Adventures

• Head to a berry farm to pick my own, fresh strawberries.
• Have “pizza on the farm” at A to Z Produce Farm.  I read a review on a different blog and it sounds great.
• Golf with my husband at St. Andrews
• Give birth in a foreign hospital (i.e. not in the U.S.) (Feb 2011)
• Go on a hot air balloon ride
• Go to a taping of “Ellen” 
• Participate in a flash mob
• Do a geocache
• Explore Minnesota treasures I haven’t in the past
• Minnesota Historical Society
• Grumpy Old Men Festival in Wabasha

Travel

In Scotland

• Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh
• Edinburgh Castle
• Mackintosh’s Glasgow
• The Castle Trail (Grampian Mountains, outside of Aberdeen)
• The Hebrides (islands off of Western coast)
• Argyll Highlands 
• Highland Games (Braemar Highlands)
• Loch Ness 
• Malt Whiskey’s Trail (Speyside)
• Loch Lomand
• Orkney Islands
• Golf in Scotland 

In the U.S.

• New Orleans
• Charleston, South Carolina (again, for a longer time)
• Visit each state in the U.S. as a family (hopefully our kids are fans of road trips!)
• Alaskan cruise

In Europe (& other)

• London (December 2010)
• Paris, France (April 2011)
• Ireland (May 2011)
• Scotland (May 2011)
• Berlin, Germany
• Munich, Germany (again)–for Oktoberfest
• Amsterdam (February & March 2011)
• Rome, Italy (Dec 2012)
• Switzerland 
• Russia (July 2012)
• Scandinavia (July 2012)
• Spain
• Greece
• Go on an African Safari

In Holland

• The Museum of Bags & Purses in Amsterdam.  Yes, they have one, and yes, we are going there.  For all of the train and car museums we will be visiting in the future, it only seems right that J#1 and J#3 do this for me and J#4.
• The Hague  (August 2011)
• Madurodam (a.k.a. “Holland in a nutshell”) (August 2011)
• Den Bosche  (April 2011)
• Rotterdam (September 2011)
• Kinderdijk (September 2011)

& more…

• Visit each of the continents (although probably not Antarctica)
• North America
• South America (Argentina, Brazil, Peru or Chile)
• Europe
• Africa
• Asia
• Australia

Cooking

• Learn how to bake my own bread
• Successfully create a Thanksgiving dinner (pretty much on my own)
• Learn how to make jam
• Learn how to make omelets (December 2011)
• Finally make popovers (I have had a pan for like 5 years & they are one of my favorite foods!) (March 2011)

Miscellaneous

• Learn how to take better photos (August 2011)
• Create my own blog and keep it active for at least one year (January 2012)
• Write a book  (November 2011)
• Learn how to sew (at least pillow covers)
• Participate in an organized sporting event (i.e. biking event, 5K walk/run) (Thanksgiving 2011)
• Participate in a race where I can get a medal for completing
• Read through the bible in 90 days (July 2011-October September(!) 2011)
• Write a list of 1000 gifts that I am thankful for…loving this book right now: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are by Ann Voskamp
• Read the list of 100 books on the BBC list
• Learn how to play the piano

Notes:

• None of these are in order of priority (just as I thought of them)
• Those items crossed out are done & I have noted when I finished them.  Yeah!