Meme

[nietie]

Snagged from cordeliadelayne 

Instructions:
Copy the list, bold the ones you've done (with explanations if needed), share with friends.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a thunder and lightning storm
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child (sponsoring a child from an orphanage in India)
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty (visited the Statue though)
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train (from Moscow to Leningrad/St.Petersburg)
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort (snow hut)
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language (Spanish)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied 
38. Seen the LeaningTower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sang karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa (well, Egypt, but it's Africa)
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the EiffelTower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkelling (Great Barrier Reef)
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theatre
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching (on Fraser Island in Australia)
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter (twice: Grand Canyon, USA and Uluru, Australia)
69. Saved a favourite childhood toy (my teddy bears)
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been a passenger on a motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper (not my picture, but my name a few times)
85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year’s Eve
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club (at Primeval_Denial *g*)
93. Got a tattoo (never!)
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

 

Comments

[fififolle]

Hee!
Wow. That train journey in Russia must have been something.

[nietie.livejournal.com]

The train journey in Russia was awesome. It was in the last days of the Soviet Union. Moscow and Leningrad were beautiful!

[fififolle]

Wow.

[cordeliadelayne]

Ooh, I don't think I knew you'd been to Russia. I would love to go to Moscow.

Who have you met that was famous?

[nietie.livejournal.com]

Moscow is beautiful, especially the Red Square, but St. Petersburg is even more beautiful. A very friendly city with the wonderful Hermitage museum.

I've met the former US president Jimmy Carter in San Francisco, during the Democratic Convention there. He was staying in the hotel next to my hotel and we met on the street. We didn't really talk, with all the body guards, but he said hello. I had the same thing with Newt Gingrich, a former speaker of the US House of Representatives in Atlanta. He said hello and wished us a Merry Christmas.

Edit: Eek! I forgot! One of my former classmates is a Dutch celebrity. He writes comedies and presents TV-programmes (like Have I Got News For You).