The Fab Fifty

Okay, so that last tag was fun, but it totally whet my appetite to do my own custom fit list of events. Chris already beat me to this, and I almost didn't go ahead with it after seeing hers, but then I figured ah, what the heck. Consider this the second half of my 100 things about me tag, since only fifty or so applied to me in the first half. I have had so much fun tonight listing these things out and finding pictures to illustrate them. Prairie Guy and I have taken a virtual walk down memory lane. Most of the pictures are just stock exchange searches, because it would have taken me ages to track down my own photos for all of them, but there are a few personal photos thrown in throughout.

1. shaved my eyebrows (well one anyway). I was probably about 5 when I did it. and when my mom came in the bathroom and accused me of playing with her razor I staunchly denied it until she held me up in front of the mirror to show me my reflection sans brow and I started wailing, thinking that it would never grow back.

2. been drug up an asphalt road with my foot caught in the stirrup while riding a proud cut palomino gelding who had too many hormones and not enough brain cells. Can you say ouch?

3. climbed the face of a waterfall in the most impractical shoes and got stuck 2/3rds of the way up with a dear 12 year old friend on a sunday afternoon jaunt when noone knew where we were. Six hours and onset of hypothermia later.... (the waterfall was dousing us the whole time and it was a cold day in fall)

4. broken my leg jumping out of the second story hayloft of a barn into a (sparse) pile of hay.

5. Visited the fabled home of Marco Polo in Venice.

6. Lived mere km's from Vinci, in Tuscany (as in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci (literally Leonardo from Vinci).

7. got caught in an undertow and nearly drowned while tubing down a river near Lumby, BC.

8. smashed half my front tooth off going face first down a waterslide

9. have a horrible phobia of wiping out while being seated on chair lifts. Every time.

10. owned a horse (not this horse) that reared up just like Zorro's everytime you pulled back on the reins... very cool.

11. swam with dolphins

12. had an octopus suckered to my back

13. wandered amongst sea lions in their natural habitat in Patagonia

14. Ridden in many of these.

15. Been attacked and robbed in Rio de Janeiro

16. Loaned bed sheets to Phil Keaggy.

17. Jumped in the North Thompson river in the dead of winter in the middle of a rustic red neck sauna. Can you spell insane?

18. Put on full winter gear and made a new years eve toast with my husband to be and some other crazy friends in the walk in freezer of our ship in the Dominican Republic in 1992.

19. caught a seahorse in Puerto Rico.

20. Mosied around the beaches of San Carlos Mexico aged 15 on a red moped with a poodle and portable ghetto blaster at my feet pumping out UB40

21. been to the Blue Grotto

22. Received my engagement ring (purchased and delivered) on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Italy.

23. Married the love of my life on the grounds of an Italian villa overlooking the Adriatic

24. honeymooned and vacationed 3 times in Sardegna

25. asked a mexican fisherman wether it had been a good week for "sinning" when I meant to ask him if it had been a good week for FISHING. Pecado=sin, Pescado=fish

26. lost my vehicle in downtown Saskatoon. Seriously. Like lost it for an entire hour. I think I was pregnant if that makes this fact any less shameful.

27. Been to Paul's prison in Rome.

28. Wept at the Colosseum.

29. Been to church services in 8 different languages in 25 different countries

30. spent numerous years of my childhood living in THIS house, which had no indoor toilet (that little roof peeking up behind the snow covered roof of the little building at the far left is the outhouse).

31. Crossed the Atlantic and seen the ocean like glass and also like a churning washing machine where the sky was only visible for intermittent moments between the rising and crashing.

32. been stung by a stingray

33. spent the day on an uninhabited island totally ala Crusoe.

34. Waited on a floating dock till nearly dusk for a baracuda to leave the shadows below and then finally dove in and swam for dear petrified life to shore in Puerto Rico.

35. walked down an avenue in spain while the orange trees were bursting with fruit.

36. eaten grilled eel (love it, bizarrely enough)don't you picture princess buttercup treading water for dear life when you look at that ugly jigger though?

37. witnessed first hand the miracle that is called the spawning of the salmon.

38. ran into a bear while galloping through the woods on horseback (don't know who was more scared the horse, the bear or me).

39. been to the monastery at Assissi (as in St. Francis of Assissi).

40. collected sea shells from inumerable beaches on 9 different coasts.

41. learned the BEST trick to bartering in latin mercatos.

42. lain flat on the floor in milling public below this painting

43. slept in a fisherman's hovel in Mexico where there were no windows, dirt floor, no running water, just four walls and straw mattresses on the floor and cockroaches and lizards and roaches everywhere.

45. woke up to three of these INSIDE my mosquito netting while camping in Columbia

46. Been scared spitless by a capibara (monstrous rodent) the size of a small pig while hiking in Uruguay (ew!)

47. been bucked off a stubborn pony into a barbed wire fence, and shaved off a stubborn pony by a low tree branch.

48. experienced severe hyperventilation level claustrophobia while snorkeling in South America.

49. Seen the wild horses of the Camargue in Southern France.

50. stood on the outer platform at the top of the Duomo in Florence and tried to imagine how on earth those builders worked up there...