My bucket list thus far
Have fun
- Build an igloo
- Go white water rafting
- Drink from a coconut that I picked from a tree
- Swim with dolphins
- Go snorkeling
- Ride a camel
- Ride an elephant
- Drive a NASCAR car
- Live like a local for a month
- Experience zero gravity
- Try surfing (body surfing in Lake Superior - Oiseau Bay - August 6, 2012)
- See a Cirque du Soleil show
- Ride a hot air balloon
- Skydive
- Paraglide
- Parasail
- Spend a whole night stargazing
- Ride in a helicopter
- Ride a motorcyle
- Ride in a stretch limo
- Climb a volcano
- Put my handprint into wet concrete
- Start a fire without matches
- Learn to ballroom dance
- Go deep-sea fishing (PEI - July 20, 2011)
- Meet my twin and take a picture with her!
- Memorize a book of the Bible
- Wear a two piece bathing suit in public
- Dinner in the dark (June 26, 2011)
- Be mortgage-free
- Shake hands with some one who has truly changed a country (June 28, 2011 - Shook Tim McGraw's hand, Nov. 10, 2011 - Dean Allison - MP)
- Go sea-kayaking at the Hopewell Rocks (July 19, 2011)
- Rappel down a sink hole and then go spelunking
- Go rock-climbing
- Ride a Segway
- Live on the water
Travel
- Travel to Jerusalem and follow the path of Jesus.
- Set foot on each of the seven continents. (North America - Aug. 10, 1982, Europe - September, 2004, Australia - December, 2006)
- Spend a night in an underwater hotel
- SCUBA in the Great Barrier Reef.
- Hike the entire Bruce Trail
- Visit all the francophone communities that are in my textbooks (Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Polynesia, Senegal, Tunisia, St. Pierre & Miquelon)
- See the redwoods in California
- Cross a country on a bicycle
- Stay overnight in the Ice Hotel in Quebec
- Float in the Dead Sea
- Go on an African Safari
- Drive through the Rockies
- Visit The Grand Canyon via donkey
- See the Victoria Falls (between Zambia and Zimbabwe)
- Witness the Northern Lights (the Aurora Borealis)
- Kayak in the Fjords of Norway
- Go ziplining/hiking through the Amazon Rainforest
- See a glacier
- Give a Roman speech from the Acropolis in Greece
- Climb and go through the catacombs in the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
- See Stonehenge, United Kingdom
- Visit the Parthenon in Greece
- Run along the Great Wall of China
- Build a Habitat for Humanity’s home
- Filet and cook a fish I caught over a campfire
- See the life-size version of Noah’s ark in Holland
- Visit a concentration camp and the beaches of Normandy and vow never to forget.
- Sleep in a castle
Jobs/Education
- Learn sign language
- Learn how to skate backwards
- Read every book written by C.S. Lewis
- Learn how to bake my own bread without using a bread machine and still have it taste good!
Being creative
- Finish a 365 day photography project
- Get up-to-date on my scrapbooks
- Organize my cards and scrapbook a bunch
- Make a creation out of pottery
Self-improvement
- Run a 5k
- Run a 10k
- Be a healthy weight and stay there!
- Lose 20 pounds (July 1, 2011 - Happy Canada Day to me!) :)
- Lose 50 pounds (December 3, 2011)
- Lose 75 pounds (October 5, 2012)
- Lose 100 pounds!!
- Get laser eye surgery and not have to wear glasses!! (June 29, 2012)