The Bucket List

I’ve always had a bucket list, scribbled in the backs of notebooks and on notes tucked into the pages of my favorite books. It was time I posted it someplace a bit more reliable. So here we go….

1. Live abroad
2. Swim with a dolphin
3. Live in a warmer climate (than Chicago)
4. Lose the muffin-top
5. Wear a bikini confidently (again)
6. Visit the Galapagos Islands
7. Visit New Zealand
8. Take the kids on a sailboat vacation in the British Virgin Islands
9. Stay in a treehouse in Fiji
10. View Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower
11. Hang glide at Jockey’s Ridge State Park at the Outer Banks, NC
12. Take a River Cruise in Germany
13. Hike the Grand Canyon
14. Go on safari.
15. Visit Hawaii
16. Eat tapas in Barcelona
17. Drink Guinness in Ireland
18. Attend the ACM awards and blog about it
19. Take a cruise to Fiji
20. Cruise the Nile river and see the pyramids
21. Eat gelato in Rome
22. Ride the Eurostar from London to Paris
23. Take a cooking class in Florence
24. Eat chocolate in Switzerland
25. Take a pastry class
26. Drink a beer in Germany
27. Learn to speak Spanish
28. Learn to knit
29. Learn to sew
30. Learn to play guitar
31. Learn to do a “smokey eye” without looking like an aging hooker.
32. Get published in the Washington Post (for something I wrote, not something I did.)
33. Write a children’s book
34. Run a half-marathon
35. Run a full marathon
36. Take my family to Walt Disney World, Disneyland and Disneyland Paris.
37. Be an extra in a film
38. Go white-water rafting
39. Try to make a guard laugh a Buckingham Palace
40. Walk the Red Carpet…anywhere
41. Attend a World Cup match with my soccer-crazed son
42. Take my daughter to the ballet
43. Visit the National Parks in an RV
44. Hang out on the beach in Goa
45. Overcome my fear of heights (ok, my fear of falling from heights)
46. Take part in a flash mob
47. See the Northern Lights in Norway
48. Be a cartoon voice
49. Spend my 20 year anniversary on Peter Island
50. Meet my grandchildren

But my list isn’t finished!