The Bucket List

This morning I was doing some spinning at the gym, just listening to my headphones and trying to pass the time. I looked at the wall, and they have all these inspiring pictures of throngs of bikers doing the Tour de France, or other (European) biking events. I don't know how they all ride so closely together without people getting trampled to death. But the point is, I pictured myself doing something I have always dreamed of doing: taking a road bike tour through Holland in the spring, when all the tulips are in bloom. Tulips are my favorite flower, and seeing pictures of those vast tulip fields in Holland has always made me feel pretty dreamy.






I don't know if that's something people even do, but this fellow in the last picture seems to have made some kind of arrangement akin to my dreams.

And that got me thinking, what else do I want to do before I kick the bucket (figuratively speaking)? I would like to have a bucket list. So I will make one now, and then cross it off the bucket list:

The Bucket List.

-Ride a bike through the tulip fields of Holland or some other country with tulips.
-Ride in a hot-air balloon. And it doesn't even have to be that Noah's Ark one. Just a regular one will do.


-Work on Beethoven's Concerto in D Major for violin until I could perform it. Probably just the first movement. I worked on this in college for 2 years and it's probably only about 25% there. Maybe if I practiced 3 hours a day for a year or two....
-Perform it. Accompanied by piano.
-Get a bachelor's degree. Probably in something English-related.
-Take a college Art History class. Then, take a tour of Europe and appreciate all the magnificence and splendor. Especially probably the Sistine Chapel, and other cathedrals that just can't be appreciated from photos.
-This one is still a maybe: do an Olympic triathlon. I feel like I already crossed the triathlon off the bucket list last year with the Sprint, I am considering working up to an Olympic at some point in my life.
-Write a Children's book and have it published.
-Do the zip line in Costa Rica.
-Have a few more babies.
-Provide all of my children with a world-class education.
-Serve a mission for the church.
-Learn to be a seriously awesome embroiderer.
-Build and decorate a beautiful home that I love (which will include a nursery very much like this one--my next baby will NOT live in a closet for the first 2 years... this time I really feel it).
-Write a Bucket List

See? I'm making progress already. That's about all I've thought of for now. That, and, it's time to go get Beth from school.

What's on your bucket list?!