Accomplished…continued

Sometimes, until I actually look at it all written down – I can’t honestly believe that I have *done* all this!

Aruba:

  • De Palm Island (x2)

Ascension Islands/St. Helena

  • Jacob’s Ladder (up and down)

Africa

  • Survived ATM Fraud 😉
  • African Safari

Argentina:

  • Evita’s Tomb
  • La Casa Rosa
  • Argentinian Tango show (saw obviously, not performed :P) (x2)

Australia:

  • Sydney Opera House
  • Sydney Harbor Bridge
  • Melbourne Zoo (biked to, and got lost on the way)
  • Madama Butterfly (three rows from the front at the Sydney Opera House)
  • Outback Adventure Horseback riding (in the pouring rain)
  • Port Arthur Historic Site
  • Rocks Historical District (Ghost Tour)
  • Snorkeled the Great Barrier Reef
  • Sydney Tall Ships mast climb
  • The hunt for the disappearing Whiskey Bar!
  • Wheel of Brisbane
  • Peace Temple
  • “Wizard Of Oz” Australian Cast

Brazil:

  • Been in the middle of a swarm of beetles
  • Christ the Redeemer
  • Carnival/Sambadrome
  • Copacabana & Ipanema Beach
  • Hiked through the Amazon rainforest
  • Tekal
  • Swum in the Amazon
  • Wedding of the Waters

Caribbean

  • Margaritaville Grand Turk
  • Horseback riding through surf
  • Prop plane between islands (Grand Turk)

Canada

British Columbia:

  • Auditioned for Canadian Idol
  • Buchart’s Gardens
  • Circus Magicus exhibition (worked)
  • Eternal Egypt exhibition (worked)
  • Falconry day-course (which included flying a bird!)
  • International Fireworks of Canada
  • Lady Washington Sunset cruise (American ship, Canadian festival)
  • Mount Washington
  • Performed at Craigdarroch Castle
  • Titanic artifact exhibition
  • Toured HMS Bounty
  • Top of a Ferris Wheel

P.E.I 

  • Anne of Green Gables Museum
  • Anne of Green Gables House

Chile

  • Easter Island

China

  • Dule Temple (x2)
  • Great Wall Of China (x2)
  • Shanghai Sightseeing Tunnel
  • Forbidden City
  • Shanghai boat races
  • Temple of Heaven
  • Tiananmen Square

Costa Rica

  • Rainforest canopy tram ride
  • Ziplined down a mountain

Egypt

  • Camel Riding
  • Cairo Museum
  • Great Pyramids of Giza
  • Great Sphinx
  • Temple of Luxor
  • Valley of the Kings

England

  • Bartending weddings of 100 people alone
  • Bath Abbey
  • Bath Circle
  • British Museum
  • Chalice Well
  • Cenotaph
  • Covent Garden
  • Glastonbury Abby
  • Glastonbury Tor
  • Hatfield House
  • Hertfordshire Theatre School (ha! Finished it!)
  • Hot air balloon ride over Bath
  • Kensington Gardens
  • Learned how to pull a proper pint
  • London Eye
  • My Little Pony Convention
  • National Gallery 
  • Nelson’s Column (Trafalgar Square)
  • Old Salisbury
  • Portobello Road
  • Performed on a West End stage (okay, so it was for HTS Showcase, but it was still a west end stage)
  • Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens
  • Ported out of Southampton…and did better this time
  • Roman Baths
  • Royal Shakespeare Theatre (backstage)
  • Salisbury Cathedral
  • Shakespeare’s Birthplace
  • Shakespeare’s Grave
  • Shreve’s House
  • Stonehenge
  • St. Paul’s Cathedral
  • Tower of London
    • Photographed Prince Charles
  • Tower Bridge
  • Westminster Abbey
  • Westminster Palace
  • West End

France

  • Disneyland Paris
  • Tunnel train from England to Paris

French Polynesia

  • Swum with sharks & stingrays (x2)
  • Fed stingrays (They’re soft!)
  • Bloody Mary’s Bar

