Bigger might not mean better

The trip home was great. The wedding was lovely. Th eweather was great all day, everyone, especially Lauryn (the bride), looked great and surprisingly Will scrubbed up well. I'll go into more detail about teh wedding when I sort out the photos (so expect it sometime in August) but I should say that it was great to be back with my mates at home. I love the way that even when we're off doing our own thing for ages, when we get back together it's like we've never been apart. And cheers to Matt's mum for putting us up during teh wedding weekend.

The rest of the week I was in Hull with my family. We had a postponed Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, which was lovely. My mum had left the Christmas decorations up so we had presents under the tree too. I got a bunch of new DVDs and CDs to keep me entertained in Japan.

We also had meal out for my birthday. We did try to go to Waggoners, the steak house pub near my Mum's, but when we arrived we found it had new management and had been changed into a Chinese restaurant. I was gutted, especially since I was looking forward to my 32oz steak. Instead, we drove out to New Ellerby to the Railway Inn and had a steak there. Back home, I was given more presents for my birthday.

So with Christmas presents and birthday presents and omiyage for teachers and friends, it wasn't surprising that my case was overweight. But at check-in they let it through. I've also put on a bit of extra weight after binge eating on British food for a week (pies, steaks, fish and chips, beer, biscuits etc etc). I guess I'll be heading to the gym more often in the evenings, especially if the snow condition doesn't improve