Thirty before 30!

I stole this idea from a friend's blog, I've also had a look on google and it appears to be quite a popular idea. Not that that's important really. Anyway...here is my list of thirty things I'd like to achieve before I turn the big 3 0 (in no particular order):

1. Volunteer with a local charity for a day
2. Go snow skiing again and learn to snowboard (preferably without coming home in plaster this time)
3. Get a tattoo
4. Go back to the Barossa, McLarenVale and the Adelaide Hills
5. Put the outdoor spa in at home
6. Spend a weekend shopping in Melbourne with Mum
7. Take Darryl to snorkel the Great Barrier Reef (don't even know if he would enjoy it but it's something that everyone has to do at least once!)
8. Get back to my pre-IVF weight
9. Host a black tie dinner party at home
10. Get more professional photos taken together
11. Create a photo journal for an entire month
12. See a sunrise over the ocean - champagne breakfast style
13. Go white water rafting in North Queensland
14. Get back to my old fitness level and run 5km daily with Darryl
15. See a live musical or the ballet
16. Have a whole month off work
17. Grow my hair long again
18. Take a road trip with no set destination
19. Buy a Saeco coffee machine for home
20. Take some cake decorating classes
21. Go vegetarian for at least a week
22. Go to New Zealand, see Fox Glacier and catch up with old friends
23. Start planning our trip to Ireland
24. Surround ourselves with only people who enrich our lives
25. Buy a new car
26. Read a book from front to back in one sitting
27. Print all of our digital photos and put them into albums
28. Start my own vegie/herb garden and don't kill it
29. Fall pregnant and carry a happy and healthy baby to full term.
30. If we're lucky enough to complete our own family, do another IVF cycle to donate eggs to another couple struggling with infertility.

There is also one more which apparently "needs" to be mentioned and that's to conquer my fear of geckos. Yes, those tiny little lizzard things that somehow creep into your house and sit there and stare at you. There's a few people who think it would be rather amusing so I'll list it here. Just to humour them. I think they'll forever creep me out but you never know!