To celebrate my 100th Blog, I am going to make
100 Recommendations
- Read a book in the British Museum Library, London, England
- Spend Saturday at The Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, CO
- Feast on fresh apple Pie from McFaddens in Maumee, OH
- Camp out in a thunder storm
- Dine at Le Train Bleu Restaurant in the Gare de Lyon in Paris, France
- Lunch with the ladies at Le Train Bleu Restaurant in Bloomingdales, NYC
- Go on a Pioneer Trek
- Attend your child's wedding
- Sleep in a warm bed in a cold room
- Stay at the Woodstock Inn, Woodstock, Vermont
- Try Langos (Hungarian fried bread) with garlic and salt
- Tour the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC
- Eat fresh Maine lobster in Maine
- Look at Little Golden Books illustrated by Eloise Wilkins
- Sing the Messiah in a choir
- Read To Serve Them All My Days by R. F. Delderfield
- Wake up to Semmeln (white breakfast rolls) in Austria, with unsalted butter
- Sniff Sublime perfume by Jean Patou
- View Mount Olympus from the 23rd East Exit, in SLC, UT
- Gulp fresh squeezed grapefruit juice first thing in the morning
- Watch a little league baseball game
- Drive to Brighton, UT on a summer evening from SLC, UT
- Read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, then watch the movie
- Consume Swedish Thinnies (pancakes) made by me
- Order Chocolate Souffle with vanilla sauce anywhere you can get it
- Sleep out under the stars, with the smell of lilacs in the air
- Visit the National Postal Museum, Washington, DC
- Eat at In and Out Burger in Las Vegas, NV, or anywhere in Southern CA
- Fold sheets that have dried outside on a clothesline
- Sip a Chocolate soda with vanilla ice cream
- Tour Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Stratford upon Avon, England
- Eat Hot French Fries in a cone, on a cool day in Bruges, Belgium
- Ride Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland
- Take the ferry from San Francisco to Saucilito, CA
- Soften your feet with a sugar scrub
- Explore the Mysterious Bookshop, NYC, NY
- Try a Big H Hamburger, Fries and Fry Sauce at Hires, SLC, UT
- Sit in the rain at Bryant Park Cafe, behind the NY Public Library, NYC, NY
- Reflect at the American Cemetery in Normandy, France
- Try Chocolate Mousse at Brasserie Jo's, Boston, MA
- Take the train to Appenzell, Switzerland
- Make friends with someone who makes home made donuts
- Dine on Dee's brined turkey for Thanksgiving
- Blast songs by the Beach Boys in the car on a long drive during the summer
- Learn at The British War Museum
- Read mysteries by Helen MacInnes (WWII, and Cold War spy novels)
- Think about songs by Peter, Paul & Mary
- Quote lines from Seinfeld, Cheers, MASH, and Frasier to fellow quoters
- View the lakes in Minnesota from the air
- Sleep in 250 thread count sheets
- Splurge on $75 pillows from Bed, Bath and Beyond
- Watch Inspector Foyle Mysteries on A&E
- Shop for marbled paper in Venice, Italy
- Listen to waves crashing on the beach as you go to sleep
- Every year watch All the President's Men with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman
- Take a hot air balloon ride with brave grand kids
- Swing on a rope and drop into a river
- Ride the Orient Express overnight from Paris, France to Salzburg, Austria
- Watch all 33 Inspector Morse Mysteries
- Spend the day at Baldwins Book Barn in West Chester, PA
- Sip thick hot chocolate at Angelina's in Paris, France
- Visit Books of Wonder children's bookstore, NYC, NY
- Go to a Paul Simon concert and sing along to You Can Call Me Al
- Give birth
- Sing around a campfire
- Get a pedicure
- View SLC coming down Parley's Canyon at 9:pm in June, SLC, UT
- Photograph Upper and Lower Slaughters in the Cotswold's of England
- Memorize Casey at the Bat, and Little Orphan Annie
- Create a blog
- Organize your photos
- Be refreshed with an ice cold Coca Cola in a little bottle
- Listen to John Denver songs in the winter with a fire burning in the fireplace
- View SLC coming down Little Cottonwood Canyon at 5:pm in December, SLC, UT
- Have Cream Tea at Betty's in York, England
- Watch The Great Escape with Steve McQueen
- Stay in Vianden, Luxembourg
- Stay awake with mysteries by Elizabeth George (pretty gruesome)
- Record What Not to Wear and watch it while you iron
- Ski down a mountain where it's not crowded, not freezing, not snowing, not sunny
- Count your blessings, name them one by one
- Eat breakfast by a campfire in the mountains
- Remember good things
- Eat apple fritter donuts with vanilla sauce, in Brunnen, Switzerland
- Go to the grocery store in Issaquah, WA
- Browse independent bookstores in small towns
- Write a thank you note to a person who influenced you
- Try a Turkish Hot Fudge Sundae, Ghiradelli Square, San Francisco, CA
- Read about Princess Diana
- Drive coast to coast across the USA
- Get a massage
- Listen to James Taylor as you drive from Stockbridge to Boston, MA
- Find the story behind your quilt
- Be involved in politics
- Float down a river on a raft
- Host a pie eating contest
- Watch Brideshead Revisited
- Buy muffins at The Gingerbread Construction Co., Wakefield, MA
- Listen to a 3-yr-old granddaughter sing her little sister to sleep
- List 100 things that have made you happy!
9 comments:
These are going on my List of Hopeful Adventures for sure. It's great to see a few I've already done and know that I can try a couple next week when I'm in NYC. Happy blogiversary!
Congratulations on this mile stone, Oma. The recommendations really give a great flavor of your taste of life. Love it.
Great ideas!!! Where was "shop with a leashed-two-year-old at King of Prussia Mall"???!
I was amazed at how many of your 100 I had done -- 25! and I promise to do at least 5 more of yours.....and now I'm going to start thinking about posting my own list of 100
Thanks for setting me thinking in this direction!
I love this list - most especially 37 (Big H), 40 (Brasserie Jo), and 98 (Gingerbead House Muffins)...I just realized they're all about food! We have you to thank for discovering the joy of that chocolate mousse in Brasserie Jo, and I could never go to the Gingerbread House without wanting to fedex you a batch. You live the way I want to live. Travel, family, and good eats! Go Oms!
those sound like alot of fun...for annie, going to nyc...stop at serendipty for frozen hot chocolate...it's divine.
mom.. this is why i love you. you've conjured up so many memories. a few favorites: 7, 9 (in an attic in Delft, Holland with raindrops on the skylight), 24 (mmm, yes please), 44, 53.
you've taken the blog world and turned it into your own nook and cranny, crammed with beautiful silver pens from Tabula Rasa and overflowing with ancient books and tattered pages. keep writing, oma!
Very good recommendations, and I trust you've experienced them all?
I decided to count which of these things I've done. I had a head start being born in Utah and having been to Hires many times, but I still only got 29. I would love to do all the rest. So far, the most profound of all that you listed were giving birth and visiting Normandy. I would love to take my daughter with me to see Utah Beach in Normandy someday. I'm going to add that to the 100. Really great post!
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