Bucket List – 40 Fun Things to do before I’m 40!

Last month I turned 37 years old.Panic struck within me as I realised I was on the slippery slope to hitting the big 40!

I know that 40 is the new 30, but still each year that passes makes me a little bit more anxious about that big birthday. Instead of focusing on the bad points, like more wrinkles and been defined by a number, I have decided I do not want to get to 40 without trying new things, learning some new skills and just living life to the maximum.

Over the last two weeks I have thought about the things I have always dreamed of doing, sometimes just simple things like spending more quality family time together to the more unrealistic dreams of taking a cruise or being a ranger for a day at the Zoo.

I have put together this bucket list with 40 things I would love to experience before I hit, you’ve got it 40!

So here is my list containing some very ordinary and others a little more extraordinary things I aim to tick off my Bucket list.

1. Learn new Languages, particularly Italian.
2. Go to Italy and be able to speak the language.
3. Go watch a film at the cinema on my own whilst the kids are at School.
4. Have an adventurous hair cut or colour, or both!
5. Join a gym and tone up my wobbly bits!
6. Stay in a B&B for the first time.
7. Visit Scotland for the first time.
8. Go look for the Loch Ness Monster
9. Take my family to Ireland as amazingly we have never been!
10. Enjoy a break in Wales.
11. Spend more family quality time.
12. Learn Yoga or Tai Chi.
13. Visit Buckingham Palace and other London Landmarks with my family.
14. Read more books.
15. Learn to take photographs like a pro.
16. Take afternoon tea with my Mum.
17. Spend more time with my Nanna.
18. Go on a family beach holiday.
19. Loose 1 stone in weight.
20. Start taking vitamins and eating better and sticking to it.
21. Ditch the chocolate buttons.
22. Go on a boating weekend.
23. Go on a girly spa weekend.
24. Play Monopoly and don’t stop until someone has won, no matter how long it takes!
25. Have cream tea in Devon and/or high tea in York ( I still cannot believe I haven’t been to York)
26. Volunteer my time at a shelter, or other worthy cause.
27. Sleep in a Tree house.
28. Go on a cruise… anywhere warm and full of culture.
29. Throw my husband a surprise 40th Birthday Party.
30. Ride every roller coaster at Alton Towers in 24 hours.
31. Have an animal Feeding day at a Zoo or be a ranger for the day at Chessington World of Adventures.
32. Learn to Meditate or do Reiki.
33. Take dance lessons in Salsa or Jive.
34. Become a penpal ( I used to be a pen pal to over 100 teens when I was growing up!)
35. Have a full day with a duvet watching old Musicals and singing along.
36. Make a playlist that I actually like.
37. Stay in a B&B at the seaside, something which I have never done.
38. Host an Hawaiian themed party/BBQ just for the sake of it!
39. Have a date night every month.
40. Renew my wedding vows in a church and have our rings blessed.

Do you have a bucket list? If so how successful have you been with yours?