Happy Easter from Glasgow

Out of the apartment and off to Pollock County Park and Pollock House where there is a host of Easter activities on offer.

Pollock house is a large manor house just south of town. When the house was passed to the National Trust, the city got the estate's land and it is a huge chunk. Think of Lancaster County Park or Forest Park in PDX even. We just missed a free-for-all looking egg hunt at the house, but we walked into the house to enjoy an "egg trail" that had been set up. You looked for clues in the rooms and put the clues together to answer a question. If you answered it, you got a big Cadberry egg. After that we had lunch and went for a walk.

While on the walk we saw shaggy highland cattle, wonderful wildflowers, a cricket game and the Burrell Collection. This collection housed in a fairly large museum was a bit like the Kroeller-Mueller Collection in Otterlo in the Netherlands in that it was all collected by one person, but it is not as powerful. While Mrs. Kroeller Mueller was busy collecting Van Goghs, Mondrians, Gauguins and the like, Burrell was sucking up tapestries, furniture and swords. He also got some really nice paintings (Italians and Degas and some Scottish stuff), but if you have ever been to the K-M, it is tough for anyone to beat that place. Plus, there weren't any sculptures. It was a great museum nonetheless.

It is located near a huge playground and the girls liked that.

After the park we traveled to the hip part of town close to the university and the type of person around in that area is totally different from the folks downtown where we are. We have the downtown folks, that place has the young hipsters, students and yuppies. Tons of stylish bags (even if falling apart), flash haircuts and strollers. Good coffee, too. Downtown, we have the betting parlors, Tesco Expresses (intact, not the Bristol variety) and folks who go down the street yelling at the invisible man.

Having said all of that, I think the part of town we are has worked out well. We have a great view, shops are close and we are not too far from the center and the bus lines that travel through it. Good spot.

Another sunny day here although the clouds seem to be rolling in.

Photos of the house, Rose pretending to be in pain after catching her hair in a rose, flowers.