In Stirling for a few days

So on Tuesday, I was pretty set on getting off campus, cause I was feeling a little trapped on campus and going out may help me to get over that. So I set out to the library to look up prices and bus stops and what not to get to Stirling castle or the Wallace monument, or something. So I found out that the Stirling castle is 7.50 and we'd have to take the bus to get there so that's 9 pounds to do that, 

Stirling Castle

and then the Wallace monument is 7.50 pounds and we could walk, but it was REALLY cold today.

Wallace Monument

 Literally the coldest it’s been yet. So we decided the third option would just be to walk to the castle on campus and see that and see a movie on campus instead. Since Due Date was said to be playing, or the other one was Unstoppable. So we decided on the 3d option and we invited some of the other girls too. We  hadn't eaten so we decided to go to a new place called Haldane's which is kind of a cafeteria type place, and it was actually the best place we've hit yet. The food was good, and they had COLD water, which is unheard of so far. So we got a pasta dish which had cheese and yummyness and it came with garlic bread and a salad. And the water was free. So that was a SCORE!!! and then we were meeting up with the other people to go to the castle, and they were upstairs waiting for us. 

The castle was REALLY close, and since classes hadn't started yet we were able to clomp around the castle and inside, and it was really cool. We walked upstairs and around and then were ready to leave until one of the girls noticed we hadn't been in a really big room yet, and that turned out to be the coolest room of them all. It was really ornate with big windows and a beautiful fireplace!! lol 

So we walked around there for a while then started to head back to main campus. So we thought of a few more things we needed to do like find our books and I hadn't heard if I made it in the classes that I wanted to switch in to. So we headed back into the library and found a few of those things.

One of the benches on campus

A swan in the loch on campus

Wasting time in the library

3 floors of the library, in the middle floor you can see the handles that help move the shelves, kinda cool.

 It was like 3:20 by this time and I checked my email and I had gotten into both the classes I had wanted. It was kind of a stroke of luck, but a girl that I had met before was sitting across from me and said she was in that same class and asked me if I had signed up for small groups yet. and I hadn't so I asked her when the signups were, and she said 1-3:30!!! So Amanda and I took off looking for that room and it was of course in the middle of not where it was supposed to be!! lol. So we got there by 3:27 and no one was there, but there was a sign of where to go if I had missed it. So I went to that office and signed up for that class unknowing when my other classes were so I just guessed!! lol. but it ended up being perfect in my schedule. lol. 

So we went back to the library and went looking for my books and Allie's books and we got to move some of the movable shelving which was really fun!! lol.  We did that, then we went to the store and bought some popcorn chicken. Then we walked back to my dorm to make popcorn chicken and leave off some of our books. We had decided to go to the movie but that wouldn't be until 7:30. We made chicken and ate it. Then we walked down to the theater, which is on campus, but they don't consider it owned by the university so you have to walk out of the building and in it's own entrance. lol. so we did and it's a REALLY cool place, good lighting and whatnot. So we got in and were going to see unstoppable and paid for it. So we were waiting and then they told us the film for Unstoppable wasn't working, but that Due Date would be. So they refunded us our money and let us watch Due Date anyways. So we got into a good movie for free!! lol. And they do a stamp card for the movies, like if you pay for 3 you get in your 4th free. So we got to keep our stamp even though we didn't have to pay for it. So it ended up being a great night, and relatively inexpensive, considering we got a movie free! Lol