What would a summer adventure be without a summer bucket list? How about a bucket list that includes 90 items to be completed in 90 days? Well that would be my list!
Included with my recipes, interviews and adventures from the summer, I’ll also be giving bucket list updates!
Let me know if you want to get involved and help me start crossing off my list!! (I’m gonna need it!)
- Complete the “food list challenge” (I’m at 68
66of 100 right now!) Do a mud run(completed 5/26/12)- Interview a chef in each of these ↑ cities
- Attend Taste of Chicago
- Surpass the 1000 follower mark on Twitter
- Host my own cooking show
- Meet Taylor Swift (don’t front, she’s awesome!)
- Go skydiving
Attend a Red Sox game at Fenway Park(completed 7/8/12)- Swim with dolphins
- Volunteer with WWOOF
- Cook with Giada De Laurentiis
- Appear on the Today Show
- Stomp grapes
- Have a pint at Billy Goat Tavern in Chicago
- See a live jazz band in New Orleans
Fly on a Private Jet(completed 5/29/12)- Visit a pig farm
- Meet the man, the myth, THE BOB STOOPS
- Go to a Cubs game at Wrigley Field
- Watch the Thunder become the NBA Champions ( saving this one for next year!)
- Take Mom Jet-skiing
- Go Zip-lining
- Make Someones Day
- Run across the Golden Gate Bridge
- Go to the top of the Space Needle
- Interview Jamie Oliver
- Eat deep dish in Chicago
- Donate toys to a children’s hospital
- Catch a fish
- Go horseback riding on the beach
- Spend a day with Giuliana Rancic
- Learn how to play the guitar
- Go to a Chicago Blues Bar
- Start a college fund for my “nephew” Eli
- Ride in a hot air balloon
- Participate in a flash mob
- Make homemade ricotta cheese
- Ride in a helicopter
- Go hiking in the rainforest
Eat a hot dog at the original Nathan’s on Coney Island(completed 6/30/12)- Publish a cookbook
- Participate in a food eating contest
- Go shopping at Pike Place Market in Seattle
- Take a photography class
- Become a contributing food writer
- Re-connect with someone I haven’t seen in years
- Get a menu item named after me
- Make it on Times “Top 100 Blog List”
(completed 5/21/12)
- Crash a Wedding
- Have a picnic in Central Park (does an iced coffee count??)
- Help a friend in need
- Go snorkeling
- Have a video on YouTube “go viral”
- Become a New York Times Best Seller
- Volunteer to help build a home
- Enter a recipe in a contest
- Run a race with all the members of my immediate family
- Start a dance party somewhere random
Take my “Nephew Neighbor” Jake on a day of fun(completed 5/30/12)- Meet someone new every day
- Inspire someone
- Play with a monkey
- Get a stamp in my passport
- See a moose
- Go white water rafting
- Actually finish a book I start reading
- Kiss someone in the rain
- Get an agent
- Send someone flowers for no reason at all
- Compliment a stranger
- Volunteer for Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign
- Send a dozen greeting cards out to random friends
- Ride a bull (a real one, not a mechanical… been there, done that!)
- Take Becca to Miami
- Create an app for food bloggers
Play “slip cup”(completed 7/7/12)- Go rock climbing
- Buy a Polaroid camera
- Meet Toby Keith (Boomer Sooner!)
- Have a food fight
- Be in a parade
- Be part of a big Italian family dinner
Make my brother a gluten-free birthday cake(completed 6/1/12)