RACINE - When Natalie Carbajal was asked where she wanted to go on vacation, she didn't say Disney World as her mother expected.

The Racine 6-year-old wanted to go to the Milwaukee Brewers' spring training camp in Arizona instead.

"I was shocked," said Natalie's mother, Rose Heller. "I said it as a joke because I didn't think she really wanted to do it. But she did."

They ended up going to Disney World because her mother wanted to. But it was not Natalie's first choice.

Natalie has been a loyal Brewers fan since she attended her first game at age 3. All she remembers is being pulled around on an ice chest while tailgating outside. But something about the team stuck with her. Now she watches every game she can and always needs to know the score. Her February birthday was Brewers-themed and she asked for all Brewers-related presents.

Instead of singing happy birthday, the entire family sang "Take me out to the ballgame."

Although the members of her family have always been Brewers fans, she takes the cake as the team's biggest.

"She went to more games last year than I went to in my entire life," said her grandfather Rick Heller, Racine's chief building inspector. "That includes back to Braves games." The present-day Atlanta Braves were the Milwaukee Braves from 1953-65.

Natalie, a kindergartener at Jefferson Lighthouse School, will be in school today when the Brewers play the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field in the season opener for both teams. But as soon as she gets home, she will throw her bag down at the door and run to the family's big-screen TV to watch the end of the game, her mother said. They also will be recording the game, so that she won't miss any of it.

"I think it's great that there is something that she is so into," Natalie's mother said.

The only thing disappointing about today's game for Natalie is that her favorite player, Chris Capuano, is on the 15-day disabled list with a torn tendon in his left elbow.

Just before the entrance to her room she has a Brewers shrine. Near the middle of the wall is Natalie's most prized possession: A signed photograph of her and Capuano from an August 2006 game against the Houston Astros.

He was the first Brewer she ever met. He picked her up and sat her on a railing to take a picture with her.

"I wasn't scared," she said.

In the picture she is smiling while wearing her pink Brewers hat with a small Brewers tattoo on her cheek.

She is wearing pink in the picture, but that is not her favorite color. They are - of course - "blue, yellow and white." Spreading out her fingers, she proudly shows off her fingernails, painted blue and yellow for the beginning of the season.

She will be at Friday's home opener against the San Francisco Giants. And she projects good things for the Brewers in 2008.

"I think they will win more than half their games this year," Natalie said. "I think they will make the playoffs."