I picked up this brochure when I was in Orlando.
I'd been meaning to check out the website, see if it was, indeed, as
odd and macabre as it appeared. Yep. The website is
www.titanictheexperience.com . Yes, that's right.
Titanic. The Experience. Which, if I remember correctly, is panic
and/or icy death. It's great for weddings, too, apparently,
because:
guests then board the
"Ship of Dreams" to experience unforgettable sights and sounds from the
opulent accommodations of first class to the spartan surroundings of third
class. Finally, guests will feel an unparalleled chill on deck, since
temperatures simulate those that enveloped the Titanic's passengers and
crew on the ship's legendary "night to remember".
Now, my recollection is that it was a "night to remember" because
nearly 1500 people died a really awful death, not because it was really
pretty and famous people were there. There were, of course, but a
lot of them died too. And all that pretty is at the bottom of the
ocean. It IS a lovely sentiment for a wedding, I think--"This
night is all we get, after this, it's a slow cold descent to a welcome
death."
The brochure I have actually has, as a bullet point, "Feel the chill of
an iceberg!" Oh, I'm feeling the chill all right. Oy.
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3 comments:
Jay and I have been to the "attraction". When you put it that way, it is weird to "want" to go and see it, but we did go in October of 2000. It was interesting.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory! <snort> Who the hell throws that around? Love it!
"When you put it that way"? What way could you put it that *isn't* wierd?
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