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03/22/2004 Archived Entry: "Terror"

I have a child who dislikes fast rides. Actually, she just has an irrational fear of rides that are "scary" which she defines as fast. But there are quite a few rides that are fast that she doesn't find scary. Splash Mountain would be one of the rides that she flat out refuses to ride. So today, we were on our way to the credit union and Tabitha tells Chris that she dreamt she rode Splash Mountain and that it was fun in her dream. We told her we would take her right then and there to Disneyland to ride it if she wanted. Nevermind that we were just there last night. She said okay so off we went. They take your picture on the way down the big drop. Care to see what pure terror looks like? Check out Tabi's face. But, no matter what she looks like in that pic, she did love the ride and will probably decide to go on again but I bet it takes her a couple more months. We won't push it, we'll let her decide when she's ready to reconquer the mountain :)

As I said, we did go to Disneyland last night and Tabitha asked to watch Fantasmic which is an incredible show. The last time she saw it, she was 3 and parts of it scared her. She no longer really remembers it, but knew Maleficent was in it and she's been on a big Sleeping Beauty kick lately. So we sat for two freaking hours to watch this show. And it was well worth it. She absolutely loved it and I loved watching her face. She had completely forgotten Peter Pan was in the show and screamed "Peter!" when she saw him. I watched her expressions as each new thing occured and was filled with such joy as I saw the magic reflected in her face. The only thing was she kept turning my head to make me watch the show as opposed to watching her. She was concerned I was missing it, when in actuality I have that show memorized and have seen it hundreds of times from when I worked there. Nothing makes me happier than watching my baby be so awestruck.

Posted by Christen @ 03/23/2004 08:06 PM PST

Oh my gosh, that picture is hilarious. Poor Tabitha! *trying not to giggle* LOL

Posted by Ami @ 03/23/2004 04:45 PM PST