TAGGED!

Ok - so, I wasn't actually tagged by anyone, but I decided to CHEAT and tag myself! HA!
I saw this on another blog and decided to start it on mine... Here goes nothin'!

Here's the idea: Read through the list and BOLD those that you've done or experienced! How fun is this!? Enjoy!

Started your own blog (thanks to Brookie!)
Slept under the stars (with Emily Pecora at her family's camp in Bradford! I think that was in middle school!)
Played in a band (middle and high school band count?)
Visited Hawaii (2 times! Big Island and Maui)
Watched a meteor shower
Given more than you can afford to charity
Been to Disneyland/world (I can't wait until Brooke is big enough and we'll take her!)
Climbed a mountain (with the Key Club a million times!)
Held a praying mantis...NOPE, but I touched one by accident!
Sang a solo
Bungee jumped
Visited Paris
Watched a lightning storm at sea
Taught yourself an art from scratch
Adopted a child
Had food poisoning
Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
Seen the Mona Lisa in France
Slept on an overnight train
Had a pillow fight (college dorm rooms - you just never know what might happen!)
Hitchhiked
Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (guilty!)
Built a snow fort (Katee Shinskie and I used to build forts on every single snow day in elementary school!)
Held a lamb
Gone skinny dipping (Stacie!?)
Been to a Broadway show in NY
Ran a Marathon
Been in three states at once
Ridden in a gondola in Venice
Seen a total eclipse (I remember seeing this when I was young from the porch in Poe Valley!)
Watched a sunrise or sunset (OBX sunrises are the best!)
Hit a home run...NOPE, but Zig used to hit them just for me in high school!
Been on a Cruise (and I miss the boat!)
Seen Niagra Falls in Person
Visited the birthplace of your Ancestors
Seen an Amish community (they're all around me! An amish buggy drove up my street the other day!)
Taught yourself a new language (the French teacher I had in high school - I basically taught myself!)
Had enough money to be truly satisfied
Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
Gone rock climbing (on the wall at the Rec Center in college!)
Seen Michelangelo’s David
Sung karaoke
Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt (Summer 2006)
Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
Visited Africa
Walked on a beach by moonlight (OBX, North Carolina)
Been transported in an ambulance
Had your portrait painted
Gone deep sea fishing
Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
Kissed in the rain (I love my husband!)
Played in the mud
Been to Grace Kelley’s grave in Monaco
Gone to a drive-in theater (only once, but I hope to do it again!)
Been in a movie
Visited the Great Wall of China
Started a business (the husband is in the process...stressful!)
Taken a martial arts class
Swam in the Mediterranean Sea
Visited Russia
Served at a soup kitchen
Sold Girl Scout cookies
Gone whale watching (in Maui!)
Gotten flowers for no reason (on my first completed day as a teacher - from a former teacher of mine!)
Donated blood, platelets or plasma
Gone sky diving
Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
Bounced a check
Saved a favorite childhood toy (Digger Dog and my Puffalump are in Brooke's room!)
Visited the Lincoln Memorial (When I was little, and I asked my Mom if a Memorial was going to be built for my uncle who had just passed away!)
Eaten Caviar
Pieced a quilt (I've tried to help my mom...)
Stood in Times Square
Toured the Everglades
Been fired from a job
Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
Broken a bone (a toe - does that count?)
Been on a speeding motorcycle (Zig's 'crotch rocket' in high school!)
Seen the Grand Canyon in person
Published a book
Visited the Vatican
Bought a brand new car (I love my Jeeps!)
Walked in Jerusalem
Had your picture in the newspaper
Read the entire Bible
Visited the White House
Killed and prepared my own meat
Had chickenpox
Saved someone’s life
Sat on a jury
Met someone famous
Joined a book club
Lost a loved one
Had a baby (the most amazing experience of my life!)
Seen the Alamo in person
Swam in the Great Salt Lake
Been involved in a law suit
Owned a cell phone
Been stung by a bee (Meg - do you remember that wasp that got my ear on the paddle boats at Poe Valley!?)

And NOW, the fun part!
I get to tag a few others that I'd like to take part...

Megan
Amanda
Emily

All you have to do is copy and paste the list onto your own blog, and do your own BOLDING!
I hope you get a few free minutes to do this...If not, just enjoy mine!

On another note, the kitchen...
Lots of details and pictures to come... My house is a mess, but we're almost done!