101 things you gotta do before you're 12!

Yesterday, my boys, Mom Michelle and I attended a Pow-Wow on the reservation near Fredonia. It all started when I checked a book out from the library called, 101 things you gotta do before you’re 12! I was explaining some of the things in this book to my mom, one of which was to attend a Native American Pow-Wow. So knowing Mom, it won’t surprise any of you that the very next day she called with the date, time and information about the nearest Pow-Wow. It turned out to be an interesting day, different than I expected, but fun to be outside, enjoy an Indian Taco and witness some really great aspects of this culture. I ended up ordering my own copy of this book and wanted to share some other ideas that I thought were fun. Maybe we could plan to do some of them together!

Celebrate a Holiday you usually don’t celebrate
Sleep under the stars
Walk a maze
Fix something up
Conquer a fear
Ride, hike or walk a rail trail (I hear there is a great one in Park City)
Walk a swinging bridge
See a meteor shower
See a great race
Catch a train
Read a classic
Float a lazy river
Learn some self-defense
Make a time capsule
See a famous parade
Run or play in the mud (there is a famious mud run in san Diego)
Hit the Water trail
Plant something and watch it grow
Pick your own (fruit) www.pickyourown.org
See the view from the top
See an eclipse
Explore a tide pool
Watch the sunrise on the beach
Listen to a story (storytelling festival)
Become media literate http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit or www.justthing.org
Vote www.kidsvotingusa.org
Enter a crazy competition
Hear the call of the wild
Start a new family tradition
See a reenactment
Swim with dolphins
Try letterboxing or geocaching
Do a ropes or challenge course
Start a collection
Stroll (or hike, ski or kayak or…) by the light of the full moon.
See the lights (Luminous phenomena)
Eat space food
Interview an elder
Dig for fossils
See an outdoor play or concert
Teach a little kid something you know
Make the world a better place
Make a list of things to do for the next 12 years