Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:

 EH>> The one for Washington doesn't have the lifts. You just sit down in
 MG> a seat.

 MG>>> It feels like hang gliding (or so
 MG>>> I've been told, I've never actually been hang gliding), I love that
 EH>> ride
 MG>>> it's so realistic, when you're flying over the citrus groves you can
 MG>>> smell oranges, over Big Sur you can smell the ocean. :)

 EH>> It's amazing how realistic they can make the experience getting your
 EH>> other senses involved.

 MG> Yes, along with the smell of the ocean at Big Sur there's a salty wind.
 MG> It really is worth the price of admission to the park (DCA) by itself.
 MG> As I said earlier the park is more for adults than kids. There's a 3D
 MG> (they give you special glasses to view the movie) movie of the history
 MG> of California narrated by Whoopee Goldberg in the role of Califia.
 MG> Califia, for whom California was named, is the Amazon goddess from a
 MG> romance novel written in Spain shortly before the Spanish "discovered
 MG> Baja California. At that time they believed Baja was an island, instead
 MG> of a peninsula. The show goes from the Indios to the Spanish, to the
 MG> Mexicans to the US to today. It's a marvelous performance. :)

That sounds like quite the experience.

There was a program on the History Channel that shows the technology behind
those rides (the 3D I-Max projectors and the devices they used to introduce
smell and such to the experience.

Ed

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