1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars (Camp River Glen in California was the best)
3. Played in a band (it was the flute, in 7th grade)
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world (Kingofthehill used to work for Disney, so we pratically lived there.  Sadly, it was before we had kids!)
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris (I was pregnant, and all I could think about were tomatoes.)
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch (It was making wine glass charms.  I still love it!  And charms are oh-so-practical...)
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning (on a train from Aswan to Cairo, Egypt.  I seriously thought I was going to die.)
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables (Daddy had me plant a crop of beans when I returned to college, to help mend my broken heart.)
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France (And I cried like a baby.)
20. Slept on an overnight train (Through Egypt – see “food poisoning!”)
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort  (I did build a hay fort in the barn once…)
25. Held a lamb (does a Barbados Sheep count?  A man once gave me an entire flock.)
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (Monroe County)
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language (I worked with handicapped kids in Jordan and picked up many words that sound like handicapped versions of Arabic!  Another time, I worked on German through Rosetta Stone, and when I was a kid, I desperately tried to teach myself Spanish.)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person (I have a photo I took of Glen and baby Tristan there)
39. Gone rock climbing (in Northern Minnesota and as a member of the National Speleogical Society at Ozone Falls)
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa (Does Egypt count?)
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person (It was so crowded the last time, I mostly just wanted to flee)
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business (Just last week)
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies (I have bought plenty of them – I think that should count!)
62. Gone whale watching (but never in a boat)
63. Gotten flowers for no reason (and they were de-thorned)
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving (not a chance)
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp (I have, however, been to the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem – The Yad Vashem.  That was the saddest place I’ve ever been in my life.)
67. Bounced a check (but it was the bank’s fault – they had actually cleaned out my account and put the money in someone else’s account!  Quite an accounting error.  The check was to a travel agent for tickets to Jordan.)
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (only fish)
88. Had chickenpox (I only had one!)
89. Saved someone’s life (by sharing Grant’s story of hydrocephalus, at least 3 babies whose doctors recommended they be aborted were saved from abortion.  The shocker:  Not one of them had hydrocephalus at their birth.)
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake (does A great salt lake qualify??  I swam in the Dead Sea several times.)
97. Been involved in a law suit (only indirectly, as in raising funds for a citizen suit)
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee