My Awesome List

My good friend Kayde inspired me to upload 'my awesome list' on my blog.  While talking to her, she mentioned that she hates the term 'bucket list'...... "It seems morbid," she said.  I have officially taken her advice to heart and have renamed my 'bucket list', to 'my awesome list'.  Some things are extreme... but you'll be surprised at the simplest of things that I have yet to experience.  I can't wait to cross off more.

1.      New York- Accomplished March 7-15, 2009.  Spring break trip

2.     Humanitarian Trip

3.     African Safari... Slightly accomplished summer of 2012 in Arkansas.... still want an official African one though.

4.     Run a marathon

5.     Ireland

6.     Castles in Ireland

7.     Learn to play the guitar- Accomplished summer of 2009 (Houston)

8.     Sleep in a monastery

9.     Climb a major mountain

10. Go skinny dipping Accomplished summer of 2008 in the bright of day with my sister on a beach in Florida.

11. Ride in a hot air balloon

12.  Go sky diving

13. Visit all seven continents: So far, I have only accomplished N.A... Lame

14. Spend a night in a haunted hotel

15. See a kangaroo in Austrailia

16. Sleep on a beach

17. Ride an elephant

18. Go to France and kiss at the top of the Eiffel tower

19. Go to Rome and see the roman empire ruins

20. Go to Egypt and see the pyramids at sunset

21. Go to Jerusalem and see where Jesus lived.

22. Go to a long neck Village

23. Learn how to ball room dance

24. See a movie at a drive in theatre Accomplished summer of 2012 in Arkansas

25. Own a house- Accomplished October, 2009

26. Have children Accomplished October 25th 2011

27. Set off a fire extinguisher

28. Ride a camel Accomplished summer of 2012 in Arkansas

29. Take a road trip from coast to coast in the USA

30. Go on a multi-day biking trip

31. Ride a gondola in Venice

32. Do a triathlon

33. Visit Stonehenge

34. Graduate from College-Accomplished May, 2010

35. Grow a Garden

36. Shower in a waterfall

37. Be on the state board of Education

38. Write a novel

39. Listen to a real bagpipe player in Scotland

40. Spend Christmas away from home

41. Have my portrait painted Accomplished Senior year in HS

42. Go to the airport and buy the next flight and go there for a few days

43. Plant a tree

44. Visit Washington DC

45. Visit Rhode Island and eat at a  fish bar on the harbor

46. Be a tour guide

47. Take a picture of the Mona Lisa, in person... in the Louvre... in Paris... right after I climbed all 1671 steps of the Eiffel Tower.

48. Learn another language

49. Dance in the pouring rain

50. I want to be walking somewhere and all the sudden people (including myself) bust out in a musical and we all dance the same and sing the same song.

51. Surf in Hawaii

52. Go on a sail boat

53. Photograph an endangered species

54. Stand at the North or South Pole

55. Visit all fifty states:  Accomplished: Utah, Idaho, Colorado, New York, Connecticut, Florida, South Dakota, California, Texas, Arizona, Wyoming, Oregon, Illinois, Missouri, Washington, Montana, Arkansas, Nevada

56. Live Life to the fullest

57. Get something named after me

58. See area 51- or see an alien sighting

59. See a big foot sighting

60. Dance in the street

61. Find a four leaf clover

62. Learn how to whistle

63. Catch fireflies and put them in a jar

64. Write a children’s book

65. Go to the Louvre in Paris, France

66. Try fencing

67. Go white water rafting

68. Witness the Northern Lights

69. Visit the seven wonders of the world: Machu Picchu, Peru; The Colisseum in Rome; Petra, Jordan; Christ Redeemer, Brazil; The Great Wall of China; Chichen Itza, Mexico; The Taj Mahal, India

70. Go to Universal Studios

71. Sleep in a castle

72. Adopt a pet from the animal shelter

73. See wild gorilla’s

74. Own a library...like the one in Beauty and the Beast...with the ladder....in my own house

75. Attend every temple built- Already accomplished: Logan, Salt Lake, Palmyra, Manhatten, Nauvoo, Houston Texas, Montana,

76. Go streaking

77. Blackmail someone that would think it was funny

78. Find the love of my life:  Accomplished September 29, 2007

79. Go to the Notre Dame Cathedral

80. Pay for someone’s groceries

81. Be in a protest

82. See an owl at night in a tree- Accomplished Fall 2010 at my parents house

83. Drive a Harley

84. Go to Boston

85. Save a life

86. Alaskan fishing trip

87. Give Christmas to the homeless

88. Visit biblical sights

89. Visit Book of Mormon sights

90. Have thanksgiving dinner at my house and my cooking.

91. Save a tree

92. Learn to Hula

93. Go Long Boarding

94. Write a song and compose it on piano or guitar

95. Learn how to Potty train a dog- Accomplished summer 2009 (Houston) with cute dot!

96. Go to Salem and see where the Salem Witch trials took place.

97. Ride a Tandem Bike

98. Own a banana bike with a bucket on the front.

99. Attend a circus

100. Be in a band

101.  Attend a Wimbledon tennis match

102. Go to the island market and purchase penny cent candies- accomplished February 2010 after student teaching all day

100.  Go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter

101.  Make butterbeer Accomplished winter of 2011 with Jeff and Demi

102.  Make a code name for sex

103.  Take a cooking class

104. Light a floating lantern and release it into the sky like on Tangled 
105.  Ride in a train overnight with the cute beds.  The train must also have a restaurant in it 
106. Become a teacher Accomplished August 2010
107.  Be a stay at home mama Accomplished October. 25, 2011
108.  Read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy  

 As you see, I need to get movin.  I continuously add/cross things off 'my awesome list'.  I think I'll make it a yearly tradition to upload 'my awesome list' to my blog and track my progress.  That way, I'm accountable. 

Yes. Yes. Yes.