Maniacal Crew

All week I've been part of the "Adventurous Crew," including me, Dad, David, and our cousin Kathryn. Kathryn is a true-blue danger and death nut. When we were preparing to come I was rather depressed because I was the only McPherson who expressed any interest in riding any ride moving faster than "It's a Small World." Then along came Kathryn.

Yesterday we went to DisneyQuest which is like an enormous arcade. The best ride, which just so happens to be the ride we rode a million times because it was awesome, was CyberSpace Mountain. (*****) What happened was that you designed a roller coaster and then rode in a flight simulator that rode you through it. It was awesome. Also I did it incrementally. You see, the first time I rode I was with Andrew. On the "Scream-o-meter" our coaster got three out of five screams. Booooring. When we gave the card with our coaster on it to the disney intern, she asked "You go upside-down three times. Is that all right?"
"N-", Andrew started.
"Yes!" I said. So we rode it and if Andrew wasn't a complete lame-o, he would have been able to stop clutching onto the handlebar long enough to press the emergency stop button. (According to him, he couldn't reach it.)

The second time (and third and fourth and fifth) I rode with Kathryn. Our first coaster got four screams out of five and if we weren't both digitally impaired and in a hurry to get on our coaster and die, we would have figured out how to change some of our boring coaster parts to EXTREME DANGER coaster parts. We just rode it and had fun. It went upside down five times. Our third time we put in nothing but EXTREME DANGER, NECK PAIN, AND STOMACH SWIRLING coaster parts. "YAY!" was our general reaction. We went upside down seven times. Our next time we went upside nine times. That was our max, unfortunately.

Today was Animal Kingdom and we rode the only roller coaster in the park, Mt. Everest (*****), at least a bazillion times. It was AWESOME!! I also convinced her to ride the Dinosaur (*****) ride, which turned me into a lifeless puddle of primordial goo the last time I rode it. It's great to have someone to be maniacal with you.