Glad to be a Girl: Happy Birthday to Me

It's been a crazy morning so far - Thanks everyone :)

And I promise to do a proper post a little later when I've finished replying to all the emails, smses, facebook comments and phone calls :)

Blog Awards

2007

• Finalist in The SA Blog Award's Best New Blog category
• Featured in the September Issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine (p. 40)

2008

• Finalist in The International Bloggies Award's Best African Weblog category
• Finalist in The SA Blog Award's South African Weblog of the Year category
• Finalist in The SA Blog Award's Best South African Personal Blog category

2009

• Winner in The International Bloggies Award's Best African Weblog category

2010

• Stopped entering these things ...

My Life List

(in Alphabetical Order)

Eat at Ristorante Hotel Grotta Palazzese in Bari, Italy
Eat at the Waterfalls Restaurant at Villa Escudero, The Philippines
Float in the Dead Sea
Get Married in Vegas, USA
Go Diving at Alexandria, Egypt
Go to Haesindang Park in Samcheok, South Korea
Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, USA
Go to Mount Nemrut, Turkey
Go to The Owl House in Nieu-Bethesda, SA
Go to the Waitomo Glowworm Caves, New Zealand
Ride The Great Elephant in Nantes, France
Ride in Gold Leaf service on the Rocky Mountaineer in Canada
Road-trip across America
Scuba Dive at the Underwater Sculpture Park, Mexico
Scuba Dive with a Humpback Whale
Scuba Dive with a Manatee in Belize
Scuba Dive with Sharks in Nassau, Bahamas
See 2Cellos Live in Concert
See a Duck-Billed Platypus in real life
See the Body Worlds Animal exhibit
See the Aurora Borealis
See Lake Hillier in Australia
See Lemurs in Madagascar
Snorkel in Jellyfish Lake, Palau
Stay at Attrap'Rêves in Marseille, France
Stay at the Ice Hotel in Reykjavik, Iceland ... or the Kakslauttanen hotel in Finland or Jukkasjarvi hotel in Sweden
Stay in a Tree House at Finca Bellavista, Costa Rica
Swim in Phosphorescent Bay, Puerto Rico
Swim with Pigs in Big Major Cay, Bahamas
Travel to Easter Island, Rapa Nui
Travel to Cuba
Travel to Mexico
Travel to Pompeii, Italy
Travel to Tikal, Guatemala
Travel to Timbuktu, Mali
This is just one of those places I'd like to say I've been to. Growing up I didn't even believe it was a real place, I thought it was like one of those fantasy things that was the furthest thing from everywhere, One of those joke places that you'd ship your little sister to if you could :)

Tick

(also in Alphabetical Order)

✓ Dive with Whale Sharks (Tofo Beach, Mozambique in Apr04 )
✓ Do the Inca Trail, Peru (well, The Lares Trek is about as close as I'm gonna get to this one - Aug10)
✓ Fly over the Nazca Lines, Peru (10Aug10)
✓ Get a Tattoo (24Apr10)
✓ Go to Alcatraz in San Fransisco, USA (25Sep13)
✓ Go to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, USA (23Sept13)
✓ Go to Pamukkale, Turkey (19Oct14)
✓ Go River Rafting (Orange River, May12)
✓ Hold a baby Panda Bear (Chengdu, China on 12May2011)
✓ Ride an African (Livingstone, Zambia in Mar04) and Asian (Chaing Mai, Thailand in Aug05) Elephant
✓ Ride in a Hot Air Balloon (Masai Mara, Kenya on 16Aug07 and Cappadocia, Turkey on 13Oct14)
✓ Ride on a Husky driven dog-sled (Churchill, Canada in Oct09)
✓ See a Body Worlds exhibit (Cape Town in Dec12)
✓ See Billy Connolly or Eddie Izzard Live (Eddie Izzard in Feb10 and Jun13)
✓ See Machu Picchu and climb Waynapicchu, Peru (22Aug10)
✓ See Polar Bears at Hudson Bay, Canada (Oct09)
✓ See the Great Wall of China (04May11)
✓ See the Mountain Gorillas (DRC in Aug07 )
✓ See the Terracotta Army (British Museum, UK on 24Jan08 and Xi'an, China on 10May11)
✓ See the Wildebeest Migration (Masai Mara, Kenya in Aug07)
✓ Swim with Dolphins (Ponta du Ouro, Mozambique in Dec04)
✓ Travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway (Moscow to Beijing via Mongolia in Apr11)
✓ Travel to Egypt (Jun06)
✓ Travel to Morocco (Nov08)
✓ Travel to Prague, Czech Republic (Dec97)
I've done this before but, it's a place I'd love to go back to
✓ Travel to Portugal (Nov08)
✓ Travel to Spain (Nov08)
✓ Travel to Thailand (Aug05)
✓ Travel to Venice, Italy (Dec97)
I've done this before but, it's a place I'd love to go back to
✓ Travel to Zanzibar, Tanzania (Sep09)
✓ Visit Kolmannskop, Namibia's Ghost Town (06Mar04 & 02May12)
✓ Visit the Amazon Jungle (Peru, Aug10)
✓ Visit the Hunterian Mueseum (19Jan08)
After reading The Knife Man by Wendy Moore, this was a must-see for me
✓ Visit the Vrolik Museum, Amsterdam or the Mütter Museum, Philadelphia (21Sept13)
✓ Watch a live Baseball Game (NY Yankees vs. SF Giants, 20Sept13 )
✓ Watch a Cirque du Soleil Performance (Varekai at the Royal Albert Hall, UK on 25Jan08, Saltimbanco in Joburg on 17Mar11 and Dralion in Joburg on 22Mar13)
✓ Watch the West End production of Phantom of the Opera (Jan98)

Thursday, April 26, 2007

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