E is For...

Eggplant Parmesan

I'm a pretty picky eater and as I've mentioned before, I'm not a big fan of vegetables. However, there is one vegetable dish that I simply can't get enough of. And that dish is eggplant parmesan, which according to my recent Google search, apparently can induce labor. That fact isn't very relevant to me at this point in my life, but if there are any mothers-to-be reading this, keep that in mind when baby is being stubborn. But I digress.

My love affair with eggplant parmesan began when I was a very little girl and was even pickier than I am now [if you can believe that].

I was a cutie patootie, I know.

In a desperate attempt to avoid raising a fatty, my mother devised a plan to get me to eat healthier dishes. How was she going to do this? Blatantl lying of course. So one evening we went to dinner at one of our favorite little Italian restaurants and my mom ordered me eggplant parmesan and told me it was pizza.  I was young and at that point still believed anything anyone told me was the truth, so I believed her and shoved a handful of "pizza" in my mouth.  It was love at first bite.  My mom finally came clean about what "pizza" really was a few years later, but it didn't matter, I was hooked.  To this day I order eggplant parmesan 9 times out of 10 when I'm at an Italian restauarant and it's all because of a little lie my mom told me when I was a tot. 

Pretty much looks EXACTLY like pizza....

D is For...

Daredevil.

There was a time in my life that this was what I considered the most "terrifying" ride I had the courage to go on.

That is the Der Rollschuhcoaster at Six Flags Fiesta Texas and it has a max speed of, wait for it, 15 mph. Watch out! [Side note, according to Google, it has apparently been renamed the "Romp Bomp a Stomp" which is just stupid I refuse to refer to it as such]

I can't remember how old I was, but sometime in middle school I think, I put on my big girl panties and finally mustered up the courage to ride the Roadrunner Express.

Yeah, that's right, this puppy has a drop! It was still a fairly intermediate roller coaster, but it got my adrenaline pumping and from then on I was hooked. I fell in love with the rush you get from thrill rides, and I've been searching for adventure ever since.

In the past several years, I've ridden more roller coasters than I can count, have gone white water rafting, lept off cliffs into lakes and even went bobsledding down an Olympic track. And last April I had the biggest thrill in my life when I went skydiving. I must say, there's nothing quite like flying and if you have the guts to jump out of the plane, I encourage you to do it ASAP.

While I've had a lot of adventures, I'm still not done. What else is on my daredevil to-do list? Cedar Point [the roller coaster capital of the world!], Insanity atop the Stratosphere in Vegas, bungee jumping and maybe even hang gliding. Who's with me?!