Thirty Before Thirty... 

I never thought it would happen to me but in twenty two days i will be turning thirty. I have already started thinking about my next big list of things to do before i turn forty... geez!  My last list was extensive... Some of them i did, some of them i never got a chance to do but here is a list of the best and most memorable moments that i have had over the last thirty years...(In no particular order)

1. Sitting on a pier watching the sunset over Santa Monica Beach eating a big bag hot french fries covered in Ketchup. 

2. Dressing up as Kung Fu Panda at the 2011 Rutherglen Winery Walkabout. I wont lie to you it was hot, very hot but well worth it in the end.

3. Getting robbed in Barcelona Spain of everything that i owned...terrible at the time but still talked about five years on.

4. Graduating from University, the hard work payed off. 

5. Getting unbelievably drunk on straight Whiskey and playing cards with a 60 year old on a nine hour bus ride through South America.

6. Watching my little brother grow up into an amazing person who i couldn't be more proud of. 

7. Getting a tattoo of a moustache on my index finger. 

8. Starting up a program to assist women escaping family violence by providing short term accommodation to their pets. 

9. Falling in love. It didn't work out in the end but tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all...or so they say.  

10. Watching my mate Claire drink pint after pint at an 'all you drink in 15 minutes' special at a brewery in NZ. 

11. Spending every last cent i had on vet bills but ending up with a healthy and happy Siberian Husky.

12. New York, New York. Meeting Ricky Gervais, eating a huge slice of pizza in the street and taking hundreds of photographs of squirrels in Central Park.

13. Riding a bike down 'The Death Road' in Bolivia and simultaneously praying and crying into my helmet. 

 14. Freezing cold and jet boating in Queenstown NZ. 

15. Getting a true backpacking experience and having almost every inch of my body bitten by bed bugs.

16. Finding a best friend who can make me laugh more than anyone on earth. (Note not Guy Sebastian)

17. Arriving in Paris at 1am, getting a taxi to the hostel, turning a corner and seeing the Eiffel Tower for the first time and bursting into tears. 

18. Getting things pierced and thinking i was super cool.

19. Singing Journey's Don't Stop Believing at a Karaoke Bar in Little China Town.   

20. Walking the streets of LA until i finally found the Chevy Chase Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 

21. Catching my first fish...a trout at a trout farm. 

22. Playing with tiger cubs in Thailand. 

23. Wearing oversized undies with an offensive slogan to the Tom Jones concert. 

24. Playing with elephants in Chiang Mai.

25. Discovering Roller Derby and joining the Northside Rollers. 

 

26. Arm Wrestling Competitions in a remote village and winning. 

27. Travelling alone in Bolivia (Only for a couple of days but man it was scary).

28. Getting fit and passing my first martial arts grading. 

29. Being woken in the middle of the night by an unknown animal trying to get into my tent on the Inka Trail. 

30. Finally buying the car i had wanted for ten years.