This list was created in 2006, before the Bucket List movie came out. I never called it a "Bucket List," just my list. Anyway, I've posted it before on MySpace and Facebook, but never with photos. So it's been updated with photos and a few changes have been made to some items in the list that no longer go along with my life goals or plans.

I first saw a "list" on someone else's blog and it inspired mine, so maybe this will inspire someone else. Make your own list. Accomplish your goals. And take an adventure or try something new once in a while.

Enjoy.

 

1. go skydiving*** (w/ Roddy for my 23rd b-day)

2. see and photograph the Eiffel Tower*** (Eurotrip 2007)

3. learn to play the guitar

 

4. successfully surf a few sets of waves*** (June 3, 2017 at Nland Surf Park...still need to do this in the ocean)

5. land an airplane, all by myself

 

6. own a collection of Disney dvds, the ones that i watched as a kid*** (Still working on it, but I have a bunch now).

 

7. have my own darkroom*** (December 30, 2017...all the supplies to build a pop-up darkroom in my bathroom.)

 

8. fall in love, again*** (Roddy...this photo is from our first date on Oct. 6, 2007)

9. play chopsticks on the floor-piano in FAO Schwartz in New York*** (NYC trip, Thanksgiving 2016...piano was moved to Macy's since FAO Schwartz is no longer in existence).

10. be able to clear both wakes on my toeside, consistantly (getting close to this one)

 

11. tour england*** (Eurotrip 2007)

12. get certified to SCUBA dive

 

13. drastically improve the piano skills that i have lost

 

14. become a mother

 

15. run a mile in less than 6 minutes, one more time

 

16. ride a gondallo in Italy*** (Eurotrip 2007)

17. marry the man of my dreams, on the beach*** (April 9, 2011- Panama City Beach, FL)

18. get a tattoo...a small one

 

19. learn to salsa

 

20. visit all of the Smithsonian museums in D.C.

 

21. hang out at the Santa Monica Pier*** (ate Bubba Gump shrimp & rode the ferris wheel)

22. go to the olympics, as a spectator

 

23. own a boat*** (technically, I didn't pay for it but I sure did spend a lot rebuilding it...does that count? I'm sure I'll own another one day...)

24. catch a large-mouth bass*** 

25. spend a week or so on a sailboat

 

27. see the painted desert

 

28. read the entire Bible

 

29. get leied (spelling?), as in have a real lei placed around my neck, in Hawaii

 

30. have a job as a photographer, before Dec. 16, 2006 (graduation)*** (Baytown Sun)

 

31. see a concert at Billy Bob's

 

32. go to an observatory

 

33. visit the Louvre in Paris*** (Eurotrip 2007)

34. ride in a hot air balloon

 

35. learn a trick shot in pool

 

36. fly in an open cockpit plane*** (Stearman bi-plane at Wings Over Houston media day...that isn't me in the plane, but it's the exact plane I flew in)

37. watch a movie at a drive-in theater*** (saw "forgetting sarah marshall"...will have to try this again with a better movie)

 

38. go back to disneyworld*** (Grammie B's retirement trip, Oct. 2015)

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39. snorkel in the Florida Keys

 

40. drink a Margarita in Margaritaville***(margaritaville in Vegas and Panama City Beach)

41. watch the Blue Angels perform***(Wings over Houston 2009)

42. ride a snowmobile

 

43. see Washington D.C. from the top of the Washington Monument

 

44. eat ice cream at the Bluebell Factory***(June 19, 2009)

45. find a whole sand dollar on the beach*** (Ventura, CA- December 6, 2011)

 

46. walk the fields of Gettysburg

 

47. walk the beach where Message in a Bottle was filmed

 

48. see the Grand Canyon

 

49. eat chocolate in Hershey, Pennsylvania

 

49. make a new year's resolution and keep it*** (stopped popping my knuckles)

 

50. watch a late show from the audience

 

51. go on a road trip in a convertible*** (depends on your definition of a convertible....drove from Vegas to the Sequoia National Forest to Yosemite National Park to San Francisco in a Jeep with the top off)

52. eat at a habachi grill*** (Tokyo is my fave.)

