“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."-Mark Twain

Thursday, October 7, 2010

England Bucket List

A few years ago I made a list of things I wanted to do when I was in England. Over time the list has lost some adventures and it has gained some but I plan on doing the majority of these things while I am here this next year.

1. climb to the top of the monument
2.actually finish the maze at Hampton Court..
3.Climb to the golden gallery in St. Pauls
4.see Anne Boylen's grave
4b. get better picture of anne boylen's grave
5. do as the beetles do
6. Literally run into platform 9 3/4
7. Be sneaky and get pictures of the crown jewels
8.go on the London eye
9.go shopping at lush
10. go inside Westminster hall
11.actually enjoy the Tower Of London
12.Picture with my Teddy Bear Whore
13. go to the London Dungeon
14. Go to all 168 Pubs in London
15.Buy a toy at Hamley's toy station
16. climb the 253 stairs the whispering gallery.
17.go fishing in surrey
18.meet Tom Felton
19.go coffin shopping at Harrods ( just in case the dr pepper bottle plan doesnt work out)
20. bug a palace guard until he moves
21.watch a puppet show at the little angel theater
22.Find Karma at Holland Park (Kyoto Gardens)
23.chat with a Bobby about his life.
24.go bowling with cheese. (london skittles)
25.see a play at the Globe
26. Find muggle street
27.attend a mass at westminster
28.afternoon tea
28 b. learn to like tea
29.spend a day in the british library
30.go to a Football game
31.play at Pollock's toy museum
32.see penguins eating fish
33.stand on One Tree Hill
34.dance on the prime meridian
35.go to Highgate cemetary
36.get in an argument on speakers corner
37.do the monopoly pub crawl
38.proceed to climb the next 100 stairs to the stone gallery.
39.talk to random people on the tube
40.ride the circle line. . .in a circle
41.Die in the Palace of Westminster
42.find the sign that says "humped pelican crossing"
43.go golfing in the streets (www.sgcgolf.com)
44.meet someone in an elevator
45.dance in the rain in the middle of a park
46.walk along the Thames at night.
47.climb to the top of st stephens tower
48.visit cock street
49.play on the Diana Memorial Playground
50.watch Only Fools and Horses at inconvenient times of the night
51.Shop on Oxford Street
52. see Queen Mary's Doll House
53.party all night at a pub
54.go hot air ballooning
55. Quote/ reference Harry Potter at least once a day
56. light a candle at Westminster abbey
57.go ghost hunting
58.see stratford-upon-avon instead of stratford-in-avon
59.Find the London Stone
60.go to wimbledon
61.see the cheshire cheese
62.see jack the ripper before midnight on dec 31 on Westminster bridge
63.buy a book at Waterstones that i would never actually consider reading
64.get picture of the dining room chandelier in the Apsley house
65.revisit the wheelchairs at the British Museum
66.go to photographers gallery
67.see Wicked
68.museum of childhood.
69. use a british telephone box
70.go to every book store on charing cross road
71.go to Eton College
72.stand on the stairs that Tom Felton stood on at Christ's Church
73.see the bridge that Anne Boylen Haunts
74.take a dance class
75.steal a cone
76.walk down a narrow alley way
77. go to Lacklock abbey
78.Tate Modern
79. go to Windsor castle.
80.go to the disney store in bath and buy a british mickey mouse.
81. find robin hood in sherwood forest
82. figure out what that stupid building is really called.(its called whitehall palace)
83. Place a rose on Anne Boleyn’s grave
84. look and succeed in finding the leaky cauldron
85.push the mysterious button
86.go cantaloupe bowling in the middle of the night
87.build a fortress at legoland
89. Visit Syon house
90. Renaissance gardens at chiswick
91.find the boy who never grew up
92.go inside Wellington arch
93. play in the fountain at tragalgar square
94.invest in a street performer at covent gardens
95. slide down the banister at the somerset house.
96.go to hogwarts (alnwick castle)
97. "lector, si monumentum requiris circumspice"
98. visit chawton where pride and prejudice was written
99.find Prince author’s grave (Ludlow castle)
100. see the pile of rocks and actually care that they are there this time
101. stand on a roof top and throw water balloons at people as they walk by
102. go kayaking on Regent's canal
103.Buy Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and tyme in scarborough
104.watch pointless informational shows on tv at 3 in the morning (seriously 8,000 bikes a year are stolen in london that is insane)
105. Wax museum
106.attend a royal wedding
107. run through a park screaming "the british are coming! the British are coming!"
108. visit the mini big ben
109. watch the compitition for the peter pan cup
110.Buy the adult versions of the harry potter series
111.go to Ye Olde Cock Tavern.
112.get a photographs of all the places/street names on the monopoly board
113.photographs of all the blue plaques on various buildings, signifying that someone famous once lived there.
114.see the great christmas pudding race in covet gardens.
115. see christmas past exhibit.
116. cheese rolling festival!!! www.cheese-rolling.co.uk
117. see the white cliffs of dover
118. touch stonehenge. . . it sounds easy but i am going to need sunglasses.
119. see harry potter's childhood home
120. visit the hindu temple
121. beedle the bard
122. personally drive on the wrong side of the road.
123.climb the 253 stairs the whispering gallery.
124.Try a meat pie
125.stand at lands end
126. Stalk Rupert Grint
127. Go golfing at Tom Felton’s golf course.
128. Visit Tunbridge wells
129.take a pedal boat out on the lake at dunorlan park
130. Go inside Chatsworth house and explore gardens

1 comment:

  1. There is nothing that I can say about this. You are a freak (too obvious) You are crazy (see previous) this is actually really cool (hate to admit it) you spend a lot of time thinking about random things (again, see first) and so I shall just wish you luck my dear. I hope you accomplish them all, but do number 41 last and wait a very long time first.

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