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Bucket List

 - Participate in another charity run

- Become an organ donor

- Raise money for sufferers of sacrococcygeal teratoma's 

- Do a naked photoshoot to raise awareness for SCT 

- Take my boys to Disneyland Florida

- Visit an elephant sanctuary 

- Experience the Northern lights

- Go scuba diving / see a coral reef (urgent!) 

- Learn how to pole dance to strengthen my core 

- become fluent in another language

- Write a book 

- Run a marathon 

- Visit a natural spring 

- Go whale watching 

- Adopt an animal 

- Volunteer at a homeless shelter

- Visit New York 

- Take the boys camping in the middle of nature 

- See a Cirque de Soleil show 

- Learn all about bee keeping 

- Learn the basics of reiki 

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