My Birthday in Scotland!

Yesterday was my birthday. And it was Grrrrrrrrreat!

Started off by walking to the Queen Street Train Station to meet Brittany who had come in from Edinbrugh to see Glasgow (and me of course ;) and we went for a walk through the city centre before starting to shop. Now I don't know if y'all have ever heard of the store Primark before but it is dangerous. Nice clothes for VERY nice prices. I was looking for a dress and found one... but decided to wait and see if I could find one at Forever 21 (which is 3 levels) or the widely advertised student lock-in sale at the mall that night.
I found 2 dresses at Forever 21 that I loved and bought the one that I figured I could where more places. Oh! And this headband to keep my ears warm when it gets cold out - it's very cute with a 3-rose accent on it :) So overall very happy with my birthday purchases.
Next I showed Brittany our school and accommodations then we met Alex and wandered over to the Necropolis cemetery behind the Cathedral we had been to earlier. This place was HUUUUGE and was the resting place of many, many families back in the 1800s. As you went around and got higher up the burial tombs and tombstones/statues got bigger and bigger. It was insane, and provided an awesome view of the cathedral city. 




We headed back after that to the residence to eat something and get ready before meeting others for dinner. I was going to wear my new dress but opted not to because I didn't want to be cold walking back down through the city centre.
In total 12 of us gathered for a birthday dinner at TGI Fridays... I know, not exactly Scottish cuisine...but it's MY birthday! It was really nice, even though I was so far away from home, having dinner with a bunch of friends was so much fun and I couldn't of asked for a better birthday in Scotland! They had a French-Canadian burger on the menu which had maple syrup on it! I think 4 people ordered it! (I didn't, sorry. I opted for The Black & Blue Angus burger - which was sooo good and had blue cheese on it).
Towards the end I gave a small semi-sentimental speech about 'being so far away from home on my birthday and being so glad that I could celebrate with a bunch of wicked cool people...and something about our 'international family'... all that jazz. So we toasted and then the wait staff brought me a giant piece of chocolate cake which I shared :) Yea, it was awesome.

Dinner! On the left: Me, Brittany, Nina, Julie. Left: Alex, Lauren , Ian, Jared, Antje & Isabella!
Missing: Shayna & Holly (but they were there for dinner)

After dinner a few of us headed for the lock-in sale at the mall. It really wasn't good. It was soooo crowded with students from all the universities that we left shortly after going in. But on the plus side - we met batman!

 Myself & Brittany 
       & Batman :)

So I walked Brittany to the train station and waited for her train -sharing our opinions and experiences of being here so far away from everyone and settling in. 

I then met up with Lauren and Nina and we walked home...but not without stopping for chocolate milk first. 

I was exhausted by the time I got home and was overall thrilled with my Birthday and was surprised to have received easily 50+ birthday emails from lots and lots of people at home. 

Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes and support. It was awesome. :)

T.