Going to Egypt makes my list of things to do.

Egypt. Land of the Pharaohs. One of the cradles of civilization... a center of learning and human development.
I love watching anything about Egypt on the History channel.... any movie, anything. With a world in turmoil, I had always thought that travel to Egypt would be unwise. TV news and general ignorance make such areas seem malevolent... unreachable.
I performed a google search for "safe to travel in Egypt". And the one search result I read said that it was decidedly safe (feeling as safe as any other U.S. city), people were friendly, and the trip was incredible (over the span of 5 weeks).
I will go to Egypt and see the past greatness of man's ingenuity. That's what I loved about Italy... I felt as though I had seen much of our Western culture's greatest artistic accomplishments. Modern design is impressive, but doesn't capture my imagination like the great things that have come before. Egypt is the other place that I absolutely must see. Italy, and now Egypt. Then I think I will be able to say, "I've seen what I have wanted to see." I'll be able to tell my children, "I was there." And they will say, "Yeah Dad, you've told us like a hundred times." And then I'll continue to tell them regardless.
I want to walk through the temples. Check out the Nile. Go in a tomb. I'd climb the pyramids, but apparently you're not supposed to do that, and I don't need to break my neck.
Napoleon was a real tool for shooting the nose off the Sphinx. You see this giant old thing out in the desert, and you just have to shoot your cannon at it. Idiot.

The Olympics

You know what? I don't care about the Olympics. I don't care about any of the sports, I don't care about nations all coming together to compete... I don't care. Growing up I remember just being frustrated that half of the channels on TV were broadcasting sporting events that aren't interesting enough to watch daily- in fact, they are uninteresting enough that they don't bother televising many of the events on an annual basis. Also, it would be the time of year that someone in my family would say, "Oooh, figure skating is on!" Thus, any hope of watching a terrible B movie on the Sci-Fi channel went right out the window.
Some people love the Olympics. Good for them.
I hate that the Olympics have stupid sports. I don't hate sports; I hate stupid sports. I hate the events that have somehow snuck into Olympic competition based on a pity vote. Curling? Please.
And how about this? Olympians of the past would compete in the nude. There simply is no respect for tradition.
The Olympics have nothing to do with Star Wars or zombies.
The Olympics have five rings of different colors for their symbol.
But... how cool would it be to say you were an olympian? That would be pretty sweet. Maybe even for curling.