Yesterday, Liam's aunt and I went to see the Glasgow Cathedral, which looked even more splendid in the sunshine. MeMe has had incredibly sunny weather during her visit, so we've been able to see sites again with bright light, rather than clouds. Check out how sparkly everything looks, even indoors!
We had lunch at Stewart's Tea Room which is quite old-fashioned in style with tablecloths and oil portraits and many baked goods.
But its old-fashioned style is tempered with quirks like this painting.
We have found that afternoon tea is just too much food, though MeMe and I saw a couple of ladies taking home their leftovers which I never had thought to do. Anyway, we find a sandwich or soup followed by cake is more to our taste than the delicious but overwhelming amounts of food served for a classic tea. So, MeMe had egg salad and cress sandwiches and I had smoked salmon on brown bread. Then, we split a slice of Victoria sponge cake (white cake with jam in the middle and whipped cream on top), which was the cake featured in the play we had seen the day before, called Slice. When we saw it on the menu, we had to try it -- MeMe said it was a little dry (compared to her mother's, but when does anything compare to your mom's cooking), and I found the whipped cream more than made up for any flaw in the cake.
A great excursion especially when it ended with some shoe shopping in the City Centre!
Was the food better at this tea place than the one we went to? Shoe shopping? photos, please.
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