My Travel Bucket List

This question should be illegal.  For Belinda's Blog Every Day in May Challenge, she asked us what is on our travel bucket list.   This post could seriously take days!  I pretty much want to go everywhere and my top places change all the time.  I was planning to write all about these places that I want to go, but I'm feeling lazy and it's the weekend so I am going to share some items from my Travel Bucket List board on Pinterest.

Bucket List: Visit Chicago

I have been fortunate enough to visit Chicago twice; once in 2004 and once in 2013.

 My first visit was in 2004 with my church youth group.  We roadtriped to Chicago to work with an organization called Jesus People USA.  We did so much work there but the things that stand out were working at a halfway house, visiting elderly people, going thrift shopping, putting tire pieces on a playground,  working at a soup kitchen and learning how the organization worked throughout Chicago.  Thrift shopping was the most fun.  We were each given $5 to shop with and had to pick out as much as we could with that five dollars without going over.  We then had a fashion show to see who could get the most with their money.  The other was putting the tire pieces down on the playground.  We had a nice assembly line going and used the single black bucket (the rest were white) to keep track of how many buckets we used.  The first photo below is with our 100th black bucket (I'm in the white holding the bucket). We also had one free night in Chicago where we walked around and ate some of the famous deep dish pizza! The photo quality isn't very good because most of these were scanned.

My second trip to Chicago was in 2013.  My friend Heather was living there at the time for an internship and needed help moving back.  I flew out there and was only in Chicago for all of 8 hours before we started our drive back.  It was supposed to be longer but some other stuff came up and we had to cut it short.   We did get some sight seeing in and had a delicious lunch before getting on the road.  It was probably for the best because it was freaking freezing!!

A Random Beach Trip

My best friend randomly came to the east coast last week so, of course, I had to make a trip down to Bethany Beach where her parents live.   We had a pretty chill two days.  We spent the afternoon at the beach and then headed into Ocean City, MD to a restaurant Watermans where we got all you can eat crabs.
If you know anything about Maryland, you know we do crabs right!  I think we went through about 4 dozen that night plus they gave us shrimp, fried chicken and hushpuppies.  Pretty good deal if you ask me!

Our next day was spent shopping at the Tanger Outlets, yay for tax free shopping!!  We spent most of our time at Forever 21 and ended up getting some pretty awesome deals.  Before I left to come home we had dinner in Rehobeth at a place called Big Fish.  The food was great!  The lobster bisque soup was to die for!  Overall, it was a nice relaxing few days with my best friend and family, just hanging out and reminiscing about our summers down there when we were kids. 

Tautavel Cave, France

Tautavel was one of my favorite places on my Europe trip.  This was what really got me thinking about majoring in Anthropology in college (of course I changed my mind 1038945 times before settling on that).   The morning was spent on the bus and one of the girls smuggled some extra croissants from breakfast because they didn't feed us on the bus.

The day at Tautavel started with a brief lesson about mammals and bones.  After the brief lesson we headed up to the cave where archeologist were digging.   We were told what the archeologist were digging for and learned a little big about techniques used in digging.  The view from the cave was incredible and we were given ample time to take photos.

After the cave, we were given some free time to eat lunch and swim.  I don't remember this but apparently me and two other people did not like the lunch (tomatoes and mayonnaise, eewww) so we went to the bus to get some pringles and the bus driver was not happy that we woke him up.  After lunch we decided to join in with the people who were jumping in off of a rope swing across the river - got to cross that one off my bucket list.

After our break we split up into groups again and learned about the evolution of humans (which I would go on to study in college) and were taken on a short hike before getting on the bus and making the 4 hour drive to Barcelona.

(some photos are mine and some are from my friend Kara ... her camera took way better photos).