“My Grown Up Christmas List”:

Refuse to call this one a BUCKET LIST as they are goals and WILL happen.

1. To spend Christmas 2011 somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere with people needing TLC.
2. To fly over Antarctica on a NY’s Eve… or boat around the summer glaciers.
3. To see the Northern lights
4. To spend a 24 hour day in daylight (possibly Finland or Iceland)
5. To visit Machu Picchu before I am too old to climb.
6. See the Great Wall
7. Visit Valley of the Kings and Abu Symbel
8. Visit the Taj Mahal (even alone)
9. Spend some ‘me’ time on Santorini
10. Do the Yarra Valley or Melbourne hot air balloon ride
11. Do the whole Tandem parachute jump
12. Also do the V8 circuit at Sandown
13. See the shows on Broadway without a night off (or matinee off)
14. One last visit to the West End!
15. Eat at Tour D’Argent and Maxim’s de Paris (even alone)
16. See polar bears and orcas in Newfoundland ( I’ll never afford the Rocky Mountaineer trip).
17. See the golden Buddha Inside Jogyesa Temple in Seoul, South Korea
18. Visit Angkor Watt in Cambodia.
19. See the bloody South Island of NZ!
20. Lastly see Uluru, Kings Canyon, the Olgas, wave Rock, Pilbarra, cable beach and Kakadu before I shuffle off.