100 things to do before I'm 100...

....AKA My Bucket List (in no particular order)

This is part of Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop (my first one!). I'm going to link it up in the sidebar so you can check the status of what I've actually done.

1. Go to mass in the Vatican, St. Peter's Basilica to be specific
2. If I make it to the Vatican, naturally I would love to have an audience with the Pope
3. Renew marriage vows in the Catholic Church
4. Take a vacation to wine country 
5. Prepare an entire weeks worth of meals that are 100% organic
6. Own an Hermes scarf, and actually wear it
7. Go to Disneyland
8. Finish my degree  (Completed January 2012)
9. Get a masters degree
10. Take a professional cooking class
11. See a musical/play on Broadway
12. Go to India and dress in a traditional sari
13. Walk the Champs-Élysées while sipping fantastic wine (legal to drink on the street?) and eating smelly French cheese (all while wearing an Hermes scarf, naturally)
14. Survive toddlerhood with twins (Completed, let's see how those preschool years go)
15. Get my wisdom teeth pulled and re-straighten my teeth
16. Train and run a 5K (Completed, several times)
17. If I survive a 5K, train for a half marathon and run one  (Completed February 27, 2011!)
18. Find a charity I'm passionate about and volunteer on a regular basis. (Completed, but really, that's never completed)
19. Revisit Washington DC (Completed, June 2013)
20. Re-paint the inside of the house
21. Pay off my student loans before I'm 100 (lol seriously it seems like it will take that long)
22. Go on a retreat at the San Pedro Center with Scott
23. See the Nutcracker Ballet 
24. Go to the opera
25. Go to Shakespeare in the park
26. Hear the Firebird Suite live by an amazing orchestra
27. Go to the Louvre and see everything that can be seen no matter how many days it takes
28. Take Scott to a Notre Dame game, when it's cold
29. Write our will (seriously we haven't done that yet) Completed October 2010!
30. Learn to play golf
31. Learn to play tennis (mainly so I can wear the cute outfit. Shallow? Possibly...)
32. Take a photography class
33. Run a race with Scott
34. Run a race as a family
35. Learn to play piano
36. Have a girls only weekend at the beach, no husbands, no kids.
37. Finish Aaron and Jill's baby books
38. Learn French
39. Re-learn Italian
40. Use the aforementioned languages without needing "liquid courage"
41. Go to the Super Bowl
42. Go to the Kentucky Derby with the sole purpose of wearing a gigantic hat and drinking a mint julep.
43. Make pasta from scratch
44. Make sauce from scratch to go with the pasta from scratch Completed!
45. Help grant a wish with the Make a Wish Foundation
46. Visit Poland and dig through old records to see if I can find information on my family
47. Have my picture taken in front of the church that I believe my great grandparents were married in in Poland. That is, if it wasn't destroyed during any of the wars.
48. Go to Oktoberfest in Germany
49. Make a list of 100 books that I want to read (or re-read) and read them (see list here)
50. Learn how to operate Scott's grill (and not be afraid I'm going to blow up while using it)
51. Visit the Anne Frank house
52. Re-start the tradition of breaking the oplatek on Christmas Eve (read about it here and here). I remember doing it once with my family and it's one of my favorite memories.
53. Go to Hawaii
54. Visit Pearl Harbor
55. Have something I have written published (Completed, I've been published in Multiplicity Magazine)
56. Be a vegetarian for a week
57. Take Jillian to her first musical
58. Eat at the restaurant of a Top Chef (masters or regular) winner
59. Travel somewhere by train (and not like from the suburbs to the city, like a real trip)
60. Learn how to hem pants (seriously I cannot do it to save my life)
61. Have my wedding dress cleaned and boxed (yup, haven't done that yet)
62. Learn how to make my Godmother's cinnamon rolls
63. Have my eyebrows threaded instead of waxed, I heard it's awesome and you will never go back
64. Attend a taping of SNL
65. Take a cooking class with Scott
66. See Cirque du Soleil's Love
67. Make Polish sausage from scratch with my Dad's recipe Completed December 2010!
68. Be able to have over 20 people in my house for a holiday dinner, make all the food from scratch and have the kitchen look like it was barely touched just like my Mom does every year
69. Attend an Olympic event
70. Attend an actual yoga class, for at least a month
71. Be able to eat properly with chopsticks (if you have never seen me eat with chopsticks it's the funniest thing you will ever see)
72. Go to Las Vegas
73. Sit behind home plate at a White Sox game
74. Make my own pie crust from scratch (completed on August 29, 2010!)
75. Have dinner at Victoria and Albert's....once
76. Go to a murder mystery dinner party
77. Complete my China set
78. Have a professional photo taken of my entire family (All 6 kids, my parents and all 12 grandkids)
79. Dip my toes in the Pacific Ocean
80. Have a German Shepherd
81. Take a weekend trip to St. Augustine with the family
82. Take a weekend trip to Savannah, just Scott and I
83. Eat at Lady and Sons while in Savannah
84. Own an actual Kinkade
85. Own a strand of opera length pearls, just because
86. Attend the Women's Conference that is hosted by Maria Shriver
87. See the Grand Canyon
88. Try Moroccan food, I've heard it's pretty yummy but have always been nervous about trying it (Completed at 2010 Food and Wine!)
89. Take a trip to the Keys (in all the years I've lived here, I've never been)
90. Learn how to use a sewing machine
91. Buy an obscenely expensive purse and not feel an ounce of guilt about it
92. Buy a pair of shoes I love in Nordstrum and not look at the price
93. Take Aaron to his first baseball game
94. Write each of my kids a letter every year until they go to college and give them to them on the day we move them into their dorm
95. Volunteer at the Special Olympics
96. Shake hands with a President (current or former, I am not picky)
97. Grow an herb garden and learn to properly dry herbs
98. Wear toe shoes and stand on my toes
99. Have Joe Zee of Elle magazine pick out an outfit for me and wear it, no matter how outrageous
100. Sit around a fire and make s'mores with my kids