Favorite Memories & Trip Quotables!

And now, a few more fun quotes, memories, and pictures from our vacation:

This = one of Jill's pics of the rainbow awesomeness at Niagara!

Strolling through Niagara-On-The-Lake, such a cute little town!

Our lunch cruise table! :)

Eataly gelato with Jill :)

Watching the fireworks and the beautifully illuminated Niagara Falls from Bill and Jill's room at night! LOVE!! ...The spotlights on the falls would slowly change colors, but this one on the American side is classic "'Merica!"

Another happy memory. lol

• "So is Jace stowed away in the suitcase? ...Maxine's gonna be having withdrawals this week." -Bill, on our way to the OKC airport
• "They don't even have Fox News here, so all they have to go by is MSNBC. These poor Canadians must think Trump is crazy!" -Mom, being ironic and funny
• "No one has ever heard that... Have you heard that song before?" - Mom to Dad, thinking the band's song choice was terrible
  "No. So it could've been an original, and WE were here!!" -Dad, seeing the positive and making me laugh!

• "You don't have to worry about any money!" -Band singing Rollin' on the River
  "Well, if you don't have a credit card, you do!" - Bill, cracking us all up after the credit card fiasco
• Dad and Bill joking about how they'd be up dancing if the band would play Stayin' Alive! lol
• Listening to "60s on 6" satellite radio while driving to Niagara-On-The-Lake
• "I've signed housing contracts that required less paperwork than this!" -Bill, preparing to ride the zipline

That was another of my favorite memories this trip:

A great Statue of Liberty pic by Jill

And a great Brooklyn Bridge & Freedom Tower pic by Jill!!

• "My wife has lost her mind!" -Bill, whilst Jill was standing to look out from Shamus' taxi sunroof to get a good pic of Times Square (picture below)

Strolling through Central Park at dusk. All very pretty!

• "We're talking about 42 kilometers!" ~Robin, How I Met Your Mother
  "Thanksss, Canada. I'll take it from here. It's, like, 26 miles!! -Ted Mosby, architect ;-)
  ....I thought of that scene every time I saw a sign with kilometers on it. lol
• "Why would anyone want to live here!??  ...If Jace graduates from Navy Seal training and his commencement ceremony is here, that's the only way I would ever come back!!" -Mom (she does not ❤️ NYC) lol
• Bill washing his hair with lotion instead of shampoo because Jill had mismarked them :)
• "I'm sorry, sir, your credit card has been declined." -Hotel clerk
  "What??  I called ahead and told them we were coming to Canada." -Bill
  "We'll try it with a lesser amount... No, that didn't work either." -Hotel clerk - lol
• This was at the very beginning of our time in Canada, and Bill was so mad at the Tinker Federal Credit Union company when it first happened! lol  Jill had to pay for everything and it all quickly became a running joke. Mom snapped this pic of him with his card that finally worked again when we got to NYC. lol

• "Well, when we checked into the motel today..." -Bill, mid-credit card story
  "We didn't check into a motel!!" ~Jill, cracking me up
  "Oh hotel, motel - Who the hell cares what you call it?" -Bill, lol
• "Give my regards to Broadway! 🎶"  -Tom, our musically-inspired tour guide
• "We heat the pizza for just under two minutes so it's a little chewy. It's really a knife -and-fork experience." -pretentious Eataly waiter
  "Awww, you're missing out on the knife-and-fork experience!!" -Me, when Mom picked her pizza up to eat it like normal lol
• "Well, the selfies are a technique developed over many years and should not be tried at home by those not properly trained or without supervision!" ~Bill, when Mom commented on him taking a selfie everywhere we went =)
• "Thank you, thank you ......idiot." -Tom, under his breath, waiting for NYC pedestrians crossing after their allotted time - the only impatient thing I heard him say all day, and it cracked me right up! :)
• "Calm down, just step back!!" -Bill to Jill, while taking every item out of the suitcase in the airport lobby to try to find the car keys he'd thrown in there
  "Never in all my lifetime..." -Jill, lol
• "That's why I say New York is NOT easy!  You HAVE to KILL YOURSELF!!" -happy advice from Shamus, our driver (talking about how he works through the night shift)
  ...He didn't mean it quite how it came out, but I got soooo cracked up when he said that. It was so abrupt and so fitting for how I once felt about NYC! lol

• "Hey, we should call Shamu to come pick us up!" ~Bill, pronouncing his name like the SeaWorld whale LOLOL
• Finally watching Moana and then listening to the La La Land Soundtrack on our flight from NYC to Atlanta! :)

Finally, Jill sent my NYC Flipagram to Tom, and his response email is the best!! :)

He was already my favorite New Yorker, but that sealed it! ;-)  He's just precious, and I love that he said I have "mad skillz!" lol  I emailed him yesterday to thank him for the awesome tour that helped change my perception of NYC!! I expected that half of the trip to be a letdown after Niagara, but it really wasn't!

Okay. So between the three blog posts, I've surely covered most of the stuff I wanna remember! =)