I'm finally back from Japan, and I had a blast!

For the first three days, we stayed at Tokyo. We went to the Tokyo Metropolitan Park, and the flowers there were absolutely beautiful.

For the last three days, we went to Yokohama. When we rode on the bullet train, my dad and one of my sisters got separated from us because I couldn't get the bags out fast enough. Other than that, the trip was fine; we spent it shopping for things we wanted. I, for one, went to the Yokohama...

I'll be going to Japan for the first time for a week. I never went there the first time my family went, so this will be a blast. I may not be able to get on here for a good chunk of those days, but I want to bring some good stuff back.

In case anyone's wondering why I didn't come on, it's because I went to an island resort to celebrate New Year's Eve/Day. Now that's out of the way, the worst thing that pretty much happened to my life happened: our flight back to the mainland got cancelled and I have to go back to Canada tomorrow. >_> This situation alone almost made me lose my mind because I couldn't even charge my DS there.

Anyway, I hope everyone out there had a good and safe New Year, and hopefully not...

Over the past couple of days, I've been chipping in at the GTS to up the count for the Fancy Vivillon and fill in some Pokedex pages.

Among my trades were:
-Drill Run/Knock Off/Megahorn Escavalier (traded a Shelmet for a Karrablast up for grabs; on a random note, I've been hoping to have it for ages)
-Encore/Memento Cottonee (planning on breeding that thing since it had the wrong nature)
-Turtwig (the only starter I needed anyways and I nearly forgot I had a...

As the title implies, should I get a 3DS XL or a 2DS? I can see the merits of each, but I just don't know which one to choose.