Need gift advice.

A dear friend of mine has three kids for whom I want to get holiday gifts. I have something for two of them, but I'm stumped on the third. She's 6 years old (I think, maybe 7). I've kind of lost track of what she's into, but I know she loves books. jadelennox, colorwheel, I know you guys normally look at stuff for older kids, but do you have ideas? bookishfellow? Anyone? Or something other than a book?

Two ideas would be even better, because her birthday is two days before Christmas.

Pondering dreams.

The Discovery Channel has this new show they're planning where people get, at no notice, 72 hours and $3000 to live out a dream (a specific one -- you have to specify in your application). You do the work to make it happen; the show is mostly about getting rid of the excuses that keep you from doing it.

I don't know that I'd want to do it, but it's got me pondering. What would I do? They want it to be something unique, something not done before. And it has to be accomplishable, including planning, in 72 hours. Most of my "big dreams" are longer-term things.

- Round up a bunch of my talented friends and put on a glitzy show in some really spiffy New York theater and donate all the proceeds to charity
- On the same lines, stage a G&S marathon -- all the shows, semi-staged -- and donate the proceeds.
- If I had a sweetheart I wanted to marry: take him to the South Pole by dogsled and propose
- Something astronomical. Travel to some exotic dark-sky location and observe some major celestial phenomenon. (Would have to research the particulars.)
- Run a LARP in some really glorious location.
- ... It's actually sort of depressing that I can't come up with very many wild and crazy things to do with 72 hours and $3000 that would fit the show.

What would you do?