I decided to start my own Bucket List, 100 things to do before I die — which, hopefully, is still a good long ways off.
In no particular order:
1. Learn to play the guitar
2. Travel to Ireland
3. Complete a half marathon
4. See all my kids graduate from high school (one down, two to go!)
5. Camp on the beach with my husband
6. Hike around Mt. Rainier
7. Take a train across the U.S.
8. Have high tea in London
9. Make a queen-sized quilt
10. See a Broadway play in New York
11. Raise some chickens
12. Find a pair of red high heels that fit comfortably
13. Stay up all night watching movies with my daughter
14. Go hang gliding
15. Get a manicure (never had one)
16. Ride the Seattle to Portland bike ride with my husband
17. Take my kids to Sea World
18. Read “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand
19. Take at least one of my kids to Paris
20. Go on a road trip with some girlfriends
21. Knit some undies, so I can say that I have
22. Dance at my kids’ weddings
23. Grow asparagus in my garden
24. Attend a hockey game
25. Eat real Greek food, in Greece
26. Learn to hula hoop
27. Make Julia Child’s Beef Bourguignon
28. Teach my grandchildren how to spin wool
29. Volunteer in a soup kitchen
30. Have my picture taken with Santa again
31. Read to an elderly person
32. Plant hundreds of tulips and daffodils in my yard (and not care if the squirrels eat / move them all)
33. Grow some bonsai trees
34. Take a cruise to the Caribbean
35. Learn Spanish
36. Go skiing with my husband
37. Build a front porch on our house
38. Learn to can my own spaghetti sauce
39. “Sponsor a child” in a foreign country
40. Travel to Australia
41. See the Great Pyramids
42. Visit Stonehenge
43. Take a nap under a 200-year-old oak tree
44. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Get beads.
45. Pet an elephant
46. Drive through Vermont during Autumn to see the leaves turn
47. Learn to drive a motorcycle
48. Stay in bed all day with my husband. ALL day.With only quick forays to the kitchen for refreshments. 
49. Take a backstage tour at Universal Studios
50. Shake hands with a U.S. President
(there will be more, stay tuned)
