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Old, she loved big cats. >> yes, about 7 years old, she just developed a fixation on tigers, especially tigers. and big cats in general. she used to tell everybody she was going to grow up and study siberian snow tigers in siberia. and then when she got older, in elementary school, every time we would go and see the parent/teacher conference, they would say, you know, she's a great artist. she's got some talent, but she draws the same subject over and over again, tigers. then when she went to college, she was a ski instructor for her part-time job on the weekends up at western washington unive...

Bellingham, she was up on a ski lift one day at mt. baker, where she was a ski instructor on weekends for a part-time job, and a little boy was sitting in the chair lift with her, and that little boy, she was trying to make conversation with him, asking him what his favorite animal was, and he said, tigers, like my grandparents have. well, his grandparents lived right there in bellingham, and she thought, how could they have tigers and lions, and she found out they had exotic pets on their property on the outskirts of town, so she went out there and spent the next three years helping to take c...

Girls. she was really a tomboy and she stuck with that. that idea of tigers, tigers. all her artwork and pictures in her room were about tigers. and when she went to elementary school, in the local elementary school, her mother and i would go to parent/teacher conferences and she would -- the teachers would say, you know, your daughter has a lot of artistic talent, but the problem is, she only does the same subject, over and over again. tigers. and she just kept that obsession with tigers and then later, big cats, all the way through high school, through college. what really confirmed that it ...

Two months she has been there since january 2nd. >> i heard since she was 7 years old, she loved big cats. >> yes, about 7 years old, she just developed a fixation on tigers, especially tigers. and big cats in general. she used to tell everybody she was going to grow up and study siberian snow tigers in siberia. and then when she got older, in elementary school, every time we would go and see the parent/teacher conference, they would say, you know, she's a great artist. she's got some talent, but she draws the same subject over and over again, tigers. then when she went to college, she was a s...

Chapter. one of the other ones i loved is that you decided to go on a ski trip. a lot of people would think vale. you went on a cost saving trip to ohio. you liked what instead of skiing? >> tubing, you know. i don't know how many of the viewers ski but you know, when you ski like the instinct is to sit down or if not the instinct, the actuality is to sit down. i spend a lot of time sitting down while i'm skiing. when you're tubing, you're sitting down already. it's also, you know, it's ohio. it was a joke. i called my editor at "ski" magazine and i said you're always doing pieces about vale a...