Bucket List

My aunt just had a month full of devastating losses of too young friends and it's really got me to thinking... here's my updated bucket list for life.
I started with 100 from a list I received from a friend AGES ago, but I just keep adding too - feel free to send me more idea or to take from this list.  I think it's an ever-expanding list!

1. Run a half marathon

2. Sleep under the stars without a tent

3. Survive a week camping with my family

4. Visit Hawaii

5. Watch a meteor shower from the top of a mountain

6. Buy our first home

7. Climb Mount Kilamanjaro

8. Hold a praying mantis

9. Go sky diving (July 2002)

10. Go bungee jumping (August 2003)

11. Go to Prague

12. Watch a lightning storm at sea

13. Teach myself another language

14. Adopt or have a baby

15. See an elephant in its natural habitat

16. Walk to the top of the Statue of Liberty

17. Grown my own vegetables

18. See the Mona Lisa in France (February 2000)

19. Sleep on an overnight train

20. Visit Mama Mercy in Kenya

21. Hitch hike (Guatemala, May 2002)

22. Care for a sick/ill loved one

23. Build a snow fort and sleep in it

24. Hold a newborn lamb or foal

25. Go skinny dipping

26. Do a triathalon

27. Ride in a gondola in Venice

28. Get a tattoo

29. Watch a sunrise or sunset with a lover

30. Hit a home run

31. Go on a cruise

32. See Niagara Falls in person (Sept. 2008)

33. Visit the birthplace of my ancestors

34. Visit an Amish community

35. Go to the Olympics (Vancouver 2010)

36. Have enough money to be truly satisfied

37. See the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

38. Go rock climbing

39. See Michelangelo’s David

40. Learn to surf (well)

41. See Old Faithful geyser erupt

42. Buy a stranger a meal in a restaurant

43. Visit Africa/go on a Safari

44. Walk on a beach by moonlight

45. Get transported in an ambulance (Smithers, BC April 1996)

46. Have my portrait painted

47. Go deep sea fishing (Puerto Escondido, Mexico, November 2009)

48. See the Sistine Chapel in person

49. Kiss on top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (February 2000)

50. Go scuba diving

51. Instill a love of cooking into my children

52. Wrestle in the mud

53. Go to a drive-in theater

54. Be in a movie

55. Swim with dolphins

56. Start a business

57. Take a martial arts class

58. Visit Russia

59. Serve at a soup kitchen

60. Sell Girl Scout Cookies, eat the whole box if you can't sell them

61. Go whale watching

62. Send anonymous flowers to someone for no reason

63. Donate blood

64. Go see the polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba

65. Visit a Nazi Concentration Camp

66. Have a $0 balance in the bank

67. Fly in a helicopter (childhood with my forester father, Gary)

68. Pass on a favorite childhood toy to my children

69. Visit every continent (North America, South America, Europe, )

70. Eat Caviar

71. Piece a quilt

72. Stand in Times Square

73. Get over my fear of spiders, needles and sharks (ummm, probably never going to happen now that I think about this one...)

74. Get fired from a job

75. See the Changing of the Guards in London

76. Brake a bone

77. Ride a speeding motorcycle

78. See the Grand Canyon in person

79. Visit the Salar de Uyuni (Bolivian Salt Flats) (January 2007)

80. Visit the Vatican

81. Buy a brand new car

82. Walk in Jerusalem

83. Have my picture in the newspaper

84. Ride a camel

85. Get a puppy!

86. Kill and prepare an animal for eating

87. Bake a pie from scratch

88. Save someone’s life

89. Sit on a jury

90. Sup with someone famous

91. Join a book club

92. Lose a loved one

93. Take a week of vacation and do nothing but read, cook and enjoy not getting up for work every morning

94. Be unemployed (just for a little bit though)

95. Be involved in a lawsuit

96. Volunteer for a project you strongly believed in (Hands up For Africa)

97. Can/Preserve vegetables out of my own garden

98. Get married barefoot

99. Start a charity

100. Live in a foreign country; embrace their culture and don't want to leave

101. Go white water rafting (Mendoza, Argentina January 2007. Cusco, Peru March 2007)

102. Cut my very own Christmas tree from the forest

103. Cook an entire meal over a campfire

104. Visit the new 8 Wonders of the World

104a. Great Wall of China (China)

104b. Petra (Jordan)

104c. Christ the Redeemer (Brazil)

104d. Machu Picchu (Peru) (March 2007)

104e. Chichen Itza (Mexico) (March 2005)

104f. Colosseum (Italy)

104g. Taj Mahal (India)

104h. Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt)

105. Touch all the world's natural bodies of water (Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea)

106. Start a blog (August 2010)

107. Maintain a blog that isn't lame.