Things to do before we die:

• See the red creek run red (Oriskany, NY)
• Go Herkimer diamond mining and swim in the diamond-shaped pool (Herkimer, NY)
• See the inland sea in Saratoga (Saratoga, NY)
• Take a boat on the Erie Canal [Update: did it, 6/27/2007]
• Sea the ice let go from Lake Erie and fall over Niagara Falls
• See the Erie Canal drained and filled
• See Niagara falls drained (1-2 years)
• See the ice volcanoes on Lake Erie
• See the Pterygotus at the Royal Ontario Museum
• See the Peekskill Meteorite Car (Ilion, NY)
• Meet Alan Lang (call me) (Ilion, NY)
• Live in a lighthouse
• Live in a cobblestone house (see picture)
• Move a cobblestone house
• Build a cobblestone house
• Have a hot dog at the restaurant around the corner [Update: did it, 6/27/2007]

Things we don’t really want to do:

• Ride a horse (Jesse doesn’t, Carrie does)
• Walk over the upside down bridge (Lockport, NY)
• Jump off a bridge into the canal
• Swim in the canal
• Have a house fall on us
• Move a cobblestone house and have it fall apart row by row on the way
• Speak gibberish while yelling from the top of a mountain
• Fall into a sewer pit on the side of an escarpment (Lockport, NY)
• Live above a garbage pit
• Accidentally move or build a cobblestone house to over a garbage pit