Tea for two.......... or three, or four.....

 Is life getting back to some sense of normalcy?  Oh please let it be true.

It seems that Scotland is coming out of the covid chaos, and settling down a bit.  Restrictions are dropping and I am left in awe of how surreal it has all been.  

With that said,  I've been having a bit of fun with friends.  So much so, that one of my friends just pointed out that FUN is a word I use all the time.  Really???  I didn't realize this until she said it, but lo and behold, I then said it about 5 times in the next 5 minutes.  Mind blown, I really had no idea. 

So, GUILTY as charged!  

Ha!  I like having fun and living life!  I actually even like being one who says the 'f' word a lot.  In fact, I believe that will be my word for 2022.  I think that we should all have fun as much as we can.  It's been a tough past couple of years, and I am ready to add some enjoyment to the lockdown life we have been living.  And as y'all know, fear just ain't my 'gig.'  I'm willing to throw caution to the wind and let the universe drive me to where I ought to go.  And lately, where that has been, is to have tea!  

Tea with friends,,, I mean seriously, how FUN is that!?!?!

This is Mary, my American in Glasgow friend and confidant.

We hitched a ride on a vintage bus from 1967, complete with minimal shocks, prosecco, and tiny cute food to eat.  I was smitten!

Look at how cute is this, or should I say fun?

We proceeded to tour Glasgow in all of its glory.  It was a beautiful sunny day to go bouncing along the cobblestones.

The Necropolis is one of my favorite graveyards ever, with the Glasgow Cathedral below it. 

 

City centre

Fabulous photo of Mary.

This crane in Glasgow is as famous as the Poolbeg towers in Dublin.  The locals LOVE them, for me it is an acquired taste.  

Now that I had the vintage tea bus tour under my belt, it was time to enjoy another Glasgow famed and vintage location.  The Mackintosh Tea Rooms.

An Englishwoman, a Scottish woman, a Northern Irish lass and an American, all walk into a tea room.  And proceed to laugh and have loads of FUN (and, well, tea)!

Effie the Englishwoman, drinking coffee in a tearoom.  

Karyn and Kitty working our way through cakes!

Charles Rennie Mackintosh is a long dead artist from Glasgow, gaining his fame mostly postmortem.  He and his artistic wife (Margaret Macdonald) have left such beautiful art all over the city.  This tearoom is stunning!  A true belter.   

Needless to say, it really was a blast.  And a high caloric one at that.  

So the moral of the story this week is.......life is short, friends, have way more FUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNN!

........and don't be afraid to use the 'f' word!

the crazy tea-tipping 

Cairns