My Bucket List

My wife and I recently rented the movie The Bucket List. It's worth a watch if you haven't seen it yet. Pretty simple plot: two guys meet in a hospital, both are only given a few months to live, so they try to accomplish a few things together in their final days.

It gets you thinking about your life and what you want to accomplish before God calls you home. So here is my bucket list. I'm sure it will see several revisions in the years to come, but here's the first draft.

My Bucket List
In no particular order

• Baptize my son.
• Take my wife on a vacation around Europe.
• Take my wife to New York City. See a show, stroll through Central Park, etc.
• See the Grand Canyon (from the ground, I've seen it from an airplane).
• See the Giant Sequoias.
• Go deep sea fishing.
• Buy a home for my family.
• Drive across the country in an RV with my family.
• Teach my son one thing he will never forget.
• Buy my grand kids an ice cream cone.
• See the Cubs play at Wrigley Field.
• See the Braves play at Turner Field.
• See the Broncos play at Mile High.
• Do something totally unexpected for someone I love.
• Build something that will outlive me.
• ...

What's on your bucket list?

Utter Disappointment

My wife and I are big M. Night Shyamalan fans. Sure everyone liked The Sixth Sense, but not many were fond of Lady in the Water. We like 'em all. Signs is in my top three movies of all time. So you can imagine our excitement leading up to The Happening.

Not at all what we were expecting to say the least. I guess because there are things we have come to expect of Shyamalan's movies. We love the plot twists and the how his characters struggle with faith and their purpose in life. The Happening didn't have either of these elements. It was a dark, disturbing, somewhat predictable, creepy movie.

I don't fault they guy for wanting to make something different. It's obvious he's not trying to make the same movie over and over and I can appreciate that, but give me something to work with. The real disappointment is that Night's next movie will be a live-action adaptation of a children's TV show on Nickelodeon. Come on, seriously? That said, I'll probably become the biggest Avatar: The Last Airbender fan over the age of 11.