She was robbed!!!!!

not every night can be an exciting adventure. Some nights we just stay home and watch Italian TV.

A while ago, we became addicted to the miss Italia contest. it was 3 nights long, had well over 100 girls, and was a cross between a beauty contest, America's Next Top Model and a cheesy Mexican variety show

as far as we could understand ( because it was all in Italian), there were over 20 different categories; each with it's own winner (i.e. Miss Cinema, Miss Fashion, Miss Sportif, Miss Vamp, and Sponsorship titles, like Miss Puegot)

One the first night, at the end of the evening, the "main" winner of the evening was Miss Fashion, who was mistakenly given to the wrong girl, and had it TAKEN AWAY and given to the correct girl, on live TV. Scandal!

At the end of the 3rd night (with each night ending well after 1am), after all the girls had been voted on numerous times (by both a panel of judges and call-in votes), they were finally cut down to the last two. The "wronged" Miss Fashion from the first night (the one who lost) seemed to score the highest and be in the lead, but at last second, they gave the title to this other girl. Maybe she scored higher with the call-in votes?

I doubt i would have watched this show, even if i could understand what the hell they were saying...

Sketch Dump!

these are drawings i have done over the days in Florence

I have been trying to push myself out of my safe zone and draw things i would not normally draw

View from the Bardini Gardens

we went on a nice walk today exploring the Bardini Gardens and the Boboli Gardens

this is the view of the city from the top of the Bardini Gardens

I don't think this beard is going to last long

I'm not a beard guy I find them to itchy

Americano?

when we were out walking the streets tonight we saw a couple of American college students walking the street each swigging on box wine one wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses

It's not a scruffy hipster beard it's European!

to try to fit in and maybe because I'm just lazy and need a haircut I started to grow a beard

I think I look more hipster like than European most of the guys here look like eurotrash

DIABOLIK!

I ran out of American comics so to try to learn some Italian I bought an issue of DIABOLIK that I am going to attempt to translate

so far i have translated the cover and the first word balloon

I love Lamp

I have been trying to push my self creatively while I'm here and draw stuff outside my comfort zone

this is the lamp on my bedside table it has a strange half shade

More adventures with Italian food shopping

we have a small supermarket nearby that we have doing most of out food shopping at
it has wonderful stuff but trying to figure out what some of it is
is a challenge

Adventures at the Italian Butcher

me and Daisy are very American we do not know how to buy fresh meet

Un Café, por favor

I think I goth my 5th wind oops lost it again

it was a long flight with 2 layovers in Chicago and Paris but i am finally in Florence Italy at some point i will sleep

lex

I drew this on the plane in the dark on the way over

Heading off to Italy

I will be in Florence for 3 months

I will keep drawing about my adventures in Europe

keep checking in but I am not sure how often i will be able to update my blog