Pokemon Go #1 - the one where we've discovered the gaming board

P.S. Are you noticing that one team dominates your local gyms?

I am 10 coins away from buying extra item storage. I was hoping to buy it today, but I just could not manage to hold two gyms simultaneously.

ABunch I had MagiKarp for all of 5 minutes before I switched it for Ponyta. The constant flapping in the corner was too much.

redaa I have three aerodactyls :) if trading is added before you get one you can have one of mine :) it's worth collecting the candies still, even if you complete the pokedex as when they add second generation you'll plenty to evolve things like the third zubat stage.

No idea when they'll be adding second gen though.

Pikachu is the only starter one that you only have to walk 1k for candy, I had bulbasour and wondered why I'd got nowt after 2k, turn out the rest if the starters need 3k grrr.

I now have magikarp as my buddy, but it's animation in the corner is annoying, I don't know why but I really hate it. But it's the only one I need candy for that I can get with 1km. I'm still having to go I to buddy menu to claim it though, rather than it adding automatically.

Dd had a mini row with her mates a few days ago as they'd found out one of the biys was gps spoofing and they'd said it's not fair, he said he only does it to gets pokestops as there's none in his village, and dd has an unfair advantage as she can access four, and that the other one has an advantage as her dad drives her looking for Pokemon so she has an advantage over people who play on foot as she can get further quicker, that the ones who have access to multiple gyms have advantage over ones who don't as the only way to get coins is spend money or go to gymns, and he doesn't have a gymn so he can't buy eggs and therefore can't level up as quick etc. that adults have unfair advantage as they can stay out late and play longer, wheras kids have responsibilities with homework and bedtimes hahahaha

They were teasing each other rather than proper arguing, and just ended up agreeing that different ways people play have advantages over how others play and as long as they are having fun and not hurting anyone else then that's all that matters. :)

I hatched a 5k Krabby and was so pissed off.

Got a 10k egg for the first time in weeks. Fingers crossed it is something good.

Caught a snorlax last night.

And today, a bloody magmar ran. Sob.

Ready to evolve Jigglypuff and Pikachu thanks to the buddy system. One candy from sandshrew. Ready to get vileplume too! Jusr need to sort the Nidorans!

Thankfully, SirFlapalot has stayed resolutely on the ground.

Hatched a third ponyta in just over a week. I can evolve a rapidash, now!

I think it might be whether you're on android or Apple - DD1's Eevie went on her shoulder on her tablet (which led to an extremely confusing conversation for my SIL!) whereas I've been driving around in traffic walking all sorts today and none of them have jumped up on me.

I am loving this new way to get candies though, have managed to evolve both my geodude and my Venonat today so more for the Pokedex there. I've hatched a load of stuff too but nothing new (including another bloody Rattata ).

Went on an epic 1 hour march after school drop off this morning. Took 2 gyms, bought an incubator, hatched a bloody Shellder out of a 5k egg.

Registered a 400m walk

I did catch a Seel and managed to evolve it though. Up to 98 in the Pokedex.

21000 points needed to get to level 23. It's a slog.

Bulbasaur doesn't go on your shoulder :( I've walked him 23.5km - he's pretty chunky though so probably for the best! Still no Aerodactyl, hatched a Lapras instead ffs. Up to 140, just Need 50 more bulbasaur candy and the Aerodactyl then I'm done - it's getting pretty boring now tbh, it was so exciting finding ones that you didn't have before to fill the pokedex, not quite sure what to do now

What are starter Pokemon?

I think it's just starter pokemon who jump up. I certainly don't want a fidgetty magickarp on my shoulder!

Picachu popped up on the way to school, today. Such a shame DS1's used all his balls up on vermin. Of course, being a good mum, I took a screen shot of what I could have caught for him.

Not much better off for balls, myself, tbh, particularly after a wasteful scuffle with a particularly wriggly squirtle, this morning. I had intended to go into Durham, this morning, but decided that the £5 M&S voucher I had wasn't worth a soaking plus £7 bus fare and the twice I've been out so far this week, the buses have been horrendous, without heavy rain factored into the equation.

So balls will just have to wait until tomorrow.

Does that mean once I've walked enough with my buddy I can have my Lapras on my shoulder!?

I've name changed given I got my Snorlax a few days ago! (Was IwannaSnorlax!)

Great, thanks.

Walk 10k snorlax! So cute!

Snorlax After collecting ten candies, someone posted earlier.

How do you get Pikachu on your shoulder? He's beside me right now.

Good grief. I thought 50,000 to get from 20 to 21 was tough.

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