Mega Million is over $325 Million!

"If I had a million dollars....."

It's ok to dream, right?

Here is a list of the things I would do (and most likely in this order) if I won the Mega:

Pay off my house
Pay off the mortgages of family and friends
Immediately put $$ away for Jack's College
Ensure that family can retire comfortably
Invest wisely so that future endeavors can be funded on interest alone (wishful thinking)

Future personal endeavors:
Put the extension on the house (including nice big garage for husband)
Put a nice new 3 stall shed row barn in for Indy, Seven and Soda
Donate the remaining stall to foster a rescue horse from one of the local rescues
Walk next door and offer to purchase neighbor's house - we wont miss them (I will have plenty of neighbor drama posts)
Give house to brother in law, but make yard a nice paddock for the gang
Put a pool in our back yard
Get a feul effcient (maybe bio diesel?) vehicle large enough to pull a horse trailer
Get a horse trailer

Future public endeavors:
Purchase land so it cannot be developed
Build houses in New Orleans (it's so ridiculous that some areas still look like they did after Katrina hit)
Provide funding/grant opportunities for families looking to adopt a child
Donate to cancer research
Donate to animal welfare groups

Future business endeavors:
Purchase the Calverton Property and secure part of the land as a wildlife refuge/preserve. Develop the remaining areas (which are already developed, so I would have to convert or knock things down) into a animal assisted therapy program site. I would work with Dolphins Plus in the Keys to establish something here, would create (or move an existing) equine therapy program, provide a training area for assistance dogs, and any other type of organization that helps both people and animals. I would also be akin to setting up a program where inmates train shelter dogs to be adoptable.

My big splurge:
I would get a beach house out east with a ton of land and would never sell it for development.