A day out with my husband

The forecast was pretty bad for today so James suggested that we go to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. I have never been there before and it was well worth a visit. A plaque on the wall informed us that it was closed for renovations between 2009 and 2011, so it only re-opened about six months ago and it was very smart. I loved looking at all the portraits of Scottish people through the ages. Some were paintings and some were photographs, and there were quite a few sculptures too. There were Kings and Queens, Lords and Ladies, artists, poets and writers, engineers and doctors and actors. Each portrait had an information board bit of information about the subject which was often very intriguing. We enjoyed it so much that after lunch we went back again to see more. Lunch was at VinCaffe which is an Italian restaurant near Harvey Nichols that we have been to before, it was delicious; I had ravioli with sage and butter sauce. We also nipped into the Harvey Nichols food shop briefly but James was keen to leave so I didn't get the chance to linger. I bought some cool tea flowers which I will look forward to trying out. After some more time in the National Portrait Gallery we headed back to Glasgow in driving rain, it was a good rainy day out. Grandma came round for dinner later, she was in good spirits and we watched that Planet Earth (not) Live again. The photography is really good but it's so not live!