Friday, May 15, 2009

Update and Changes to 100 Things to Do Before I Die

I updated my 100 Things to Do Before I Die list and I will start adding something to the list everytime I mark something off!

1) Go scuba-diving off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
2) Become a parent.
3) Visit Paris and go to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
4) Go to a real theatre. 5/15/08 Chicago Theater to see "Wicked"
5) Take a hotair balloon ride.
6) Climb a mountain.
7) Christmas in New York.-12/08
8) Set foot on each of the seven continents
9) Visit the pyramids.
10) Go whale watching.
11) Visit Machu Picchu.
12) See the northern lights.
13) Visit a museum in London.
14) Attend the Olympic games.
15) See the Mona Lisa at the Louvre.
16) Try wine-tasting.
17) Float in the dead sea.
18) Go on a safari.
19) Walk on the Great Wall of China.
20) Take the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.
21) Visit the Tower of London.
22) Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.
23) Run a marathon.
24) Send a message in a bottle.
25) Visit Mt. Everest base camp
26) Hike the Appalachian Trail.
27) See the Niagara Falls.
28) Go to midnight premiere of a movie.
29) Cruise down the Nile.
30) Ride a camel in the desert.
31) Kiss the Blarney Stone.
32) Go kayaking.
33) Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.
34) See a musical on Broadway.-I did not see a musical, but I did see a show on Broadway12/16/08
35) Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.
36) Swim with dolphins.
37) Skydive.
38) Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.
39) Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France.
40) Watch the launch of the space shuttle.
41) Be an extra in a film.
42) Read “Anna Karenina” by Tolstoy
43) Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.
44) Be a member of the audience in a TV show. --Done, I went to see a taping of Jeopardy.
45) Bake a cake from scratch.
46) See Ani Difranco in concert.
47) Plant a tree.
48) Learn to ballroom dance properly.
49) Sit on a jury.
50) Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.
51) See the Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil
52) Shower in a waterfall.-3/23/08--Didn't take a full shower, didn't get naked, but I definately immersed myself in a waterfall at the end of a caving expedition.
53) Volunteer at a soup kitchen.
54) Spend New Year's in an exotic location.
55) Drive across America from coast to coast.
56) Visit an Amish community.
57) Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country. --currently the Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ
58) Go wild in Rio during Carnival.
59) Go to Savannah, GA. For St. Patrick’s Day
60) Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas
61) Raft through the Grand Canyon.
62) Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape.
63) Attend one really huge rock concert.
64) Give to a charity -- anonymously.
65) Lose more money than you can afford at roulette in Vegas.
66) Visit the Holy Land.
67) Go to Auschwitz
68) Learn a new word everyday for a year.
69) Stay overnight in a Buddist Monastery
70) Visit the Pearl Harbor Memorial
71) Milk a cow
72) Visit Ground Zero in New York City-12/14/08
73) Protest
74) Take an archery lesson
75) Learn to water ski
76) Have coffee on a sidewalk in Paris
77) See Cirque Du Soleil live-2/1/09
78) Camp outside for a week
79) Go to a real Ballet
80) Enroll in a belly dancing class-done in 8/08
81) Ride a mechanical bull
82) Visit all 50 of the United States- visited 20/50 so far
83) Graduate college-05/15/09
84) Visit a music festival in another country
85) Help with a Habitat for Humanity Home
86) Go to a fashion show
87) Try fire walking
88) See the Acropolis in Greece
89) Watch Casablanca Completed 5/26/08
90) Learn to fly, get my pilot's license
91) Receive my black belt in Tae Kwon Do
92) Eat Chinese food in China
93) Get to my ideal weight again
94) Volunteer and make a difference
95) Run with the bulls in Spain
96) Become debt free
97) See the Highland Games in Scotland
98) Stay overnight in an ice hotel
99) Drink tequila in a bar in Mexico
100) Ride horseback on a beach

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Movies of April 2009

Girl With a Pearl Earring-4/5
Slumdog Millionaire-5/5
Vicky Cristina Barcelona-4.5/5