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To ask if you've ever genuinely been amazed or had 'amazing time' - what amazes you?!

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Wideeyedcarrrot · 26/04/2015 12:30

So on FB it seems people are easily amazed.
Someone this morning was 'amazed' by their breakfast and someone else had an 'amazing' time swimming.

This caused me to think: have I ever truly been amazed? And the answer is yes. I have. I was amazed when I passed my driving test as I didn't think I stood a chance. Amazed to the point where I was lost for words apart from stuttering 'are you sure?' repeatedly at the examiner.

So mumsnet, have you been amazed? Had an amazing time? Eaten something amazing? Been somewhere amazing?

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BaronVonShush · 26/04/2015 20:54

dun1urkin I am totally with you on the Moeraki boulders. The most amazing landscape and the best new year's day I have had!

The meal I had a Le Manoir des Quatres Saisons was amazing. I mean, to cook such ordinary ingredients so so perfectly is amazing. And the bread basket, well, it took my breath away! And I will never go there again, sob ;)

BeaLola · 26/04/2015 20:56

Being amazed when I first my son - had spent 2.5 years on adoption journey and years before on IVF etc , had known about him for 6 months, had 3/4 little photos of him and one 5 min DVD and then roll forward to the day and we knocked on the door and then there was this 4 year old hugging us and calling us Mummy and Daddy and that was our boy.... Being amazed less than 2 weeks after when we drove him home and he came to stay forever , that was and is still amazing to me.

dun1urkin · 26/04/2015 20:57

Oooh I've got Le Manoir on my list!
Can I recommend Le Cinq (in Paris, unfortunately depending on where you live It was.... amazing!!!

dun1urkin · 26/04/2015 20:59

This is the first time I've wished there was a 'like' button on MN....

WhatchooLookingAt · 26/04/2015 21:01

I saw an upside down rainbow once. It's called a circumzenithal arc. Who knew? I thought the world had ended. So a mixture of amazement and terror, then.

When DD was born I was amazed for ages. She was my second and a very fast easy birth, very different from my first. I lay in bed with her next to me, staring and marvelling at how amazing she was, for hours.

I was amazed DS got into the school he did. I didn't dare hope he would, so when we got the email confirming it, I literally fell off my chair.

Sunsets often amaze me.

ConcreteElephant · 26/04/2015 21:02

It really was epic dun1urkin. We drove up from Colorado, via Jackson Hole and the Tetons.

It was May and the park hadn't been opened long for the season so the animals were all still hanging out over the whole park - I understand that by the end of the season they've retreated into the wilds more to escape the tourists.

We camped and explored, accompanied by friends of DSIL who were local - it was great. Really generous strangers let us look through their binoculars etc at the wolves, talked us through the packs. We saw bears, elk, bison, smaller furry critters.

Then there's the geysers, the boiling mud, the boiling water pools of amazingly coloured water, steaming ground.

Clean air, big skies, wonderful. You should go ;-)

dun1urkin · 26/04/2015 21:04

Sounds brilliant. I will go, one day...
Planet so big, pockets less so Wink

BaronVonShush · 26/04/2015 21:05

Maybe I can get a babysitter for a weekend...

Even the canapes were perfect, I mean, perfect at Le Manoir. Just yuuuummmm! Anther amazing thing was that they charged £10 for a fruit juice Shock

ConcreteElephant · 26/04/2015 21:08

Well, yes dun1urkin, this was way pre-DC - strictly UK holidays these days!

dun1urkin · 26/04/2015 21:13

baron you could do it in a day... we literally went for a day trip, for a spot of lunch and a couple of shops, you know Wink
concrete we're not going to be having any DC so our chances are good. I've also been on some, you've guessed it, amazing UK hols, notably Skye and Northumbria

Niklepic · 26/04/2015 21:24

Yes. DS has DMD and was diagnosed aged 5. He started taking steroids about 3 months after that. Two weeks after he started the steroids he jumped off the floor with both feet for the first time. That was amazing. I couldn't believe what a big difference they made. Unfortunately he's nearly 10 now and starting to lose his ability to walk but he amazes me every day.

TheCowThatLaughs · 26/04/2015 21:24

I was amazed this morning when ironing (!). I shook one of ds' tops and loads of multicoloured bits of dust, threads from clothing I think, came off it and were illuminated in a shaft of sunlight. It sounds mundane but it just looked amazing. I called ds, who was watching tv, in and he came in reluctantly but was also amazed when he saw it Smile

southeastastra · 26/04/2015 21:25

i was also amazed that i passed my driving test and got a 2:1 for my degree

ConcreteElephant · 26/04/2015 21:33

The UK has genuinely amazing places to visit. South West coast, Isles of Scilly, Lake District - I'd love to go to Skye and Northumbria, always fancied Northumbria actually.

Marshy · 26/04/2015 21:36

Paragliding off a 4000ft mountain in Turkey last summer. Me, dh and 2 teenage dc. Exhilarating and truly amazing.

Breakfast....not so much.

OftheTwilighttheDarkness · 26/04/2015 21:38

I am often amazed by things I read on here.

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