All the talk between Shawn & I lately of taking a trip to Paris in the next year has brought back thoughts of my little "Before 30 Bucket List". Which of course led me to come back to my blog after a year away & update the list with all the exciting things that I can cross off! It's hard to believe how many of these experiences I've actually been able to do since Shawn & I started dating. Having someone that wants to do these things with me & enjoys taking me to see new things is such a blessing! When I made this list sitting on my bed in the sorority house in Troy 4 & 1/2 years ago, I didn't really expect for all of my crazy ideas to ever be in reach... Thankfully life has gone in a completely different & far better direction than I ever could have imagined!
So here's the updated list. With a little less than 5 & 1/2 years left, I'm surprisingly hopeful that I'll be able to cross everything off!
- See Dolly Parton live.. preferably from the front row.
So it wasn't front row... but it was still DOLLY & it was still super close. Best
23rd birthday present in the world :) 10/5/2010
It wasn't a massive mountain... heck some wouldn't even consider
it a mountain, but it counts to me! Great Hill Mountain where
Shawn grew up. 6/20/2011
The doorstep where Carrie Bradshaw lived in Sex & The City!!
The main thing I HAD to see :) 6/15/2011
At the top of the Empire State Building on my first NYC trip!
6/15/2011
oh Wisconsin. What a fun & memorable night of great music,
& even better friends. 6/26/10
- Go to Fan Fair/CMAfest.
No one better than my best friend Laura to cross this one off with. Nosebleed
seats for Jamey Johnson (below), Martina, Lee Ann Womack & THE JUDDS!
June 2009
- Learn to cook at least one dish really well.
- Go skinny dipping (let's face it, your body just won't be like this after kids).
- Attend a concert at the Ryman.
We went to see them at the Ryman for his birthday in September 2010.
See a musical on Broadway.
So it wasn't technically a "play". But it is a show in NYC.
Rockette's at Radio City! 11/28/2011
- Experience a ride along in a NASCAR car.
- Completely finish Mere Christianity & The Four Loves.
- Run a marathon... or maybe just a half marathon.
- Continue learning & practicing my Spanish until it's conversational at the very lest.
Go to Austin for at least part of South by Southwest.
Well it wasn't SXSW, but the point was to make it to Austin. Even with
a 101 degree fever, I LOVED it! 5/13/2011
- Go white water rafting.
- Take a canopy tour in Mexico (where you ride zip lines through the trees).
- Ride a mechanical bull (just once).
Pay all my own bills with NO help from anyone.
- Send a stranger a message in a bottle.
- Finally make it to Chicago & go ice skating.
Sponsor a child through Compassion International.
His name is Kavila & he lives in Kenya. I love connecting our two worlds! Jan. 2012
Be an extra in a major motion picture.
Although it hasn't been a major motion picture just yet, I think
these count:
With Dax Shepard as an extra on the CMT Awards
Red Carpet! 6/6/2012
I worked as an extra on the set of the new ABC show Nashville premiering
this fall! Hoping for more days soon :) 3/22/2012
- Volunteer with the Nashville Rescue Mission.
- Go to a drive-in movie.
Celebrate a birthday in Vegas.
Well it wasn't a birthday, but again the point was more to visit the city.
The Chandelier Bar in The Cosmopolitan Hotel in Vegas. 3/20/2012
The view of the Bellagio Fountains from our 67th floor balcony at the Cosmopolitan!
- Swim with Stingrays in the Cayman Islands.
- Make a nursing home friend & visit her regularly.
Be 100% out of debt by the time I turn 30.- Buy the '66 mustang & fix it up myself.
- Ride a motorcycle.
Go to a game at Fenway Park.
FENWAY!!!! Seriously one of my favorite days. I LOVED it!
6/19/2011
It's amazing to see how much of my little list has been crossed off in just the past year alone. I'm still hopefully that I will be able to look at this entire thing as a collection of great experiences on the day that I turn 30 :)
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