http://www.travelmonkeys.net A weblog of Chris and Becky's travel around the world Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:54:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Technorati Tags: April Fools Happy April Fools!!!! Well time for an update.  I got an acceptance letter from the Herron School of Art & Design at IUPUI campus in Indianapolis. I am one of six candidates they have selected for the program.  Good news!!!   Now I don't feel so uncertain of the future.   ... http://www.travelmonkeys.net/chris-blogs/future-plans/ Its March 1st and I don't know what I have been doing for the past 3 months.    I got back from my travels in in December of last year.   Sure I hung out,  played with friends, watch TV but mostly I am not sure where the time is gone.  I ... http://www.travelmonkeys.net/chris-blogs/working-again-and-still-lost/ [page_stats] http://www.travelmonkeys.net/uncategorized/mystats/ Happy new years all! It has been a while since our last posting. After much relaxing and thinking Becky and I have decided not to travel for another 3 months at we originally plan back in august of 2006. Primarily due to money running out plus we not felt ... http://www.travelmonkeys.net/chris-blogs/future-plans-2/ Well we are alive and well back home in Indiana. After 3 months of traveling Europe we are burned out. We are looking forward to doing almost nothing and going nowhere. In fact we are excited about watching TV again in English and catching up on our ... http://www.travelmonkeys.net/chris-blogs/back_home/ [video width="320" height="240"]http://www.travelmonkeys.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/videos/thanksgiving_from_rome.wmv[/video] Ciao! Happy Thanksgiving video from Rome. Here is a link to the better quality but slow download video. 4.5megs http://www.travelmonkeys.net/chris-blogs/happy-thanksgiving-from-rome-italy/ We had been denied Internet in Tuscany, and by the time we got to Florence we were wanting badly to check our email. When we got to our hotel and noticed that right outside our window was an Internet cafe, Internet Train, that had wi-fi, we thought ... http://www.travelmonkeys.net/becky-blogs/our-crack-florence-italy/ 11/10/06 Today we went to the Accademia. It is small compared to all the art galleries I have drug Chris through in Europe so far, but it houses one of the most notable sculptures in the world, DAVID. Yes, THE David. Michelangelo sculpted him in 1501. He was originally supposed ... http://www.travelmonkeys.net/becky-blogs/two-nice-things-davids-ass-and-vivolis-gelato-florence-italy/ Today was a day of art. We were in Florence (Firenze in Italian). It was the birthplace of the renaissance in the 1400s. The word renaissance itself means "rebirth". It was fueled by the money of the Medici family in Florence. It was the time of Michelangelo, Leonardo DaVinci ... http://www.travelmonkeys.net/becky-blogs/the-renaissance-florence-italy/ We rented a car for our time with La Mia Toscana. It was easier and allowed us access to some of the hill towns in Tuscany, plus it allowed us to feel like normal U.S. tourists if only for a short amount of time. The cars in Europe are smaller, ... http://www.travelmonkeys.net/becky-blogs/goodbye-little-smart-car-pisa-italy/