30 For 30

In exactly 2 years, 2 months, and 6 days from today (Aug 5, 2011) I will be 30. Didn't I just turn 21? 

In anticipation of my new decade I've created my "30 year old bucket list" of things to do before I hit the next milestone.
  1. Tour the White House (2.5.12)
  2. Make homemade bread
  3. Scuba dive 
  4. Visit a Central or South American country
  5. Have been to 40 of the 50 U.S. states
  6. Make butter (8.7.11)
  7. Sell something on etsy
  8. Re-learn to sew
  9. Run a full marathon
  10. Create a blog (6.18.11)
  11. Try to publish a kids book
  12. Buy stock in the stock market and I wouldn't be mad if we made a little money while doing it! (not sure exact date, was a bit of a process but thanks to Daron we've made $10 so far).
  13. Do yoga (9.19.11)
  14. Take at least 1 photography class
  15. Volunteer at a children's hospital 
  16. Have my own garden (even if it consists of a few planters on the back deck)
  17. Perfect my homemade pizza dough (3.12.12)
  18. Visit a local co-op (10.31.11)
  19. Go white water rafting 
  20. Learn how to french braid hair (mine or somebody elses)
  21. Ride a horse
  22. Make mojitos
  23. Bet on a horse race
  24. Milk a cow
  25. Go to a drive-in movie
  26. Stand under a waterfall
  27. Fly first class (12.18.11 - Miami for Orange Bowl)
  28. Get my eyebrows threaded (7.28.12)
  29. Host a dinner party (Spring 2012)
  30. Read Anna Karenina