Sandbucket List 2013

Okay so we've all heard about "bucket lists."  Maybe you have one yourself, or you think they're stupid, or maybe you have no idea what I'm talking about.  Basically a bucket list is a list of things that you want to do before you, well, kick the bucket.  

Yup, pretty morbid.  

But, as a planner, I do like the idea of it.  A to-do list for life.  The problem with bucket lists though is that we have no idea when our deadline is.  We could die tomorrow or eighty years from now.  So I think most of us procrastinate.  

This idea of the bucket list, has led me and Arianna to put together something else:  
A SAND BUCKET LIST

You guessed it!  It's our list of things to do before the summer ends, with the deadline being Labor Day.

Here's our list:

• Visit the zoo
• Visit the aquarium
• Go to the beach
• Build a sandcastle
• Go to a carnival
• Go to the boardwalk
• Keep the ice cream truck in business
• Go to FroYo
• Visit Sesame Place
• Grow butterflies from caterpillars
• Go to the movies
• Swim
• Have a BBQ
• Visit the outlets (okay, I had to talk Arianna into adding on this one)
• Make banana ice cream
• Go to Storybook Land
• Visit the local play palace
• Go out to eat - a lot!
• Visit the Museum of Natural History
• Have a picnic
• Play mini-golf
• Sleep in a hotel
• Read a ton of books
• Make cupcakes & cookies

I have my own separate list of additional things Arianna wouldn't let me put on this master list.  Apparently organizing closets, transferring VHS tapes to DVDs, and eliminating chemicals from our lives (more on this later) was just not her idea of a good time.

I'll keep you posted with our progress.  : )

So what's on your Sandbucket List for 2013?