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...Tuesday found us back at the Magic Kingdom, where six-year-old Caroline continued the roller-coaster progress she had begun on Sunday. This second round of sessions would see her and cousin Evie riding ?Big Thunder Mountain Railway? no fewer than three times, the third by themselves with hands raised the whole way. Caroline would not try ?Splash Mountain? again after the harrowing experience two days earlier, but did say, ?Maybe next year when I?m seven.? Which seems to indicate we?re coming back to Disney next year. My skis seem headed for the annual spring tag sale...
...Speaking of ?Big Thunder,? that was our second roller coaster of Day One, which leads me to roller-coaster dynamics. The first coaster was ?Splash Mountain,? and that turned out to be just a bit much for Caroline. But ?Big Thunder? was just right, even to the point where, second time around, she was trying hands-in-the-air, at least when heading into the turns. I think roller coasters are useful measuring sticks in a young person?s life, and I, as a dad, found it poignant that my little Caroline could now handle ?Big Thunder.? I am pleased...
...Sawyer Island.? This was because, in Injun Joe?s Cave, she could scoot ahead and hide and then scare her daddy or mommy when them came around a curve. This she can do at home, for free. I don?t know where this fits into my roller-coaster-dynamics argument - go ask Malcolm Gladwell - but I?m sure it fits somewhere...
...We’ve underachieved all year,” freshman defenseman Dylan Reese said flatly. “We’re playing like a roller coaster right now, high and low. We played an unbelievable third period against Yale, but we didn’t come out with that same jump tonight...
...Just like last year,” observed Cornell coach Mike Schafer. “A roller-coaster game...