After our trip to Tynemouth and Hadrian's Wall, Amy came back to Glasgow on the train to meet John at the airport (and once again inquire after our missing suitcase). We then went to York for a couple of days and drove back to Glasgow to meet Amy and John.
Many of the apartments around Glasgow have private gardens that only renters and owners can get into, with a key. Eero and Cielo found a stick and a ball in the gardens across the street and improvised a little baseball game (later we noticed "ball games" are not allowed in the gardens).
The Werblows weren't in town, but we were staying at their place, a nice apartment at the top of their building. There is a shared garden in the back, and almost every time we looked out the window these two big round cats were there, but in different spots each time. We called them "the two fat cats".
Eero enjoyed having stairs (scroll your browser to the right for the landing).
On the way back one day, we noticed a little Indian place named Masala Twist, that looked like it was fairly quiet where we could relax and talk. It turned out later this was one of Shoshana's favorite places and we had accidentally gone without her!
Every once in a while Vernon would check the lost age web site on his phone.
It almost always said the same thing - CHECK LATER FOR MORE INFORMATION - but then one day it said DELIVERY PROCESS INITIATED!
It was still another day before anything happened, but then, while Amy and John were at the airport returning their rental car, she visited the lost luggage desk and was told not only had it been found, it was on its way to be delivered! This was surprising to us, since despite repeated contact on our part, nobody had called to see, for example, if anyone was home! In fact, Amy was told, it could be there any minute!
Looking out the window, Alison saw a delivery van that said "luggage" on it and ran down to wave it down. In fact, it passed by the Werblows' apartment twice without stopping - their address was 29 Huntly Gardens, Huntly Gardens being the name of their apartment group, but it was actually on Observatory Road - and we were starting to get worried.
Finally it pulled around the block and Alison waved it down. The driver double parked and stopped, and Alison asked he was there to deliver the lost suitcase. He looked confused and said he was sorry, but he didn't know anything about suitcases. Just as we were about to panic, he laughed and said "no no I've got it, stop worrying" and we all experienced complex emotions. But, sure enough, he had the big missing suitcase with him!
Religious buildings of Glasgow, by Nathan Coley. These are scale models of all the churches, synagogues and mosques in Glasgow (this was at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow.
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The Lighthouse is an exhibition space and visitor centre focusing on architecture and design. It was Charles Rennie Mackintosh's first public commission. Not only that, it had these great restroom signs:
And an awesome spiral staircase:
Eero took the chance to take a rest after we'd been there a while.
