Inspired by my mother's recent enthusiasm for "The Bucket List" and a recent Krisalis post, this is my 1-25 bucket list:
1. Swim with Whale Sharks
2. Try surfing
3. Kite board
4. Experience Dia de los Muertos in Mexico
5. Witness Aurora Borealis
6. See Alaska
7. Live in Europe again (France maybe next time)
8. Buy a house and make it our home.
9. Take Katie to see a professional ballet company perform "the Nutcracker" while she's still young enough to think it's special.
10. Learn to speak a foreign language fluently.
11. See the Galapagos Islands before they're underwater and see a blue-footed booby.
12. Visit Argentina and Patagonia
13. Visit Germany with Mark (we both love Germany, but have never been there together).
14. Go on Safari in Africa and hot air balloon over the Serengeti.
15. Visit Capetown.
16. Return to Japan and visit Kyoto
17. See Rome
18. Visit Montreal
The travel goals could go on and on and on.... I'd never be able to check off all the travel goals I could set for myself .
19. Make my own wine
20. Ice skate on a river with nothing to stop me from going on and on
21. See a bear in the wild
22. Sea Kayak in Northern California (it'd be fabulous to see a sea otter at play)
23. Experience zero gravity
24. Pick up the clarinet again, and really learn to play
25. Fly a plane.

And because I find it stressful to list the things I've yet to do, things I can cross off the list:
1. Get married to the love of my life in a small ceremony on the beach
2. Get to know NYC.
3. Spend Christmas in Paris
4. Live in Singapore
5. Live in Germany
6. Live in Australia, and obtain dual citizenship
7. See numerous animals in the wild (giant clams, hornbills, penguins, monitor lizards, mudskippers, puffer fish, leafy sea dragons, kangaroos, wombats, parrots, turkeys, manatees, etc.)
8. Meet Elliott Smith (and get kissed by him)
9. See David Bowie at St. Anne's Warehouse in NYC
10. Ride a bike across the Golden Gate Bridge
11. Spend New Year's Eve in Plaza Mayor in Madrid.
12. Visit Barcelona and experience the Architecture by Antonio Gaudi
13. See Jeff Buckley perform live (and meet him briefly at an in-store)
14. See The Who from spitting distance (thanks baby!) while John Entwistle was still alive.
15. See The Rolling Stones in Singapore (the concert lists could go on and on so I'll stop here).
16. Walk inside a live Volcano
17. See the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum
18. Go through Checkpoint Charlie during the Cold War when East Germany was truly separated from West Germany, and live to see the wall come down.
19. Swim with dolphins.
20. See the Catacombs of Paris. Awesome, in the real sense of the word.
21. Fly in First class (need to do this again)
22. Complete a graduate degree.
23. Spend a month in Vietnam and see Halong Bay, Sapa, and Hoi An.
24. Cook a Thanksgiving dinner and get the timing right (this takes practice).
25. Find a recipe for the perfect margarita.

It's all over. Some guys at the office bought Guitar Hero for the lunch room. What a brilliant game. Thursday was someone's last day, but instead of going out to the pub as planned, we just brought in some beers and played it until late. It was the most fun I've had in a long while.

Back to house hunting...