ADVENTURE TIIIIIME

Hello everybody! First off, words of the week (American: Scottish)! Cookies: Biscuits OR Cookies. Underwear: Pants. Pants: Trousers. Little: Wee (it’s used ALL the time). English muffins: Crumpets.

We’ve had quite the busy week and we’d like to share it with you. So where to begin? Well, we did end up going to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Sunday. We brought a camera, but you can’t take pictures of some of the art in there, so out of fear we have not posted those pictures. Regardless, we did have a good time poking around the Museum! They had dinosaurs (fully reconstructed but not living), they had an Egyptian display (complete with creepy for realsies mummy), and they had a ton of art (hence the name “Art Gallery”). A good time was had by all!

What else did we do this week? Well, Sandra had a crazy lab Monday. It wasn’t really crazy, it was just new and different. Actually, it was a lot easier than labs at home (it was for Power Electronics), and the Professor is really nice also. And, she made a new friend working with a girl from Malaysia! So that was a good experience overall. Unfortunately, she still doesn’t know whether her classes will count back home or not. This has been a bit of a fiasco trying to get classes to match up, but we’ve both finally got our schedules worked out and only nine weeks of classes left! Yay!

Our biggest adventure this week was certainly tackling the subway to get to Piping Class. That’s right, we’re taking a Bagpiping course. This week was just introductory, and we don’t yet have our chanters or books. But! Sandra has her first one-on-one lesson Tuesday, and due to a schedule conflict with the instructor, Tom has his first one-on-one lesson Wednesday! It’s so exciting! There’s also a small Museum in the Piping Center and we got to see a bit of that during our first class. We also almost got lost in the city! Our instructor decided to take us on a mini-field trip to the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall to see some amateur artists. We didn’t stay long, and soon wandered off into the night by ourselves. Fortunately we managed to find the underground station, but not before j-walking and taking a wrong turn or two.

Our biggest win of the week was probably our awesome grocery shopping abilities and sweet dinner-making skills. I mean, besides the whole, we burn the bottoms of pots and pans because the burners aren’t the best and we turn them up way too high. Seriously, people. One night this week we had roast beef, mashed potatoes, and corn, all ready in a timely manner, and all delicious. (Mostly because they sell frozen mashed potatoes and they are fantastic.) And grocery shopping consisted of meeting up Friday afternoon after classes to travel up the road from the University to a place called Iceland. Then, after our adventures buying most of what we needed at Iceland (and marveling at some of the things we didn’t need), we continued down the road to Farm Foods! There we picked up the essentials, you know, frozen broccoli, frozen mashed potatoes, milk, Yorkshire puddings, biscuits (cookies), and profiteroles (like mini cream puffs)! Thank goodness for our set of life skills that lets us grocery shop and feed ourselves and sit down at the dinner table every night with a well-prepared and well-timed dinner in front of us.

We have yet to really explore any food places, besides grocery stores, but we have slowly been exploring Byres Road and Argyle Street near us. We did venture into Baguette Express for their daily meal deal, which makes a delicious lunch; they’re basically a subway for baguettes. So, so far we have not explored much of the city, but yesterday we walked up to Kelvingrove Park and had a nice stroll through there, and today we will be venturing down to the City Centre again to hopefully catch Tron: Legacy in 3D at Cineworld. Now, we did catch a glimpse of Cineworld Thursday while we were taking our piping field trip, and just… WOW. That cinema puts every movie theatre we’ve ever seen to shame; It is huge and has crazy lights and has 3D movies and is beautiful.

But back to Kelvingrove Park, that was beautiful too. We pass the park every day on our way to class, but we’ve never really ventured in. We decided that yesterday would be the perfect day to venture into the park. It was foggy and chilly nearly all morning, and nearly the whole time we were in the park, but it made for rather nice walking weather and peaceful scenery. You can see the photos from yesterday on either of our facebook pages or by using the links on the right side of the page. We had a grand old time, got a bunch of exercise (it’s all hills here, for realsies), and we plan to walk around again when everything is in bloom.

Now, after a lovely morning of Tom using Sandra’s musical skills to attempt to make a crazy medley of songs from Zelda on Finale, and a superb lunch of grilled cheese and salami, we will venture off into the great kind-of-known city to see Tron: Legacy which we wanted to see a month ago! Cheers!