The Bucket List- Part One

The Bucket List is a 2007 film starring Academy Award-winners Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. The main plot follows two terminally ill men (portrayed by Nicholson and Freeman) on their road trip with a wish list of things to do before they "kick the bucket."

The list includes things like go skydiving together, get tattoos on their hands, climb the Pyramids, drive a Shelby Mustang, eat dinner at Chevre d'Or in France, visit and praise the beauty and history of Taj Mahal, India, ride motorcycles on the Great Wall of China, and attend a lion safari in Africa.

So this got me thinking. What would be on my Bucket List? I sat down and started to write my own. I decided I would come up with twenty-five things for the twenty-five years I’ve been alive. I got so excited about this that I’ve gotten my friends and family to write one too. Stayed tune for part two of this blog to see a comparison of all of those bucket lists. In the meantime, here’s mine.

1.Visit the Taj Mahal
2.Sing on stage at the Grand Ole Opry
3.See the pyramids
4.Go to medical school and earn a M.D.
5.Road trip with Heather across the country
6.Start a dog rescue
7.Marry a man who embraces my crazy
8.Have four healthy children (3 girls and 1 boy preferably) and have them grow up close to my family and my best friend Heather’s kids.
9.Live in a home with my own home theatre
10.Skydive
11.Get to and maintain a healthy weight
12.Help build a Habitat for Humanity house
13.Host or attend a period party- a 1800’s or earlier costume party
14.Scuba dive somewhere exotic
15.Learn how to bake the perfect peach pie
16.Work at Johns Hopkins
17.Meet Bill Clinton
18.Spend a month living in a tent in the mountains
19.Own a pair of Jimmy Choo’s
20.Train for and run a marathon (okay, okay, a half-marathon)
21.Write a book
22.Rally in Washington for a cause that’s important to me
23.Punch someone in the face
24.Teach my nieces and nephews about what’s important in life
25.Be as good of a person as my family and friends think I am