Kristina and I were BEST friends... like, BEST friends with a capital B-E-S-T! We met in 7th grade, both the new kids in a small private school; both equally disgruntled with our parents for taking us out of our 'perfect' life in public school. We clicked immediately. And one day, we made a list. A list of things we wanted to do before we died. But not only was it a list of things we wanted to accomplish, we wanted to accomplish them together. It was a really cool list, and I wish I knew where it was... I'm going to do some digging and try to find it tomorrow. Kris has always been the daring one... skydiving, hang gliding, bungee jumping, etc. I'm the more travel-oriented one... visit Paris, Italy, etc. So it made for an interesting list, that's for sure. The fun thing was, though, by the time we'd graduated High School, we'd actually accomplished quite a few of the things on our list. We went to Florida together one year on Spring Break. We ran track together. Built a giant blender for homecoming (not that that was on our list... it was just something fun we did). We volunteered at a hospital as candy stripers one summer... and we were always trying to find the morgue but were too scared to actually go beyond the door where we thought it was. Good times. I really hope I can find that list... If I do, I'm going to send it to her and see how many things we've collectively crossed off it!

Ok, so now, here's my list (at least, all that I can think of at midnight)....

- Visit Europe (Italy, France, Germany, England, Switzerland, Spain)

- Go on the Pauline Missionary Journey

- Go to Israel

- Work in an AIDS hospital

- Live in a muslim country

- Learn to speak Arabic

- Write a book

- Climb Mt. Whitney

- Climb Half Dome

- See a sunset at the Grand Canyon

- Learn to quilt

- See Garth Brooks in concert

- Visit Morocco

- Fly first class on a really long flight :-) (a girl can dream right?)

- Sew a dress (like one I'd actually wear)

- Throw a really great party for a friend

- Be in ministry with the man I love :-) (this is only half-crossed out, not because I'm not married to the man I love, but because its not finished yet! God's still got a lot for us to do!)

- Wear red lipstick

- Have my pictures done professionally... hair, make-up, clothes, photoshop... the whole 9 yards. Its my theory anyone can look like Sandra Bullock with all that magic....

- Lead a complete stranger to Christ

Hmmmm.... ok that's good for now. So, what's on your list? Has it changed as you've grown?