"It's like visiting a theme park, but one that has gone dreadfully wrong," Spira says.
"Hand washing and other basic hygiene steps, as recommended by the C.D.C., remain extremely effective ways to combat seasonal flu whether at school, on the playground or visiting a theme park".
There was a live jazz band and it was like being in the sort of dream you have after visiting a theme park, belly full of ice cream, head full of strange imagery from the made-up things you've been looking at all day.
IT is not exactly the routine for Queen Elizabeth II to visit a theme park, but she did so in June, traveling to the miniature models of Legoland near the royal palace at Windsor to survey a tiny likeness of herself in molded plastic inspecting the equally Lilliputian guard.
Actually, there isn't a lot of difference between visiting a theme park while you are 6 1/2 months pregnant or traveling with a young baby.
By making negligence costly through the threat of lawsuits, tort law assures us -- visiting a theme park, driving a car, taking a prescription drug -- that we're safe.
But due to numerous reasons (money, "health and safety gone mad", etc) it got downgraded to "visiting a theme park on acid".
She didn't say this when I'd suggested we visit a theme park staffed by 108 dwarfs, or hand-feed live chickens to hungry tigers, or train to become Chinese taxidermists.
Though nowhere near as exciting as some of the stuff we've done in our recurring "...On Acid!" series (visiting a theme park, anyone?), I feel it's worth mentioning that Trey Parker and Matt Stone recently revealed that they were on acid while attending the 2001 Academy Awards.
If visiting a theme park that day, always ride the ride with safety in mind.
