Pete’s Bucket List

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We challenge you to take an item off Pete’s Bucket list and complete it in memory of our founder, Pete, and in honor of the hundreds of patients, caregivers and kids we serve each year! Take a photo or video of yourself completing the item and share on social media using #PetesBucketList and #TakeABreakfromCancer.

Click here to see Pete’s original bucket list in his handwriting.

Pete’s Bucket List Items:

  • Have a beer at the Dead Dog
  • Sail on Lake Galina
  • Begin Jogging
  • Love my wife more everyday
  • Go food shopping
  • Get a puppy
  • Have Kids
  • Travel to Bermuda – the Reefs
  • Become a better person everyday
  • Dig up the old tree out back
  • Drink a Dark and Stormy
  • Have a big party
  • Do as much for Marci as she has done for me
  • Give Marci her life back
  • Love my parents & her parents/family
  • Golf all day long with no fear of being tired
  • Go fishing on the Delaware by New Hope
  • Go fishing in our boat this summer
  • Learn how to surf
  • Kayak
  • Help other people with cancer emotionally
  • Start a fund for people who are alone with cancer
  • Attempt to go back to work ASAP
  • Pray more and go to church more/St. John Neumann
  • Take Marci to wonderful places – sailing, islands, Disney
  • Join more church groups
  • Reach out more to my friends
  • Party Really Hard!!!
  • Appreciate my dad since he is my best friend and to be honest, he’s getting older
  • Go parasailing
  • Go to the Deauvill all afternoon
  • Do Maloney’s bikathon
  • Play more basketball
  • Sail on Matt’s Hobie
  • Maybe race a laser again one day
  • Put a fence outside our house
  • Fix up our basement or hire someone to
  • Go out to eat more with Marci and Friends, I really miss this
  • Go to Europe with Marci
  • Before golf go hit some golf balls and putt
  • Stop in and see everyone in North Hills
  • Write letters to all who wrote and sent me stuff
  • Never even worry about the small things in life again
  • Try to cope with my cancer and the monthly testing as best I can
  • Give my mom a hug, I think she needs one
  • Bring home flowers for Marci more often
  • Have fun cooking for Marci before she gets home
  • Go sit at the Carosel with not a worry in the world
  • Eat at the Washington Inn
  • Somehow repay Ed McCaff, Steve Ciglet, Brian Doc, Sean McDade, Pat Lamb, Matt Ledwith, etc….they are the best of friends & I just want to be like them
  • Tell Marci how much I love her. Again & Again
  • Take short trips – NYC – Williamsburg
  • Make sure Alyce, Andi and AJ realize how much I appreciate them the rest of my life
  • Play Ice Hockey
  • Go to more of Matt’s Lacrosse Games
  • Never be bored and sick again
  • Go on OC rides
  • Go to Hershey Park
  • Try to do as much for Mom and Dad as possible in the next years
  • Ride waves in
  • Go waterskiing
  • Go skiing out west
  • Go sailing with Uncle Bill
  • Go down and hang out with AJ drink beer and watch football
  • Go to an Eagles Game
  • Go to some Flyers games
  • Go to Europe with Marci
  • Never forget what I have been through, it made me a better person
  • Join the bluefish tournament next year
  • Do the overnight with Dolaway
  • Go to the windrift with Alyce one night
  • Take up mountain biking again
  • Spend more time around people. I will enjoy the events but I want to enjoy the people more
  • Go to Jimmy Buffet
  • Do yardwork
  • Eat whatever I want for a while
  • Visit St. John Neumanns cathedral on the way down the shore (and be buried there)
  • Enjoy and appreciate the day I feel 100%
  • So take long walks and appreciate the beauty in everything
  • To never throw up again
  • To never say I’m tired again
  • To go Dancing with Marci
  • To take a hot air balloon ride
  • To hang out with my parents more
  • To go up and visit Uncle Bill and Aunt Fran and ski with them
  • To visit mom more and make her day more special
  • To go to Finney’s with Chris and Friends and out in Doylestown
  • Plan a Doylestown walking pub crawl
  • Appreciate my thoughts about my future of work
  • To live all my dreams that enter my mind
  • To stay away from Ivs
  • To tell more people how much I love them
  • To go country line dancing
  • To eat more lunches at the park
  • To enjoy Christmas this year like no other
  • Love Marci more and more everyday
  • Eat Different foods
  • Attend my 1st child’s christening
  • Live to at least 75
  • Don’t ever give up
  • Don’t ever give up
  • Don’t ever give up
  • Don’t ever give up

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