Live As Well As You Dare

I edited my bucket list the other day and I thought I'd be predictable and share it with you.  I'll be happy if I don't do everything on my list...but it's cool to think about and I encourage everyone to make a bucket list.  DO IIIIIIT!!

Bold is for things I've either already done, or plan to do while abroad.

1. Learn how to surf
2. Learn how to salsa dance
3. Learn how to juggle
4. Do hot yoga
5. Go skydiving
6. Go bungee jumping
7. Go scuba-diving
8. Ride in a hot air balloon
9. Be fluent in at least 4 languages (halfway there!)
10. Get a tattoo (So soon!)
11. Learn how to play guitar
12. Cook my way through an entire cookbook
13. Learn how to drive a stick
14. Create a list of old and/or foreign movies and watch them all
15. Attend a reality TV reunion show
16. Attend a fashion show
17. Learn about Feng Shui
18. Learn how to meditate
19. Visit a psychic
20. Get hypnotized
21. Ride on a motorcycle
22. Ride in a helicopter
23. Send a message in a bottle
24. Take a belly dancing class
25. Grow a bonsai tree
26. Grow my own tomatoes
27. Grow my own orchids
28. Give a toast
29. Buy a drink for everyone in the bar
30. Help restore a classic car
31. Spend the night in a haunted house
32. Watch every movie that has won an Academy Award for Best Picture
33. Learn how to change a flat tire
34. Take a kick boxing class
35. Learn how to sail
36. Go white water rafting (done!)
37. Experience weightlessness
38. Learn Sign Language
39. Have *** in a library
40. Have *** on the beach...only with the right person
41. Join the Mile High Club
42. Go to a shooting range
43. Compose a song on piano
44. Go on a canopy tour
45. Ride a mechanical bull
46. Ride a dirt bike
47. Have a reason to say, "Quick, follow that car!"
48. Go whale-watching
49. Adopt a dog from an animal shelter
50. Spend time at a spiritual retreat
51. Read the entire Bible

52. Start keeping up with NFL
53. Start keeping up with NHL
54. Go to a World Cup game
55. Go to an NBA finals game
56. Meet Rajon Rondo
57. Go to a World Series game
58. Go to an NCAA Basketball Championship game
59. Go to the Kentucky Derby
60. Go to a Rodeo
61. Go to a game in Rupp Arena
62. Go to a Celtics v. Lakers game in Boston
63. Go to a Kansas v. Kentucky basketball game

64. Go to Carnivale in Venice
65. Go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras
66. Salsa dance in Cuba
67. See the Egyptian pyramids
68. Stand on the Wall of China
69. Throw a coin in the Trevy Fountain
70. Go back to Paris and repeat the walk from Arc de Triomphe to the Eiffel Tower
71. Ride in a gondola
72. See an opera in Italy
73. Go on an Alaskan cruise
74. Visit to Hawaii
75. See the White House
76. Visit the Hershey Chocolate Factory in Pennsylvania
77. Visit the Four Corners (AZ, NM, UT, CO)
78. Go to the Playboy Mansion
79. Go to Ground Zero
80. Visit the Statue of Liberty
81. Ice skate at Rockefeller Center during Christmas time
82. See the Northern Lights
83. Gamble in Las Vegas (done!)
84. Go to the Brazilian Carnival
85. Buy weed in Amsterdam
86. Go to Times Square on New Year's Eve
87. Eat escargot
88. Eat a fruit I've never heard of
89. Visit a winery in Napa Valley
90. Watch a sumo wrestling match in Japan
91. Visit an Ashram
92. Go on an African safari
93. Walk in a rain forest
94. Snowboard in the Alps
95. Shop on Rodeo Drive
96. Visit the Wailing Wall
97. Ride a camel
98. Ride an elephant
99. See a kangaroo
100. Go to Oktoberfest
101. Visit Quebec
102. Participate in La Tomatina in Spain
103. See an eruption of Old Faithful
104. Visit a Spanish winery


105. Fall in love
106. Get married
107. Have a 50th wedding anniversary
108. Have a child
109. Adopt a child
110. Have a large family
111. Fly in a jet that Chris has worked on
112. Send children to college without student loans
113. Live abroad for at least one year
114. Go back to school
115. Live alone with my own dog
116. Have a blog among the top 1000
117. Become a runner
118. Take up yoga
119. Volunteer in a Third World country
120. Work for a political campaign
121. Have my photography published
122. Write a book
123. Give piano lessons
124. Have a basement dedicated to sports memorabilia
125. Have Thanksgiving dinner with Mom's side of the family
126. Take Dad on a vacation
127. Be a great-grandmother

"Live as well as you dare" -- Sydney Smith