Part I

Hello everyone. Hope you have all been well over the time that has passed us since my last blog.

The title of this blog come from the Pokemon League Union. I don't know if any of you recall or not, but that used to be my home, rather than the forums. I have been watching the PLU for a few days and it makes me sad to see that the union has died a lot since I was a officer there long ago. There are still some members posting (a lot of familiar faces) but the majority of people have left. I decided to join the union again because I'd like to see it back on its feet with a lot of the activity it used to have.

Doing this will hopefully come easier than I am expecting. With the release of Heart Gold and Soul Silver this week, I'm hoping to aim a lot of you to the union for great fun, people to battle and trade with, Pokemon news and overall just a nice place to hangout with fellow lovers of the franchise. Once in the union you will notice quite a few discussions going on and even greater, The Gym Leader Challenge. Once the union has enough members again hopefully the Gyms can kick back off as the previous ones did.

So at the least, just give it a glance and see if you would like to join the community there. I hope to see some of you fellow Pokemon fans over at the Pokemon League Union.

Part II

As the title states I have picked up a new game this week. If you read the previous part of this blog then you have probably already figured out what it is. Pokemon Soul Silver.

Playing SS makes me have some great memories because it follows the Gold/Silver/Crystal storyline to a T. I loved every moment of my Crystal time when I was younger and now with the release of HG/SS, I can start to make even more memories for myself.

The unique thing about this game is, like my beloved Crystal, you can obtain 16 Gym Badges instead of just the normal 8. You can travel to Kanto after you have the Johto badges out of the way (which are very fun to obtain).The Elite Four will also need to be beaten first, but they are actually in the Indigo Plateau which is located in Kanto. Being able to travel around two regions instead of just one is really nice for a change. Sometimes I got too bored with traveling around one specific region after a while. I don't really see that happening now though. There are a lot of other great things about this game but I'm going to leave that up to you to find out what they are.

If any of you have HG/SS then let me know. I'll be glad to battle when I get my team ready. As of right now I am unbalanced. I have spent the last seven hours in the game trying to hatch a Growlithe with the nature I wanted but was unsuccessful. I finally gave up for the time being and am now working on getting the right nature Dratini. Should be fun. 10,240 steps per egg are needed to hatch it. Here comes another seven hours.

Thank you all for reading and I hope you will all give the PLU and HG/SS a shot.