happy belated birthday denise!

This year we were a bit forgetful and did not post a birthday greeting to our dear sister Denise. The day of her birthday we had a friend in town and were working the merch table at a gig at The Bowery Ballroom. It was a long day but we did call her to wish her a happy birthday.

This past weekend Denise came to visit for the weekend and we had so much fun laughing, walking her all over the city and taking a special day trip out of the city. Denise took care of us all weekend buying us food and getting us a few essentials for the summer. She is,as always, the best sister two girls could ask for. Thank You for all that you do for us Denise!

how's it goin?

To celebrate St.Patrick's Day we give you Bernie. The best Irish nurse you'll ever find....errrrr maybe not.

och aye land part 3

The rest of our time in Scotland was spent in Glasgow. We went to The Lighthouse with Vikki one afternoon and checked out their current exhibit on the architecture of John Lautner. It was fantastic, filled with with models and construction documents. The drawings were all done by hand so heidi was in heaven looking everything over.




We climbed to the top of The Lighthouse to see the amazing view of the city. We got quite the workout on those stairs but it was worth it (stairs, schmairs).







This is a sign for the toilets that we thought was sooo funny.


After The Lighthouse we walked around Glasgow and had a look around. We could so live here (definite possibility-sorry mum).






Before we went to pick up Maggie for dinner Vikki took us on an impromptu tour of some Glasgow sights. Once more a lot of our photos were taken from the car since it was raining.





Makes us hungry for chips n' curry.



The famous Barrowlands where many great bands have played.



Stow College where Belle and Sebastian got their start.



Growing up in Idaho we would see horses or cows being transported on the roads, here it's sheep..baaaaaa




In most neighborhoods of Glasgow they say...


After our tour around Glasgow with Tour Guide Vikki we went out to dinner at an Italian Tapas Restaurant with Maggie, Vikki and Maddy and closed the place dooowwwwn. After dinner we went over to Maddy's flat to visit her doggies. Skeeter, Sweetums and Shannon were all in a playful mood and seemed to remember us from our time spent with them in December.

One of our last days in Glasgow was rainy and then the sun came out so while it rained we went to Habitat with Maggie and spent a long time looking everything over. Then the sun came out and we met up with Vikki and we all had lunch at a great vegetarian cafe and had a wander around. The girls took us by a great vintage shop where we picked up some vintage silk scarves. We love scarves so we really hit the jackpot there.






Heidi is really into this play's poster's scattered all over Glasgow and now we have one in our flat.


Did you know that pedestrians look like aliens in Glasgow... so beware of them OK.


This is the view from the girls flat. We loved their flat and we would love to live across the hall from them.


Our other hosts while in Glasgow were Sandy...


and Marsalis

As a final treat on our last night we tried fried Mars bars and they are heavenly!


We were sad to leave Scotland but since we knew we would be coming back in less than two weeks to go to Manchester it wasn't quite as depressing as it could have been. We are very lucky to have met Maggie and Vikki on our trip to England in 2006. This was the best trip with lots of laughter, music, and good food (yes, the Brits have a bit of a reputation for bland food but everything we had was great). We had a running joke that our trip was sponsored by Polo mints since we went through several rolls of them so, thanks Polo mints (better than water from a bucket!)

We've already got big plans for when Maggie and Vikki come to NYC at the end of August. Let the good times continue!!

och aye land part 2

The next few days after we returned from Belfast were spent going around to cities within an hour or two from Glasgow with Maggie. The Scottish countryside was so beautiful. Most of our pictures were taken from the car so we could stay dry.




We saw the Wallace monument outside Stirling (didn't manage to get a picture of it) and also saw the castle in Stirling. We explored the city a bit and had lunch while we there. We had baked potatoes at a vegetarian cafe. It tasted more like squash, nothing compares to good old Idaho potatoes.



One day we drove towards Perth and Dundee and admired all the wonderful architecture. On our way there we finally saw a highland cow, which we were so excited about but we were on the motorway and zipped by too fast to get a picture. There was a lot of road work going on and we couldn't help but love the sign in case your car broke down.






As usual we received a lot of questions about us being twins so when we saw this cafe we felt we would fit right in.



This had to be one of the funniest signs we saw while we were in Scotland. We want to know what happens at a cat show, do the cats roll over and purr?