31 adventures I’d love to have with my kids

I’ve seen a couple of lists of 100 things to do with your kids this summer (at Salt and Chocolate and digital reflections) and they got me thinking of things I’d love to do with my kids. I admit I have a big list of activities and I could share that, but I started thinking about the bigger picture – experiences I’d like to share with my children as they grow up. I started with the goal of 100 things but it got a bit unrealistic and I was including things that I might like to do but that my sons might not. So, in the interest of realism here is a shorter list of things I think we’d all like to do (please note that the links are to whet your appetite and I do not endorse the products or guarantee that they offer the best deals) …

1. visit Disneyland
2. sail on a yacht (you can do this in the Whitsundays)
3. go on a night safari at Singapore Zoo
4. sleep under the stars
5. go geocaching (I don’t think it will be this school holidays, we couldn’t find any friends with a GPS)
6. have a mud bath (something like this in New Zealand)
7. go snorkelling
8. go rock climbing
9. learn snowboarding or skiing
10. visit the Great Barrier Reef (ideally, I’d go to Lady Musgrave Island, I’ve camped there before and it is awesome)
11. see turtles hatching
12. go gold panning (okay, we’ve already done this one – twice - with our oldest son, as you can see in the photo – but I think it’s likely to be a family obsession, so it made the list)
13. visit a chocolate factory
14. go whale-watching
15. go fossicking for gems and/or fossil hunting
16. ride on a big rollercoaster
17. ride on a steam train
18. catch a metre-long barramundi (yes, my husband is mad about fishing)
19. visit London (and my sister!)
20. eat with chopsticks
21. visit Santa in the North Pole (well, there seem to be lots of Santas’ to visit near the North Pole, so I might need a recommendation here?)
22. swim with dolphins
23. go up in a hot air balloon
24. get lost in a living maze
25. see our favourite animals in the wild (my favourite is hippopotamus)
26. see an eclipse/meteor shower
27. take a road trip around Australia
28. spend Christmas in the snow
29. build a big sandcastle
30. go horse-riding
31. bury a time capsule

What adventures would you love to have with your children?