Wednesday, September 17, 2003 (Glasgow - Scotland)
Today is our anniversary (or one of them at
least). Another noon start to the day. Tall ships and museums. BMWs as far as
the eye could see.
Day 189. Today is our fifteenth anniversary.
Actually, yesterday was too. That’s the beauty of having married twice in
as many days (first for the law and then for the church), I get to legitimately
forget the first date with the safety net of the second to always fall back on
in need. In all the fifteen years, however, I’ve never needed the safety
net. I remember thinking that we would be in China at this time. Amazing how
fate has brought us to Scotland instead. Other than getting Sandy a new ring to
celebrate the occasion (which she picked out when we were in Ireland),
we’ve not really done much in the way of celebrating the sixteenth and
seventeenth of September this year. We don’t typically do much to
celebrate our anniversary but when we are back in Holland, I’m sure we
will find some special way to mark the
occasion.
Another leisurely start to
the day meant that it was fast approaching noon before we even got out of the
campsite this morning. It wasn’t a long run into town and we went straight
to the tall ship for our first tourist stop of the day. The plan was to park the
brick there for the remainder of the day and use the hop-on hop-off bus ticket
that we purchased yesterday for all the travelling around we were going to do.
Ultimately, however, we didn’t use the tickets and did very little
travelling around either.
We explored
the tall ship Glenlee for a while before moving on to the Scottish Science
Centre just across the river after lunch in the brick. This is where we spent
the rest of the day. The science centre is a huge place with literally hundreds
of interactive exhibits on display over three floors. We even got to see an IMAX
showing of ‘T-Rex – back to the Cretaceous’ in
3D.
One of the exhibits at the
science centre was an Internet terminal that was supposed to be used for
exploring several science related websites. There was no physical keyboard but
the software provided for a touch screen equivalent. Both Sandy and myself,
being as industrious as we are, took the opportunity to check our Internet based
e-mail. One that got me a little excited was in regards to the possibility of a
few months worth of contract work in Heerlen. This would be absolutely ideal for
us and it would fit neatly into our continued travel plans. After a little
consideration, I replied to let the contracting firm know that we would be
willing to suspend our current travelling to meet the deadline of a begin date
of September twenty second, just a few days from now. Hopefully, I will receive
either a phone call or an e-mail tomorrow with more
details.
In the meantime, we decided
not to drive off into who knows where in search of a place to park for the
night. The car park here at the science centre seems to be as good a place as
any so we’ve enjoyed a cooked meal in the brick and watched a
DVD.
There must be some kind of BMW
& Mercedes car convention that took place at the science centre this
evening. A couple of hours ago, hundreds of BMWs and Mercedes cars turned up
here in the car park. There were some cars under covers inside the science
centre earlier that I noticed and I think it might have been the unveiling of a
new model or some such thing. Actually, it was quite amusing seeing all the
people leave the centre and going in search of their own cars amongst hundreds
of identical models.
Posted: Wed - September 17, 2003 at 01:27 PM