Year 30 Bucket List

Exciting news everyone...I'm 28! Happy Birthday (Wednesday) to me!

Weirdest birthday greeting - when I made my appointment for a massage yesterday the girl was pulling up my account, saw it was my birthday and wished me a happy (belated) one. Thanks massage girl!

The day was a lazy day, mostly. John and I went out to a nice dinner the night before, since the restaurant was closed on the 4th (only real negative about a holiday birthday). We lounged, tried to stay cool, and could not get motivated to kayak. Then we watched fireworks from the roof-top deck. A great display. And our yummy North Carolina beer! 

Anyway, in honor of 28 I've decided to create my before-30 bucket list. I've never been big on these things so this is relatively realistic. But John challenged me and thus, I must come up with something! I wanted to come up with 30 things, but apparently I'm not that ambitious since I can't come up with more. So 16-30 are awesome things I've already done that would have likely been on the list if I had made it when I was 20-25. The next two years should be wild!

1. Eat frogs legs
2. Catch and cook (and eat) some crawfish
3. Go to Boston - Julie, I'm looking at you. Long weekend?
4. Climb Pike's Peak - Been the one and only thing on my before 3o list up until now. Need to train and want to do for my 29th birthday...eek! Um, also, a friend just ran...yes ran...the trail, up and back (24 miles) in 8 hours. I think it'll be more like 3 days for me.
5. Go zip lining - realistically this may be post 30, since we want to do it in Costa Rica or somewhere cool (and hopefully not end up with flesh eating grossness) but I'll challenge myself to it anyway.
6. Leave the country for a trip
7. Buy a new car. My first car purchase not provided by the parents was a used car, I am in the market for something new and want to go for something nice, not just cheap.
8. Go on an overnight kayak trip.
9. Ghost tour/haunted pup crawl
10. Visit New Orleans.
11. D.C.'s cherry blossom festival
12. Eat some sort of weird meat that I haven't before (emu, kangaroo?)
13. Summit the highest peak in Maryland/Virginia/West Virginia (at least one - possibly other states as well)
14. Skinny dipping
15. Get a dog



16. Rode a horse on the beach
17. Gotten through a break up
18. Gotten rid of toxic friends
19.Shot a gun/bow and arrow (both!)
20. Move across the country
21. Go white water rafting
22. Write a book (though I should add  finish novel to the before 30 list)
23.Gone rock climbing
24.Gambled in Vegas
25.Bubble bath with a man you love
26. Lived alone
27. Seen Ireland/England
28. Stay in a sketchy hotel
29. Do something you never thought you'd do (I have something specific in mind, but it's not going up on the blog)
30.Catch and cook my own crabs (and fish)