My Bucket List

It seems like everybody has, or is in the process of putting together, a Bucket List ... a list of all the goals you want to achieve, dreams you want to fulfill and life-experiences you desire to experience before you die.  So, I thought I might join in, and share mine with you.  Do you have a Bucket List you'd like to share ??

Here's mine (it is a work in progress, so I might be adding to it from time to time, as I think of things that I have forgotten !!).

• Take a cruise & tour through Alaska and Canada (and whilst in the area, visit a dear blog friend in Newfoundland ... you know who you are !!).
• Visit the Grand Canyon, the Painted Desert in Arizona, Yellowstone National Park, the Colorado Rocky Mountains ... and travel the whole of Route 66 in the USA.
• Cuddle / pat a tiger ... a real tiger, not a household pet that thinks it's a tiger (I've got one of those !!)
• Stand on the edge of an active volcano and feel the heat, smell the smells, and experience the fear and danger of it all.
• Take a cruise down the River Rhine / Danube.
• Visit Auschwitz in Poland, or what remains of it.
• Visit Machu Picchu in Peru.
• Take some gourmet cooking classes.
• Visit Cape York, Far North Queensland, again ... and see the things we missed out on last time we were there !!
• Win Tattslotto (I can dream, can't I !?!?!)
• Get down to my ideal weight.
• Find an exercise program that I enjoy, and will continue with.
• Organise a family reunion, and encourage everyone to forget the past and keep in touch.
• See my daughter happily married, with children, if that is what she chooses to do.
• See my daughter complete her apprenticeship, and become a qualified hairdresser with her own successful salon (once again, if that is what she chooses to do).
• Travel around Australia with my hubby, stopping where we want, when we want.
• Live to a ripe old-age.
• Ride all of the world's largest Roller Coasters.
• Swim with dolphins.
• Get a tattoo (only a little one !!).
• Go to a deserted island, and spend some time living like a native.
• See The Northern Lights.
• Write a book and have it published.
• Visit the Pyramids in Egypt.
• Physically meet more of the people I have "met" through blogging and facebook.
• Make a difference in someone's life.
• Take a photography course.
• Go on an African Safari.
• Appear in a movie, or TV show.
• Take part in a archaeological dig.
• Learn another language.
• Learn to play the guitar.
• Buy the beautiful Aboriginal work of art I fell in love with in a gallery in Hahndorf.
• Take a "Mystery Flight".
• Always stay true to myself, and to those that I love.
• Travel by boat / houseboat the entire length of the Murray River.
• Be the best person I can be.
• See a "real" UFO.
• Be debt free.
• Stand on the mountain-top where Julie Andrews is singing "The Hills Are Alive" at the beginning of The Sound Of Music.
• Complete all the Unfinished Projects I have stashed away in my craft room.
• Reconnect with old friends that I haven't seen for years.
• Continue to love, and spend as much time as possible, with my wonderful parents.
• Start visiting the blood bank again to donate blood.
• Visit Niagara Falls, and watch somebody going over them in a barrel.
• Go exploring with a metal detector, and find a big hunk of gold.
• Buy a Brand New car, just to experience that "new car" smell, and watch the odometer turn over from 000000 to 000001.
• Buy a Digital SLR Camera, with all the bits and bobs that go with it.
• Own a convertible car, and drive with the top down, the sun shining, and the wind in our hair.
• Do something great for my parents.
• Learn to draw.
• Ride in a limo whilst sipping champagne.
• See Uluru (Ayers Rock) after a big rainstorm.
• Visit Wolf Creek Crater in W.A., and watch the movie Wolf Creek whilst there !!
• Live life to the fullest.