my bucket list

life moves pretty fast, and i don’t want to look back and realize it’s over” - ben, from MTVs “the buried life”

i’ve been waiting to post this list for a while. i don’t know what took me so long, considering i’ve had the list written forever. no day like today, i suppose. i’ve knocked off a few things already. now i just have to get started on the rest:

1. go bungee jumping - did this at victoria falls in zimbabwe
2. become fluent in another language (or 2!)
3. spend a year living in another country
4. spend a year living in another state
5. climb the great wall of china
6. go on a TOMS shoe drop
7. study abroad - did this twice; one for 6 weeks in greece, and once for 5 months in south africa
8. complete a sprint triathlon
9. have a book published
10. go skydiving in a cool place
11. open a bakery/restaurant
12. start a blog - done and done!
13. wear TOMS in my wedding
14. climb machu picchu
15. go back to south africa
16. visit the taj mahal
17. take a trip to each of the 7 continents (europe, africa, asia, antarctica, australia, north america, and south america)
18. see all of the 7 natural wonders (mount everest, great barrier reef, victoria falls, the grand canyon, aurora borealis, paricutin volcano, harbor of rio de janeiro) *there is no real general consensus on the 7 natural wonders of the world, but these are mine.
19. try out for american idol
20. go to thailand
21. get my masters
22. join a choir/music group
23. mardi gras in NOLA
24. carnivale in rio
25. oktoberfest in munich
26. new years eve in amsterdam
27. take courses at culinary school

i’ll keep adding to this list as i think of things i want to accomplish before i kick the bucket.

so, what’s on your list?

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