First Day in Scotland!

26/8/2010

Second leg of the trip.

            Multiple things should and could be wrong here but no one seems to think there is anything wrong with where we are. WE transferred flights and are now sitting on the underneath of Amsterdam airport…we came from a flight but we still had to go through security again. Where they took the things we bought in Detroit away from us…such as food and beverages. We are also waiting for a bus to take us to a terminal where our plane is. At least I’m pretty sure we are going to a terminal…we might just be taken straight to the plane. Which in my book is weird.

            The guy behind me on the first plane deliberately bumped my seat because obvi if I sit back in my seat he should be annoyed by that and bump my seat. GRRR lol. Also, I have a song stuck in my head. And I can’t reach the internet to listen to it to get it out. Good thing I have listened to it like 50 times in the past 3 days so that I know all of the words.

            “Whelst obviously we have a rapist in LINCOLN PARK and he’s trying to snatch errebody up so you should hide your kids, hide your wife….” Garsh

Boarding now. Gotta go.

One last thing. Family of silly bandz : picture this, mom and two kids sprawled out on three seats. Mom got really comfy. I know because at one point her legs were on top of one of the kids faces. I’m not a mom or anything but I do know one thing…you should not lay on top of your kids. You could smother them….right?

(Settled in hotel ready for bed)

       I wrote down some thoughts throughout the day and I will now elaborate on them here.

Foreign Language OVERBOARD on the flight.

The highlight of my plane ride from Amsterdam to Glasgow was the sniffling lady sitting next to me. Which by the way is not acceptable, find a tissue! I sat next to that for an hour, it was awesome. Needless to say my “Where’s Waldo” book helped me stay somewhat sane. Thank you KC for going to Border’s with me and helping me make the decision to buy it!

    Customs was nice. I forgot my Acceptance letter from Edinburgh, but he still let me through!

Finding our car was another story all together. We thought we had to get a shuttle to the car rental place. Who knew that it was across the way? We did not. But twenty minutes later we did! We finally got our car and the key looked strange. We had to have someone show us how to start the car. The directions to the hotel were spot on. I think. Somehow we got half way across the city center and saw a sign for the street we needed. We followed that and finally found it. Mom wasn’t even honked at once whilst driving!

When we got to the hotel…after a couple frustrated minutes of misplaced reservations we got our room and could sit down. The lift says “mind the doors” so mother said “the lift is not my mother I don’t have to mind it” and walks out of the lift. Good one.

    Glasgow is a big, noisy, old city. I wish there was a Walmart. I know where things are in Walmart, for the most part, and in Glasgow I have no clue. I am a lost foreigner.

After putting our things in the room we decided we were going to tour the city on a bus. It was very interesting and we didn’t even get lost because we never left the bus. We have points that we want to visit tomorrow and there are a lot of good picture opportunities. There were a lot of interesting people that we say, but we just couldn’t seem to keep our eyes open!

     We went to a pub for dinner on the way home. Mom was hit on while placing our order by a drunk guy. The bartender kept yelling something but I couldn’t understand what she was saying. The table next to us was loud. There were 2 girls around 20-25 and then someone they knew…an old dude like 50 or 60 was with them. He was buying them booze and taking shots with them. I’m concerned with where this country is taking them! Be better.

      A couple things I learned today. I learned how to speak Scottish today. 1) take a breath 2) start talking 3)when you are done talking it is time for another breath 4) rinse and repeat. What you need to do to blend in is keep your head down, hold hands with someone, and lollygag. Also, speed up your brain so that you can catch all the words people say. Another lesson was: If at first you don’t succeed try, try again…if that doesn’t work call the front desk. 1) shower 2) hose/hairdryer 3)money.

You stay classy.