1. At the moment, going on a loopy roller coaster. Scared the crap out of me.
2. Cake? There's cake? As long as it's good moist cake, the flavor is almost immaterial. Though I don't like banana.
3. My mother claims Pocahantas, but I think she's full of it.

1. Moving to the US and leaving behind my life
2. Carrot. Or anything with lots of great icing.
3. Don't know...

1. Moving 5000 miles away from home without a job, without a place to live, without friends I could call my own. All because I wanted to be somewhere so strongly.

2. Cheesecake. Most any kinds.

3. William Wallace

1. Going to Spain ...

2. Chocolate! Or yellow cake w/ chocolate icing. Whatever it is, it better have good icing ... and I'm picky. None of that store-bought junk.

3. Johnny Clem (aka Johnny Shiloh) from the Civil War.

1. Hands down, the scariest thing is as follows...in the fall of 2006, I went to Boston and spent a few days there hanging out with friends, before flying from there to Halifax to see my sister. I had booked an early flight out of Boston and had to be at the airport before 7am the day I was leaving...so I got up at 3:45-ish to get a cab from the hotel I was staying at to the shuttle that would take me to the airport. Only, where I was staying, just outside Boston...the cabs don't start running till 5am, which would've made me miss my flight by the time I got a later shuttle. So I walked...in the early morning dark...up a nearly abandoned highway...alone...for 30 minutes. It was the stupidest, scariest thing I've ever done. (maybe you had to be there, though...brrr)

2. What is your favorite kind of cake?
Blackforest!

3. What famous person is in your family tree?
Rumour has it that we have powerful gypsy ancestors on my dad's side...I always liked that idea.

1. Having gallbladder surgery
2. Lemon cake with berry filling and lots of good buttercream frosting
3. Magellan on my mum's side

1. Moving 1400 miles across the country to a city I'd never seen before where I knew (in person) only one friend.

2. Chocolate!

3. John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter; St Louis, Louis IX of France; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Childeric I, Merovingian king of the Salian Franks; Empress Matilda, first female ruler of the Kingdom of England

1. Avoiding a riot.
2. Birthday cake.
3. Um. Rush Limbaugh's mom lived six blocks away from me...

1. Moving into a haunted apartment in Seward...
2. I second the birthday cake.
3. Teddy Roosevelt. With a possibly of one of the Van Zants (Skynard!)

1. It was a ride at the local fair, called "the hammerhead". It spun in three different directions while making a loop. I remember losing everything out of my pockets and feeling like my head was gonna explode. We actually yelled at the operator to make it stop.

2. Carrot

3. Alexander Hamilton and James Smith. Also have a couple of pictures in the family album of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens). He was my GG-grandfather's best buddy.

1 - Bunjee Jumping, or jumping a cliff on a snowboard that quickly became larger than I thought it was from the top
2 - Probably carrot
3 - Not sure...

skydiving right after witnessing an accident

flourless chocolate volcano!

former WA Governor Booth Gardner