Shaun and Courtney’s Charlottesville Bucket List
When you realize you’re leaving a city you love in less than a year, desperate times call for desperate measures. The times are desperate because Shaun and I are creatures of habit to a fault, meaning we have not yet taken advantage of all Charlottesville, VA has to offer. Go ahead, ask me how many times we’ve been to Beer Run since last week.
To help with this, we have our very own “Bucket List” to be completed by August of 2012 – before the wedding! Check back to follow our progress and our comments on each adventure. If we’re missing anything – let us know.
Feats
Get a DogOctober 10KVisit Polyface Farms- See the Faulkner manuscript of “As I Lay Dying” at Special Collections
- Visit Blacksburg – Drink A Beer Where Shaun Drank Beer
Have it Not Rain on Courtney’s BirthdayAttend the C’Ville Vegetarian Festival- Ski at Wintergreen [Or, just drink wine there…]
- Attend “First Fridays” at the UVA Art Museum
- See a Movie at the Virginia Film Festival
Courtney: Eat Something Not Mac and Cheese at the LocalRun the Rivanna Trail- Get a Bus to Drive us on a Wine Tour
April ½ MarathonGo on a Hike- Visit Monticello
- Visit Ash Lawn
See a Show at Cville Coffee- Go to a UVA Baseball Game
- Get a Nice Waitress at Mas
- Stay a night at the Boar’s Head Inn
Make Pretzel NecklacesStrawberry Picking- See A Polo Match at King Vineyards
- Apple Picking
- Attend the Spring Foxfield Race
- Attend the Blue Ridge Oyster Festival
- Go Dancing at the Box
- Be #1 at Bodos
- Go to a Frat Party
- Get something other than a free pastry on our My Panera Card
Run our Five-Mile Loop Backwards (Up Grady)- Golf
Food
AlhamraaAqui Es MexicoBang- Basil
Belmont Pizza & Pub- Black Market Moto Saloon
- Blue Moon Diner
- Blue Mountain Brewery (Brunch)
- Brookville
- Clifton Inn
- Commonwealth Skybar
- Crozet Pizza
C&O (Full Dinner)- Da Luca (Crozet)
- Duner’s
- Fleurie
- Fossett’s at Keswick Hall
Fry’s Spring Station- Himalayan Fusion
- Ivy Inn
- L’Etoile
- La Michoacana
- Mike’s Bistro (Sunday Date Night)
Mono LocoMonsoon- Petit Pois
Revolutionary Soup- Riverside
Song Song’s Zhou & BingStixWhiskey Jar- Zinc
ZoCaLo (Full Dinner)Zynodoa (Staunton)
Drink
Top of the Hops Beer FestivalDevil’s Backbone BreweryWild Wolf Brewery- Cardinal Point Winery
Keswick Vineyards- Flying Fox Winery
I could write a nearly identical list! 🙂 Yay Cville!
It’s the best place to be! We also find our list keeps growing and growing… so much fun, so little time…
i love this! i am going make my own list!
Can’t wait to read it!
I absolutely love this list (especially the category specifically dedicated to drink)! I am gathering inspiration for a Charlottesville bucket list of my own and this has helped a ton. Good luck (and have fun) finishing off the rest of the items on your list!
Thanks! And oh god, there’s no shortage of things, including stuff off of this list! Welcome to C’Ville, by the way! If you have questions about aaannnnyyythinngg, just let me know. I’m in love with this town 🙂