{"id":117,"date":"2006-08-07T06:18:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T11:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rreynoso.com\/blog\/archives\/117"},"modified":"2006-08-18T11:30:45","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T16:30:45","slug":"lists-us-up-where-we-belong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/town\/lists-us-up-where-we-belong\/","title":{"rendered":"Lists Us Up Where We Belong"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love not telling my kids where we\u2019re going if it\u2019s someplace fun. Just sort of wake them up, give them breakfast and put them in whatever outfits they\u2019re going to need for the event. My daughter doesn\u2019t get it\u2014to her clothes are clothes\u2014but my son understands that swimming trunks serve a different function than ordinary shorts so he starts wondering. It\u2019s great seeing the surprise when we finally get to wherever we\u2019re going\u2014but this post isn\u2019t about mushy curt-like junk<\/a> like that. It\u2019s about lists.<\/p>\n

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Lists. I love them. I think everyone loves them. You go to the grocery store and make up a list. You\u2019re planning to buy Amazon stuff but don\u2019t have the money, you make a wish list. You compile the best book collection to own, you create a Listmania list. You come up with a meme and it\u2019ll likely be a list. MCF<\/a> doesn\u2019t have something to write, he creates a list\u2014everyone interacts. Heck, VH-1 made a businesss of List shows\u2014lists rule!<\/p>\n

They rule because everyone likes to see what everyone holds dear while maintaining that their order is better than everyone else\u2019s order. Yeah, some people may not outright say that but somewhere along the back of the mind they strut about their perfectly crafted list until someone mentions an item they missed (thus crushing the perfection of their list) or until a better list configuration comes along that has the person rethinking where things fall.<\/p>\n

So with lists being so near and dear to us it\u2019s not surprising that on that two hour drive yesterday with my kids in swimming clothes, I started coming up with some lists. The Most Rockin\u2019 Movies. The Awesomest Books. Top 10 Passenger Cars. Then, all of a sudden I was reminded me of a list of the top 100 wonders that I saw on several sites but I\u2019ll give credit to MCF<\/a> to raise his link count. My daydreaming mind wasn\u2019t so concerned with the 100 wonders (because at that point, that\u2019s just something for old people to look back on their life before they die and think \u201cDone that\u201d). I was thinking how cool it would be to have a list for must-see places for kids. This way, a kid bordering the end of his childhood\u2014or at a point in life when he or she is thinking about what makes childhood great\u2014they can look back on the list, remember and share (but more on that \u201cremember and share\u201d bit later this week).<\/p>\n

So What should be on the list? I can come up with a few places but then, I\u2019ll need other folk to list things of Must-Do or Must-See places for kids. And nothing absurd like \u201cTexas\u201d which by itself means nothing to a kid. I\u2019m not going to put the places in list order yet\u2014I just want some input before compiling it. Here’s a starter:<\/p>\n