Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Original poster

What’s your most magical moment in life?

137 replies

TwirlyWitch · 17/04/2019 17:28

Apart from having kids or getting married.

Mine was a few years ago seeing a whole field of fireflies in the USA at dusk. The air around me was lit up with their little green lights. It took my breath away and I burst into tears Blush it was so unexpected and so beautiful I don’t think anything else will ever come close.

Would love to hear what others moments are.

OP posts:
Theninjawhinger · 17/04/2019 19:52

Driving home from the airport after a holiday in the middle of the night, a shooting star flew alongside us and landed in a field. Utterly magical - Ds always says how he is mine because I wished on a star for him ❤️

NotMyPuppy · 17/04/2019 19:53

When trekking to Everest Base Camp, I went outside one evening and the night sky was indescribable. The stars were so close, so dense, and so clear. I have never seen anything like it.

The rest of it was amazing too, I could fill a whole thread with the Himalayas and how amazing they are, but I was expecting the mountains part. This was a very pleasant surprise!

beela · 17/04/2019 19:54

I can't choose.

A midsummer late evening walk with ds when he was about 7 and couldn't get to sleep
Walking a swarm of bees into a hive
Watching dd lose herself in some music at about 10 months old
Watching the sun rise over Lake Victoria (I was a stroppy teenager. My mum woke me up early and I did this Hmm but she was right!)
Watching shooting stars
Sitting round a campfire listening to a gig and watching swallows fly over the lake next to us
Dancing in the kitchen with my dc

All nature or music related. Interesting.

PH03b3 · 17/04/2019 19:56

Quite a few but seeing the new york skyline for the first time when i went out to work i just 'knew' i was home.

Whatisthewhat · 17/04/2019 19:57

Swimming with penguins in the Galapagos. Actually, just the Galapagos in general. Amazing place

Insertinspirationalquotehere · 17/04/2019 20:00

notmypuppy I'd love to hear a few more anecdotes. I am obsessed with Everest and the Himalayas and will probably never be able to go.

aposterhasnoname · 17/04/2019 20:02

Sitting on the terrace outside our room in the Maldives in the wee small hours. Just the two of us with a bottle of wine. The night sky was just unbelievable.

scater · 17/04/2019 20:05

I've a few travel related ones and music too but I think the best is closer to home - doing the strid wood walk in Bolton abbey, something I've done hundreds of times, a full grown stag ran into the path a few feet ahead, it's stopped and looked at us before going back into the woods. The awe will never leave me.

Original poster
TwirlyWitch · 17/04/2019 20:06

@notmypuppy Pleeease tell me mountain stories! Grin

OP posts:
Parttimewasteoftime · 17/04/2019 20:06

Wedding and children's births aside being put straight at Silverstone valley if the Kings cruising the Nile and DLP seeing my boys with Buzz lightyear they really believed it was him so magical

Pinkarsedfly · 17/04/2019 20:08

Sitting in Frida Kahlo’s garden in Mexico City. It was the closest I’ve come to a spiritual experience and I really didn’t want to leave.

Decormad38 · 17/04/2019 20:10

Travelling to Tonga ( from uk) with dh and 7 month old dd. Being transported to island in small boat when two humpback whales swam under the boat. They turned onto their sides and looked up at us then when they had got about 100 feet away they breeched along with their calf. We were in awe.

ChrisPrattsFace · 17/04/2019 20:12

Every day I was in Canada for our honeymoon. Something magical everyday, would love to recreate that holiday over and over again!

Pinkarsedfly · 17/04/2019 20:14

Whale watching in Bahia de Banderas, Punta Mita, Mexico.

Or looking up to see three raccoons peering at us on our balcony in the same place.

All of mine are in Mexico!

Beanybye · 17/04/2019 20:17

When I was 7 or 8 we were camping in Cornwall, we used to leave to go home at 4 in the morning to avoid all the holiday traffic. It was pitch black,no light pollution and I remembered seeing the stars and being utterly blown away by them. I’d never seen them so bright and clear and vast before. In that moment I realised how tiny I was compared to the rest of the universe.

Felipa · 17/04/2019 20:17

When on a ski holiday in the Dolomites, Italy. Went on a nighttime sleigh ride that pulled us through a forest...came out in a snowy clearing to see our restaurant for the evening, a log cabin with the windows all.lit up and smoke coming out of the chimney and everyone inside looking all merry and festive.

Disfordarkchocolate · 17/04/2019 20:21

Standing at the tip of a snowy hill with my now husband looking down on a cold and icy dale, sublime.

StillMedusa · 17/04/2019 20:22

Listening to my DD1...with her cohort of medics, all stand and say the Hippocratic Oath as they graduated as doctors.

To hear that bunch of young people so full of happiness swearing to do their best as doctors, was incredibly moving...more so as my DD1 battled anorexia for years and we never thought she would be well enough to ever get there ..but she did.

whatamidoingwithmylife · 17/04/2019 20:23

A few months ago we visited Finland and we drove out into the middle of nowhere - it was pitch black and the stars were so intense that it looked like you could reach out and touch them. The constellations were so bright and clearly visible in the sky that the beauty brought tears to my eyes.

Expected a similar feeling when we saw the northern lights last month but they weren't as wonderful as seeing the Finnish skies.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 17/04/2019 20:26

If I can't have the first moment I saw my mum see my son (her first grandchildl, then I'll have the moment I realised that I'd won the election

1wearpurple · 17/04/2019 20:27

Last year we were in the south of France at the end of July when there was an eclipse of the moon. A blood moon, it was called. We walked to the bottom of the village and found a little dark lane where you could see it clearly across the vineyards. Us and a few others were all just standing watching. it was such a beautiful night and everyone was so friendly, we were British, there were some French and a German couple, all comparing photos and helping each other get the best shots. So lovely.

Another was up in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia - it had been foggy and then suddenly the fog cleared and the view was exactly like it is in the films. Totally beautiful. Like the air was singing.

NC4awhile · 17/04/2019 20:30

Being in the same room as Barack Obama and hearing him give a speech. It was more intense than the best gig you've ever been at.

Jsmith99 · 17/04/2019 20:30

Watching a leopard kill an impala in the Kruger Park in South Africa.

Original poster
TwirlyWitch · 17/04/2019 20:31

Wow these are all fascinating and incredible. Thank you for sharing. Wipes away tears Grin

OP posts:
whatamidoingwithmylife · 17/04/2019 20:31

@IndieTara - in the valley of the kings the guard let me behind the no entry barrier and gave me a torch to shine onto King Tut's face for a better view. But I scarpered ASAP in case I got in trouble or something 😂. Really wished I'd taken my time and had a proper look as I'll never have that opportunity again.