…just to get my blog on…

My sister-in-law had this on her blog. Thought it might help me get at least more than one post up on my January list. Watch out blogging world… more updates to follow!! P.S. If you want to highlight your own list so we can learn a little more about you, just copy, paste, and bold in your blog. Lisa

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars (all the time with my girlfriends on the trampoline)
3. Played in a band (Does high school count?)
4. Visited Hawaii (1st year anniversary; loved it!)
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland (after I got married; I was like a kid in a candy store)
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis (seen one)
10. Sang a solo (Never!! Have you heard my voice!)
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris (Loved it!)
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea (We used to watch them all the time from our big picture window in our house in Washington.)
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning (who hasn't)
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty (I was pretty disappointed I must say. We waited in line for over an hour, walked a million steps up veeeerrryyy slooooowly, got to stand at the top for 15 seconds and then went right back down.)
18. Grown your own vegetables (There's nothing better)
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France (Yes, but she was a lot smaller that I thought she was going to be)
20. Slept on an overnight train (from Spain to Italy)
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (I know I'm not the only one who has done this!)
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon (someday)
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice (very fun)
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise (someday)
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person (someday)
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 Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt (almost missed it because we were buying souvenir postcards :)
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa (Would love to)
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight... (in Italy)
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted (My grandmother one night during our art lesson painted a picture of me; she was a wonderful artist)
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 (In Hawaii, and I don't normally like to swim where I can't see the bottom but snorkeling was AMAZING! There is an entire world under there and I loved it!)
52. Kissed in the rain (want to do that; sounds fun)
53. Played in the mud (Loved making mud pies as a kid; note to self--get in touch with my youth again, those were good times)
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business (Cory and I would like to and eventually will)
58. Taken a martial arts class (No but Cory has)
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies (Does eating them count; I just ordered three boxes and have to wait an entire month for them :)
62. Gone whale watching (Very cool; would do it again)
63. Got flowers for no reason (yes, from my husband; I love surprises!!)
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving (with cory before we got married. What a rush-I actually really liked it; but, now I can cross that off my list)
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter (rode in a friends small airplane when I was a little girl)
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar (Never!)
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 (Yeah, and my dad got a ticket and we had to walk home. I cried the whole way and we only lived across the street)
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 (Someday; hopefully)
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible (working on it; that's a tuff one for me)
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby (three)
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Seen Mount Rushmore in person
101. Learned to play an instrument