Greece:

  • Donkey ride up (and down) the steps of Santorini
  • Parthenon

 Guatemala

  • Drank out of a coconut

Hong Kong

  • Hong Kong Disneyland (X4)
  • The Big Buddha
  • Hong Kong Light Show
  • Hong Kong Night Market

India

  • Chinese Fishing Nets
  • Gateway to India
  • Taj Mah Hal Hotel
  • Tuk Tuk Ride

Israel

  • Church of the Annunciation
  • House of St Peter
  • River Jordan
  • Sea of Galilee

Italy

  • Coliseum
  • Duomo
  • Galleria Accademia (Michalengo’s David, Stradivarius)
  • Leaning Tower of Piza
  • Pompeii
  • Fountain of the Four Rivers
  • St. Peter’s Basilica
  • Spanish Steps
  • Pantheon
  • Palazzo de Popolo
  • Trevi Fountain
  • Vatican City
  • Vatican Museum
  • Sistine Chapel

Japan:

  • Nara Temple
  • Toyko Disneyland (x2)
  • Omi Shrine
  • Toyko Music District
    • The most guitar stores I have ever witnessed in one day
  • Osaka Castle Park
  • Green Tea Ice Cream
  • Samurai Houses

Jordan

  • Petra…twice
  • Marvelous Middle Eastern Misadventure

Mexico

  • Parasailing
  • La Paroquia de Nuestra senora de Guadalupe (Puerto Vallarta Cathedral)
  • Eaten a fried Snickers bar

Myanmar (Burma)

  • Shwedagon Pagoda

Nagasaki

  • Shimbala Castle

New Zealand

  • Auckland sky tower
  • Auckland Sky tower SKY JUMP
  • Hobbiton Movie set (Bag End!) (x2)
  • Wildlife Center

Panama

  • Panama Canal (x…at least 4)

Philippines

  • Underground river excursion

Peru

  • Temple of the Moon & Sun

 Puerto Rico

  • The Butterfly People
  • Tomb of Ponce De Leon
  • “The Mezzanine”
  • HMS Bounty

 Madagascar:

  • Paddled outrigger canoe
  • Jungle safari (lemurs!!)

Sicily

  • Messina Belltower
  • Messina Archeological museum

Singapore

  • Universal Studios Singapore
  • Little India
  • Sentosa Cable Cars
  • Hard Rock Café Singapore
  • Sentosa Light Show

Spain

  • Cadiz cathedral
  • Roman amphitheatre
  • Guadi Park
  • Santa Famillias

 Thailand

  • Elephant trek

Turkey

  • Blue Mosque
  • Ephesus
  • Evening at Ephesus
  • Gallipoli (from a distance only)
  • Grand Bizarre
  • Hagia Sophia
  • Hippodrome
  • Grand Bizarre
  • Mary’s House
  • Wishing Wall

 United Arabic Emirates

  • Sandboarding
  • Hooka
  • Off-road jeep ride through the desert…twice
  • Camel riding

United States

Alaska:

  • Mendenhall Glacier
  • Anchorage Zoo
  • Glacier Bay National Park
  • Hubbard Glacier National Park
  • Juneau Zip-lining
  • River Rafting down Juneau River
  • Sitka National Park
  • Sitka Raptor Centre
  • Tracy Arm National Park
  • Husky Musher Camp
  • Skagway White Horse Railway
  • Set of White Fang
  • Skagway “History of…” show
  • Skagway Red Onion Saloon tour
  • Mount Roberts Tramway
  • Totem Heritage Center
  • Red Dog Saloon
  • Great American LumberJack Show
  • Creek Street
  • Dolly’s House
  • Ketchikan Museum
  • Ketchikan Salmon Hatchery

California:

  • Disneyland
  • Golden Gate Bridge (sailed under it!)
  • Universal Studios Hollywood
  • Winchester Mansion
  • Alcatraz
  • Hard Rock Café San Francisco
  • Haight-Ashbury
  • San Diego Aquarium
  • Pier 96
  • Medieval Times (Black & Yellow Knight/Black & White Knight/Red Knight/ Green night?)
  • San Diego Maritime Museum
  • The Kiss Statue
  • Bob Hope tribute

D.C.

  • Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
    • Buzz Aldrin’s space suit
    • Spirit of Saint Lois
  • Smithsonian Art Gallery
  • Smithsonian Natural History Museum
  • Smithsonian American History Museum
    •   Worked a rivet gun
    • Ruby Slippers
    • Lunch Counter
  • Lincoln Memorial
  • Vietnam Memorial
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Library of Congress
  • Martin Luther King Memorial
  • Korean Memorial
  • World War II Memorial
  • Caught in a downpour wearing white linen
  • Washington Monument
  • Reflecting Pool

Florida

  • Daytona Beach Shores Pier
  • Daytona Beach Amusement Pier
    • Most rickety rollercoaster ever
  • Titanic: The Artifact Experience
    • Home of “the little big piece”
  • Universal Studios
    •  Most terrifying rollercoaster ever
    • Harry Potter World
  • Disney World: Magic Kingdom
    • “I want all of my tomorrows to be with you…”
    • I said yes….
  • Disney Hollywood Studios
    • Fantastmic (with light up ears)
  • Disney Animation Resort
  • Ripley’s Believe it or Not
  • Medieval Times (Green Knight)
  • Pirate mini-golf
  • Universal Plaza

Hawaii

  • Aloha Tower
  • Hawaii harbor fish
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Snorkeling
  • Atlantis Submarine

Idaho

  • Sun Valley Jazz Festival
  • Ice Skating on Sun Valley Rink

Kentucky

  • Bible Mini-golf

New York

  • Hop on/hop off bus tour
  • Photograph with statue of liberty
  • Sailed under the Brooklyn bridge
  • Hard Rock Café New York

Virginia

  • Cold Harbour National Battlefield
  • King’s Dominion
  • High School reunion that wasn’t mine 😉

West Virginia

  • Applejack’s birthday

Washington

  • Seattle Underground Tour
  • Seattle Ghost Tour
  • Wings over Washington
  • Seattle Observation Wheel
  • Pioneer Square

Vietnam

  • Vietcong Tunnels

Wales

  • Canal boat to Llangothlen
  • Cardiff Castle
  • Chester Cathedral
  • Chirk Castle
  • Pont Cysyllte Aqueduct
  • Port Marion

While At Sea:

  • Crossed the equator (at least seven times)
  • Snorkeled in Pago Pago
  • Transatlantic crossing (thrice)
  • Three murder mystery performance (with three different accents)
  • Radio Dinner Theatre (solo)
  • Palm Cabaret performance
  • Saki under the stars

Shows (seen):

  • Mary Poppins
  • Lion King
  • Spamalot
  • Nutcracker (Royal London Ballet, Seattle, Victoria)
  • Chicago
  • Mousetrap
  • We Will Rock You (twice)
  • Spring Awakening
  • 39 Steps
  • Peter Pan (In Kensington Gardens)
  • Wicked (twice)
  • Mamma Mia
  • Legally Blonde
  • Phantom of the Opera
  • Les Miserables
  • Anne and Gilbert
  • Wizard of Oz

Shows (performed)

High School

  • Hello Dolly
  • Me & My Girl
  • The Pajama Game
  • Fiddler on the Roof
  • Oklahoma!
  • Bye-Bye Birdie  Fame

Semi-Pro/Professional

  • Charlotte’s Web
  • Rocky Horror Show (lead)
  • Circus Magicus (lead)
  • Play With Your Food Dinner Theatre (lead)
  • Split Milk Comedy Troupe

Am Dram

  • Me & My Girl
  • Evita
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
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One Response to Accomplished…continued

  1. Kerryn Carter says:

    Wow! What an amazing, wonderful adventure of a life you have had, and still it continues. I am so happy for you.

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