Crystal’s Bucket List

My bucket list is on Kevin’s blog because I don’t have a blog and can not start one up at work.

Things I would like to do:

The most important thing I want to do in life is to help other people. Something I feel most passionate about is organ donation. I pray that whatever happens to me in life or how I die, that every single piece of my organs and body will be able to go to someone and help change or save a life. I guess this wouldn’t be on my life list since I will not be alive when it happens, but that is a huge desire of mine. I have been thinking lately about bone marrow donation and/or kidney donation, which you can do while you’re alive and be ok. If you have any questions or concerns about organ donation, just ask me. If I don’t know the answer, I will find out. I have strong stories about the miracles it creates. Now on to my list which is in no particular order and I add to it often. Sometimes, I add stuff I did that wasn’t on the list just because it’s so freakin’ cool I don’t know why I didn’t have it on the list to begin with.

1.) Read the whole Bible

2.) Meet Ellen Degeneres, attend her show taping

3.) Visit as many Hard Rock Cafes as possible: Already been to New York City, Key West, Gatlinburg, Myrtle Beach, Atlantic City, Orlando, Cancun, Puerto      Vallarta, Jamaica, Cabo San Lucas, Las Vegas, Niagara Falls, NY, Niagara Falls, Ontario (I passed the one in Philly, but didn’t stop and eat there)

4.) Go bungee jumping

5.) Run the Cooper River Bridge Run (completed in 2008)

6.) Run the Cooper River Bridge Run in under an hour

7.) Run a 1/2 marathon

8.) Run a marathon

9.) Learn Ballroom dancing

10.) Take a hot air balloon ride

11.) Watch the ball drop in NYC, actually be there in Time Square

12.) Go the Macy’s Day parade

13.) Go to the Mall of America

14.) Memorize all of the Presidents of the US (completed March 2010)

15.) Go somewhere new on vacation each year ( So far so good since 2003, Key West, Cancun, Orlando, Puerto Vallarta, Jamaica, Las Vegas,  Cabo San Lucas, Bermuda, Niagara Falls )

16.) Go skydiving (completed on June 22, 2005 with my mom in Chester)

17.) Swim with the dolphins (completed in Cancun, August 2004)

18.) Get married (completed August 21, 2004)

19.) Have kids

20.) Go on a canopy tour, where you slide down zip lines ( completed in Puerto Vallarta September 2006 )

21.) Jump off a waterfall ( completed in Puerto Vallarta September 2006, it was small but a waterfall )

22.) Buy a truck for Ryan ( completed June 2009 )

23.) Build my own house with Ryan

24.) Hike up a mountain ( completed in 2005, it was a small Mt in Hot Springs, NC, but a mountain none-the-less, and we were tired hiking up the trail)

25.) Visit a planetarium

26.) Learn to play tennis

27.) Learn to play golf with Ryan

28.) Take Ryan to a Cleveland Browns game

29.) Visit all the stadiums in SEC (visited Neyland Stadium, TN)

30.) Go on a real safari

31.) Swim with sharks (me in a cage)

Places I would like to go:

1.) Go to Paris with my mom

2.) NYC, see the Empire State Building, Ground Zero, Statue of Liberty, Central Park, Rockefeller Center and the Christmas Tree, see a Broadway show, see the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes (completed in December of 2005)

3.) Jamaica (completed August 2007)

4.) Hollywood

5.) San Francisco

6.) Hawaii

7.) St. Lucia

8.) Fiji

9.) Tahiti & Bora Bora

10.) Grand Turks & Caicos Islands

11.) Mexico (Cancun August 2004 on our honeymoon, Puerto Vallarta September 2006 with great friends, Cabo San Lucas 2008)

12.) Chicago

13.) Visit the little NC cities in the Nichalos Sparks books

14.) Niagra Falls (completed April 2010)

15.) The Grand Canyon, and walk out onto the skywalk (completed Feb. 2008)

16.) Las Vegas (completed in Feb. 2008)

17.) Mt Rushmore

18.) New Orleans

19.) I would like to visit all 50 states at least once. (I know this covers lots of those up there, but those are specific sites/places.)

20.) Aruba