100 Things

Highlight the ones you have done
Come on you know you want to do it too! (Thanks Mo, this is a fun one! Glad you found it.)

1. Started your own blog (well duh, I actually have a few.)
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band (Band nerd from 5th grade to 11th)
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland (I think the first time I went I was 2, right mom?)
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis (We always have them in the spring and summer, my daughters found the egg case this year, so we are watching it waiting for them to hatch!)
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch (Knitting!)
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning (bleh not fun!)
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables (This last year, I finally grew some of my own.)
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked (this was during a bad time of my life, and is a very long story that some day I will tell, but maybe my mom shouldn't read it.)
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (Of course, but mostly it was my kid who was ill.)
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping (With my girl pals my freshman year of high school.)
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset (I routinely watch them both!)
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelos David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt (And I want to watch it again!)
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant (He became a good friend after that. I have also had my meal purchased by a stranger, without them ever saying a word. It feels really good!)
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud (There are pictures of this somewhere- I was about 10, right Hairball?)
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper (I was in second grade at the time.)
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House (but only if you count seeing the outside and not the inside!)
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (well sort of, I was with my family when we were butchering the chickens. I remember it vividly, I think I was 5.)
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous (Webster yeah Emmanuel Lewis cause he's the anti-christ)
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby (twice)
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake (and in all the pictures of us swimming in it I am picking my butt because I was wearing my younger cousin's panties and she was wearing mine.)
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day (routinely I do this!)