Seattle's Bucket List Progress.

On July 28th, 2012 I came up with a Seattle Bucket List of things I wanted to see and do before I moved from Seattle. I was initally only going to live in Seattle for nine months, but I ended up loving it so much that I am now a permanent resident of the lovely Emerald City. This will be the last blog posting that features this "original" bucket list with my progress, and I will be posting in the future a bucket list of things I want to do and see for the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Idaho, Oregon, California, and British Columbia).
Black= I have not completed   Red= I have completed
Total items on list= 78             Total items completed: 44/78

Chihuly Garden and Glass

Kerry Park

Museum of Flight

Pike Place Market

Safeco Field

Washington State Ferries

Green Lake Park

Hiram M. Chittenden Locke

Seattle Public Library

Columbia Center Sky View

Giant Wheel

University of Washington (Suzzalo Library)

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations Visitor Center

Volunteer Park Conservatory

Theo Chocolate

Woodland Park Zoo

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

Seattle Art Museum (SAM)

CenturyLink Field

Kubota Garden

Washington Park Arboretum

Alki Beach

Space Needle

Burke-Gilman Trail

Gas Works Park

Golden Gardens Park

Waterfall Garden Park

Smith Tower

Japanese Tea Garden

Fremont Troll

Lake Washington

EMP Museum

Fry Art Museum

Olympic Sculpture Park

Victoria Clipper

Lake Union

Seattle Aquarium

Seattle Center Monorail

The Center of Wooden Boats

Blake Island State Park

Original Starbucks

Pacific Science Center

Taproot Theater

Seattle Asian Art Museum

5^th Avenue Theater

The Gum Wall

Myrtle Edwards Park

Seward Park

Chinatown International District

Tillicum Village

Sand Point Magnuson Park

Key Arena

Occidental Park

Edmonds Underwater Park

Mount Rainier

Museum of Glass

Argosy Cruises

Belvedere Viewpoint

Chateau Ste. Michelle

Underground Tour

Jimmy Hendrix Statue

Snoqualmie Waterfall

NW African American Museum

St. Ignatius Chapel

Fishermans Terminal

Lenin, statue of Vladimir

Otter Falls

Fauntleroy Park

Golden Gardens Park

Kinnear Park

Lopez Island Vineyards

Madison Park Beach

Parsons Gardens

Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium

Ride the Ducks

San Juan Safaris

Seattle by Foot

Tacoma Art Museum

1297 miles

I cannot believe that the year 2013 is almost over, and I graduated over a year ago!

I do a lot of walking in Seattle and hiking in the Pacific Northwest, and it is that lifestyle that I absolutely love about being a Seattle resident over living in the Midwest. One of my friends was motivated to "keep moving in 2013" and she set fitness goals for herself for this year; therefore, I joined the website www.dailymile.com that she was using to help her achieve her goals. It's a social-network website that you can keep track of all the exercises that you do throughout the year. Also, it allows you to choose the type of workouts that you complete. You can add friends to your profile and then at the end of the week, you receive an email about how many miles you and your friends completed. It's a great way to keep motivated, and for me it was a way to see that I really do get a lot of exercise in even if I was unable to make it to the gym.

Not only does this website keep track of your miles but it tells you how far you have traveled around the world, how much money in gas you saved by exercising that distance, and my favorite stat is that it tells you how many donuts you could eat with the calories you burn (from February-December I could have ate 158.07 donuts).

Everyone looks for something to keep themselves motivated in "just keep moving" and being less sedentary. For me, this was a great website and I will continue to use it next year, and of course I will try and beat my 1297 miles that I did this year (my 2013 goal was to complete 1000 miles)!