I did this

Saw this on Illahee's blog, and couldn't resist. I got a bit caught up in memories though...or should I say, got a bit caught up because I COULDN'T remember half of the places/times/names etc. So I took a while searching through my photos, asking J about things we have done together to get the details. I ended up going overboard with comments in brackets, but hey, gotta write these things down while I remember them, lol!

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland (Tokyo)
8. Climbed a mountain (Major ones are: Mt Fuji overnight to see the sunrise through the clouds; several on the Incan trail to Macchu Pichu; several in Patagonia's Torres Del Paine national park on a 5day 4night 70km hike; Kumotori-yama, Tokyo overnight; Yakushima, overnight to see the Jomon-sugi pine trees; day-hikes to Gassan in Yamagata, Hakoda-san in Aomori, Mt. Kuju in Oita and Mt. Takao, 857m in Tokyo!!)
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables (oooh, cherry tomatoes when I was at uni. Planted them, ate a few then promptly forgot about them.They still pop up every yeat though, hardy fruit!)
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France (no, the line up was too long to get into the Lourve, so I ate ramen at a nasty shop across the road with a Japanese lady who was showing me around Paris)
20. Slept on an overnight train (too many times maybe!? China: Shanghai to Nanking, overnight; going from Beijing to Ulan Baatar, Mongolia, through the Gobi Desert AND BACK, 3days 2nights, Japan: Kansai to Fukuoka, overnight 2003 to start my job in Beppu, Australia: Northern New South Wales to Albury/Wodonga on the Vic/NSW border, overnight when I was a littlie)
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon (only mini-marathons, longest 10km, does that count? Also have done mini-triathlons with swim 800m, cycle 20km, run 3km)
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise (Singapore-Malaysia-Thailand about a week; Chilean Fjordes, 3 days)
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language (Spanish in South America while travelling. Una cervesa, por favor!)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke (often, and often badly)
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance (not for me though, my boyfriend during uni broke his arm - a complicated break at that- in several places while we were skiing at Perisher/Smiggens at the end of a ski season. We had to get the ambulance to drive the 3hours to Cooma, and I missed out on half the ski trip, boo-hoo. By the time we got out of hospital, there were not more skiiable slopes)
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling (Scuba-diving (introductory dives) here in Japan - in Oita at fishing port!, The Red Sea, Egypt and Phi-phi island in Thailand; Snorkelling Great Barrier Reef and Galapagos)
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater (ET with my older brother when I was just a wee tyke still at primary school; a few grown-up drive-in dates when a bit older....)
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China (2002; walked 10km along it!)
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching (hmmm, seen whales while out on the sea, does that count?)
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy ("doll", who was a doll and "pinky" who was a doll with a pink dress on. Original names, right!)
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar (only cheap stuff though)
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle (well, it felt like it was speeding when I was only 10years old and on the back of it)
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous (The drummer from "Greenday", after a concert he came back to my friend's house!!!! We drank beers on the sofa together.)
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee