let me go home

We haven't been home to Idaho for a year and we are very homesick. It's time to go for a visit!

palm springs

Back in March we went to Palm Spring to spend a long weekend with our parents and Denise. We weren't able to go home for Christmas so this was our get together instead since we hadn't seen the family in over six months. When my mum asked where we would like to meet up we picked Palm Spring since we haven't ever really had a chance to explore it properly. We have gone to the Coachella festival for 7 years but it's different when you're there for a festival and spend your whole time in a polo field watching bands for 2 or 3 days. We flew into Long Beach (strangest airport ever, but also kinda cool) and drove to Palm Springs with Denise. Our car rental had satellite radio! Woooohoooo! Such a little thing but the difference it made was great.

We spent our time with the family driving around looking at architecture (how they humor us), eating lots of asparagus, going to an outdoor market and to lots of thrift stores (my favourite advertised a "Divine Fusions Fashion Show") and laughing a lot. We also took a tram ride up a canyon and it was wild. You go from 80 degree sunny weather to the top of the mountain where there is snow around a foot deep and it even started to snow while we were up there. People were decked out in snow gear and sleds ready to take a trail and have some fun.





We also went to a date farm and watched an educational film while we had date shakes. We'd never had a date before but our mum swore they were delicious so we tried them. They are so good! We didn't realize they were so sweet like candy. We hauled a bunch back to NY to nibble on for a few months.



We had to go check out the Ace Hotel while we were there. Great cheeky design.

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!!