Sunday, September 26, 2004

Scotland: "Be happy while you're living...."

"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." -Scottish Proverb

So Scotland! It was great....cold, really cold. Like, the first thing I bought on Friday morning was a pair of warm white gloves [smile], but really lovely all the same.

Whit and I took this adventure by ourselves for no particular reason [well, maybe it was that others we've been traveling with I think might have been a little worn out:].

We started our trip on Thursday, since Whit’s Thursday class was cancelled. So we woke up early to catch the tube over to Victoria station where we got on an early bus to Glasgow (9:30am).

I’d like to add in here a little ditty about thieves. I hate them! So Whit and I get sandwiches at the refectory [commons] along with cookies, drinks and other random food items, and since we have a small fridge on our floor we thought there would be little chance that some grubby little hands would chief our food. But don’t you know, the next morning I go to find the food, and yup…our Gatorades were left [apparently the bandit doesn’t like those]. But they ate both our sandwiches, half of my bagel [the other half was thrown carelessly in the trash], and my Oreos! So we had to stop by and get some more sandwiches on the way to the bus [mine turned out to be a horrible egg sandwich and I couldn’t eat it].

Anyway, besides that…We were rather spoiled on our way there because we were each able to sprawl across two seats and nap. As we made more stops, however, the bus grew to be more and more crowded so we eventually [for the last hour and a half of the trip] crammed ourselves into one chair each.
We finally got to Glasgow around 5:30pm [yeah, that’s right…it was a long freakin bus ride!], and we piled on our bags and headed towards the hostel. After successfully finding the hostel, we unloaded our bags and headed out to find some grub. Of coarse, you have no idea what the first place we see to eat is. McDonalds! [grin]. And do not think for a second that we didn’t eat there either. I had a Big Mac [which was smaller than the US’s Big Mac, but really great!].

Anyway, Glasgow is full goth teenagers…crazy. But it was neat.

So Friday we went to Edenburough [I don’t remember how to spell it, but whatever]. Once again we got the early start, this time leaving at 8:15am. In Edenburough toured the castle, and then went on a whiskey tour [wow, they started it off with a shot of whiskey, eewww….I do NOT like whiskey…wow]. Then we did touristy shops, I got a great sticker [I might try to scan that in and post it on here somewhere later], and did random things until our bus left at 6:30pm. Oh yeah, and we ate some really great food. We then went back to the hostel to retire at like, 9:30pm, we were exhausted.

Saturday we started by going shopping J. It was super! Then we found a pub for lunch [also pretty great], and then walked to the Glasgow cathedral [really great gothic style architecture]. We stayed pretty busy and then went to a play [which was really weird], and then caught the last bus back to London at 10:30pm.

The bus ride was again long, and we were pretty squished [one person to a seat unless you were lucky or reeked…lol]. We got into London at 6:30am on Sunday only to find the tube to not open until 7:20 on Sundays. So we ended up taking a bus and then walking a long ways home. Then we got here and napped till 11:30 [typical, huh?].

All in all it was a great trip. Well, the stupid IT center [computer lab] is closing in 10 min. so I have to finish this up.

LOVE TO ALL<><,
*maike rinaye*

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh yeah, I went to Chicago this weekend Ha beat that!! :) no it was fun though I love Chicago and may actually go there to get my masters, eh we'll see. I glad you both are having fun!! talk to you sometime

-Natalie

Anonymous said...

golly, you and whit don't slow down a bit. But I wouldn't either if I were you. I'd want to see everything. I'm so glad that you're posting this so we know what's up on your end, it's so exciting. Miss you much. Set aside time for you know who, He'll keep you close. Small group isn't the same without you.
Love you, Sara