 

53. see the big letters on the hillside in Hollywood*** (saw them from far off, have to go back and see them closer)

54. gamble in Las Vegas***(didn't win any, but didn't lose either)

55. visit the San Diego Zoo*** (the panda bears were worth the trip)

56. spend the night in a hammock under the stars

 

57. ride the ferry to the Statue of Liberty*** (NYC trip, Thanksgiving 2016...didn't get out but we did do a harbor tour right up to the statue.)

58. picnic in Central Park*** (NYC trip, Thanksgiving 2016...does a pretzel and hot chocolate count?)

59. get my private pilot's license

 

60. ice skate on a frozen pond

 

61. get drenched at Niagara Falls

 

62. kiss and dance in the rain with the man i love*** (NYE 2012 in Downtown Houston...these are before and after photos)

63. take more photography classes***(I do this a lot.)

 

64. watch a sandcastle building contest*** (I hosted it too. April 8, 2011- Panama City Beach, FL)

65. hear Elton John perform Tiny Dancer, live*** (Elton John and Billy Joel live in San Antonio)

66. drive a motorcycle, a fast one*** (drove a fast bike, but didn't go too fast...will try again)

67. see kangaroos and koala bears in Austrailia

 

68. buy a Canon 5D Mark III*** (April 26, 2014...it's so awesome!)
 

69. learn a backflip...on a trampoline, into a pool and on my wakeboard :)

 

70. take a cruise

 

71. karaoke*** (Bohemian Rhapsody)

72. stay in the best suite in a five-star hotel

 

73. taste wines at a vineyard*** (Eurotrip 2007)

74. graduate with honors*** (Cum Laude)

75. own a collection of L-lenses*** (got my first one April 26, 2014...and second one April 26, 2017...and still building it)

 

76. go whitewater rafting

 

77. finish an entire crossword puzzle, with no help

 

78. ride on the subway/train*** (Eurotrip 2007)

 

79. live in the hill country

 

80. ride the elevator to the top of the Sears Tower

 

81. test drive a Ferrari or Lamborghini

 

82. ride a trolley in San Francisco***(so they're actually cable cars, not trolleys)

83. see Mt. Rushmore

 

84. watch a broadway show in New York*** (NYC trip, Thanksgiving 2016...Aladdin!)

85. buy a Flight 69 wakeboard*** (Roddy got me one for my birthday June 18, 2014.)

 

86. visit the memorials at Pearl Harbor

 

87. ride a dirt bike on a dirt track***(off road park in Jacksonville, TX...I only have photos of Roddy from this trip)

 

88. go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans

 

89. spend a day being pampered at a spa

 

90. lay down in the middle of the four corners

 

91. go to the airplane graveyard

 

92. see the ball drop in New York on New Year's Eve

 

93. spend the night on the beach

 

94. take a self-defense class*** (does the concealed handgun class count?)

 

95. tour a light house*** (illegally, i'm sure)

 

96. own a salt water fish tank, complete with coral and exotic fish

 

97. learn to whistle

 

98. send out a message in a bottle

 

99. walk through a maze, and find my way out*** (April 10, 2011- Panama City Beach, FL)

100. see a space shuttle launch...guess that one might not happen now

 

101. hug a tree in the sequoia national forest in california*** (saw the biggest tree in the world...36 feet in diameter)

102. why this wasn't in the original 100, i have no idea....see The Eagles perform Hotel California, live*** (best concert ever X2)

103. go on a photo safari in Kenya

 

104. open a portrait studio (have a portrait business, but no real studio)

 

105. watch some type of air races*** (Sept. 2014, Red Bull Air Races...would like to see Reno Air Races now too)

***task completed

 

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