Friday Fun: Checking in on the 50 Before 50 List

 

It has been a while since I gave you an update on my 50 Before 50 List adventures! I haven’t been able to tend to it much the last month and a half because of Mom and Dad’s health issues, but with warmer weather looming, I wanted to look back over it to see what might be coming up for us in the following months – and to see if I’d crossed anything off without remembering to ACTUALLY cross it off.

·         Take a fun/scenic train ride: I haven’t done this yet, but I did get on the mailing list for the Indiana Rail Experience, which has the ice cream ride I’d noted when I made the list. I think that would be really fun to do this year if we can make it work date-wise! I noticed they have some other themed rides, so if the ice cream one doesn’t work out, maybe a different kind will!

·         Take a glassblowing class: I sent the link to Ryan again recently, so maybe this will be a date for us this spring or summer! 😊

·         Go to the hot air balloon festival in Angola. I held the dates on our calendar for this summer, so hopefully we can attend one of them!

·         Try a salt cave. I have a gift card to one. I need to set up a time to go! I’m so excited.

·         Summer is coming, so perhaps that will give me time to work on learning to drive the pontoon, learning to hula hoop, working on my bike endurance, and a handful of other things from the list.

·         DONE: We have completed three of the ten items in the “dating” category. We did a coffee adventure, had a date day at Top Golf, and we went to a new-to-us Christmas light display. Then from other categories…I’ve organized our home storage spaces. For many months now, I’ve been journaling a full page every single day. And I got rid of 50 things that do not fit our life here.

·         ALMOST DONE: We only have one more to go before we have recreated five simple dates we’ve done before! And I think we may have found “our” restaurant? We haven’t had the “define the relationship” talk about that restaurant yet, but I think it’s a distinct possibility. We are in season six (of seven) of Gilmore Girls, so it won’t be long before I can cross off that one!

Looking forward to this summer and the chance to explore a few more of the fun things I want to accomplish before I turn 50! (Which is still a ways off, by the way. I’m not rushing it.)