Thursday, December 18, 2008

To Do Before I Die!

In no particular order...1. Ride a camel
2. See the blue footed booby bird
3. Swim with dolphins (and not in a stupid pool)
4. Climb a volcano (Vesuvius preferrably)
5. Sleep under the stars while backpacking
6. Go on a gondola ride
7. Cliff jump in another country (Greece?)
8. Catch a fish in the deep sea
9. Participate in a festival
10. Create an ethnic craft
11. Watch the sunrise over the ocean
12. Pet a snake
13. Send a message in a bottle
14. Crack a wild coconut and drink the milk
15. Shower in a waterfall
16. See a lion in real life (and not at the zoo)
17. Spend the night in a castle
18. Go in a hot air balloon
19. Do a festive dance with the natives
20. Start a food fight (If I leave, they'll never know it was me :)
21. Ride on top of a double decker bus
22. Drink tea and eat pastries at a café
23. Climb a pyramid and do the Egyptian dance
24. Pet an elephant's trunk
25. Sail on a tall ship in the Mediterranean (oh blue water!)
26. Pet a penguin (Antartica works)
27. Help fly a plane without crashing
28. Dance in the rain29. Fly first class
30. Ride an elephant
31. Play bag pipes
32. Ride a moped
33. Toss a coin into the Trevi Fountain facing forwards and still come back to Italy :)
34. Perform something on a random stage
35. Make a total stranger laugh
36. Sleep in a hammock overnight
37. Get lost in a city and ask directions through gestures
38. Dance under the stars while live music plays in the background
39. Yodel in Switzerland
40. Take a picture of the Mona Lisa (hope you're allowed to cause I'm doin it!)
41. Hold a monkey
42. Go to all 7 continents
43. Sit on a beach all day long and do nothing
44. Go whale watching (no harpoons, please!)
45. Play in the mud and get someone else muddy
46. See the Nile river
47. Volunteer
48. Plant something somewhere
49. See Stonehenge
50. Pray in a great church
51. Pet a sheep dog (maybe help herd sheep too)
52. Twirl in the rain while laughing and stepping in puddles
53. Take a picture with a famous statue (David?)
54. Help a person in need (maybe a begger or a child with one leg)
55. Be spontaneous...enough said
56. Prank call someone and attempt to speak their language...hang up on them
57. Tour a vineyard and eat grapes from it (if possible, help foot press the grapes)
58. Climb a cool tree
59. Have a sing along with people you don't know
60. Make a bunch a strangers raise a toast to destiny
61. Ride a bike for a day
62. Sing at the top of my lungs on a mountain
63. Help a vendor sell something (make someone actually buy it)
64. Haggle till I get it for free ;)
65. Hold or pet a panda
66. Participate in a contest (I never win)
67. Go to the top floor of a really tall building and spit off the top
68. Play an unusual instrument (I mean, really unusual)
69. Rock climb
70. Hug a child in need...orphans?
71. Buy an original drawing or painting (if someone is painting outside, ask for it)
72. Find someone with the same name as me who speaks a different language than me
73. Ride in a police car (without being in trouble)
74. See an outdoor movie
75. See a movie in a diff. language
76. Go to/build a bonfire
77. See the 7 wonders of the world
78. Get a full body massage
79. Sleep ALL day and stay up ALL night
80. Strike up a conversation with a random stranger about the color pink
81. Feed ducks in another country...maybe with an old lady in a great sweater
82. Get your nails painted by an authentic asian
83 Buy a CD in a foreign language and listen to the whole thing...sing along
84. Ask for an autograph from a stranger in each country you visit
85. Get a souvenier from each country you visit
86. Go nightfishing (Japan or South America)
87. See the Great Barrier Reef
88. Make a London guard smile or laugh
89. Sleep in a mud hut
90. Help make a traditional food
91. Get in a local newspaper
92. Be on television in another country
93. Meet a foreign celebrity that you have no idea who they are
94. See the place where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans meet
95. Go cave exploring
96. Coin a new phrase (that you say...other people might say it if you're lucky)
97. Get a REAL flower lei
98. Surf
99. Sail the Amazon River
100. Complete this list

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