2 Catch Bonus
Black Belt (fighting) 198/200
Depot Agent (steel) 65/200
Rocker (electric) 157/200
Dragon Tamer (dragon) 56/200
Fairy Tale Girl (fairy) 74/200

+ 1 Catch Bonus
Hex Maniac (ghost) 35/50
Skier (ice) 17/50

Spinnin' Around

I've spent the last two weeks on the road visiting friends and family. Along the way I snuck in some PokemonGO. Here are my favourite Pokestops that I saw along the way:

1. Penis Owl <3 - Is it an owl, or is it a penis? This infamous sculpture always brightened my day when I drove past it living in Canberra. I wonder whether the artist purposely designed it as a laugh to see what they could get away with. 
 

2. Flaming Struth My Head is on Fire! - Whoever named this stop was genius. I used to live down the street from this and my sister's friend designed it. It is actually some sporting thing - I think the colours of the sculptures were a nod to the Olympic rings or something. Mostly I like it because of the name.

 

3.Uber Stylish Bubbler - Spotted this one in Sydney, the name says it all. It's a bubbler and it's uber stylish - who wouldn't want to drink from it?!

How to not use Incense

1. Wait until you get to the middle of nowhere
2. Accidentally delete your incense
3. Cry because you accidentally deleted your incense and have had approximately 3 hours of sleep
4. Actually use your incense this time
5. Catch a Rattata
6. Realise you no longer have phone signal
7. Cry some more
8. Get signal back and fail to click on multiple Pokemon as the car is moving to fast
9. Catch a Pidgey
10. Run out of time on your incense
11. Go back to sleep