Harry Potter Theme Park in 2009!

[justcarol67]

Carol wrote:
> 
> Carol,  no fan of theme parks in general but willing to visit this
one if she can  find a willing companion (but no rides!!!!)
 
> 
> Sandy now:
> Do you suffer from motion sickness too? <snip> I  suffer from motion
sickness so badly I can't ride the rides. I can't even watch  them.
I'm terrified of roller coasters too. <snip> However, I  would go to
the Harry Potter theme park during the winter months when it is not 
so hot and humid, in my robe and hat and carrying my wand, because I
would love the environment and not care about not being able to ride
the  rides.

Carol:
Well, I haven't suffered motion sickness in a car since I was eleven
and never in a plane. I don't know about seasickness, never having
attempted a sea voyage. but rides! I can't stand the horrible
diesel(?) smell of a carnival ride, and the last time I attempted one,
the operator saw my face and stopped the ride to let me off! I'm
terrified of being upside down, too. (No Levicorpus spells for me!)
Once at Disneyland (the original park in Anaheim)--I must have been in
my mid-thirties at the time--I was standing in line for the Matterhorn
with two eleven-year-old girls and suddenly fainted. I had to be
escorted to the restroom by the little girls, who lost their chance to
go on the ride because of me. When I went to Disney World more
recently for my nephew's wedding (his young wife wanted to be a
Cinderella bride), the only ride I attempted was Pirates of the
Caribbean boat ride. So I don't think I would mind one of those
"rides" that simulates moving (the Flying Ford Anglia seeming to fly
over Hogwarts), but anything that spins me around or turns me upside
down or involves hurtling down a steep slope with hairpin turns makes
me simultaneously ill and terrified. Not sure which is worse, the fear
of dying or the fear of becoming publicly ill and making a spectacle
of myself. I think the second, actually.

Carol, who would probably just hang around Snape's office, waiting for
him to swoop in with his black cloak billowing behind him