Started today by checking the GTS in the morning, but my Rowlet had not been traded. I decided to let it stay a little longer, maybe the GTS isn't only corrupted by greed, but also undergoing heavy traffic due to a lot of people trying to complete their Pokedexes at the same time? I looked for Rowlet offered up for trade instead and found one person which was looking for a Popplio in return, so I traded one of my other Popplio for their Rowlet. With that, I had all three starters! Checked back later on, and the Popplio I had offered had been traded for another Rowlet, so that's good. Now I have 2 adorable little owls, easily the cutest of the first stages of starters. Did a little more in Festival Plaza, tried some Online Missions today which was quite fun and gave a lot of FC, definitely something I will continue with in the future.
Then I continued with the exploration. Started exploring Ula'ula today. This Island is most easily divided into east and west parts, I explored the east part today, from Malie City to the Tapu Ruins, though I excluded the Haina Desert for now, will take care of it later on, maybe tomorrow. Looking back, this was probably quite a bit more than half of the Island, but it's okay. Along the way, I found one Zygarde Cell, caught a Minior as well as met and battled the Espeon trainer.
Continued a bit on the Pokedex afterwards. Started by going to Route 1 to look for a Munchlax. I managed to find one quite quickly, it only took about 5 minutes. Catching it was harder, but I eventually got it in a Luxury Ball just like I wanted. The little guy was also holding a Leftovers which is never bad to have. Bought more Luxury Balls afterwards since I almost ran out of them. Then I let my Chansey gain a level and it evolved into Blissey. Another Friendship problem solved. Decided that I might as well continue with Munchlax next, not sure if there are any other Friendship evolutions left in the Melemele part of the dex. So I gave it the Soothe Bell and have been keeping it in my party.
Then I went down to Melemele Sea to find more Pokemon. Thought the next one might take a while, but I got it quite quickly. Found a Corsola on my second encounter in a Bubble spot, so that was great. However, I had to find one more afterwards, which took a little longer to find. Fortunately, I found a way to automatically make the Bubble spot reboot which was great, and will be for the future as I'm guessing this works in other areas as well. My second Corsola took a while to find, but I eventually got it. Then it quickly sent an SOS to call in the Pokemon I was really after this time, a Mareanie. Caught it quickly. And with that, I had all Pokemon I had to obtain through catching from the Melemele dex. Now I just have the other methods left. My Melemele dex is 70% complete now, so this is good, not a whole lot left on it.