Reverse Bucket List

Yesterday one of my Facebook friends posted a blog where someone had created their Reverse Bucket List. It is a list of things that you have done instead of things you want to do. I really love the thought of celebrating all of our accomplishments and remembering what we have done rather than dwelling on what we want to do. I couldn't get the thought out of my head so I started creating my own. I realized after putting it all together I've done a lot of really cool stuff. I wanted to share it and hopefully inspire all of you to do your own! Plus this will allow me to add to it as I go so here it is in no particular order:

• Signed my name to the Wall of Tolerance at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, AL.
• Saw Rent on Broadway
• Did a private tour of Buckingham Palace and had champagne on the patio.
• Stood on the Cliffs of Moher in the pouring rain.
• Kissed the Blarney Stone
• Had a beer (or several) in Temple Bar in Dublin
• Visited Stonehenge (also in the rain)
• Partied in the Infield of the Kentucky Derby (while it was pouring down rain...see a theme here...still a blast.)
• Delivered pizza to, and hung out on, a band's tour bus.
• Had backstage passes.
• Been put on the guest list for a concert by randomly meeting one of the bandmembers at work.
• Whale watched in Alaska & attempted to take pictures.
• Saw a bear and several moose in the wild.
• Drove through the Yukon.
• Stood in the sun and looked at Emerald Lake which was the most beautiful body of water I've ever seen.
• Saw the Midnight Sun
• Sat in the studio audience for a taping of Friends as a guest of Courtney Cox
• Attended a Home Run Derby and an All Star Game
• Visited the fish market in Seattle
• Quit a job I hated without having a new one.
• Saw the Military Tattoo...twice.
• Completed the book 100 Years of Solitude (which you know is a great feat if you've ever read it)
• Attended games at 11 MLB stadiums and one AAA stadium with more to come
• Flew to New York 3 weeks after 9/11 & saw the aftermath of Ground Zero firsthand
• Visited 23 states.
• Listened to a bagpiper in the Scottish countryside.
• Took a glass blowing class
• Had someone tell me I inspired them
• Saw Loch Ness  (but not the Loch Ness monster)
• Returned to College after being out for many years.
• Saw a double rainbow in England
• Toured Alcatraz during the day and at night.
• Drove to Destin and back for a friends wedding
• Partied on Beale street
• Cruised the River Thames at night.
• Attended a World Series parade
• Held a snake
• Won 3rd place in a National Essay contest in 7th grade.
• Won 4th place at state in softball in 8th grade.
• Reconnected with friends I lost touch with.
• Climbed the Giant's Causeway in Ireland
• Went to a Lakers game & saw Jack Nicholson
• Rode a boat under Niagra Falls
• Sat on a jury and got justice for a child.
• Took a limo down the Vegas strip and....wait..what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
• Cut people out of my life that I thought were friends but actually weren't even though it was hard to do.
• Sat in the 2nd row at The Cure.
• Saw Mt. McKinley on my last day in Alaska
• Been inspired by a friend and by a stranger
• Visited the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis
• Stood up for what I believed in
• Defended a friend when everyone was turning against them
• In the words of Elle Woods from Legally Blonde, "Saw Cameron Diaz at Fred Segal." That really happened but I didn't talk her out of buying a sweater.
• Bought a stolen Gucci purse in an alley in LA. (I was young and I really wanted it...don't judge.)
• Toured England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland in their entirety. (Including Northern Ireland)
• Got stuck in the mud with 5 of my good friends in high school....not once but twice...and had to walk miles back in to town.
• Saw the place where the Titanic was built
• Visited the place where W.B. Yeats is buried
• Drank cider in a small Irish pub
• Said a prayer in St. Patrick's cathedral
• Said a prayer in the Crathie Parrish Church which is where the Royal family attend service in Scotland
• Crossed the Yukon Suspension Bridge
• Saw the Book of Kells
• Saw the Crown Jewels of both England and Scotland
• Walked on the campus of St. Andrews University
• Toured the ruins of the St. Andrews Cathedral
• Toured the University of Kentucky basketball museum
• Helped refugee kids who had relocated to St. Louis practice their English
• Helped their parents practice interviewing for a job.
