Summer Bucket List Status

Naturally, posting about my faves for fall made me instantly panic about whether I'd done everything I'd set out to do this summer. Like every summer, my girlfriends and I put together a Summer 2012 Bucket List; listing all our must-do activities before Labor Day. With the holiday quickly approaching, it seemed appropriate to consult our list and see what we'd accomplished so far.

Some of our list is specific to the Boston area and some are more general. Let's see how we did...

SUMMER 2012 BUCKET LIST
1. Scope out Boston food trucks – success! BL and I went to a crazygood food truck festival with some man friends along the Charles River. Best find = ice cream cookie sandwiches. YUM.
2. Go to Sowa open market – still need to do! a cutesy outdoor art market in the South End. We've got til October to make it happen.
3. Make multiple sangria recipes – half success. We've made a few but have more to go to find our ultimate fave sangria recipe.
4. Get country fest tickets! – done! So excited for August 25.
5. Plan our trip to Nashville – also done! Very proud of us for planning a trip on our own. See you on September 6, Nashville! Still need to: plan touristy events and details.
6. Take more pictures! – this has SORT of been a miserable fail...time to change that!
7. Experience all patio bars: ABG, deep ellum, the draft, rattlesnake, yard house – also half success. We've gone to ABG, deep ellum and yard house. All awesome, but more to go!
8. Tour Sam Adams brewery & Harpoon brewery – must do!
9. Plan a weekend down the cape/in Maine – CP and I have been to Maine, but without my ladies :( Not sure if we'll be able to squeeze this in...
10. go on vintage/consignment buying trips –need to do!
11. investigate boston wine bars/martini bars – need to do!
12. Go to hungover brunches - the brahmin, tavern – need to go to the brahmin!
13. Go to the outlets! - wrentham, freeport, kittery – need to do!
14. Do more crafts – I did make the menus for my cousin's wedding, but there's always room for more crafts.
15. Go to a concert at Bank of America Pavillion – Miranda Lambert, done :)
16. Go the beehive for live music – need to do this with CP!
17. Go to rooftop brunch at the taj boston hotel – must do!
18. Go to June Beer Fest, June 1 – fail...
19. Explore Cambridge – half success, need to do more of!
20. Go to anna's taqueria, boloco – need to do!
21. Harpoonfest, September 3 – gotta buy tickets for this.
22. Go to high tea (london cafe) – must must must do.
23. Make pineapple infused vodka – need to do (yum).
24. Hang out in Seaport area - legal harborside, temezcal cantina – done a LOT of this, but there's always more places to go! :)
25. Go to a Red Sox game – success!


This summer has definitely been a success so far. We've got a lot more fun activities and plans done than any other summer, that's for sure. I really think making a Bucket List helps you be motivated to check things off! Mission: finish bucket list – will be in full mode next weekend.

<3 xoxo