For some background on my decision to create and (hopefully!) complete a 30 before 30 list, check here. Completed items are in red.
1) Learn to speak French--at least enough for basic conversation.
2) Climb to the top of the Eiffel tower, eat macarons at the Laduree on Rue Royale, stroll through the Louvre, see the water lilies at Giverny. In short—go to France. (Finished August 2011)
3) Travel to at least five new countries. (Spain, Malta and Greece--December 2010; France, Germany and Austria--August 2011)
4) Ride in a hot air balloon.
5) Run a 10K. (Cooper River Bridge Run, April 2 2011)
6) Complete my Masters degree. (Masters of Education in Elementary Education through Grand Canyon University, October 2010)
7) Have another story or article published.
8) Read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. (Finished February 2011)
9) Finish writing a novel.
10) Suck the head. No, not like THAT! Like this. (James Island County Parks Cajun Fest, April 2011)
11) Place a bet in Sin City. (Life changes, not gonna happen. Maybe we'll go to Monaco instead!)
12) Go fishing!
13) Geaux to an LSU football game. (LSU vs Tennessee, October 14 2011)
14) Volunteer. (Tour guide downtown.)
15) Organize all of our digital photos in scrapbooks or albums.
16) Learn how to sew and make a piece of clothing that I’m proud to wear in public.
17) Toast with a glass of Dom Perignon.
18) Read the entire Bible, cover to cover, without skipping the boring bits.
19) Go to the Guggenheim.
20) Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.
21) Get a second piercing on my ears.
22) Finish 75% of the books in the top 100 of the Greatest Books List that I haven’t already read. List tracking completion here.
23) Go to a Starbucks drive through and pay for the order for the car behind me.
24) Learn to make my mom’s spaghetti sauce so that it actually tastes like my mom’s spaghetti sauce. (The trick is to avoid lean meat AT ALL COSTS!)
25) Attempt surfing. Not the net—the waves!
26) Do a cleanse. (Finished 7/11)
27) Take a cooking class. (Completed in Barcelona on December 4, 2010.)
28) Buy a bike and relearn how to ride it. (Well, I successfully relearned how to ride a bike and cycled around France, and we've inherited Colby's old bike. Close enough!)
29) Take a spinning class 3 times a week for at least one month.
30) Have a baby.
