At last Anna and the kids came back! The cousins latched onto each other immediately.
We went to a pub called the Hillhead Book Club (Hillhead is the neighborhood). Their sign out front was intriguing - the place was good but not that good.
They did have a ping pong table at least - in this picture Eero and Ilan and playing and Cielo is refereeing in semaphore..
After lunch, we went off to see Glasgow cathedral, taking the subway most of the way and then walking. Along the way we went past this interesting wall:
We also found this innovation for protecting your personal parking space. The metal tube can be positioned up or flat, but you lock it with a key once it's in position..
Also on our way to the cathedral, we came across this building. Note the gods with the ships in their bellies..
Finally we were there:
It has some spectacular stained glass; below is the Millenium Window. As you might guess, it was created for the turn of the millenium; it was unveiled in 1999.
This is The Creation:
And part of the story of Boaz leaving some sheaves in the field for Ruth:
After the cathedral, we headed back towards home. On the way we stopped for some custom milkshakes at the same shopping center where we had earlier bought some underwear for the kids.
We did a lot of walking around town.
Glasgow has some great public spaces:
Another one of the Werblows' favorite restaurants in Glasgow was Hanoi Bicycle Shop, a nice Vietnamese place just down the hill.
We tried to let the kids do some of the navigating. This is a picture of Eero figuring out how to go on the Glasgow subway one day while Cielo checks the paper map.
Scots: very polite.
Another fun event was going to High Tea. Each person is accounted for on the trays, so this table holds four adult servings and three for kids. A serving means "one of everything". The kids' servings tended even more towards the sweet, but everyone was more than satisfied.
The kids' end of the table, with Shoshana.
After a shower, some good old Nintendo DS time!
