Here is my attempt at creating my lift list (it is a work in progress and will grow). This was hard because I was torn about what to include. I have done several things on my list already, but I am going to include those.

1. 1. Skydive (don’t know that I’ll do this now since I’m a parent)
   2. See the Mona Lisa
   3. Travel to Italy
   4. See the pyramids in Egypt
   5. Get my BA
   6. Get my PhD
   7. Travel to Ireland
   8. Kiss the blarney stone
   9. Get married on April Fools Day (thanks hubs for agreeing)
   10. Be a professor
   11. Take a cooking class
   12. See the great wall of China
   13. Scuba dive w/sharks
   14. Scuba dive the great barrier reef
   15. Go to hawaii
   16. See kilauea’s lava flows
   17. See my son get married
   18. See my daughter get married
   19. See the Taj Mahal
   20. Bike a century
   21. Bike a century in under 6 hours
   22. Take my kids to Ethiopia
   23. Travel to all 7 continents (4 done–North America/Europe/Africa/Asia)
   24. Feed the hyenas is Harar, Ethiopia
   25. Spend a summer traveling with my family in an RV
   26. See Old Faithful
   27. Publish a book
   28. Re-take photography classes
   29. Live abroad
   30. Make marshmallows from scratch w/out corn syrup
   31. Learn how to do cornrows
   32. Have high tea in London
   33. Start a school (don’t really want to do this anymore either)
   34. Learn to play a musical instrument
   35. Be debt free
   36. Safari in Africa
   37. Ride a hot air balloon over the Serengeti
   38. grow my entire garden from seeds
   39. Visit all 50 states
   40. learn a second language
   41. Swim with dolphins
   42. Take a picture a day for a year of our family
   43. Ski a black diamond run (probably not–too old and really I don’t care to learn how to ski)
   44. Run a 5k
   45. Do a night dive with the Manta Ray in Hawaii
   46. Go to men’s world cup match
   47. Go to an olympics
   48. Take cake decorating class
   49. live technology free for a month
   50. Learn to play golf
       51. Ride an elephant

to be continued….