~Oh Lighthouse! My first completion!~

Hello again! So it's been some time since my last update, but as it was extremely lengthy I don't believe that the wait is completely unfair! Anyway, I have decided to start off the marvelous month of August with a new post! And, as promised last time, this post is dedicated to my actual bucket list; both a few new additions and ((drum roll please!)) my FIRST completion! That's right! One item down and...well, several more to go. ( ^-^U )

So let's begin shall we?

First up, let us revisit item #50 on my list, in which I said that I would like to visit a lighthouse.
Well my dearest readers, it is a most imponderable pleasure that I inform you that over the summer I have visited not one, but TWO lighthouses! ((Huzzah!)) The first of which was on the small Island of Kauai in Hawaii, in a national reserve. I was so excited to be visiting my first light house ever, and so naturally the whole day we were driving around, it was always on my mind. Then, when I got to the point of the preserve, and the lighthouse came into view, I noticed something. The lighthouse was closed! Of all things, they picked perhaps the one and only time I would be in Hawaii to close it for renovation! ( D:) I was devastated. My excitement was shot, and all I could think about was how my grandparents told me that they got to go inside of it the last time they were there, and that all of the beauty of the towering structure before me was dashed away by the ugliness of construction. To be honest I felt cheated! I couldn't bring myself to call what I had witnessed a 'completion' on my list, so I did my best to forget about the lighthouse. But then, and without any planning on my part, something superb happened! While in La Jolla, California ((in which I attended the lovely vow renewal of my Aunt and Uncle)) my entire family took a trip to some Monument/Nature Preserve whose name escapes me; a trip I might add, that I almost did not go on! Jumping ahead. This, dear readers, is where I visited Lighthouse number two! And though it was not the towering beauty of the lighthouse at Kilauea Point ((at least I'm almost certain that that was where it was...))  it was nonetheless, a lighthouse, and one that was both not under construction and that I got to go INSIDE of! ( :D )It was a beautifully enthralling experience, as I find that I have always loved and been fascinated by lighthouses! The only complaint I had, was that I could not visit the tower itself! ((For those of you who don't know, the tower of a lighthouse is the top, where the light actually is.)) However, I did get some splendid pictures through the closed grate that I got as close to as possible!

And what a wonderful segue that provides for my next list additions!
71. Go up to the Tower of a Lighthouse. 
As I explained above, I did not get to go up to the tower in California, and though I am completely satisfied with my visit I am not content to leave this be until I get to the top! ((Both figuratively and literally. :P ))

Unfortunately, though I do have more additions to share with you all, I'm afraid this post has gotten long already! But don't worry! Next time, I'll finish up my newest list additions, including the marvelous little events that inspired them!