PRESENT: My Wichita Bucket List

Ok, so I feel like I am sitting here waiting to graduate, waiting to head back up to WI, and since I’m giving myself a break from my novel, I need something to do other than read short story collections, take my Jack Russel, Brody for walks, and sweat to P90X. My crazy Irish friend and fellow fiction writer told me to create a “bucket list” of all the things I want to do in Wichita before I leave. So I’m taking his advice. Here is the list. (Yes, I know it is very short, but I only have a week.):

1.Walk through the Great Plains Nature Center with Brody. I have driven by it so many times, and every time I do, I say to myself, “I should stop in there and check it out.”

2.Run down the ice cream truck that goes by my apartment complex and get a fudgesicle or whatever they sell. I have never got ice cream off a truck before. This might be the most difficult because it goes by but never actually stops, so I will have to keep my ears open and make a mad dash for it.

3.Drive to Old Town and see the Keeper of the Plains, the statue Wichita is known for.

4.Take Brody to the dog park on Hydraulic because he is definitely in need of some time running free. I think if I didn’t hang the lease up, he’d hide it on me.

5.Have sushi at Sumo or Hana; preferably, Hana because you don’t have to wait two hours for a table there.

6.Walk around WSU’s entire campus and see all the statues that my students talk about, but I have never stopped and looked at.

7.Sit in the hot tub at my apartment.

8.Play quarters at Kelly’s.

I know I should have ten because that’s a good number for these types of list, but eight works. I don’t want to sit here and think of what I want to do.

Well, there you have it. Tomorrow I’ll hit up the nature center with a poop bag.