My Austin Texas Bucket List

This is me - Christa 

After almost 30 years away, I moved back to Austin in May 2011.  Boy has the city changed, but I love, love, love living here again!  What took me so long to move back?!  Now that I'm here, I want to experience everything that Austin & the surrounding area has to offer.

I've created a Bucket List of things I want to see & do here in Austin and in neighboring towns. I have young children (12 & 8) and a husband that'll be along for the ride. I'll be sharing my experiences and opinions about my Bucket List and would love to hear what you think about these places too.

Since I moved back to Austin to work for Bazaarvoice, I think it's only fitting that I give each experience a 1-5 star rating.  I'm sure we won't always agree on my ratings, but this is yet another thing that makes me love Austin so much...that it's a unique spot in Texas (if not the whole country) where being different and unique is celebrated.

MY AUSTIN BUCKET LIST:

1. Explore God
2. 360 lookout near the Pennybacker Bridge
3. 360 overlook to downtown
4. ACL Concert
5. ACL Festival
6. ACL Taping
7. Alamo Drafthouse
8. Amy's Ice Cream
9. Anderson Mill
10. Armadillo Bazaar
11. Austin Park & Pizza
12. Barton Springs
13. Bastrop State Park
14. Bat Festival
15. Bats near Georgetown
16. Bats under the Congress Street bridge
17. Big Top Candy Shop
18. Bob Bullock museum
19. Brushy Creek Skate Park
20. Brushy Creek trail
21. Buc-ees
22. Bull Creek
23. Buy a "Keep Austin Weird" t-shirt
24. Buy a Tyler's t-shirt
25. Castle Hill
26. Cave Day
27. Children's museum
28. Circuit of the America's race
29. County Line BBQ - Feed the turtles
30. Cycling
31. Decorate a tree on 360 for Chirstmas
32. Deep Eddy
33. Dell Diamond
34. Downtown Segway Tour
35. Duck Boak
36. Eeyor's Birthday
37. Ester's Follies
38. Franklin's BBQ
39. Friday night high school football (aka: Friday Night Lights)
40. Georgetown Blue Hole
41. Gruene Hall
42. Hamilton Pool
43. Hike the 360 wilderness preserve
44. iFLY
45. Inks Lake
46. Inner Space Cavern
47. Kayak Brushy Creek
48. Kite Festival
49. Krause Springs
50. Ladybird wildflower center
51. Laguna Gloria
52. LBJ Library
53. LBJ State Park
54. Live downtown....for at least a month
55. Lockhart BBQ
56. Longhorn Caverns
57. Magnolia Cafe
58. McKinney Falls
59. Meet Lance Armstrong
60. Meet Mi 94.7 DJ's Sandy & JB
61. Mighty Fine
62. Moon Tower tour
63. Mountain Creek mountain biking
64. Mt. Bonnell
65. New Year's fireworks on Auditorium Shores
66. Par 3 golf course downtown
67. Pecan Street Festival
68. Perdernales Falls
69. Peter Pan mini golf
70. Pflugerville skate park
71. Poodies
72. Rainey Street
73. Ride for the Roses
74. Ride the train downtown
75. Ride the train to Burnet
76. Rodeo
77. Salt Lick BBQ
78. San Marcos outlet mall
79. Schlitterbahn
80. Science museum
81. Shopping in Fredericksburg
82. Shopping in Gruene
83. Shopping in Wimberly
84. SoCo food trucks
85. SoCo Shopping
86. Texas Clay Festival
87. Texas Roller Girls
88. Texas Stars Hockey
89. The Backyard
90. The Capital
91. The Gristmill Restaurant
92. The Monument Cafe
93. Threadgills
94. Torchy's Tacos
95. Tour the UT Tower
96. Trader Joes
97. Tubing down the Comal River
98. Tubing down the Guadalupe River
99. UT football game
100. Visit the "I Love You" wall
101. Volente Water Park
102. Walk around Ladybird Lake
103. Watch one of my children or grandchildren graduate from UT
104. Whole Foods
105. Willy Nelson concert
106. Wimberly Blue Hole
107. Wineries
108. Zilker Botanical Gardens
109. Zilker Parade of Lights
110. Zipline in Spicewood