• Attended the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh
• Took an African-American literature class which turned out to be my favorite class ever.
• Played with a new litter of sled dogs.
• Learned all about how the altitude in Colorado can affect your alcohol tolerance the hard way & suffered my first concussion as a result.
• Drank whiskey w/ an old Irishman in Scotland
• Attended the Great American Beer Festival in Denver
• Experienced an earthquake while on a train in Alaska
• Toured the Alamo
• Tried to be a great aunt
• Had a valet driver at a hotel drive us to Taco Bell at 2 AM in Omaha, NE
• Drove to Sioux Falls, SD and back for a friends wedding
• Saw the falls....you aren't missing much.
• Attended an Underground Dinner
• Ate at one of John Besh's restaurants
• Read all the Harry Potter books
• Watched Lost from beginning to end in real time and learned to love the ending.
• Learned how to twirl a baton, roller skate and ride a bike (swimming is another story)
• Became a great speller & learned to love words because of my 5th grade teacher & all the dictionary pages he made me write for talking too much
• Went to see the Citadel parade.
• Stayed out til the sun came up talking with great friends
• Went up in the CN Tower, the Space Needle, and the London Eye
• Saw Billy Elliott in the West End
• Spent a day drinking in Pacific Beach with friends
• Toured the Imperial War Museum
• Watched the sunset on Manhattan Beach
• Had Jamie Cullum sing to us during his concert
• Stopped telling everyone what they want to hear
• Tried Haggis while in Edinburgh
• Experienced the temperature of 40 below.
• Signed up to distribute shoes to kids in Africa without knowing anyone else going.
• Sat next to Rob Reiner and his son at a Dodgers game.
• Went up in the Burj Khalifa the world's tallest building.
• Rode a camel
• Had dinner in the desert of Dubai in 116 degree heat & survived!
• Visited schools & orphanages in Africa & distributed shoes to kids who were so joyful it made my heart break.
• Visited Jane Goodall's research center & watched a troop of baboons for 45 minutes.
• Spent 36 hours on planes to get back home so I could sleep in my own bed.
• Perfected making chocolate chip cookie dough egg rolls
• Signed up to go back to Africa
• Attended a World Series Game
• Helped get water restored to an orphange in Africa.
• Made a toast at a wedding.
• Registered for the Bone Marrow donation list.
• Rode a gondola up to the top of Zurich & overlooked the city.
• Survived traveling for 42 hours straight!
• Helped raise money to provide school books to a school in Africa
• Helped raise money so that one school in Africa could build desks for another school.
• Survived the Rome airport
• Got lost in the streets of Venice
• Traveled to Athens Greece and received a gift from the nicest lady ever
• Stood on the ground of the Acropolis
• Visited Ephesus and imagined what it would have been like to live during that time
• Saw the Temple of Artemis one of the 7 natural wonders of the world
• Visited the beautiful city of Istanbul
• watched men praying at the Blue Mosque
• Visited Hagia Sophia
• Toured the Underground Cistern
• Walked the path of the Hippodrome
• Haggled with a vendor at the Grand Bazaar
• Walked around the streets of beautiful Mykonos Greece
• Looked out over the Ponte Vecchio
• Visited the Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Drove around the streets of Florence
• Looked out over the city of Florence at the beautiful rooftops
• Drove through Tuscan Valley 
• Visited the medieval city of San Gimignano
• Ate Gelato at the place voted Worlds Best Gelato
• Ate Gelato in several more cities in Italy
• Survived the crazy drive up the Amalfi Coast
• Saw a funeral procession in Amalfi
• Saw a wedding there as well
• Had a true Italian lunch in Positano
• Visited Vatican city
• Threw coins in the Trevi Fountain
• Walked through the Coliseum 
• Drove over the Formula 1 racetrack in Monte Carlo
• Took another crazy drive up the French Riviera
• Saw the view from the top of Eze, France on a hazy day
• Took in the architectural brilliance of Gaudi in Barcelona
• Ate food created by the world renowned Ferran brothers at Tickets
• Let go of a grudge that I had been holding on to for way to long.
• Zip Lined through a cloud forest in Costa Rica
• Hiked to the crater of the Paos Volcano in Costa Rica
• Watched the sunrise because I chose to not because I was up at that hour.