My Bucket List

 "Tell me, what is it you plan to do/ with your one wild and precious life?"

 - "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver

be sealed in the temple to my soulmate

travel to Prince Edward Island and Banff

learn to make delicious doughnuts

learn to play drums

serve a mission

go to a music festival in another country

go on a road trip with my best friends

travel to Guatemala

go through the temple

do the splits

sleep in a teepee

travel to England

actually be able to play my ukulele

take a foodie trip

be on a sailboat

travel to Spain and Morocco

save a baby sea turtle

hike in Appalachia

adopt an animal

start a book club and a tiny library

experience zero gravity

go glamping

hang-glide or parasail

travel to Turkey

see a manatee

see the Grand Canyon

spend my birthday performing acts of kindness

have a ladybug garden

be a fun aunt

graduate with my teaching degree

see Alaska

spend Christmas and/or New Year's in NYC

eat in New Orleans

go skinny dipping

travel to Brazil

make something on a pottery wheel

take an author's trip

see a whale

sleep in a treehouse

windsurf

train for a triathalon

travel to Switzerland

live in a big city

take a dance class

ride a train to Colorado

swim with sea turtles

become a trained Fair Trade Advocate

visit the National Geographic Museum

participate in a community garden

see my favorite play performed live

publish a poem

zipline

see a Broadway show

perfect a cartwheel

try aerial yoga

spend Christmas on a service trip

visit an elephant sanctuary

get a real massage

attend a masquerade ball

learn a new language

try dogsledding

swim a mile without stopping

stay in a houseboat

make care packages for the homeless as a family

visit Africa

see Justin Bieber in real life

visit the sacred places of major world religions

go to a Shakespeare festival

teach English in another country

go to the original Starbucks in Seattle

visit New Zealand

see Adam Levine in real life

throw a Great Gatsby party

see the Northern lights

visit a chocolate factory

start a community writing center

go zorbing

visit all 50 states

decorate my house like a beach house

put a secret in a balloon and let it float away

attend an Olympic event

ride a horse on the beach

see the Redwoods

go on a canopy walk

have my own classroom

see the Little Mermaid in Denmark

donate blood

learn the dance to Thriller

see a hot air balloon festival

have a greenhouse

go to Hawaii

build a dog agility course

vote in a presidential election

make a Day of the Dead mask

see a Beatle in real life before they all die

visit the walk of fame

see a live performance of The Messiah

fly across the ocean

go cliff jumping

visit the National September 11 Monument

reread all of the Harry Potter books

learn to use a telescope

see a fire dancing show

be in a Color Run

learn to give henna tattoos

surf

ride in a taxi

learn calligraphy

ride in a helicopter

raise a therapy or seeing-eye dog

take a trip to Chicago

try stand up paddle boarding

write a play

go snowmobiling

move somewhere no one knows my name