List in Progress

As I cleaned my room this evening (I hate cleaning checks) I stumbled across the notebook I carried with me everywhere this summer. The pages are filled with scribbled directions to youth hostels, bus routes, random thoughts I jotted down as I wandered foreign streets, and the beginnings of my bucket list. I was able to do so many things this summer that I never imagined I'd have the opportunity to do, and it made me think about all the things I still want to do. With endless hours on buses, trains, and the metro I had ample time to jot things down as they came to me. Here it is, a list in progress.

-Make my own truffles

-Fly business class

- Visit Asia for an extended period time as part of a humanitarian effort

- Go snowshoeing

- Enter in a race and run at least a 5k

-Be comfortable riding a bike

-Learn to snowboard

-Visit every continent (4 down, 3 to go)

- Learn how to make delicious crepes
-Crowd surf

- Go skydiving

-Hike in the Alps

-Get a 4.0 at least one semester at BYU

-Go cross country skiing

- Finish a triathlon

-Fly in a private plane

-Ride in a helicopter

-Drive along the entire west coast highway. Mexico to Canada.

- Visit all the Beatles sites in Liverpool

-Go in a shark cage

- Go surfing

-Study abroad

-Ride a gondola in Venice

-Go on an African Safari

-Learn to shoot a gun (and actually be able to hit something)

- Go rock climbing

- Go Para sailing

-Go Hang gliding

- Learn to sew

-Walk across Abbey Road

- Make an intricate quilt

- Learn to sketch

-Visit the Smithsonian

- Visit Vermont in the Fall

-Travel the world on my own

-Visit Tuscany 

-Learn how to change the oil in my car

-Travel the Lake District in England

-Walk on the Great Wall of China

-Visit Machu Picchu

- Catch and clean a fish

-Roadtrip across the United States

-Feel total and complete independence

-Ride a camel

- Visit the Grand Canyon

- Go bungee jumping in Australia

- Take a belly dancing class

- Take a ceramics class

-Learn to paint

- Go to Florence, Italy

-Go sailing

-Attend an Olympic event

-Have my own garden

- See the fjords in Alaska

-Go white water rafting

-Ride on a dog sled

-Visit the Pyramids

-Ride a mechanical bull

-Go to a horse race

-Visit every state in the US (10 down, 40 to go)

-Attend a renaissance fair

-Swim with sharks

-Go on a cruise

-Make homemade pasta

-Make a souffle 
- See the Aurora Borealis 

*last updated 1/14/12

My Sister is Cooler than Yours

My sister freakin rocks. I'm pretty sure she is the funniest person out there- whether she intends to be or not. She is an individual and never tries to hide who she is. She is the best friend I could ask for. Be jealous that your sisters aren't as cool as mine.

The Usual

Just another day with the girls.

We made a play about witches...

drew pictures...

jumped on the trampoline sans pants (don't worry, I kept mine on)...

 ...and did some belly dancing.

All in all a good day.

Final Stop: Warsaw

 Highlights in Warsaw

- People that work at the airport, they made me laugh

- Visiting the tomb of the Unknown Soldier

- Trying dumplings and polish dogs

- All the beautiful fountains

- The coolest looking mall I have ever seen with pretty sweet shops

- The colorful houses stacked together

- Eating nasty quesadillas Deanna just had to have, and not having to pay for them

- Stumbling upon the worlds greatest cupcake shop

- Having two polish preteen girls translate the cupcake signs so we knew what we were ordering

- Having the whole row to myself on one of our flights

- The Warsaw Uprising monument

- Random colorful flying ponies outside an old building