Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Things I Want to Do Before I Leave London - Update

With under a month left until we move out of London I thought I should post an update of my London To Do list.  I guess I'll have to make a new one when we get to Sheffield.  Oh, and for those of you that I left hanging, our offer was not accepted on the ever so freaking perfect dream home.  I'd love to post a link, but I'm not sure that is proper netiquette, so just conjure up an imagine of the most cliche, well kept, 200 year old little British cottage in a village with sheep two minutes walk in one direction and forest in the other.  Got it?  Perfect right?  Yeah well its not ours.  Oh well, first up on our Sheffield To Do List : find a place to live (hopefully to be accomplished this Saturday - except we need a dogsitter again.  eeeeek.  why do all you useful people live 4,000 miles away???).  Ahem, without further ado.....

Things I want To Do Before I Leave London 
  1. Get a puppy and give it a very English name (like Harry or Charles, but I'd call it Charlie) - oh and I want it to be an Englishpuppy - like an English Setter, or Pointer, or Bulldog.    We got a german shorthaired pointer puppy and gave it a german name, but I'm crossing this off anyways.
  2. Take a trip to Paris with Nick
  3. Visit relatives in France (may or may not be in conjunction with trip to Paris)
  4. Go to a comedy show
  5. Go to a night club and rage Nick is too embarrassed to take me dancing.  I'm too embarrassed to go alone.  Note to self: Make friends in Sheffield who like dancing.
  6. Go on a boat tour down the Thames
  7. Go to a Stich 'n' Bitch night  I probably should've gone more than once
  8. Go to Ireland
  9. Go to Scotland and catch Nessi (OK we didn't catch Nessi, but we did go to Inverness)
  10. Go to Stonehenge (Does anyone know if this is as boring as it looks?  I feel like I should go... but it looks so boring)
  11. Go to Bath
  12. Buy something antique at Portobello Road Market
  13. Get a job   I got one and I got fired/quit 3 weeks later.  Does that even count?
  14. Visit London Zoo
  15. Visit Museums
    1. Victoria and Albert
    2. Natural History Museum
    3. National Gallery
    4. National Portrait Gallery (My personal favorite)
    5. Tower of London (Crown Jewel's are here - her majesty is so BLING)
  16. Take Aerial Level 1 Circus Arts classes at Circus Space Never got this done, but did get to see Cirque Du Soleil
  17. Finish fixing up the house. We worked hard on this.  It's not quite  finished.  But we're moving out and so it doesn't matter now and I'm crossing it off anyways.
  18. See Big Ben and Parliament
  19. Take Pictures of the Guards
  20. Visit Borough Market
  21. Ride the London Eye
  22. Go to a Musical
    1. We Will Rock You
    2. Billy Elliot
    3. Little Shop of Horrors
    4. The Lion King
    5. Lord of the Rings (Most boring musical ever DO NOT SEE THIS)
    6. Thriller 
    7. Avenue Q
  23. See a major concert at the O2 
  24. Go shopping at Harrods and Selfridges
What do you think friends?  How have I done?  I think some of these things can transfer over to the future Sheffield To Do List.  So it's not the end of the world that I haven't finished all of them I suppose.  

ps.  My friend Lauren just posted her Denver To Do List which reminded me that I had this saved and ready for posting.  If you're a To Do list fiend or from Denver, go check hers out!

pss.  Do you have a To Do List for the city you live in??? I'd love to see it or post it here to share with everyone.  I think it might be fun!  

7 comments:

  1. What an awesome list, way to get things checked off!

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  2. michele vollman2 March 2010 at 16:34

    I should start a list but I am not a listmaker; maybe that outta be my new years resolution!!

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  3. hey Kelly, I know the idea is to cross things on OFF the list but I thought you might want to check some of these out...while ur still there. polenta blog was also GREAT pics,http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/travel/28heads.html?8dpc

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  4. Rolling on the floor - this list is awesome!

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  5. I am VERY impressed with how much you've acheived on your list. I love a list but am a lot better at adding things to it than I am crossing things off! :)

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  6. I'm going to make a list!!!! I love lists! I'm going to put in my to do list right now! what fun!!!

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