Staycations all I ever wanted............. Week #1

 Well, I was hoping that we could go away for a week or so, during this October break that Levi has, but with covid, it is not meant to be.  I'm okay with it, as it still feels like we are on vacation anyway!  I've decided to keep us busy by having an outing every day, and since the museums are open, they are my first choice.  I haven't been to any of them, and they are mostly free, so why not checkout Glasgow from the inside?!?!  It is a great city and exploring it has been a blast!

I'll let the boys tell it from their perspective, but if you are following along, here are the two that we visited this past week.

This is the Kelvingrove Museum:

This is the front and it faces the river.  There are many stories about how it was built the wrong way around, and that the architect leapt to his death when it was discovered.  Truth or Glaswegian stories???   This side faces Glasgow Uni, and in my humble opinion, are two of the most beautiful buildings in Glasgow.  

This is the back side that faces the road.  Where most people enter and also think that it is the front.  Foolish tourists!!  

The building is just stunning inside and out! 

This is the Riverside Museum:

This is the home of the city's transport collection.

Levi: The week has been going very well so far and I have been having a lot of fun not having to go to school, we went to many museums and saw old cars, old gliders and a very old train of Scotland that was moved into the museum by truck.  The first museum (Riverside) had a lot of cars and vehicles, almost ALL cars and vehicles and I went with one of my friends from school, we saw some very cool old vehicles and even a bike that had two wheels of the front!  

The second  museum (Kelvingrove) was a museum of old animals, paintings, and sculptures. This museum had a bunch of floating heads as an exhibit and I thought that was interesting, but over all all the sculptures were very cool and the paintings were nice. My favorite out of all of them was the floating heads of course. 

I also just got a new bed this week. It was tough getting up the stairs but in the end it looks really nice and is now the best bed in the flat! I put some lights on it and it looks very nice now!  

Jackson:

This week we visited the Riverside museum with Levi's friend Cameron and his mom Karyn. Inside there were many historic vehicles including old cars and trains. They had old busses and even (one of) the original chitty chitty bang bang car(s). 

Right outside the Riverside museum on the water was the Tall Ship which we had a chance to go onto. The boat was built on the River Clyde in 1896 and is one of only 5 still afloat today. 

We also visited the Kelvingrove Art Museum. Inside there is a ton of art including a famous piece by Salvador Dali called 'Christ of Saint John of the Cross'.

Kitty:  I loved both museums and need to plan a couple more for the coming week.  My favourite part was hanging out with Cameron and Karyn.  We met them the first day of orientation at Levi's school in mid-August.  They are Scottish, but were also just moving to Glasgow from the US.  It was the greatest serendipitous meeting and I've been grateful ever since! I force Karyn to hang out with me weekly for tea.   They are good people and I feel lucky to call them our friends!

Kitty Crocker's progeny Jackson Bourdain

Oh happy day, look what I found at the top of the utility closet!  Never been used, KitchenAid no less.  I couldn't get over my good fortune.  Let the concoctions begin!!!!!  

Jackson:  Tonight along with our dinner, we made our own hummus! We got to use our food processor and used garlic, salt, lemon juice, tahini and chickpeas. We first boiled the chickpeas in order to get the skin off of them easily, then we put the garlic, salt and lemon in our food processor. After our chickpeas were done, we put our tahini and chickpeas into the food processor and added a bit of ice cold water to make the hummus more thick. The end result was a ton of delicious homemade hummus:

Neither of us have any clue on how to use this thing!

I'm thinking now that we didn't need to double the recipe, but maybe we can freeze some??

A photo for our cookbook!  

Kitty:  Okay, week one of fun is finito, but we are now on to week two.  
We will let you know what shenanigans we get up to soon.  Until then, keep cooking, vote, lower your shades and savor your life!

Ciao!