Outdoor fun!

I've come across a lot of lists on Facebook and blogs of "how many of these have you done."  Some of the lists are practical, some are applicable if you have an adventurous palate, or enjoy beer.  


Today I came across this list : The 50 Things to Do Before you're 11 ¾.  


It's courtesy of this Telegraph  article (newspaper in the UK)

It always amazes me how different British English is from American English and yet at the same time, the languages are so similar. 

I've bolded the ones I've done--how about you?-- and tried to translate others.

1. Climb a tree

2. Roll down a really big hill

3. Camp out in the wild

4. Build a den

5. Skim a stone

6. Run around in the rain

7. Fly a kite

8. Catch a fish with a net (does catching minnows in a ditch count?)

9. Eat an apple straight from a tree

10. Play conkers (British game with two nuts connected by a string)

11. Throw some snow

12. Hunt for treasure on the beach

13. Make a mud pie

14. Dam a stream

15. Go sledging  (in the game of Cricket, I believe)

16. Bury someone in the sand

17. Set up a snail race

18. Balance on a fallen tree

19. Swing on a rope swing

20. Make a mud slide

21. Eat blackberries growing in the wild

22. Take a look inside a tree

23. Visit an island

24. Feel like you're flying in the wind

25. Make a grass trumpet

26. Hunt for fossils and bones

27. Watch the sun wake up

28. Climb a huge hill

29. Get behind a waterfall

30. Feed a bird from your hand (Does a squirrel count?  4-H trip to DC. Farm girl amazes that squirrels aren't scared of humans!)

31. Hunt for bugs

32. Find some frogspawn

33. Catch a butterfly in a net

34. Track wild animals

35. Discover what's in a pond

36. Call an owl

37. Check out the crazy creatures in a rock pool

38. Bring up a butterfly  (not sure of British to American English translation)

39. Catch a crab

40. Go on a nature walk at night

41. Plant it, grow it, eat it

42. Go wild swimming

43. Go rafting (I think we could add "tubing down rivers" here)

44. Light a fire without matches  (I think we did this in a college class, but can't quite recollect. I did kill a rabbit that weekend).

45. Find your way with a map and compass

46. Try bouldering (not sure I want to try this at all!)

47. Cook on a campfire

48. Try abseiling (Rapelling in American English) 

49. Find a geocache

50. Canoe down a river  (I've been IN a canoe, just not down a river) 

36/50, not bad, right?  Being a farm girl meant a lot of exploring. It's amazing what we did as kids and how we can scare the parents when we reminisce.

This morning I wasn't quite up to being as adventurous.  I decided to get the bicycling done indoors instead of out in the 37º temps. It'd have been a good morning to run, but not to bike (with added windchill).