MY BUCKET LIST

1. Raise healthy/well rounded kids (working on it!)
2. Go kayaking/camping by myself
3. Finish my Bachelor’s Degree
4. Go Skydiving with Emma on her 18^th birthday
5. Take a hot-air balloon ride
6. Parasailing
7. Scuba diving
8. Swim with dolphins
9. Go on a cruise
10. Go Whale watching
11. Visit all 50 states (been to 36 plus D.C. – yes, airports count – but that was only two of them so I guess 34 if you don’t count em! Not counting when I was a baby  though since I don’t remember)
12. Week long backpacking trip with the kids (did 3 days)
13. Disney World
14. All 72 State Parks
15. At least 5 National Parks
16. Visit 5 out of 7 continents (not Antarctica or Australia)
17. Move to someplace outside of Minnesota
18. See a Broadway Play
19. Write my life-story, even if I never publish it
20. Do something I enjoy for money in my later years, rather than working a 9 – 5 job just to pay the bills
21. Go to a horse race
22. Take a trip via train
23. Take a tour of the White House
24. Go grape stomping
25. Take skiing/snowboarding lessons
26. Go Whitewater rafting
27. Hold a snake
28. Go on the Power Tower or some other ride I’ve been too scared of
29. Stay in a cabin for a whole weekend during the winter
30. Learn a foreign language enough to make small talk at least
31. Watch my grand kids graduate/get married
32. Drive a motorcycle
33. Run for public office – school board, city council, something local
34. Attend at least one party where I get to wear a  gown
35. Stay at a ranch and learn how to ride a horse
36. Try sauerkraut
37. Take the girls tubing behind a boat
38. Learn how to belly dance or something sexy to boost confidence
39. Get Lasik
40. Go to a Theater/Dinner show
41. Fly in a helicopter
42. Share a poem/spoken word piece at an Open Mic
43. Take a specialty cooking class
44. Go to a rodeo

I should do as some other bloggers I’ve seen do too – and make a “Reverse Bucket List” – I think it would be cool to take stock in some of the amazing experiences I have already had!

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