Blogs from Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, North America - page 4

Visiting a Cementary may sound wierd, especially if you don't have anyone buried there to visit. It can't be that wierd if there are tours for cementaries like in New Orleans. So I must not be that wierd for going to visit Crown Hill Cementary during my day off. I saw an article in the local paper about it being a place people take their visitors from out of town when they arrive because of its beauty and history facts. The directions I took by my gps led me to to the entrace with the funeral home. A bit embarrissing as a wake was going on and I was in a T-shirt, people glaced in my car with a bit of curiosity as I drove passed to get to the point of the road that leds ... read more

Looking for somethimg to do over the weekend I came across an advertisement for Carnival Day for the family at the History Center Downtown. Upon research I discovered that this history museum has a neat approach to teach about history by taking you back in time in living scenes. To make it more inticing to visit this particular day was that it was FREE!! However tickets to play carnival games and buy snacks would cost you .50 per ticket. So off we we went my daughter and I on Saturday morning to expierence something else in this city. Parking was easy as the new street meters accepted debit cards to pay for hourly parking at $1.45. We realized the History center was set off the side off the canal making it a nice scene to relax ... read more

so its been a while since the last posts when we went to europe...ah what fun..until the end there, ah well.....now i figured thsi would be a great time to blog my newest adventure! my first archaeological field school! so basically, classes are almost done and im starting to get all antsy to pack things up for field school. this is going to be great! expect losts of pics every day and explanations of whats going on... this is a field school run dfirectly by indiana university, iupui and the bloomington campus in conjuntion with the glen black research institute..he was a dude who first excavated angle mounds down in evansville indiana..its a missippian indian site and thats where i will be going. we all will be staying in a fully fursnished apartment complex near by ... read more

There has been a gap in my travel blogging due to a move from San Antonio, TX to Indianapolis IN. I'm going to have to back date a few blogs to share my expierences in this new area of the US. I'm excited to get started only because after extensive research there just isn't enough information to make this City or state as inticing as other well known Cities. I know as the case with traveling theres always something to see or expierence in every place and hopefully I can find and share a bit with you on my blog entries. That being said my first expierence in the Circle City was Super Bowl XLVI and I believe it was a devine sign as I'm a New Yorker and it was Giants VS the Patriots! We ... read more

This was my first ARBA convention! It seems surreal that I was able to go to Indianapolis. It was an amazing, overwhelming, whirlwind trip. My mom went with me and she had to be back at work on Tuesday, so we were only able to go to the convention on Saturday and Sunday. Indianapolis was really beautiful. The fairgrounds were well kept and full of rich history. I didn't know what to expect, but the people of Indiana were incredible. In Texas, we pride ourselves on being hospitable. Indiananians(sp?), or Hoosiers, were like the folks back home - maybe even friendlier. I was talking with a woman at the grocery store about how high the prices were and she gave me her store card, not just to use, but to have for my trip. She was ... read more