Best of Both Worlds

My daughter is an adrenaline junkie.

Oh, sure, she’ll enjoy the Pirates of the Caribbean — but she’s moving from one part of the boat to another, or grabbing onto a rail to pull herself up and see better.

Given her druthers, however, she wants action. She wants excitement. She wants Tea Cups, or Goofy’s Barnstormer Roller Coaster, or Dumbo Elephants, or something else that gets her going fast, high, around and around, or all three.

Of course, she’s also a control freak — if she inherited the love of novelty and excitement from her mom, she got that from me — so whatever ride we’re on, she wants to see, she wants to be in control, she wants to dictate which color car we’re in, whether we go again, etc. Outside of the rides, she wants to push the stroller, control the stroller, have what she wants when she wants it …

And she remembers. If you mention we’ll go back to the Tea Cups later, then, by jimminy, she’ll ask you about the Tea Cups — probably right when you’re checking the stroller back in at the park exit.

I’d say, in case it wasn’t obvious, that the Tea Cups were the hit of the day. I managed to get her giggles of delight on video tape — though cannot at all recommend riding the Tea Cups with your eye glued to a viewfinder. My stomach didn’t settle again for hours.

So. Adrenaline junkie. And control freak.

I predict an intersting few decades.