Favorite Days

Do you have favorite days in your memories? Not necessarily the best day(s), but your favorite. I guess they could be the same though. Like, getting married was a best day for me but it isn't really one of my favorite days. It was stressful and a blur.

The first favorite day/memory I have is when my mom took me to see the original Doctor Doolittle, at a movie theater, for my ninth birthday. It was just her and me. It was very special to me. I remember it being a big theater - do you remember those? She laughs about that because she says she did it because she couldn't afford anything else. 

Another favorite day of mine was when I took my kid brother to Venice Beach. I was 23, he was still 17. It was a Saturday and I didn't have anything to do and neither did he so I said, hey! let's go to Venice Beach! Neither of us had ever been. We had a blast! We saw some of the craziest things!! We even saw the chainsaw juggler - before he was famous. There was a lot of crazy stuff to see on Venice Beach.

The morning I fell in love with my husband. I thought I was going to burst, like I'd just had 10 pots of coffee and I might shoot off into space. That was the best feeling ever!

Seeing the play, Jesus Christ Superstar, with Ted Neeley. For me, it would've been like seeing Yul Brenner in The King And I. And then meeting him after the show. It was awesome. He was so kind and generous with his time, to everybody who had stayed behind to meet him. When I asked him to sign my program, he asked me where and I said, oh, anywhere is fine. He said, "no, you pick a page. It will matter to you later."

I had another favorite day with my brother too. I want to say it was about 20 years ago. Mom and I were in California visiting and he and I went out for the day. Mom was with her childhood friends, Bonnie and Tom. My brother and I just spent the day together driving around San Juan Capistrano, Laguna Beach, Newport Beach and Huntington Beach. It was a super fun day of eating, drinking, laughing and being brother and sister!

Our honeymoon when we arrived in Cabo San Lucas - before it was a thing, when it was still a little seaside town in Mexico. There was the restaurant, The Giggling Marlin, glass bottom boat tours, white sandy beaches, blue waters. It was my favorite honeymoon stop.

The first time I ever saw Garth Brooks in concert. It was in Kansas City. He had already retired but did these 9 shows in 2007. My fella drove with me 500 miles so I could do this. He was awesome. My fella. Oh, yeah, Garth too.

There are plenty more but these are the ones that always pop into my head.