My life as Mama Thompson...tag!

AJ asked Dallin if I could do this tag...here is a list of things "everyone needs to do before they die", I am supposed to mark the ones I have done. If I've done it...it's in bold!

Started your own blog (ummmm....how 'bout 3)
Slept under the stars
Played in a band (I will count the many years in orchestra)
Visited Hawaii (and then came Dallin...maybe I should be taking another trip)
Watched a meteor shower
Given more than you can afford to charity
Been to Disneyland (it IS the happiest place on earth...amen AJ!)
Climbed a mountain (...how 'bout hiked ON a mountain!)
Held a praying mantis (no thank you)
Sang a solo (a duet with my bestest friend Kristi...."I wanna sing my own song, I wanna dance to my own music"...oh yes, I can still sing the whole thing from 5th grade)
Bungee jumped (never gonna happen)
Visited Paris
Watched a lightning storm at sea (aren't you supposed to get off the water if there is lightening)
Taught yourself an art from scratch (just call me Martha Stewart)
Adopted a child
Had food poisoning (and I've never eaten at Panda Express since)
Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty (and I stuck my head in her nose)
Grown your own vegetables
Slept on an overnight train
Hitch hiked
Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (yes, and they're called retail therapy days)
Held a lamb
Gone skinny dipping
Run a Marathon
Seen a total eclipse
Watched a sunrise or sunset
Hit a home run (there was a time when sports were my thing....go bat busters)
Been on a cruise 
Seen Niagara Falls in person 
Visited the birthplace of your ancestors 
Seen an Amish community 
Fired a rifle, shotgun or pistol (David wishes)
Michelangelo’s David
Sung karaoke (just once, in a bar, when all my friends were drunk so they wouldn't remember)
Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
Bought a stranger a meal 
Visited Africa
Walked on a beach by moonlight
Been transported in an ambulance 
Had your portrait painted
Gone deep sea fishing
Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
Kissed in the rain
Played in the mud
Gone to a drive-in theater
Visited the Great Wall of China
Started a business 
Taken a martial arts class
Visited Russia
Served at a soup kitchen
Sold Girl Scout Cookies
Gone whale watching 
Got flowers for no reason
Donated blood, platelets or plasma
Gone sky diving
Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
Bounced a check 
Flown in a helicopter
Saved a favorite childhood toy (thanks to my Gma Jones....and I still have that over sized dog named Ralph from when I was 5)
Visited the Lincoln Memorial
Eaten Caviar 
Pieced a quilt
Stood in Times Square
Been fired from a job
Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
Been on a speeding motorcycle
Seen the Grand Canyon in person
Published something 
Bought a brand new car
Walked in Jerusalem
Visited the White House
Had chickenpox (and I got to stay up late and watch the Sound of Music with Steve)
Sat on a jury (so close!)
Met someone famous
Joined a book club (the type of book club where I bought lots of books...kinda like those CD clubs...)
Lost a loved one
Had a baby
Seen the Alamo in person
Swam in the Ocean (I hate salt water)
Owned a cell phone
Been stung by a bee
Seen Mount Rushmore in person
Learned to play an instrument
Held a tarantula
Touched an iceberg
Changed a baby’s diaper (wouldn't it be funny if I answered "no" to this one)
Taken a trip in a hot air balloon 
Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment 
Had a food fight
Had a snowball fight
Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
Ridden a roller coaster
Visited all 50 states
Taken a road-trip
Milked a cow
Been in a movie
Crashed a party
Made cookies from scratch
Gotten a tattoo (spray-ons count right?)
Rafted the Snake River
Performed on stage (Peace child---I was Gwen who dressed in a bear costume with a tutu and my one line was "I just walked into the boy's bathroom".  I was also a reporter and we sang a song called "a tic-a-tac-a shoee"....I could probably sing all the words to this one too)
Been to Las Vegas
Eaten shark (I saw one while snorkeling...never swam so fast in my life...2 foot reef sharks are scary)
Bought a house
Been in a combat zone
Walked the Golden Gate Bridge (seen it, but too lazy to walk it)
Touched a stingray (they are very slimy)
Broken a bone (the doctor thought my thumb was broken and I had to wear a cast for 6 weeks...it was never broken...serves me right from trying to do pirouettes in slippers on a wood floor)
Ridden a horse
Eaten sushi
Had your picture in the newspaper (HS paper...but that is still a paper)
Gone back to school
Eaten fried green tomatoes
Killed and prepared an animal for eating 
Dyed your hair
Caused a car accident 
Saved someone’s life (I kept a kid from getting whacked by a car...scared me to death)

Okay. Not too bad. Let's see...Mandy, Jami Cox-Harris, cousin Jamie, Sherrie C. and cousin Katie...I tag you all.