My Bucket List

Why is a Bucket List something only created when you reach a certain age?  Why is it only then that we realize the things we want to do and see in life?

In this mindset, I created the list below.  I could go on and on about the places I'd like to see, the countries I want to visit, but for the sake of keeping this list under 1,000 I didn't itemize out those places.  (I won't deny including two items that I've already completed for the simple joy of seeing them crossed off.)

1.  Put my feet in the Mediterranean Sea
2.  Grow old with my best friend
3.  Watch my nephews walk across the stage in cap and gown as they graduate high school
4.  Cross the Atlantic 
5.  Cross the equator
6.  Quit the 9-5 and work as a self-employed photographer
7.  Own my first home
8.  Adopt a puppy
9.  Take my sister shoe shopping.  And I mean REALLY shopping.
10.  See the Aurora Borealis
11.  Stare up at the Eiffel Tower and watch it light up against a Parisian sunset
12.  Buy a Jeep Wrangler and drive with the top and doors taken off

And because every post deserves a picture, I'll include the image below.