The B.L.

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 Dog
• October 10K
• Visit 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 Birthday
• Attend 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 Local
• Run the Rivanna Trail
• Get a Bus to Drive us on a Wine Tour
• April ½ Marathon
• Go 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 Necklaces
• Strawberry 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

• Alhamraa
• Aqui Es Mexico
• Bang
• 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 Loco
• Monsoon
• Petit Pois
• Revolutionary Soup
• Riverside
• Song Song’s Zhou & Bing
• Stix
• Whiskey Jar
• Zinc
• ZoCaLo (Full Dinner)
• Zynodoa (Staunton)

Drink

• Top of the Hops Beer Festival
• Devil’s Backbone Brewery
• Wild Wolf Brewery
• Cardinal Point Winery
• Keswick Vineyards
• Flying Fox Winery