Making Dreams Come True: Our Bucket List

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss, but that it is too low and we reach it." ~ Michelangelo Buonarroti

Our life is ours to live and we intend to live it to the fullest. We are always talking about things we would like to do in our lifetime and places we want to go. I personally LOVE to make lists so why not make a list of our dreams and turn words into actions. In a Forbes article it outlines ways to achieve any goal; step one: write it down, step two: look it often, step three: tell people. Here you go, in no particular order. Some of these are individual goals, but we plan to do them together. Some of them I'm adding that were on my bucket list before

1. Own a dog Completed August 2011
2. Fall in love Completed Summer 2005
3. Get married to best friend Completed August 2011
4. Move away for college Completed August 2008
5. Buy first car all on own Completed in 2008
6. Buy first home Completed June 2011
7. Own a Lovesac sactional Completed September 2013
8. Stay in Presidential Suite of fancy Hotel Completed Summer 2010? Again on honeymoon
9. Kiss on the beach Completed June 2012
10. Learn to Surf {Completed by Katie in Hawaii October 2003}
11. Become parents
12. Cook a Thanksgiving Dinner all by myself Completed Thanksgiving 2011
13. Experience Christmas in New York {Katie)
14. Spend all day and night on the beach, bonfire included
15. Volunteer in Africa
16. See the Northern Lights
    
17. Change someones life for the better
18. Play "messy" twister, keyword paint
19. Go on a cruise
20. Learn to drive manual {Katie}
21. Get a puppy for Christmas, like on Lady and the Tramp Completed Christmas 2012
22. Swim in every ocean
23. Become fluent in ASL {Katie}
24. Become fluent in another language {Katie: Italian, Jeff: Spanish}
25. Visit Dubai 
26. Own a horse
27. Ride a mechanical bull
28. Plant a tree from a seed and watch it grow
    
29. Milk a cow
30. Go hang gliding {Mostly Jeff}
31. Go bungee jumping {Mostly Jeff}
32. Go skiing in Aspen, Colorado
33. Swim with dolphins {Completed by Katie in Hawaii October 2003}
34. Have a 50th wedding anniversary and many more
35. Run in the Color Run
36. Run a half marathon
37. Ride an elephant
38. Pet and hold a baby tiger
39. Go scuba diving {Jeff has a GIANT list of places}
    
40. Ride in a helicopter
41. Visit all 50 states, airports do not count
42. Ride in a hot air balloon
43. Visit the pyramids in Egypt
44. Graduate from College
45. Go skydiving {Mainly Jeff's, Katie's have the guts to go}
46. Stand on every continent 
47. Go white water rafting {Completed by Jeff as a kid}
48. Go to the floating lantern festival {Katie}
49. Walk the Great Wall of China
50. Attend the Olympics Completed at the 2002 Winter Olympics
51. Attach a lock to Love Bridge
52. Watch the ball drop in Times Square
53. Cut down own Christmas tree
54. Go to Mardi Gras
55. Go paintballing {Katie, Jeff has many times}
    
56. Go on vacation with no plans, show up at airport and take next flight
57. Spend the night in an aquarium
58. Build a piece of furniture from scratch {Katie}
59. Adopt a baby
60. Be paid to blog
61. See a show on Broadway {Katie}
62. Learn to play a musical instrument
63. Throw a dart at a map and travel to wherever it lands
64. Put a piece of gum on the gum wall in Seattle
    
65. Stand on the Chicago Ledge in the Sears Tower
66. Stay in over the water hotel in Bora Bora, the one on Couples Retreat
67. Go on a safari
68. Carve something on a tree together
69. Jump off a waterfall
70. See the frozen waves in Antarctica
71. Send a message in a bottle
72. See an Ohio State football game {Katie}
73. Visit Greece
74. Kiss at the top of the Empire State Building
75. Kiss at the top of the Eiffel Tower
76. Take a gondola in Venice
77. Make a wish in the Trivi Fountain
78. Visit Vatican City
79. Visit Ireland
80. Visit London
81. Visit Rome
82. Put a letter on Juliet's Wall {Katie}
    
83. Go zorbing 
84. Ride a segway
85. Go Para sailing 
86. Watch sea turtles hatch
87. Participate in the polar bear plunge
88. Ice skate in Central Park
89. Donate bone marrow and save a life
90. Visit the four corners
91. Be part of a flash mob {Katie}
92. Spend the night in an igloo 
93. Stay at the ice hotel
94. Go whale watching {Completed by Jeff in August 2008, Alaska}
95. Go cage diving with Great whites {Jeff, he is nuts}
    
96. See all the 7 wonders of the world
97. Go to the Galapagos Islands
98. Ride in a submarine
99. Cook every single thing in a cookbook
100. Be an extra in a movie
101. "Hold up" the Leaning Tower of Pisa
102. Own something from Tiffany and Co
103. Experience zero gravity
104. Visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
105. Climb the steps of the Mayan Ruins
106. See a meteor shower
107. Go to every Disney Land/World
     
108. Swim with manta rays
109. Ride a camel 
110. Become a teacher {Katie}
111. Become a police officer {Jeff}
112. Swim with beluga whales
113. Do everything on my bucket list

That's all I want to think of right now. I will add on as I go and update with all our adventures. Do you have any bucket list items? Any Suggestions? Let me know, I am always up for new ideas.