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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
QOTD: Friday
Finally it's the end of the week!!
Do you have a "bucket list" and if so what are a few things that are on there?
Re: QOTD: Friday
MUST take a trip with DH to Italy. He's never been and it's my favorite country I've been to. I think of a bucket list as a "things to do before I die" and at this rate (not going to have the money to go for many years) it might be something we end up doing when we're old and gray!
Kind of, but nothing written down.
Some of them include
Run a marathon
Travel to Macchu Piccu, Cambodia, and Iceland
Go to Inn at Little Washington
That's all I can think of now. But I'm sure I'll think of many more over the years.
Off to the beach
DS 7/18/2010
Handy 2.0 Due Early August
2011/2012 Races
12/17/2011 Christmas Caper 10K
2/11/2012 Have a Heart 5K
3/17/2012 DC RNR Half Marathon
4/22/2012 10M Parkway Classic
10/28/2012 Marine Corps Marathon
Sort of. It's not official really.
Travel to Scotland (and subsequently Ireland and England... Germany, France too)
I would love to learn to play the piano.
Those are the only things that are a constant on the list.
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
we have a joint bucket list :-)
things to do in the next 10 years (hopefully):
go back to Italy
visit Normandy
Egypt
Hawaii
Then at some point:
transatlantic cruise
galapagos trip
Australia
Ditto everyone above - no formal list, but a couple of things that I'd love to do before I kick it:
- travel to Malta
- take my mom to Paris (we were supposed to go this year, still thinking maybe I can plan something for October)
- go anyplace where i can hang out and/or play with more monkeys (did it in Akumal, MX and it was AWESOME) or any other cuddly little baby animal
- skydive - i've had a million chances (my brother goes several times/year but i chicken out every time i have to commit)
not really, but i always have travel on my mind so there are always new ideas as well as places i've wanted to go for a long time or would like to go back to.
i'd really like to live/work abroad again. this time, with DH as he's never had that experience and i think it would be an amazing thing for us to share.
places i hope to go in the next 5-10 years: thailand, greece, new zealand, pacific northwest, vancouver, scandinavia, and more of spain (this list could go on forever)
I only have a travel-related one: African safari, Italy, Australia, Galapagos, Alaska. There are more, but those are probably the top 5.
Oh, I forgot about that -- seeing all 50 states is also on my list, but I don't have a time limit on it. 3 more states to go. Maybe I'll get to North Dakota when I'm 90.
Yes, all of mine (aside from Alaska and Hawaii) are in the upper Midwest. I need to fly into Minneapolis and hit the road!
Yes :-)
-Visit Alaska
-Visit Egypt and Greece
-Learn more about wines
-Understand more about photography
I have a few things. Skydiving was my big one, and I did that 2 summers ago
-Travel to Italy and New Zeland
-Visit all 50 states
-Be key note speaker for a very large group (500 would be awesome)
-Publish at least one book (but if 1, why not more?)
I know there are more, but I can't remember them right now.
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I don't really have one written down. A couple of things I think about a lot:
Do the Run Disney coast-to-coast challenge (run a 1/2 marathon at Disney World & Disneyland at the same year)
Be on Jeopardy! (I take the online test every year and I made it to the in-person auditions once, but not the show)
Learn to play the piano
Learn to make macaroons
And lots of travel-related ones.
1. Run a Marathon
2. Do a half ironman
3. Go to at least 5 of the 7 Continents (6 would be great but don?t want to be too ambitious)
4. Open my own business
I've said it here before, and I'll repeat -- we need a Nesties road trip! I need to sewe the Dakotas and Montana, and Alaska. The last one's a major trip, but I think, in my head, that it would not be unreasonable to fly into one Dakota, drive to the Other, and then to MT, in like a week. I made this goal for myself when I was in my 40s and realized how far along I was (thanks to this job!) and wanted to see them all by the time I was 50 -- and I missed that deadline, too. Perhaps 2013 is MY year to at least knock out those three?
"What is a week-end?"
Until last year, you'd have thought "clean my wedding dress" was on my bucket list... but I finally did it.
Anyway...
- Stay one night at the Hotel Del Coronado with my college roomie, my H, and her H, but not until we're much older (we promised this to each other after a horrendous spring break trip to San Diego our senior year?we needed a do-over with a swank hotel)
- Alaska, return to our honeymoon resort in Barbados, make it to Sweden/Poland for our respective ancestral reasons
- DH would probably enjoy skydiving at some point (but I bought him the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb for his 30th birthday while he was on a business trip without me?it will do for now!)
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I started writing down my bucket list just at the beginning of this year. Some things I have so far:
- tour the White House and Capitol (this will be an easy one)
- go to the Harry Potter theme park at Universal (we're thinking of maybe going this year)
- attend a Steelers game at Heinz Field with DH. I've only been to 2 ever, but DH has been to none.
- see a full solar eclipse
- research as much of my geneology as possible (starting to work on this)
- travel to the Galicia region of Spain and to Sicily (ancestry goes back to both places)
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