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The Full Bucket List

We only get one chance here on earth, let's fill it with beautiful memories, life experiences and love.

The FULL List:
1. Cage dive with great whites
2. Buy an amazing pair of designer shoes
3. Learn how to play tennis
4. See a Broadway show on Broadway
5. Visit another country on a mission trip
6. Learn how to play at least one song on the guitar
7. ‘Pay it forward’ project
8. Find the perfect timeless cocktail dress
9. Crash a wedding
10. Go on vacation with just my girlfriends
11. Read the classic American novels:  (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Scarlet Letter, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Red Badge of Courage, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, Call of the Wild, Invisible Man: A Novel, A Farewell to Arms, Fahrenheit 451)
12. Tutor a child (not mine)
13. Watch the launch of a space shuttle
14. Live in a cool city for at least a few months
15. Cook an entire Thanksgiving meal by myself
16. Go to Australia and Scuba Dive in the Great Barren Reef
17. Sun-Bath in Rio-De-Janeiro and see Christ the Redeemer
18. Take a surfing class
19. Cliff jumping
20. Kite Surfing
21. Kiss under the Eiffel Tower
22. Watch the 100 best movies of all time
23. Learn another language and use it in their country
24. Visit Italy and see an Italian Opera
25. Visit Spain and see the running of the bulls or a real bull fight
26. Go on an African Safari
27. Go whale watching in Alaska and see the Northern Lights
28. Visit the Grand Canyon
29. Read the bible cover to cover
30. Be a mentor to someone
31. Get an article or book published
32. Visit Ireland
33. Fish in Costa Rica
34. Spend the whole day naked
35. Experience one of the big music festivals (South by Southwest, bonnaroo or lollapalooza)
36. Do a triathlon
37. Get my masters degree
38. Visit a real Dude Ranch out West
39. Go to a music festival in New Orleans
40. Go to the food and wine festival in Aspen
41. Go to a Superbowl
42. Go to a Kentucky Derby
43. See the Pyramids
44. Visit the Holy Land
45. Bike ride down a volcano in Hawaii
46. Walk on the great wall of China
47. Attend the Masters golf tournament
48. Ride down the Amazon River and experience a Rainforest
49. Diving/Snorkeling in the Galapagos
50. Eat my way through the Mediterranean
51. Lay in a field full of lavender
52. Sit at the foot of Angel Falls  (Niagara or Victoria will also do)
53. Take an RV road-trip to Yosemite National Park
54. Sit on a cliff admiring Machu Picchu
55. See the Taj Mahal in person
56. Ride in a hot air balloon
57. Be an extra in a movie
58. Grow my own garden
59. Experience the beauty of child birth
60. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich
61. Spend New Year’s Eve somewhere glamorous
62. Go mountain climbing
63. Eat all the foods on the '100 things' you must try list.  I've already had 70!
64. Swim with whale sharks
65. Go spelunking
66. Go to Boston and see a baseball game
67. I mean – really – see a baseball game at every stadium across the country…
68. Watch a football game in Lambeau Field in the winter
69. See the statue of liberty
70. Go on a yoga/meditation retreat
71. Get backstage at a concert
72. Travel somewhere by train
73. See the cherry blossoms in D.C.
74. Go apple picking
75. See a concert at the Gorge
76. Become a certified sommelier
77. Buy a fun weekend car – Jeep!
78. Have one really ‘baller’ night in Vegas
79. Spend a weekend alone
80. Jump in puddles with Zoe
81. Start my own business/ be my own boss
 82. Attend a high-school reunion
83. Take Zoe on a mommy/daughter trip
 84. Read a book a month for a year
85. Organize all my favorite recipes into a cookbook
86. Take cooking skills classes
87. Get recertified in scuba diving
88. Take Zoe to the ballet
89. Go device free for a month (outside of work)
90. Do one good deed a day for a week with Zoe
91. Train and finish a marathon
92. Zipline through the rainforest of costa rica
93. Go to the beach once a week with the family for a month – we live in FL and never go!
 94. Do 5 unassisted pull ups
95. Go on a ski vacation with friends
96. Create my ‘signature’ meal
97. Go camping with my family
 98. Travel first class internationally 
99. Finally learn how to do an ‘evening’ look with my make-up
100. Have a Go To ‘quote’ or personal mantra
101. Give Zoe a ‘white’ Christmas by going somewhere it is snowing
102. Give a lecture at my alma mater
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