I had a FABULOUS day yesterday! I met up with Kerry who blogs over at Kestrel Finds and Makes and the lovely Kathryn who blogs at Yes I Like That. We met up in Glasgow for a bit of fabric shopping and lots of chatting! I look forward to many more meet-ups like this--I had so much fun!!
We stopped in Mandors Glasgow and stumbled upon something rather unusual:
Ritual jersey? Can something please explain this to me? I'm hoping it doesn't involve sewists chanting....
The Glasgow Queen Street train station is right next to the Christmas Market!! One of my favourite things to do during the festive season! Check out this bedazzled storefront complete with giant peacock on the top:
Can I just say that Scots are crazy? Only here would they bring out all the carnival rides...in DECEMBER. It's freezing and raining nearly every day and there's a queue to ride the swings (below) and the ferris wheel! In fact, it was only last year that David and I got stuck on the ferris wheel! We had been having 100 mph winds that year in December...they seemed to die down and so we ventured out to the Christmas market. I'm not a big rides person but the ferris wheel seemed tame enough. OH MY GOODNESS...I've never been so happy to get off a ride in my life. We were at the top and all of a sudden all the electricity goes out and we are not so gently swaying in the wind. Eeep. Poor David, I think I might have clawed his arm off. They left us up there for what seems like eternity. Finally, they started hand cranking us down. Slowly, slowly...we reach the bottom. But it was too good to be true. They had to balance the ferris wheel and so they were letting every other car out. And of course, we were in a car that got to be hand cranked around again! Aaahhhh! Let's just say that kissing the ground is not something I would normally associate with getting off a ferris wheel!
David thinks we should get back on the horse and go on the ferris wheel again this year.... I think I'd rather stick with the ice skating! I'm slightly scared to ask if any of you have had any freaky carnival ride experiences....
