Bucket List

Yep, I have a long and ambitious bucket list!! Thankfully, I’ve already gotten started because I have a long way to go! If it’s crossed off, some awesome experience took place and if not? Well, let’s get to it!!

1. Visit all 7 continents (but would be happy with 6!)
2. Visit every country
3. Visit all 50 States (5 more to go!)
4. Ride in a hot air balloon
5. Sky-dive
6. Get scuba certified
7. Cage dive with great white sharks in South Africa or Australia or BOTH!
8. Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
9. Spend NYE (aka My Bday) in NYC to watch the ball drop
10. Attend Oktoberfest in Germany
11. See the Cherry Blossom trees blooming in Japan
12. Walk the Great Wall of China and toboggan down
13. Have British afternoon tea in London
14. Swim with dolphins in the wild
15. Swim with sharks
16. Hold, pet, and feed a stingray
17. Go to the Olympics
18. Ride a camel
19. Bathe, humanely ride, and play with an elephant at Patara Elephant rescue farm in Thailand
20. Go to the college football National Championship game
21. Go to the Super Bowl
22. Pet a tiger
23. Be in a movie
24. Go to a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field
25. Go to a Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park
26. Complete a half marathon
27. Pet and feed a kangaroo in Australia
28. Hold and feed a koala bear in Australia
29. See Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio
30. See and photograph Mt Everest in Nepal
31. See and photograph Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
32. See and photograph Mt Fuji in Japan
33. Hike up above and behind the Hollywood sign in LA
34. See and photograph the Taj Mahal
35. See the Holy Land
36. Swim in the Dead Sea
37. Swim in the Sea of Galilee
38. Be baptized in the Jordan River
39. See and photograph the Big Blue Hole in Belize
40. Go to Window of the World theme park in Shenzhen, China (130 of the world’s most famous landmarks in one park)
50. Go to the Tulip Festival in Washington state
51. Drive across the US
52. Go to Chelsea Market in NYC (home to the Food Network!)
53. Go on an African Safari
54. See and photograph Machu Picchu in Peru
55. Go to Austria and find the famous Sound of Music Mountain
56. See the Swiss Alps
57. Go to Versaille
58. Visit Easter Island
59. See the French Alps
60. Go to the top of Burj Khalifa in UAE
61. Eat sushi in Japan
62. Have pizza, pasta and limoncello in Italy
63. Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
64. Fly into the Arctic Circle and get the certificate
65. See the northern lights dancing in Iceland
66. Swim between 2 continents in Iceland
67. Swim with sea turtles and get pictures WITH them while swimming
68. Go to Patmos where John was exiled and see the cave where he wrote Revelation
69. See and photograph the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps
70. Paraglide from 10, 180 ft with the Matterhorn in Zermatt, Switzerland
71. See and photograph Mt McKinley in Alaska
72. See and photograph Mt Rainier in Seattle, Washington
73. Be a watchmaker in Geneva, Switzerland
74. Make my own chocolate in Vevey, Switzerland (home of Nestle!)
75. Make my own Swiss Army knife in Geneva, Switzerland
76. Hike and photograph Rainbow Mountain in Peru
77. Cruise the Amazon River
78. See the pink dolphins in the Amazon River in Peru
79. See and photograph every structure by the Spanish architectural genius, Santiago Calatrava
80. Live in a Spanish speaking country and complete a Spanish immersion program. Road to Spanish fluency.
81. See the tulips in The Netherlands
82. See Mt Rushmore in South Dakota
83. Go to Mall of America in Minneapolis