Showing posts with label courage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label courage. Show all posts

Sunday, January 5, 2014

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.


Thursday, May 31, 2012

Little Drummer Girl

San Francisco street drummer Mr. King - who is a stalwart outside the Ferry Building and who has been drumming away in the open square for years - asked an assembled crowd a couple weekends ago for any volunteers to keep a beat with him.

K-bao surveyed the dozens of families and kids gathered around, saw no action, and took up the call to arms herself. Before K-Pop could count to three, she was banging away on the pots and pans.




#TimeFlies

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