BUCKET LIST

In no particular order:

--Visit all 50 states in a year

--Buy an RV and travel the U.S.

--Start an IRA

--write a novel

--get my bachelor's degree      Completed: May 13, 2012! 

--get my master's degree 

--Spend at least one full day at the Smithsonian

--Climb the stairs in a castle

--smile more

--stand in the center of the Vatican and realize just how small I really am

--Walk along the Appian Way

--Learn how to scuba dive then go to the Great Barrier Reef

--Touch a penguin

--Swim with dolphins     Completed: July 2012

--Ride a camel in the desert

--Go on the Holy Land Tour and spend time remembering Christ's ultimate sacrifice

--visit a mosque

--touch, in some form or fashion, ALL the countries in the world

--Take a picture of me "holding up the Tower of Pisa"

--New Year's Eve in Times Square, NY

--watch a space launch

--experience weightlessness

--take a nap in a hammock in the rainforest

--walk along the Great Wall of China

--See a bullfight in Madrid

--Become more assertive

--Learn a third language 

--Learn a fourth language

--Read through the whole Bible, cover to cover

--Learn how to knit     Completed: March 13, 2011

--Paint a painting     Completed: June 23, 2011

--Do an agility course with my dog

--Go horseback riding along a beach

--Eat at a French bistro, in France!

--Learn how to ski

--Build something from scratch

--Take a self-defense class

--Learn how to crochet     Completed: March 21, 2011

--Eat clam chowda in Maine

--See a Broadway play

--Go pairasailing

--Take a siesta in Mexico

--Go to a taping of a TV show Completed: February 1, 2012 (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon!) 

--Float in the Dead Sea

--Go whale-watching     Completed: May 19, 2012

--Fall in love, helplessly and unconditionally

--Drive on Route 66

--Visit the British Museum

--Learn more about organic food     Work in Progress: started summer 2011

--Become a professional, certified interpreter

--Step my toes in every ocean in the world

--Plant my own garden

--Ride in a helicopter     Completed: July 2012

--Go to the Indy 500

--Go to mass in Vatican City

--Go antique shopping

--African safari

--invent something and get it patented

--See the Northern Lights

--Wine tasting

--Buy a plane ticket to an unknown location, arrive, figure out where I am and figure out how to get back home

--Ride my bike all the way around Mackinac Island     Completed: May 28, 2010

--go on a train ride

--Attend the Sky Lantern festival in Thailand

--See Mount Rushmore

--ride on a dog sled    Completed: May 20, 2012

--interpret in front of more than 5000 people     Completed August 2013 (Women of Faith Conf.)

--save someone's life

--Go on a missionary trip
--Drive across the Golden Gate Bridge
--Visit the Grand Canyon

--conquer a fear

--ride in a hot air balloon

--take a ski lift up the Alps

--Visit Santorini, Greece

--Go to the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam

--Have chocolate in Switzerland

--Victoria Falls

--Watch all of AFI's Top 100 movies

--Stay at an overwater bungalow

--swim with manatees

--Polar Bear safari in Canada
--icebreaker cruise in the fjords of Finland

--Ride on the Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls

--own a horse     Bought Sadie Mae on March 11, 2013

--Polar Bear Plunge
--witness a glacier calving 

--go to a luau     Completed: July 2012

--ride on the Trans-Siberian Express

--Visit a concentration camp in Germany

--See a play in Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London

--Grand Canyon

--Drive across the Golden Gate Bridge

--Eat lefse in Norway

--Learn how to make blown glass

--See a solar/lunar eclipse   Solar eclipse during trip to Alaska! 

--Louvre in Paris

--learn how to use coupons effectively

--Discover a "weird" cultural tradition in another country, celebrate it and do it

--Step on hardened lava