1. Stopping in Disney on the way home from my sister's wedding. We kept seeing all the obnoxious billboards.. it was 7am... I said, "What the hell..." We got to Disney and the only rooms available were the suites at the Polynesian. I decided right then and there that I was going to take an emergency cc.. and spend the next 24 hours making the best memories ever. If it could be done at Disney.. hubby and I did it... BEST memory was the boats in the lake at the Polynesian... OR coming back from the park and being told we could move to the honeymoon suite if we wanted (I'd asked for an upgrade if they could)... and eating room service while watching the show on the lake and the fireworks over disney... Most romantic, special, sweet time of my life or marriage.
2. Astros @ The World Series
3. Being a contestant 4 years running in the National Academic Games. I was a mathlete. Yes. Nerd. Going and spending all that time with other nerds like me was awesome :D
4. My first time saying our vows at the Justice of the Peace. I'd eloped, blew off 100k in scholarships, didn't tell my parents.. just left.. and a year later mom was planning our wedding... but we got married at the JP a month before.. just incase her wedding plans were really a kidnapping plot. THEN on the day of the real wedding... Taking a carriage ride down the Galveston strand.. in the middle or spring break... So all these drunk college kids were hooping and hollering while we rode by in the carriage.. and I can remember one little girl saying, "Mommy, it's a princess."
5. The day I retired my mother. I wasn't there.. but I was on the speaker phone when she marched into the head nurses office and told them, "I don't have to work again, my daughter and I are going into business, I quit.." Then listening to her play really cheesy 70s music in the car on the way home.. excited as fuck.. and relieved. She'd been a surgical nurse 30+ years... So hearing her finally get to retire after 30 years on her feet every single day.. sometimes 50-60 hours per week...
I need more big, grandiose memories.. but I guess they'll come in time
Most of mine are personal now.