In Progress - Family Cookbook

UPDATE: I'm planning on doing this as a surprise for my mom, aunt, and grandmas for Christmas this year! Of course, to get the recipes, I'm having to ask them, but I'm at least trying to keep my mom completely oblivious by getting my dad to get me the recipes since I won't be at home until Christmas vacation. Right now, it looks like I'll be ordering from Heritage Cookbook because I can get just a few books for about $6 per book.

My parents, grandmas, great-grandmas, and aunt all have amazing recipes from different sources. My mom as a little box with index cards of many of the recipes, but I'd like to turn it into some sort of cookbook.

It'd be great to have a real book with all of the recipes to send to my family members. It could be a Christmas present for all of my family members! I could just get a few copies, not try to distribute it, and keep it a secret (just tell them I want the recipes), and send it to everyone all at once. I think that would be beautiful and really touching.

In Progress: Finishing My Bucket List

Brazil with my Parents

I want to take my parents on their dream trip. Unfortunately, that would be pretty hard because they travel a lot as is (and go wherever whenever they want), and my mom is an amazing travel planner, and there is no way I could plan a better trip for her.

So instead, I want to take them to Brazil. My dad is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, so he wants to go study there for a while in a relaxed environment (he doesn't want to get incredibly intense with it), and my mom and I could travel around Brazil.

Build-A-Bear

I want to make a Build-A-Bear with someone I love. Cousin, friend, future child, someone I love.

Splits

I want to be able to do the splits. I am a gymnast, and I am starting to get close (at least on my right one), but stretching them makes me incredibly sore! I'd like to get at least my right split perfectly!

Be Kissed on Top of a Ferris Wheel

Of course this can be linked to my other goal of having a real state fair experience!

Cirque du Soleil

I want to see a Cirque du Soleil show. My junior prom was Cirque du Soleil themed, and it was wonderful! I had already heard of them and had seen parts of their show (again this year at the Oscar's), but I want to see a full-length show. Preferably a classic one, not one that's bug themed or anything.

Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Please, please, please, please, please!!!! I think the pictures speak for themselves. 

Probably be best to do this when all the kids are in school, grade school and college. I know it will probably be super busy anyway, but I don't want to be bumping into people the entire time I'm there and waiting in crazy-long lines.

Take an Ethnic Cooking Class

I want to take all sorts of cooking classes, but I think a focus on a particular culture could be fun. Spanish, French...on second thought, I'm thinking Italian! I love Italian food so much, so I'll probably end up in an Italian cooking class.

Bonus points if I can take it in Italy...ooh, interesting!

Oktoberfest in Munich

My mother lived in Germany for a while when she was a kid, but I've never been, so I want to go to Germany for Oktoberfest!

Food, music, fun, and yes, maybe even some beer!

While I'm there, I'd like to explore the country some, too.

State Fair

I want to have a real experience with the state fair! No particular state in mind, nor does it actually have to be a "state" fair, though apparently the fair in the city where I went to high school was excellent, especially for the food. Ferris wheel like "The Notebook," EVERYTHING like in "Grease" (one of my favorite movies, by the way). Games, lights, everything!

Go to India

Two of my closest friends here in college are from India. I want to go to India. I'd love for one or both of them to take me around, but I can go with other tourists, too!

Like with Australia, I don't know where I want to go in India, but I want to see as much as I can.

Go to Australia

When I was little, I traveled a lot and moved around a lot, so I've seen many different countries and cultures. So, the places I ended up really wanting to see were Australia and Japan. I went to Japan as part of a junior ambassadors trip the summer after 9th grade, so the list narrowed to just Australia. Now India is also on the list!

I'm not sure where exactly I want to go in Australia. I'd probably make it a couple-week trip and see everything I can! One of my friends from high school is studying abroad now (his sophomore year of college) in Australia, and he's having a blast with koalas, didgeridoos, skydiving, and the like. 

Take a Random Road Trip

"Heads, Carolina Tails, California.Somewhere greener, somewhere warmer.Up in the mountains, down by the ocean.Where? It don't matter, as long as we're goin' somewhere together. I've got a quarter.Heads, Carolina Tails, California."


Thank you, Jo Dee Messina. I want to take a random, spontaneous trip! Anywhere! Just pack a suitcase and head out! 


Though a bit more expensive probably, I also wouldn't mind going to the airport and buying the next ticket out, like they do in "Yes Man," and ending up anywhere! 

Helicopter Ride

My friend Bryce has a bucket list, too. Along with posing nude for an art class (interesting idea, but I don't think I'm interested enough to actually put it on my bucket list!), he wants to learn to fly a helicopter.

I have very little interest in flying a helicopter, but I do want to fly in a helicopter! Bryce said he'd fly me. So if he learns to fly a helicopter, then I want him to fly me. If not, I just want to fly in a helicopter! I'm thinking somewhere in nature. Grand Canyon, islands, something like that.

Eiffel Tower Date

I'd love to have a romantic date in the Eiffel Tower. I've been there before with my parents and a tour group (and absolutely hated the food in the restaurant - I think I'd like it better now that I'm older!), but it's different with a romantic partner! Kids optional