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More thrills on roller coasters for little K-bao, this time at her beloved Happy Hollow.

As one can see, K-bao now has no fear on these rides, and in fact insists on riding alone. Her video below from this past weekend should be contrasted with her last recorded video on the Pacific Fruit Express at Happy Hollow, at age 4, when the first few seconds of the drop still had the capacity of inspiring a little bit of fear (unfortunately, as one can see below, sister C-bao wasn't quite as happy with the experience).

Thrills

For a 4-year old, K-bao is a bit of a thrill seeker.

She's never seen a hill which she doesn't want to run down. And as K-Mum can attest, even before age 2 she loved going down steep slides, such as the ones at Yerba Buena near our home back then.

Recently she's fallen in love with roller coasters, and is finally tall enough to qualify for the ones at both Happy Hollow and Oakland Zoo.

Below are some action videos of recent rides at each. In the first one, which was the first time she's been on a roller coaster of any kind for a while, there are 5 seconds of abject terror (between 0:09 and 0:14) which she gets over a few seconds later, enough to throw up her hands in delight by 0:20.

Mem Day

Over Memorial Day K-bao took a second visit to Happy Hollow Park & Zoo, a delightful children's park in San Jose. Once again she insisted on the elephant at the carousel (for which K-Mum again summoned her competitive juices and made a wild but successful dash to secure), and also enjoyed herself driving and ringing the bell in the little red car and climbing on the various structures.

And yes - these are basically the exact same pictures, on the exact same rides and slides - shot 5 months later.

Happy Hollow

The K-fam stopped by Happy Hollow Park and Zoo in San Jose with the hopes of helping K-bao work off some of her remarkable energy ahead of a long day's drive. K-bao had a good time, to the point where the K-folks have a feeling that they will be padding the wallets of Disney and Six Flags shareholders for many years to come.

At the carousel, K-bao insisted on taking turns on both the elephant and the alligator (and with the help of a speedy K-Mum, managed to beat out other kids who were eyeing the same animals). Coming off the Pacific Fruit Express Roller Coaster - where K-Mum took a concededly aggressive interpretation of the minimum height requirement - K-bao was already shouting for more even as K-Mum emerged from the ride looking rather green in the face. And on the Redwood Point play structure, K-bao insisted on going down the long slide chute alone but then would mischievously stop in the middle until K-Pop went in after her.

We were well rewarded for our hard work though; K-bao napped for two hours in the car.






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