100 Things...Challenge from Heidi

So I have taken the challenge from Heidi to paste this list into my blog and highlight those items that I have done in my life and add a few comments for you to get to know (or know more) about me. So, here goes!

Copy and paste it into your blog and then just bold the things you've done!

1. Started your own blog (You are reading it)
2. Slept under the stars (On many occasions...sometimes I didn't even want too)
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain (We won't say that we barely survived!)
9. Held a praying mantis (Have done the praying mantis too!)
10. Sang a solo (Only in the shower)
11. Bungee jumped (NOT going to happen)
12. Gone on a hot air balloon ride
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea (A very excellent experience)
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning (Don't eat the raw squid in Korea!)
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty (Flown over it several times)
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train (Slept on a daytime train too)
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked (In Britan!)
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (Oh the shame!!!)
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping (Now theres a picture no one wants!!!)
27. Run a marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse (Not directly...had to use a cardboard box with a hole in it)
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset (Both...once even saw a sunset twice in one day!)
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise (Do Navy cruises count??)
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person (From the air! Looks wet...)
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community (Nice but no thanks....)
36. Taught yourself a new language (German!)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied (Never going to happen!)
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke (You don't want this to happen...trust me)
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa (Way cool...)
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance (Not cool!)
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person (Smaller than it looks in pictures...)
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia (Unofficially...don't ask)
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies (Would rather eat them...reduces sales though!)
62. Gone whale watching (From the balcony of my hotel in Hawaii)
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma (Once...passed out too!)
65. Gone sky diving (Well sort of...jumped out of a C-130 at night over a communist country)
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check (Yes...and paid for it too!!)
68. Flown in a helicopter (Including to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba! Quite the ride!)
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar (Yuk!)
72. Pieced a quilt (Church service project...we even have pictures!)
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job (Heaven forbid!)
76. Seen the Changing of the Guard in London
77. Broken a bone (Does breaking someone else's count??)
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person (It's bigger than it looks)
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican (Even saw the Pope!)
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper (No...not in the police blotter section)
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House (With Ronald Reagan)
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one (Ask Ginger, Alycia and Tori! Found them too...Oh you mean...dead..Yes)
94. Had a baby (NOT going to happen)!
95. Seen the Alamo in person (The real one AND the one John Wayne defended)!
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake (Not good for scuba or snorkling!)
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Totally copied a post from someone else's blog to your own