Sometimes, even on a blog for business women, there must be room for offtopic thoughts. So, in a tribute of Dave Freeman, I want to join the many bloggers that are making a “Bucket List” this week. Dave Freeman passed away on August 17 in an accident at his home in California. His death was caused by brain trauma acquiring from a fall. He was co-author of the well-known book 100 Things to do Before You Die, which coined the term “Bucket List”.

So here is mine. Of course I will be doing everything with Thumper! Some of these places I have seen a few times, but when you see them with the one you love, you see them in a whole new perspective. I may have started to make this out in chronological order, but that isn’t how life works.

Photo above by GISurer

Bunny’s Bucket List

1. Marry Thumper and start working on a family
2. Honeymoon in Bermuda
3. Take an extensive vacation to Europe starting out with our second home in Germany
4. Have Thumper’s mom teach me how to cook Romanian dishes
5. Go to a Bayern München game with Thumper and his brother in Munich
6. Meet Christian and his wife and new baby in Hamburg, Germany
7. Visit Rome and see the Colosseum, Vatican City, and the Olympic Stadium
8. Visit Romania and meet the family
9. Go to Paris and eat like a Parisian woman, then climb all 1671 steps of the Eiffel Tower
10. Take the Euro Track from France to England
11. Meet Thumper’s Godparents in Manchester, England
12. Hold a baby pig
13. Learn pole dancing at my bachelorette party
14. Tour Washington, DC with Thumper
15. Take a road trip to Chicago and Indiana
16. Go to Las Vegas (not to gamble)
17. See the Hoover Dam
18. Visit the Grand Canyon
19. Mexico is next on the list
20. Visit the Mayan Ruins in Chichen Itza and in Coba
21. Take a zip cord ride over the Mexican jungle
22. Take an areal tour of the Yucatan Peninsula to view of the Mayan Ruins
23. Find a reasonably priced water front property on Long Island Sound to build our beach house
24. Find a Long Island property to build our dream house and do it
25. Visit NYC more, especially Rockefeller Center during the holidays often
26. Go to a Ballet with my mother-in-law in Germany
27. Take my mother-in-law to a ballet and opera at the Lincoln Center
28. See a musical at the Majestic Theatre
29. Revisit my old haunts in New York more often but not too often
30. Revisit Boston U (actually make a reunion)
31. Be a work from home mom
32. Go to Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco
33. Take a bike tour through the Rhine Valley and visit the wineries along the way
34. Revisit Mystic, Connecticut
35. Revisit Cape Cod and Provence Town, Massachusetts every summer
36. Shop at the Christmas Market in Stuttgart, Germany
37. Shop at the Christmas Market in Trier, Germany
38. Winter vacation to Lake Tahoe
39. Expand more business ventures with Thumper using our entrepreneurial instincts
40. Winter vacation in the Alps
41. Go to Havana, Cuba and have a Hemingway Daiquiri at the Floridita
42. Go back to Jungle Jim’s International market in Fairfield, Ohio
43. Go topless on a European beach when I am 50
44. Maintain a healthy living regime so I can do #43 with pride
45. Go to Prague
46. Tandem sky dive with Thumper and another couple, D & F
47. Go scuba diving likely at the Bodensee (Lake Constance)
48. Get Thumper into yoga with me regularly
49. Go hiking in the Berkshires (Western Massachusetts) and meet up with some old college buddies. Just like old times
50. Summer vacation in Newport Beach, R.I.
51. Be a hard core soccer mom! This will be interesting since I follow European teams
52. To learn to play something closer to Ceilito Lindo on the violin with my best friend who plays guitar. Thumper, you know you played the cello.
53. Have our own backyard vegetable and herb gardens so we can eat healthy
54. Winter vacation in Cyprus and Greece
55. Go on a whale watch
56. Ride a camel (don’t know why)
57. Learn more about graphic design
58. Successfully make a “sour cabbage”
59. Learn how to para sail
60. Drive across America
61. Swim with dolphins off the coast of Mexico
62. Go for a hot air balloon ride
63. Attend a World Cup game
64. Learn to speak fluent German
65. Teach Thumper Salsa
66. Drive the Autobahn without fear of death
67. Have photographs taken of us when we are pregnant, tastefully in the nude
68. Get tattoos that he designs
69. Learn how to sew
70. Nude sunbath on a private beach or yacht and not get caught
71. Find turtle eggs on a beach
72. Go four wheeling through Los Cabos back country
73. Make a list of our favorite philosophers and books to buy to start our home library
74. Create CDs of “our” songs
75. See Michael Buble in concert
76. Go backpacking in the south of France
77. Write a book together
78. Make three babies together and plant a tree in our yard upon each birth
79. Be an excellent wife and mother
80. Learn how to grow blueberries
81. Be able to do a round off backhand spring without breaking any bones at 50
82. Run in the NYC Marathon
83. Start a traditional collection of souvenirs from our travels
84. Incorporate favorite dishes from heritage to have on holiday dinners
85. Be able to play a descent game of golf with my dad and uncle
86. Have Thumper beat me at tennis
87. Play doubles with Andreas and his wife and win
88. Cook holiday dinners at our house with our parents and family
89. Be a good Godmother to Maria
90. Write the perfect wedding vow
91. Renew our wedding vows in 20 years
92. Always take vacations often without the kids and of course with them
93. I need to learn to shake a drink in a REAL shaker (not the metal ones)
94. Not to overwhelm my kids with what I want their accomplishments to be
95. Forgive my cousin
96. Watch Gone With The Wind and identify George Reeve
97. Always be my significant other’s better half. The woman he needs and always wants
98. Be the best wife, mother, daughter, friend and godmother
99. To always rock Thumper’s world
100. To live as long as my Great Grand Mother with my husband by my side

Many probably aren’t interested in what I would like to accomplish in my life. With David’s death there is a certain air to evaluate and that is living your life to the fullest.

One of my favorite quotes by Mark Twain:

Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching and live like its heaven on earth.

And finally, here is a video of Luciano Pavarotti and Enrique Iglesias singing Ceilito Lindo.

This was my expedition into personal land. Stay with me for the next post on Bunny’s blog for business women!