Bucket List of Things I Need to Do

1. Go whale watching
2. Watch gorillas in the wild
3. Get married
4. Write a book, maybe 2 or 3
5. Ride in a helicopter
6. Ride in a hot air balloon
7. Swim with dolphins
8. Pay off all debt
9. Get a PhD
10. Lose 50 pounds
11. Buy a house
12. Consider a career in criminal profiling
13. Learn CPR
14. Learn to drive a stick shift
15. Learn to really play the guitar
16. Finish SCUBA certification
17. See Machu Picchu
18. Hike on the Appalachian Trail
19. Visit a paleontological dig
20. Celebrate New Year's in New York City
21. Spent weeks or months in Ireland
22. Go to Australia and New Zealand
23. Visit my exchange sister in Thailand
24. Visit my exchange sister in Colombia
25. Climb on a volcano
26. Pet a lion or tiger or liger
27. Walk on the Great Wall of China
28. Visit all 50 states
29. Shake hands with a President
30. Travel all around the world
31. See the Taj Mahal
32. Snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef
33. See Ayers Rock at sunset
34. See Mt. Everest
35. Take a safari in Africa
36. Go through the Panama Canal
37. Visit a concentration camp
38. See the Killing Fields of Cambodia
39. Travel through Vietnam
40. Attend Carnival in Rio
41. Visit New Orleans, witness a jazz funeral
42. Visit Ground Zero
43. Spend the night in a haunted house
44. Learn to cook well
45. Learn to speak Gaelic
46. Travel with just my brother and sister
47. See where Anne of Green Gables takes place, on Prince Edward Island
48. Meet fishermen in Dutch Harbor, Alaska
49. Search for grizzlies and moose in Alaska
50. Watch the top 100 movies from the American Film Institute list
51. Touch a manatee
52. Visit the remaining 950 places in the 1000 places to see before you die book
53. See the wildlife of Madagascar
54. Sing drinking songs in a real Irish pub, in Ireland
55. Learn to salsa
56. Learn to play the bagpipes
57. Join a sports league before I am disabled
58. Dive into the deep in a submarine
59. Learn to kayak
60. Learn sign language
61. Meet a tortoise in the Galapagos
62. Celebrate Oktoberfest in Germany
63. Smoke in a cafe in Amsterdam
64. Take my "nephews" and Godson to Disney World
65. See the Alhambra, Spain
66. Admire Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
67. See the floating gardens in Mexico City
68. Climb the Aztec pyramids
69. See the statues on Easter Island
70. Relax in a Turkish spa in Turkey
71. Debate economics inside the Kremlin in Russia
72. See a symphony in the Sydney Opera House, Australia
73. Try not to get arrested in Beijing
74. Sing "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" in Buenos Aires, Argentina
75. Ride a horse with los Gauchos on the Patagonia
76. See the reunited Berlin, Germany
77. Drink Guinness at the Guinness brewery
78. See El Prado in Madrid
79. Wander the Uffizi Gallery in Florence (we walked by but didn't go in!)
80. See the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
81. Go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
82. Tour the British Museum in England (I know, I lived in England, but I never went in!)
83. Visit Petra, Jordan
84. See the Christ the Redeemer Statue in Brazil
85. Shop in the Pike Place Market in Seattle
86. See Mt. Rushmore
87. Touch an orca
88. Climb to the crown in the Statue of Liberty
89. Drive a car through a redwood tree
90. Visit Sea World
91. Go to Universal Studios
92. Visit Waikiki Beach
93. Ride the 10 largest roller coasters in the world
94. Meet a celebrity
95. Stand face to face with a clown without running, crying, or trying to hit them
96. Be a role model
97. Be the best Auntie I can be
98. Live independently as long as possible
99. Have a truly spiritual experience
100. Read every book I own
101. Learn to relax
102. Fill a whole scrapbook - fancy scrapbooking, you know, the hobby kind
103. Find peace
104. Swim in all the oceans
105. Save someone's life
106. Perform the national anthem (okay, that was my brother's idea)