My Bucket List

Things I want to do before I die.

1. Ride in a hot air balloon
2. Have 2 sources of passive income
3. Own my own kayak
4. Go jet skiing
5. Go zip lining
6. Visit the Grand Canyon
7. Go to Walt Disney world
8. Visit Oregon, Washington, Canada, Colorado, Florida, New York, Hawaii, North Carolina, Texas, Italy
9. Sell 50 of my paintings
10. Participate in a murder mystery dinner party
11. Donate blood
12. Visit a haunted place in the dark
13. Do an agility course with my dog
14. Adopt a pet from a shelter
15. Donate $1000 to an animal shelter
16. Have an herb garden
17. Cook a thanksgiving dinner for family
18. See a Broadway show
19. Visit Yosemite
20. See Old Faithful erupt in Yellowstone
21. Ride a tandem bike
22. Milk a cow
23. Take a photo of myself everyday for a year
24. Achieve debt freedom
25. Live without credit cards
26. Have a painting studio in my house
27. Visit an active volcano
28. Save a sea creature
29. Marry my best friend
30. Swim with dolphins
31. See the movie โ€œThe Bucket Listโ€
32. Own a telescope
33. Drink 8 glasses of water in one day
34. Have my picture taken while standing on the edge of a rock cliff
35. Publish a scientific article
36. Go sky diving
37. Plant a tree
38. Sleep under the stars
39. Gamble in Vegas
40. Build a snowman
41. Bury a time capsule
42. Visit the Mall of America
43. Yell at the top of my lungs from a mountain top
44. Watch the sun rise from Joshua Tree National Forest
45. At a red light, get out of the car and dance in the street briefly then get back in the car before the light turns green again
46. Jump into a huge pile of fallen leaves
47. Bake an apple pie from scratch
48. Watch a movie at a drive in theater
49. Send a letter in a bottle
50. Visit the pyramids of Egypt
51. Do something nice for someone else and don’t tell ANYONE about it
52. Put my feet in the Atlantic Ocean

Have anymore I should add?

Back to Lagoon Valley!

For Veteran’s Day today we headed back to Lagoon Valley for more mountain biking! Casey did the tough hills while Penny and I stayed on flat ground ๐Ÿ™‚

Casey’s view from the top


Ready to ride!

So pretty!

Going to run around the lake!



Crazy helmet hair!

Picnic lunch

So tired

Penny roaming under the trees




Trying to get the ducks

Casey has his game face on!

Penny at the dog park

We are moving!

As many of you know, we are moving to Georgia in January. We have 2 people lined up to take over the lease on our apartment in Davis after Casey graduates in December. We took some pictures of our apartment to show to them as they are currently in Denmark and Washington D.C. They turned out pretty good!










More Mountain Biking!

We went mountain biking today about 30 minutes away in Vacaville at a place called Lagoon Valley. It was so beautiful and a much easier ride than the last time we went riding! They had a frisbee golf course, a dog park, an archery range, a lake, picnic grounds, fields that went on forever, horse stables, and we even saw a family of deer!

Casey conquering the first hill

The view from the top


This was Casey at the top…

…and this was me at the top

Tons of open space!




Nice picnic area




My first time riding with no hands!


Next time we have to go to the dog park!

World’s Largest Corn Maze!

We started off our weekend by going to the world’s largest corn maze, located just 10 minutes away from us. It is 45 acres of mind puzzling maze, but we managed to do it all in 1.5 hours! Here is the website: coolpatchpumpkins.com





Master of the map

We made it to the first station: Ducati Island!

Corn EVERYWHERE!

We made it to the second marker: Starbuck’s Station


Casey’s smart phone compass came in handy

There were TONS of caterpillars burying in the ground

I got us lost

We made it to the final station!

At “Fort Ford”

The last part!


We made it out!

Here is our map. Red is the right path we took, blue is where we got off track. We did pretty good!