Bucket List

As you can tell, I have a YOLO/carpe diem/make every day count attitude. I've always thought of cool and fun adventures i'd like to put on my bucket list. Last year, I finally sat down and wrote out stuff I want to accomplish. Lo and behold, here it is.

Erik's Bucket List

(Items in red are items that I've completed after initially posting this bucket list--- after October 2016)

Religious

• Get published in a Church magazine
• Sing in General Conference
• Be a temple worker
• Get married in the temple
• Receive temple endowment
• Speak in a fireside
• Shake hands with an apostle
• Serve a mission
• Spend all day in the temple
• Walk to the temple
• Randomly called out to speak in church

Travel

• Mexico
• Cruise
• Go on a Service Trip

• Utah-Specific:
• St George ocean
• Four Corners
• Zion National Park
• Kolob
• Angel's Landing
• The Narrows
• Observation Point
• Bryce Canyon National Park
• Arches National Park
• Canyonlands National Park
• Capitol Reef National Park
• Goblin Valley
• Lake Powell (Stateline)
• Lake Powell (Bullfrog)
• EVERY UTAH COUNTY (Only Grand and Carbon remaining)
• Cedar-Cedar Breaks-Brian Head-Parowan circle
• Cathedral Gorge (Nevada, but close)
• Manti Temple day trip
• Salt Lake and back in a day
• Attend a temple open house
• Penny's Diner in Milford
• Swim in the Great Salt Lake
• Ensign Peak
• Mt Timp Summit
• Drive over Traverse Ridge
• Tree of Life in Draper
• Temple Square Christmas lights
• Visit Utah Temples
• St George
• Cedar City
• Manti
• Vernal
• Monticello
• Payson
• Provo City Center
• Provo
• Mt Timpanogus
• Jordan River
• Oquirrh Mountain
• Draper
• Salt Lake
• Bountiful
• Ogden
• Brigham City
• Logan
• Church History Tour
• All 50 states
• Alaska
• Hawaii
• Hawaii Temple(s)- at least one
• All Arizona Temples
• Manhattan NY Temple
• Palmyra Temple
• Nauvoo Temple
• San Diego Temple
• Spontaneous trip home
• Surprise trip home
• Go on a bus adventure (in retrospect... what did I even mean when I wrote this?!)
• German temple session
• Go to New York City
• Macy's Thanksgiving and/or Christmas Day Parade
• Ground Zero
• Australia
• Europe
• Orlando Florida Temple

• Spontaneous trip (Utah and neighboring states don't count)
• See the Northern Lights
• Have a one-way ticket, go somewhere, and play gutar until I earn enough money to come back
• Everglades
• Disneyworld
• Disneyland
• Universal Studios
• Six Flags
• Ride in a convertible
• Ride in a Hummer
• Ride the subway
• Ride a train
• Go to the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans within the same year

USU/Logan

• Graduate from USU
• Get my Bachelors degree
• Become a True Aggie
• Make it onto the A-Team

• Chalk in a USU tunnel
• Park in the parking lot without a parking pass, don't get a ticket (x10!!!)
• Aggie Ice Cream
• Go to the temple between classes
• Sledding on Old Main Hill
• Snowboard on Old Main Hill

• Ice-block on Old Main Hill
• Have a USU professor visit my house
• Scooter around campus at night
• Scooter through the parking garage
• Movie night inside Huntsman Hall
• Be inside a campus building after 10 pm
• Be recognized by a stranger from the Campus Snap Story
• Attend the Silent Dance Party
• Attend the Finals Week Howl
• Stay at the library until it closes (studying optional)
• Start a chant at the football game
• Heaven
• The Other Side of Heaven
• First Dam
• Second Dam
• Cutler Dam
• Wind Caves
• Crimson Trail
• Meet the Student Body President
• Meet a majority of the Executive Council
• Climb to the top of Old Main tower
• Questival- 24 hour scavenger hunt
• Clean the Sink

• Make it on the "Clean the Sink Wall of Fame"

Service

• Hold a "Free Hugs" sign
• Pay for the order of a car behind me at the drive-thru
• Pay it forward
• Random Act of Kindness $50+
• Random Act of Kindness $100+
• Learn sign language
• Volunteer at a hospital
• Bring dinner to a friend
• Serve at a soup kitchen
• Do some kind of public service on a holiday

Adventure

• Fly in a helicopter
• Fly in a small plane
• Jump into 2000 Flushes
• Skydiving
• Stargazing
• Be in a flash mob (kind of)
• Win Fugitive
• Scuba Diving
• Shaving cream fight
• Play guitar in front of an audience
• Pull an all-nighter
• Stay up for 48 hours straight
• Cliff jumping

• Hang out in a hammock
• Sleep in a hammock overnight
• Snowshoeing
• Sleep in my car
• Live out of my car for at least a day
• Live in a small space
• Go on a big zipline
• Paint balloons and darts
• Crayon melting art
• Fingerpaint date
• Food fight
• Color Run
• Labor Day Temple 2 Temple Run in South Jordan or July 24th Temple 2 Temple in Provo
• Run a marathon
• Run a half-marathon
• Sing the National Anthem at a game
• Play guitar on the street, try to get money
• Ask a girl out the first time I meet her
• Dinner and movie for the first date
• Penny date
• Horseback riding
• Steal a sign
• Fall asleep at work
• Get a parking ticket for parking in some crazy place
• Sledding at midnight
• Scooter inside a building
• Be in the audience for The Price is Right
• Be a contestant on The Price is Right
• Ride a mechanical bull
• Sumo suit wresting
• Dye my hair blonde
• Waterski
• Wakeboard
• Ice Fishing
• BUBBLE SOCCER
• Break a bone (on accident)
• Jump at a trampoline house
• Glo-stick tag in the Snow Canyon Caves
• Kayak
• Canoe
• Go-Karts
• Paint Twister
• ATV at the Sand Dunes
• Ultimate Jenga

• Ride a Jet-Ski
• Ride a tandem bike
• Be in a musical
• Smash a penny on the railroad
• Bonfire
• See a professional play
• Learn how to ride a unicycle
• Eat at a sit-down restaurant by myself
• Go to the movies alone
• Go to a scary movie in theaters
• Jump into a pool fully clothed
• Sack race

Bragging Rights/Accomplishments

• Have a video made about me
• Watch a clock stop or get stuck on a certain second
• Be a cancer survivor
• Be honored as a cancer survivor
• Be in a dance battle
• Be in a YouTube video (link)
• Become famous (TEAM NO SPOILER!!)
• Go VIRAL
• Win a contest
• Get a 4.0 for a semester in college
• Lead a school assembly (Freedom Week- senior year!)
• MC an event (which was SOOO fun)
• Start a chant at a football game- high school
• Receive a large sum of money
• See a solar eclipse
• See a lunar eclipse/blood moon
• Play giant chess
• Learn to play the Ukelele
• Write a book
• Get published in the Reader's Digest
• Eat an entire tub of ice cream in one sitting
• Have a legitimate conversation out of emoji's
• Take the same picture during four seasons
• Harry Potter marathon
• Star Wars marathon
• See all the Lord of the Rings
• Spend an entire day watching Netflix
• Win game tickets
• Learn how to play the violin
• Learn how to play the cello
• Completely lose my voice
• Attend a Samoan dinner/event
• Hold a fox
• Win at Werewolf (HUGE shoutout to Jaycee. And another HUGE shoutout to Lizzie!)
• Be a mentor
• Lead a small group
• Be a TA
• Take a jumping picture