#6

I'm sure just about any one who reads this has seen the movie "The Bucket List". I love this movie. A great story of two unlikely friends who complete a list of "to do's" before they kick the bucket.

Not long after this movie came out, Facebook made a "Bucket List" app and you could create your own bucket list. So I did. Its not super long. Nothing too daring to most people's standards.

One of my "goals" this year is to cross a thing or two off my bucket list. Maybe its due to looking a life a little different light due to my Dad's illness, or maybe its due to wanting a bit more adventure in my life, whatever it is exactly, I've decided to work on my little list.

So a few weeks ago, I was sitting at lunch with my friends after church and the topic of a snowboarding weekend came up. We tentatively planned something, and I wasn't sure it would really happen so I didn't put much thought into it.

Then my Dad got sick and I went home for a week and really didn't think about it again.

Well, last week, I got an email from my friends giving all the details of our snowboarding day. I actually had the day off work (rare!) and my girlfriends had enough extra gear for me to borrow to go. My friend J was able to score me a great coupon for a rental, lift ticket and lesson.

How could I not go? And more than that, Snowboarding is #6 on my bucket list.

So, off I went. Thinking the whole drive, "are you crazy? your the least athletic person you know! You went to FASHION school for goodness sake. You like to SHOP not snowboard! Don't you know how COLD snow is!!"

So after telling myself to just shut up and give it a go.. off I went!

After a super frustrating lesson, I was ready to give up. But my awesome best friend, K, said not a chance and her and her hubby, M, got me down the mountain three more times and it was amazing.

So I went, I saw and I (sorta) conquered. And more than that, I did something I never thought I would do. I'm proud of myself for jumping out of my box and crossing #6 off my list!

and p.s. today, I've never been more sore in my life. :)