Bucket List

When I was in 8th grade, a teacher gave my class an assignment of 100 reasonable things we wanted to do before we died. I could only think of 60 at the time. So I decided to type out the ones I had, see how many I’ve done and add some more.

1. go to an indie concert (or band I love) ✓
2. ride in a hot air balloon
3. write a  book
4. get a tattoo
5. put my finger on a globe, spin it and travel where it points to
6. be a bridesmaid/maid of honor ✓
7. first kiss ✓
8. fall in love
9. become friends after a relationship ✓
10. go to Europe ✓
11. go to Africa ✓
12. go to Asia
13. go on the Maid of the Mist ✓
14. set foot on all seven continents
15. get baptized in the Sea of Galilee
16. see Redwood forest
17. float in the Dead Sea
18. see the White House ✓
19. start a blog ✓
20. see Machu Picchu
21. see the Pyramids
22. learn how to semi-read hieroglyphics
23. stand in the crown of the Statue of Liberty
24. read all the books mentioned on Gilmore Girls
25. watch all the movies mentioned on Gilmore Girls
26. road trip with a best friend ✓
27. go back to California with a friend
28. slow dance to Nat King Cole ✓
29. swing dance ✓
30. Sears Tower✓
31. go to a Murder Mystery Dinner
32. quit a job that I hate
33. walk around San Francisco ✓
34. fast
35. attend a “Royal” event (wedding, birth announcement, coronation)
36. go to Auschwitz concentration camp
37. go on a cruise
38. not drink soda for a year
39. go to New Zealand
40. become a godmother/aunt
41. get my hair braided in Jamaica or someplace
42. go to Ireland
43. fly first class
44. meet someone famous
45. send a message in a bottle
46. see an Orca
47. ride a dolphin
48. help someone with one of their bucket list items
49. attend a TED talk
50. drive in movie
51. fill a truck bed with pillows and go watch stars in the middle of nowhere
52. run a half or whole marathon
53. be in a play
54. live in a foreign country ✓
55. go to Pareeee (Paris)
56. go to D.C ✓
57. get married but ELOPE
58. have kids
59. have grandkids
60. go to Comic-Con
61. go to Coachella/Lollapalooza
62. learn how to surf
63. go to the Olympics (summer)
64. leave a time capsule
65. see Salem, Massachusetts
66. live by a lake
67. go to Harry Potter world
68. own a convertible
69. go on a solo vacation
70. smoke hookah
71. be in a band
72. see the house in Holland where grandma grew up
73. be tri-lingual
74. learn brail & sign language
75. go to Westminster Abbey
76. sit in front of Washington Monument ✓
77. see a Volcano ✓
78. bonfire on the beach
79. read the entire bible
80. learn how to sew
81. be on Jeopardy
82. see a once every 100 years meteor shower or eclipse
83. run a 5k for charity
84. see the Grand Canyon
85. leave a geocaching box somewhere
86. sing in a cafe/restaurant/other ✓
87. go on a special date ✓
88. go to a wedding in a foreign country
89. start a diary and write in it every day
90. buy a really nice camera and take thousands of photos
91. share the gospel in a scary place
92. own a pearl necklace (✓) — that I will give to my daughter, niece, stepdaughter, god-daughter or younger girl who’s important to me
93. visit Pixar
94. pay for someone else’s food or groceries
95. have a New Year’s Eve kiss
96. live at college
97. do a semester abroad
98. read 1,000 books
99. create a board game
100. be remembered for an achievement

20/100. 

#1, 76, 77, 26

#30, 33, 56, 92

#10, 6 ,11