40th birthday bucket list type journal - need ideas

Boomdocker

Hi all,

It's my best friends 40th birthday in November 2011. It's also mine the day after hers and we have booked a fortnight in Disneyworld staying at Animal Kingdom Lodge to celebrate. For a gift I want to give her a journal style book with 40 things listed to do in our 40th year. I would like to put together this journal with a page for each thing to do with space to detail when we did it and a picture to record the moment in some way.

I would like to cover some big things like a visit a certain country, theatre tickets, a sporting event (we are in the UK so Olympics maybe), we could include some things to do whilst at Disney such as a tour, certain restaurants, shows etc through to small, free or charitable things at home such as visit a museum, read a book or watch a film that we have never got round to doing, donate to charity, volunteer somewhere.

I would welcome any thoughts or ideas that you have.

Thank you.

tootoo

Just off the top of my head - how about going back to somewhere memorable from your childhood? Where you used to go on holiday or something similar?

LEJC

Have some easy things like...

eat a mr whippy ice cream
spend an hour on the amusements at a pier
build a sandcastle

You could do those over the course of an afternoon

For winter you could have

Be a snow fairy/angel and take pics of a snow man you have made
go sledging

other things you could consider

sleep under canvas and have a camp fire cooking your tea
go on a hike
ride a bike
write a poem
paint a picture
write a letter to your friend detailing why you like them and what their friendship means to you
try a food that you wouldn't normally eat
Do something for a sponsored cause
grow some flowers/vegetables
Plant a tree
Afternoon tea at a hotel
learn to dive
Ride a horse
go caving/potholing
buy a diamond...or piece of jewellery to remind you of your special year

double_mummy

do 40 hours of voluntary work

skydive

write a letter to yourself in 40 years

go rally driving

have a spa day

cycle 40 miles to raise money for charity

do a ready steady cook type thing for your families you can each spend £40 on different nights and you have to make a 3 course meal for both families

go fly a kite

learn to dance

complete a triathlon or marathon

see the northern lights

sit on santas lap at a grotto

take a course on a subject you love

go swimming with dolphins

knit a scarf for each other

learn origami

fly somewhere first class

go and see the mona lisa

go snorkelling

visit petra in jordan

plant a tree

go wine tasting in italy

ride on a hot air balloon

go on a helicopter ride

ride a gondola in venice

go to an open audition

go deep sea fishing

go ice skating

learn a martial art

learn another language

mary-op

Super idea :T
Hope you dont mind if I ''borrow'' this for a christmas present...........be ideal to do a ''things to do next year'' especially the cheap things like eating an ice cream, etc.:)