Saturday.

Woke up around 9:30 to grab breakfast today, which was nice to get some food in my stomach. I was dead tired from our night last night plus having jet lag set in. I met a funny man named Robert in the elevator ("lift," as the locals say) who was traveling through Scotland. He was from a small town in the highlands and constantly wore a kilt and a tartan pattern Scottish hat. He instantly guessed that I was from Iowa, which was hilarious, but he had some good advice about what and where to visit in Glasgow. I sat and ate my cereal and toast with a couple from Australia who were on summer break (it's backwards there, you know, other side of the world and all). They had been traveling for almost a month and were planning to visit 15 different countries! Madness. After breakfast I went back to the room, took a shower, and then relaxed until Javier woke up.

Javier and I had to explore downtown Glasgow for a few hours to find some supplies. I had to buy a phone and he needed a few other things. We walked to a mall (they call them "squares" here) called Princes Square, which was a crazy cool building. It had four floors, awesome staircases, and a sweet glass ceiling. I'll have to work on taking pictures... I haven't had time! We ate at an Italian restaurant and it was excellent! I can't wait to go to Italy...

We walked back to the hostel and took a nap until around 7, then we met up with Javier's friend Marina to go get fish and chips. It was interesting. A block of fried fish on top of a mound of fries. It was good but definitely needed ketchup. After that we met up with a girl from Greece, a couple from Sweden, and a guy named Antoni from New Zealand and walked to another apartment party put on by Antonio and a few other Spanish people from the other night. It was nice to meet more people and practice my very limited Spanish, but we called it an early night and went back to the hostel to sleep. It was an eventful day but I think this jet lag is going to catch up with me quickly...