The Ultimate To-Do List

1. Go on a photo safari to Africa with Dad

2. Go on a long cruise to the French Mediterranean (or likewise) with Mom and Sister

3. Travel to see fall foliage
a. Aspens turn yellow in a Colorado fall
b. Vermont
c. Skyline Drive/Shenandoah

4. Eat a lobster in Maine with Denise and Jeremy [2/20 - 2/26/2008]

5. Visit the Canyon Lands and Arches National Park in Utah (and other National Parks too!) [8/8 - 8/18/2008]

6. Visit the Statue of Liberty

7. Visit New York and Canada with Sister and her Fiance
a. Niagara Falls
b. Ice Hockey game in Canada
c. See how they make maple syrup

8. Participate in a cattle round up on horseback on a ranch out West

9. Attempt winter sports
a. skiing [Maine: 2/20 - 2/26/2008]
b. snowboarding
c. ice skating (again)

10. Travel somewhere new with Jamie in 2009, and give ourselves more than 10 days

11. Meet up with Linda in Sydney, Australia
a. Snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef
b. Fly to Perth and meet her family

12. Take lessons from a riding instructor (again) and learn to
a. achieve and maintain supple and energetic gaits; responsiveness on the flat
b. execute a proper half-halt
c. jump without anxiety

13. Sign up for a photography class. Learn to use my camera and take it with me everywhere I go. Print out the images I love and frame them. Earn the title of “Photographer.”

14. Write something worthy of being published

15. Go on a canoe trip with Dad down the Potomac River, using the canoe paddle he made and gave to me on Christmas in 2007

16. Have a drink at a restaurant/lounge that boasts my name, Amber in Seattle

17. Go for a zorbit or zydro ride in Pigeon Forge, TN at Zorb Smoky Mountains

18. Take singing lessons, then overcome the fear of stagefright by singing in public at a karaoke bar

19. Stand in four states at once (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado). Also known as the Four Corners, this is the only place in the U.S. where you can do this! [8/14/2008]

20. Stay in one of the 23 unusual accommodations offered by Under the Thatch, such as the Gypsy caravan or a 1905 railway carriage.

21. Spend the night in a yurt – Treebones Resort in Big Sur, Calif., or Canvaschic in The Ardeche, France.

22. Eat food that bounces back when you bite into it, or other “weird” foods
a. mushrooms – and I actually LIKE them now!
b. octopus [with Bryan at Wolfgang Puck's: Downtown Disney, Orlando, FL]
c. sea urchin [with Courtney and Steve in DC]