Things to do before I die...

So my last post reminded me of my Bucket List. Now, to clarify, I didn't get the idea from watching that movie with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. I wrote mine way before that. When I was living in China in 2005 I was taking an online class at BYU-Idaho, called "Personal Achievement" - the easiest and one of the most meaningful 1 credit I've ever earned. One of our assignments was to make a crazy list of things we'd like to accomplish in live. Emphasis on the crazy part. Some things are achievable and others as you will see are not likely to ever happen. Or even come close. But who cares, right? It is MY list and these are the 47 things I would love to do before I die. So here goes...


1. Learn another language (I've made attempts at Chinese and Spanish)
2. Travel to the following places: Spain, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Thailand, Russia, Prague, India, Greece, anywhere in Africa (so far, I've done Greece)
3. Ride on a camel
4. Go on a safari
5. Help in an African orphanage
6. Attend an Olympic event
7. Attend a soccer match in Europe
8. Go skydiving
9. Go scubadiving
10. Go on a cruise (we went on a cruise for our Honeymoon in 2009)
11. Hike up an active volcano
12. Be in a movie
13. Sing a song in a recording studio
14. Paint a picture on canvas
15. Go to a Broadway show
16. Ride in a helicopter
17. Interview someone famous
18. Write a book
19. Ride in a hot air balloon (did this last month in Turkey)
20. Run in a marathon
21. Touch a dolphin in the ocean (I did this on our cruise, it wasn't in the ocean, but since I not only got to touch it, I got to kiss it and swim with it, I'm still counting it)
22. Live in a hut in an island village
23. Assist in a major world discovery
24. Eat dinner with a leader from another country
25. Win a prestigious award
26. Learn to surf
27. Visit every continent (3 down, 4 to go)
28. Attend a formal ball
29. Meet the president
30. Live in several countries (so far I've lived in Italy and China, but I want more on my list)
31. Play the violin in a city orchestra
32. Compete on Wheel of Fortune and win
33. Attend a diving competition
34. Watch a live performance by Lord of the Dance and/or Riverdance
35. Take a picture and have it published in National Geographic
36. Run in a political election
37. Ride a horse on the beach
38. Drive a racecar
39. Learn a traditional dance from another country/culture
40. Buy a house on the beach
41. Save a stranger's life
42. Appear on the front page of a newspaper (done in 2005 - it was a newspaper in China with my picture on the front page. And in June I was mentioned on the front page after my house flooded)
43. Win a chess tournament
44. Travel to Mecca
45. Win a talent show
46. Invent something and make it famous
47. Attend a World Cup Final

There you have it! Now what is on your list?