I know, I know!

Yes, I'm aware I haven't posted in a long time.  I went to camp for two weeks and I've recently been busy trying to prepare for a new school year.  I haven't had much chance for fulfilling this list, but I'm always looking for ways.  Hopefully I can pick up the quest again full force now. Yes, friends, this is a quest.

My father said a few days back that if we were to pick a long weekend, my family and I could most certainly go to New York.  I'm not sure what weekend we'll pick yet, but I'm sure we will.  And when we do, I'll post it here for you! :)

Have a great day!

~Kelli~

A few additions; A few successes

Hey, everyone!  I didn't get to post anything over the past couple of days, but here I am posting!  First of all, I'd like to mention two additions I made to my list.

105. Ride the SheiKra at Busch Gardens.
          I got the idea for adding this roller coaster by watching Bert The Conqueror on the Travel Channel when he "conquered" it.  It looked absolutely horrifying, but so thrilling at the same time!  I can't wait to complete this one!  Just in case you want to take a closer look at this coaster, here's a link!

106. Go to Cuenca, Ecuador.
          My father just went here and said that I would absolutely love it.  He said there were pretty much no Americans there and that it was a completely genuine cultural experience.

I decided that the best way to get started would be number 5, watch the AFI Top 100 movies.  I printed off a list.  I'd been using a variety of lists, but since they change each year, each list is slightly different.  Anyway, I printed one off to use for the duration.  I went through it with a pen to mark out the ones I had already seen.  I was seriously surprised.  I figured I'd had seen at least twenty, but I had only seen twelve.  I feel so lame.

I couldn't have possibly started this at a better time.  Right now my family has several channels for free that we don't usually have.  Retroplex and indieplex are the ones that come to mind, but I know there's a few others.  We've been able to record several AFI movies on it.  For instance, I watched Mutiny on the Bounty last night.  I absolutely loved it!  I never thought of anyone being so cruel as Bligh.

Right now I'm watching Tootsie.  I'm not very far in, but I like it.  It's strange how a movie about a man dressing as a woman could be almost a "girl power" type movie.  At least it seems that way so far.

Well, I'll update later!  Have a great day!
~Kelli~

A Starting Point

There was a woman, a best friend of my mothers, that I called Bucket List Roxanne.  I had heard millions of stories about her but I had never actually met her.  When I did, though, I started keeping a mental note of things I wanted to do in my life.  Small things, like milking a cow, and big things, like spending a month in every country.

There's a huge problem with keeping mental notes.  I mean, let's be serious.  I couldn't keep up with my car keys, there's no way I'm keeping track of an extensive list of "to-do's".  Just this evening I actually wrote them down.  I'm sure that's not all of them.  I'll wake up at a ridiculous hour tonight and write more, I'll bet.

I don't imagine anyone is reading this yet.  Why would you?  One post isn't very interesting.  So, whoever it is out there, enjoy my list.  This is what I have so far...

1. Sky dive
2. Eat lobster on the coast (any coast)
3. Eat crab on the coast
4. Paint something
5. Watch the AFI Top 100 movies
6. Witness a solar eclipse
7. Meet and have at least a short conversation with Tiffany Lee, Adam Young, Conan O'Brien, or Jack McBrayer
8. Learn a Greek dance from a Greek
9. Go to a renaissance festival
10. Go to a Shakespeare festival
11. Jump off of the Vegas Stratosphere
12. Learn to surf
13. Learn to cook spaghetti a la carbonara properly
14. Become fluently trilingual
15. Get sung to by a barbershop quartet
16. See the Phantom of the of Opera at the Majestic Theatre in London
17. Call someone from a red telephone booth in London (even if they're right next to me)
18. Learn to water ski
19. Scuba dive
20. Snorkel
21. Ride in a hot air balloon
22. Do something crazy and daring in New Zealand
23. See the Casa Rosada
24. See Eva Peron's grave
25. Bungee jump
26. Have a book published
27. Climb a mountain
28. Experience zero gravity
29. See Haight Street, San Francisco
30. Attend a Fall Out Boy concert
31. Go to a Plumb concert
32. Go to that castle in Naftpoli, Greece
33. Spend a month in every country
34. Sell a photograph to a complete stranger
35. See Al Capone's house
36. Use the Squirrel Suit
37. Go inside St. Patrick's Cathedral
38. Wear a Valentino dress
39. Go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras
40. Be a tour guide at the Roman catacombs
41. Be a ghost tour guide
42. Purchase and learn to properly use a lomography camera
43. Actually solve a Rubix cube
44. Work on a dairy farm, even if for a short time
45. Go to New York
46. Be a Disney tour guide
47. Go to a live SNL show
48. Go to a live Conan O'Brien
49. Direct a real music video or indie movie
50. Pet a giraffe
51. Drive a Ferrari
52. Own a canary yellow Smart Car
53. Eat at London Hard Rock
54. Take a picture with some London Hard Rock waiters and waitresses
55. See the tulips in Amsterdam
56. Fly first class on a crazy long international flight
57. Go to a Hindi ceremony in India
58. See the Easter Island statues
59. See the Hagia Sophia
60. Go inside an Egyptian pyramid
61. Go to Stonehenge
62. Go in the bell towers at Notre Dame
63. Open or co-open a beautiful, classy home for the homeless
64. Pet a walrus
65. Design a house that actually gets built
66. Pay for a stranger's meal at a nice restaurant
67. Take a kid on a toy shopping spree
68. See the Northern Lights
69. Host an absurdly large party
70. Attend a movie premier
71. Go to La Tomatina
72. Go to Russia
73. Ride an elephant
74. Find an old style speakeasy in Chicago
75. Go to a World's Fair
76. Spend at least one night alone in a very haunted place
77. Sing "Dear Vienna" by Owl City in Vienna
78. Go to Vlad Dracula's castle on the Princess River
79. See a major production of Evita
80. Spend at least a week in Palau with just the natives
81. Attend Colorado College
82. Take a class at the University of St. Andrews
83. Have a picture I took in National Geographic
84. See the Mona Lisa
85. Go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
86. Spend and evening in the largest suite at a beautiful hotel
87. Do all of Route 66 in a classic car (and stopping at every single awesome thing I see)
88. Go into the Tower of London late at night alone
89. Go on a Disney cruise
90. Attend a circus
91. Take a child to Disney World
92. Fire a real gun
93. Go underneath Niagara Falls
94. Build an enormous tree fort for a kid while they're gone somewhere
95. Order something from Oriental Magazine
96. See an opera in the Sydney Opera House
97. Own a white ferret
98. Walk a mile of the Great Wall of China
99. Go to the Olympics
100. Swim with dolphins
101. Spend New Years in New York
102. Go to Carnival
103. Drive the Autobahn
104. Learn to juggle
105. Ride the Sheikra at Busch Gardens
106. Go to Cuenca, Ecuador

I will probably add a few more.  Who can't use a few more dreams, right?  :)

Have a wonderful day, world!
~Kelli~