Di, that's surprising since you had you on "manual". I had mine on "manual" also. My Game Manager had something about MC - I can't remember exactly what it was - that made me think there might be an update. It wasn't the thing you normally see, I know that. So I went to the downloads and clicked for it to look for one and nothing. So then I went ahead and opened MC and nothing. I tried a few things and finally decided to just uninstall and reinstall the game.

Merry Christmas to you also.

I am officially finished with work for 2021! The office doesn't open again until 10 January. That's 17 blissful days in a row, and I only had to take 4 annual leave days. I love the January stat holidays!

Happy holidays everyone.

It sounds great! Have a wonderful Christmas and a very good New Year!

To everyone who tried to help me get the update

I finally bit the bullet and uninstalled the game and then reloaded.  It worked so I'm up and playing.  Thanks to everyone.

Also I got so many responses to needing more friends that I am now over whelmed but I accepted all received.  So thank you but I'm full up for the time being.

Good to hear that it worked! 

Hi Di ... and Merry Christmas to you also! 

Somewhere in this forum AEGram talked about this. Several of us have noticed the game will want us to open a new area, HOS or ZZ where one of the requirements is to be at a level which is maybe one or two or more levels lower than where we currently are. It seems odd but this is happening quite often now. One of the things I noticed is that the level required is usually one where the content in an update ended. Level 104 is one of those. Quite a while back we had a content update where the final level was 104. Then the next content update went to Level 106 which is probably what you're working on now.

So while it may seem strange, everything is okay.