What is the 'Challenge List'?
Hi I’m Mel! I’m an adventurist that is constantly seeking out new experiences with my Challenge List of 400 unique experiences.
My little brother describes my Challenge List as a list where all I have ever wanted to do comes true. I would almost say that he is right, they are experiences that I have always said that I wanted to do. I decided to stop making excuses and that I needed to go out and do what I have always dreamed about achieving.
Once I started writing the list I couldn’t stop, I realised that there were so many things that I was holding back on and making excuses that I didn’t have the time to complete them or couldn’t spare any money for them. Once I started crossing them off it became a passion to get more ticked off, I have loved every moment of each experience and the unique challenges that they all brought.
All are challenging in their own way, some are easier than others. Which includes making a gingerbread house, having a water fight, making a snow angel, planting a tree or getting an “Elf on the Shelf”. On the other hand, some are more time consuming – like folding 1000 origami cranes, reading all of the Harry Potter books or solving a Rubik’s Cube. Then there are the all-out challenges, such as walking 50,000 steps in 24 hours, setting a Guinness World Record or reading the Game of Thrones book series. Discover more about what a Challenge List is by checking out my full list of Challenges here.
Activities
"Never be afraid to try something new because life gets boring when you stay within the limits you already know" - Anonymous
✓ 7. Rock climbing
✓ 11. Ride in a helicopter
✓ 12. Go skiing
✓ 13. Go to a waterfall
✓ 14. Ride a segway
✓ 15. Ride a camel
✓ 16. Go to the drive-ins
✓ 17. Go to the movies by myself
✓ 18. Ride on a scary roller coaster
✓ 19. Go snowboarding
✓ 20. Slide on ice down a grass hill
✓ 21. Ride a horse
✓ 22. Explore a market
✓ 23. Explore a cave
✓ 25. Go canoeing
✓ 26. Go kayaking
✓ 27. Apple bobbing
✓ 29. See an Aboriginal war dance
✓ 30. Do archery
✓ 31. Watch a meteor shower
✓ 32. Go ice skating
✓ 33. See a 3D movie
✓ 34. Photo with Santa
✓ 35. Go to an open air cinema
✓ 36. Ride in a limousine
✓ 37. Stack speed cups
✓ 38. Go metal detecting
✓ 39. Have a water fight
✓ 40. Have a nerf gun fight
✓ 41. Have a chalk powder fight
✓ 42. Go tobogganing
✓ 43. Go look at Christmas lights
✓ 44. Climb a tree
✓ 45. Close up encounter with an animal
✓ 46. Play a game of pool
✓ 47. Explore behind a waterfall
✓ 48. Go to a roof top bar
✓ 50. Attend church
✓ 51. Go on a double decker bus
✓ 52. Spend a day with kids
✓ 53. Sunrise at the beach
✓ 54. Ride a bike
✓ 56. Redesign my room
✓ 57. Go to the casino
✓ 58. Run through a sprinkler
✓ 59. Go to a book signing
✓ 60. Rope swing into water
✓ 61. Sit on a chair underwater
✓ 62. Acupuncture
✓ 63. Yoga
✓ 64. Have a PS2 game day
✓ 65. Set up a scavenger hunt
✓ 66. Throw coins in a wishing fountain
✓ 67. Have an outdoor tea party
✓ 68. Go to a parade
✓ 69. Play hide and seek in Ikea
✓ 70. Have a picnic
✓ 71. Write on a mirror with lipstick
✓ 72. Home-made slip-n-slide
✓ 73. Have a pyjama day
✓ 74. Start an overseas coin collection
✓ 75. Do 24 hours of silence
✓ 76. Be vegetarian for a day
✓ 77. Be vegan for a day
✓ 78. Meditate
✓ 79. Go on a safari
✓ 80. Do something that scares me
✓ 81. Escape room
✓ 82. Go to a restaurant by myself
✓ 83. Have a bonfire & eat smores
✓ 85. Get my fortune read
✓ 87. Partake in a food fight
✓ 88. Stay awake for 24 hours
✓ 89. Do pole dancing
✓ 90. Put glow sticks in a pool & go swimming
✓ 92. Go out clubbing
✓ 93. Have a paint war
✓ 94. Go on a paddlesteamer
✓ 95. Have a barbecue
✓ 96. Play paint twister
✓ 97. Explode Coke & Mentos
✓ 98. Do a game of laser skirmish
✓ 99. Shower in a waterfall
✓ 100. Go to a farmer's market
✓ 101. Gallery hop
✓ 102. Do a penny drive
✓ 105. Have a board games night
□ 106. Dog sled
✓ 107. Play board games at a pub
✓ 108. Go paint balling
✓ 109. Take a Zumba class
✓ 110. Climb a lighthouse
✓ 111. Pan for gold
✓ 112. Go on a ghost tour
✓ 113. Go on a blues tram
✓ 114. Redesign my hair
✓ 115. Go sailing on a tall ship
✓ 116. See a street performance
✓ 117. Be a tourist in my home town
✓ 118. Go rollerblading