30 Days til 30

30 new experiences for the 30 days before my 30th birthday

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Day 30 - Applied to Survivor Well I've said I would do this for years and it's done. I've applied to survivor! Don't want to get my hopes up, but I have a good feeling something good will come out of all this.

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Day 29 - Hollywood Vampires Concert Went with my parents and sister and cousin to see Hollywood Vampires in Niagara Falls. Kind of surreal to be that close to Johnny Depp after all those years of watching him as Captain Jack Sparrow...(still somewhat torn over this issue with his ex-wife but the tickets were bought before the news broke). Great show of some great covers. Also had another first and spent 30 minutes in a single porta-potty with both my six foot sister and cousin. As people said when we left after the rain stopped it was like a clown car.

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Day 28 - Penn's Caves Finally went to Penn's Cave after living within 30 miles for 4 years at university and passing signs for it regularly for the past 12 years. Didn't get to go on the lake because of rain, but it was still a neat trip and I hope to go back again on a day with some nicer weather.

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Day 27 - Brute Strength Today I originally had planned to do something more exciting as I'm 4 days from being done...and I didn't know what that was going to be yet. But before anything I had to put the doors on my jeep for 3 big road trips in the next 4 days. And...that is never again a one person job. After getting the doors on by myself, I was so beat that I only had the energy to go to my parents' to go swimming. So that was a first of brute force for me to do all on my own. Another small first is that I actually managed to completely eat crab legs and crack them open successfully with no help.

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Day 26 - Jamestown Cemetery A strange bucket list item but I've wanted to go here to see Lucille Ball's grave and the infamous "bride" grave. While looking for Lucy's we found two fawn roaming through the cemetery. We also found the "bride" but after some research it turns out she wasn't a bride. Instead she was an opera singer and the dress encased in glass on her resemblance was her graduation dress. After the cemetery also had lunch with my mom at the Village Casino in Bemus Point.

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Day 25 - Failed Art Project and LuLaRoe

So I have attempted to turn the wine bottle that I sliced the top off into an art piece. With the humidity and possibly the paint I bought being the wrong type…it’s not working. Conveniently, I also ordered my first pair of LuLaRoe leggings after hearing the other teachers rave about them at work. After trying them on I do agree they are very comfortable but it’s too hot to keep them on and so my final judgement will come from a real wearing of them.

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Day 24 - Slicing the top off a champagne bottle with a knife It only took 3 tries for me to reach success. Didn't break as cleanly as it should have but, no glass in the drink and I now have a fantastic new party trick.

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Day 23 - Budweiswer Clydesdales Went down to see the Budweiswer Clydesdales that came to town today. Got there a little late because of the traffic, but still got the chance to see them.

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Day 22 - Hazen Flea Market Went down to the Hazen Flea Market with my parents. Was slightly disappointed by the amount of 'junk' for sale and really onlu spent money on food. Saw a couple of old trunks that were reasonably priced, but I'd rather pay a little more to get one in better condition.

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Day 21 - Ellicottville Rodeo Today I went to my first rodeo and I have to say, I'm bummed now that it took 29 years and 356 days for me to get to one (this will now be added to my list for mandatory summer activities). I wasn't a big fan of the steer and calf wrestling, but they seemed unbothered by it when they were let go so it must not bother them to much.

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Day 20 - Playing Blackjack I've been to the casino a bunch of times, but always just to play the slot machines. So today I went and took $80 to play blackjack at one of the tables. My first hand was a blackjack, but it basically went down from there and my money was gone within 30 minutes. Kept a $5 chip as a souvenir since the minimum bet was $10. Then managed to cruise through and blow $35 in the slot machines before finally leaving.

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Day 19 - Panama Rocks

Visited the Panama Rocks park with my mom today. Explored around the main trail and the rock formations. Found the hidden treasure of Panama Pete as well.

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Day 18 - Painting on a canvas Bought this canvas, the paint, paint brushes, and even a paint tray about 10 months ago and never did anything with them. I've never painted on a canvas before as most of my art classes in school were drawing based...so here's my first attempt at it. Found the font style and copied it from pinterest so also the first time I've created a pinterest craft - and thankfully I don't have a pinterest fail on my hands!!

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Day 17 - 1000 Dot - to - Dot I bought this book as a set with some other color by number books that I have tried, but I never did the dot - to - dot ones until today

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Day 16 - Waterfall braid In honor of the Game of Thrones finale and the awesome braids included in the show, I taught myself to do the waterfall braid finally. I always pinned pins on how to do it, but never actually sat down and tried it. After 3 attempts it ended up looking pretty good.

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Day 15 - Played Stump

So hit the halfway point, it hasn’t exactly gone as planned and several of my days have been pretty boring in retrospect…

So today I played the stump game and lasted til 3rd place.

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Day 14 - Ate a funnel cake from Dairy Queen Another lame day because I was busy doing stuff for the party the following day...so this has to count