Buff Nights and Lazy Days

So I will try to remember the past couple of days, since I really should be writing these daily since I tend to forget stuff.  Let me see, Roxie and I decided to show Caitlin around the West End a little bit and take her to some museums and Dumbarton Street.  We got coffee and then went to the Kelvingrove museum, which is another hodgepodge sort of museum that has natural history stuff as well as art.  We made it to the natural history section that had a lot of random stuffed animals, including an elephant that had been at a Scottish zoo about 100 years ago that they shot because he maimed his caretaker when he was in heat.  He looks a little worse for wear now, and most of that section was just kind of depressing since most of the animals that were from Scotland are now extinct because so much of their natural habitats were destroyed.  Then we went to the Harry Benson exhibit.  He's a Glaswegian photographer that shot the Beatles as they were getting famous and then went on to to shoot lots of famous actors, politicians, and famous scenes around Glasgow.  I definitely recommend checking him out since he's now up there with Annie Leibovitz in terms of cool photographers in my opinion.

We decided to save the other wings of the museum for another day (since it's free) and wandered down Dumbarton and Ashton Lane.  We stopped for lunch and I finally had my first fish and chips here, which was quite delightful.  We decided to pretty much head back after that because we were weighed down with shopping bags.  Then last night Caitlin's friend Chris, a University of Glasgow student who studied at LC two years ago called her because he was in town and Caitlin and I joined him and his friend Karen for a night out.  We went to a bar first called the Bunker, which was aptly named because it was literally in the basement of a building, although it was very nice and posh, so not a basement like you're probably thinking.  After our drinks and lively discussion over the way each culture spells words wrong, we headed over to the Buff nightclub which was very cool because it had a cheap cover for students, yay!  There is a typical room upstairs with your basic crappy techno, but downstairs there was a great room that played cool 60's music like the Beatles and other various pop, Elvis, Johnny Cash, some soul, and some seriously old school twangy country.  We had a great time actually being able to dance and do the twist into the wee hours of the morning.

Today I've just been laying low.  I did laundry (for free! the machines for our complex are totally free!) and watching the Office while it rains outside.  We had a fajita making party tonight which was very enjoyable.  Not sure what plans are for tomorrow, but I will at least try to venture outside and stop slacking :)