My Official Bucket List

Over the years I have kept a mental list of all of the things that I would like to do with some of the time I have here on earth :)  However, many of these ideas come and go and I forget the very things that I plan on ever doing.  So in effort to keep track of them, I plan to keep an ongoing list so that I may literally check them off as I go.  I may, and very likely will, add to or change the things on my list.

So let me begin.
*These are not listed in order of importance, but instead simply in order they come to memory.

1.  Travel to our family vineyard in Slovenia
2.  Participate in a half marathon
3.  Spend a summer abroad in Europe
4.  Take a cooking class in Italy
5.  Get married
6.  Learn to surf
7.  Volunteer in an orphanage
8.  Take up tennis
9.  Scuba or snorkel the Great Barrier Reef
10. Return to my Irish roots and kiss the Blarney Stone upside-down
11. Have kids
12. Learn to sail!!
13. Travel to Israel and literally follow in Jesus' footsteps/Swim in the Dead Sea
14. Go on a safari
15. Take an Alaskan cruise
16. See a New York Ballet Company performance
18. Open up my own children's book store
19. Organize a fundraiser to support and raise awareness of the SMAD4 Gene Disorder
20. Write a book/get my writing published
22. Ride in a hot air balloon
23. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
24. Fund raise enough money to build a home for Houses for Health in Tanzania



While making this, I came up with another list.  A list of amazing things I have had the opportunity to do already.  I am so blessed to have had these experiences and am so thankful for such wonderful memories.

1.  Parasailing/Paddle Boarding/Snorkeling in the Virgin Islands
2.  Skiing in the mountains of Montana
3.  Work with a church in Mexico and run day camps with children in the inner city slums
4.  Spent a summer in North Myrtle Beach with Campus Crusade for Christ
5.  Graduated college
6.  Spent a weekend in Vegas
7.  Flew a helicopter into the Grand Canyon for lunch and champagne :)
8.  Swam with Dolphins
9.  Rode the Tower of Terror
10. Met Kenny Chesney
11. Saw the inside of a volcano in St. Lucia
12. Jet skiing in the Atlantic Ocean
13. Took a train from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania
14. Drove a convertible through a tour of Gettysburg
15. Rode in a Ferrari (0-60 in 3 seconds =)
16. Visited Valley Forge and saw the Liberty Bell
17. Saw Cirque de Soleil in Vegas
18. Went deep sea fishing in the Caribbean
19. Spent 7 days (including my golden birthday) on the Eluethera Island in the Bahamas with 10 of my closest friends as part of our Biology class in high school.  Spent 6 hours a day snorkeling and diving.
20. Created a scholarship in honor of my mom
21. Travel to our family vineyard in Slovenia