Thirty{{by}}Thirty

 I have just a few days left of my birth month, and I've been challenged with a fun way to wrap up my life in my twenties. I'm so happy to get to share the month of April with so many of my favorite people, especially my dear sweet friend Megan Mioduski. At her birthday last week, she shared with me her "Thirty by Thirty" list and invited me to make one along with her! Basically this is a small "bucket list" of sorts, only it challenges you to have 30 things done by age 30. These are things that we have never done, and they all vary in grandness; but things that we both feel are fun and important things to have accomplished and/or experienced! Many of the things that I've put on my list are simple things that I have access to in my very own state that I've never done before, so this was a very fun and humbling list to create! 

Here we go! 

{{This list is in no particular order}}

1. Do a Saturday workout class at Red Rocks

2. Do the Incline at Manitou Springs

3. Fly First Class somewhere!

4. Visit Mesa Verde

5. Visit the Great Sand Dunes 

6. Spend one night at a famous Colorado hotel like the Stanley, the Brown Palace, or the Broadmoor

7. Go fly fishing

   7.1 Catch a fish! 

8. Eat Dim Sum

9. See a meteor shower

10. Visit all states west of the Mississippi River! [Four left to go: Alaska, Montana, Arkansas, & North Dakota]

11. Go skinny dipping...

12. Crash a wedding!

13. Go Golfing. [I've never even been miniature golfing!]

14. Shoot a gun

15. Tour Wine Country in Napa Valley

16. Be 100% debt free!

17. Go rock climbing

18. Change my look entirely by doing a complete makeover

19. Read a Stephen King novel

20. Eat at the Denver Diner

21. Go to Steamboat Springs & then soak it up in Strawberry Park Hot Springs 

22. Do a 10 day Juice Cleanse
(this was challenged by Megan)

23. Travel to and from another country by myself.  The entire time :)

24. Visit the Denver Art Museum

25. Volunteer / community service

26. Have one of my photos printed on Canvas

27. Get six-pack abs :)

28. Quit my job and travel.

29. Buy a real designer hand bag. for myself.

30. Fall in love. and be loved back.

I am excited to do all of these things this year! This is going to be such an fun and amazing year, and I'll soon have thirty more stories to jot down for my future novel one day :) haha

**Be sure to follow me along on Instagram at @vanessarae173

as I capture my thirty{{by}}thirty things!

I'll be using the hashtag: #thirtybythirty4385 ((I don't want to share a hashtag with all the other 30x30'ers out there, so the 4385 is my birthday))

I have 340 days to get all this done. 

here. we. go....... 

I want to taste and see the world. I won't stop until I'm done.