So, to publicly make fun of Heidi (it’s fun, I say), I want to pass on that she’s mildly afraid of roller coasters. To her, I offer the following quote found by Payal:

I stood for a long time by the roller coaster, and I noticed that most people get on it in search of excitement, but that once it starts, they are terrified and want the cars to stop.

What do they expect? Having chosen adventure, shouldn’t they be prepared to go the whole way? Or do they think that the intelligent thing to do would be to aovid the ups and downs and spend all their time on a carousel, going round and round on the spot?

-paulo coehlo

Heidi, you’re getting on the roller coaster. Life is better with ups and downs.

This is the spring of crazy vacations, for those that don’t know. It’s so crazy we can’t even wait until summer. I’m going to be heading to New Zealand to visit my sister (who will be on the third stop in her Around The World in 365 days tour of emergency medical care). Then Heidi and I are taking a trip down to Walt Disney World with some help from the Mouse. There are actually thrill rides at Disney World in addition to Space Mountain (which is where this whole roller coaster issue came from). I’ll let people know what to do down there, because the park looks pretty fun for adults now, too.

We’re staying at the Caribbean Beach resort for a few nights and then in a Savannah View room at the Animal Kingdom lodge (our balcony looks out over the Animal Kingdom park). Looks like it should be a lot of fun. Unfortunately, we have crazy flights because of when we’re going (Heidi can only go when students have off… and generally, students across the country have roughly the same times off). We’ll be flying to Chicago to fly to Orlando. Fun Fun.