BOLD THE ONES YOU HAVE DONE!!
Elaine's Personal Experiences or Bucket List (What you want to do before you kick the bucket.)
I am amazed that I can check off 43 items from the list! How many can you check?
1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band (East Junior High, but it WAS a band!)
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain (and did not r0ll down!)
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris (and spit off the Eiffel Tower!)
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch (knitting, cross-stitch, scrapbooking, photography)
15. Adopted a child (amazed that I can cross this one off my list!)
16. Had food poisoning (and wished I could go ahead and die!!)
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France (it is A LOT smaller than I thought it was)
20. Slept on an overnight train (to Berlin)
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (not this year!!)
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset (Yellowstone by sunset or sunrise….God’s gift)
31. Hit a home run (7th grade PE – shocked everyone!)
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person (we lived in Germany when I was a kid.)
39. Gone rock climbing (Berea College, Kentucky)
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt (See #30)
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight (Sound to Sea)
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (See #12)
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater (Berea, Kentucky, again)
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason (from my Dad, when Dr. Gorst was being mean to me)
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp (Auswitz and Dachau, see #38)
67. Bounced a check (so embarrassing!)
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar (on sushi, does that count?)
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square (Went to see Victor/Victoria, with Raquel Welch)
74. Toured the Everglades (Lived in Florida, Homestead)
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London (High School Spring Break, 1979)
77. Broken a bone (left ankle, left little toe, right thumb)
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book (ask me to see Eric’s Born to Be Wild!)
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car (3 so far)
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper (last time, dressed as Harry Potter!)
85. Read the entire Bible (ashamed to say no to this one)
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpos (2 times!!)
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury (for a child molester’s case. HORRIBLE experience.)
91. Met someone famous (ate dinner with Alex Haley, author of ROOTS, Doc Watson at the
airport, The Romantics (punk band) in Wendy’s in KY)
93. Lost a loved one (miss you, Madge, Neal, and most especially, Dad, 3 miscarriages)
94. Had a baby (Josh, in the flesh, Jake, in the heart)
95. Seen the Alamo in person (lived in San Antonio, TX, where both my boys were born)
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone (and Susan taught me to text!!!)
99. Been stung by a bee (FYI, Elaine has a life-threatening allergy to all vespids)
100. Responded to a friend, using technology – no paper, pen or land line
