I’ll just share this. 

At the Chopin museum, they have these cards to activate interactive kiosks. Neat, right? The cards are keyed to activate in your particular language. Really neat. 

So….this 4 year old had her own key, and some fairly inattentive parents. She spent an hour running, straight up sprinting, from kiosk to kiosk, starting the units…in order…one after the other…over and over…with a determination I’ve not seen in a child in a while. She had figured out a route that allowed all the units to be spouting Chopin facts, loudly, all at once.

She was so entertaining I stopped to watch for a bit. Sweat was running down her face. If someone was at a unit she skipped it, knowing that it was taken care of. Her job was to keep the lady talking at all times. 

I guess you had to be there. It was charming. It was a pleasure to see a kid so hard at work.

Anyway, I also saw a bunch of art and old stuff and some churches too.

Have a great Sunday!

Not much to report. Spent an hour at the Riverside transportation museum in Glasgow. Would highly recommend.

Arrived Warsaw and was challenged a little by the metro system. Hopefully today it’ll make more sense.

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Cold and dreary today in Glasgow.

In the kitchen, I ran into a PhD candidate who was studying lasers. We had an interesting  (at least to me) convo about her studies into using lasers to image human tissue, specifically using lasers instead of xrays to perform mammography. So neat.

Started out at the Peoples Palace. It’s the city museum. Very interesting glimpses into the lives of the locals, past and present. Glaswegians have a lot to be proud of. The town has really pulled itself together in the last 30 years. 

After some coffee and a treat, I went to the modern art museum. Meh.

The tour of city hall was the highlight of my day. What a great old building. Full of Italian design and superb craftsmanship, great art and grand staircases, gorgeous woodwork, and more. The building suffered no WWII damage at all. Its construction cost in 1889 was 500,000 pounds. In today’s money….45 million? A lot anyway. Just beautiful.

After that, more tea and a long walk. Had some phone calls to make and that brought my day to a close. 

Looking forward to Poland!! tomorrow.

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Consisted of plans that would allow me to run inside if the weather didn’t clear…but it did, and I had a great day in the spring sun.

I saw 2 museums at Glasgow university, had a nice walk to the cathedral, there was time for another small religion museum, then it was time for a meander home via the Glasgow Green (a city park).

Very nice all together, and only one more modern art museum to see tomorrow and my to-do’s will be complete!

Happy birthday dad!!