Geez. Neither of them are all that difficult. Tedious? Without a doubt, but not so difficult as many of you make it sound.

choco race: one of the five or six patterns of balloons that comes up allows you to get about five or six balloons before you turn the first corner, afterwards it's just a matter of coming at the balloons from angles that allow you to snatch them and also dodge the birds.

Lightening dodge: there is a place (a couple, actually- but one that I use) where the lightening strikes in a regular pattern, you can get Lulu's sigil in a matter of twenty minutes- if you don't decide to take a couple of breaks between.

Dodging the butterflies is not luck. The butterflies fly in a set pattern, back and forth. There are a couple of spots near the end of both dodges where it's a little tricky to see where the butterflies are in relation to the path, but once you try one or two spots, then by deduction the correct path must be that which you've not yet taken. Granted, you need to reach the trouble spot in roughly the same time in order to predict the position of the butterfly, but since the early part of the dodges are pretty easy that shouldn't be too difficult.

You're probably thinking by now, "surely he must be through blabbering" but no such luck! ...."blabber, blabber, blabber....etc., etc."