The River Clyde

It was a beautiful sunny day on Saturday, so we decided to walk down to the Clyde. As we were walking down the waterfront we found a boat tour called 'The Pride of teh Clyde'. We decided to take it and it was really fun. We were able to see quite a bit of the city's waterfront and hear all about the history of the ship business of the Clyde. I hadn't know that they were that well known for their ship building. At the end on the tour we were dropped off for a bit at a HUGE mall (galleries here), but the nice part about it was that we could see some of the rolling hills of the countryside. They were beautiful and now we are trying to plan a bus trip out to the country for the day. Here are some pictures of our boat trip...



This is a picture of the Opera House here. It of course was modeled after the one in Australia.
After we returned from our boat tour, we headed down to Glasgow Green, another one on Glasgow's beautiful parks. The Park Rangers give tours here on Saturdays and Sundays, and since the weather was still nice and sunny, we decided to take advantage of it and go on the tour. It was a very nice tour and I have to admit I have become addicted to them because you learn so much more about what is in the park than you would if you were just walking through. The tour lasted about an hour and we still haven't walked through a large chunk of the park. Thats for another day. After we tried the ice cream over here and it was divine, not as good as Chile, but a close runner up. There are indoor gardens there, but there was a wedding at 5pm and the wedding party had shown up for pictures already and we didn't want to interupt. Here are some pictures from the tour:

This is the tallest terra cotta fountain in the world. This just cleaned it up and fixed it and now it is under close watch for any vandalists.