I am here

I arrived in Vegas about three and a half hours ago. It took ages to get through customs as a plane full of people had just arrived before. I made a new buddy on the flight though so I had someone to chat to whilst I was waiting. My American phone isn't working at the moment for some reason, so for Noel/Jason/Andrew/Brian if you want to contact me you'll need to phone Vanessa for now. I met Vanessa and she'd arranged to go eat with a couple of her friends at a place called Del Monico's. This was pretty much perfect for meas I'd starved myself on the plane in preparation for a monster meal once I got to Vegas.

Del Monico's is a really nice steakhouse (I think), but as it was in the day it was more informal and we ate at the bar and chatted to the barman a decent amount. I had a humongous steak. I can't even remember what it was right now - I think I have food blackout or something. I'm seriously so full right now it's unreal. It's going to take a bit of time to get used to eating over here again after months of Crunchy Nut Cornflakes and cheese and ham sandwiches. The plan was to go to the supermarket afterwards, but I was too full to do that so we grabbed a coffee and headed back to her apartment. 

On the eating front, I tried a pair of jeans and a couple of pair of shorts on when I was packing back home that didn't fit me at all when I came back from Vegas last July. Well they were actually quite loose! So I must've lost some weight! That doesn't excite me too much to be honest - it just means I must've been really fat when I got home last year! Anyway, my new plan is to make sure I eat enough so that I don't fit into them when I get home this time. Good plan.

The only other interesting thing to report is that when I got to Manchester airport at about 7am, I went to book in and they asked for my return flight ticket. Well, I hadn't booked a return flight and apparently this meant that I couldn't get on the plane. Hmmm. I could've sworn I'd just booked one way before and been fine. Well it turns out I was wrong and I had booked a return flight both times last year (I'd just altered the first one). So I ended up having to buy a return ticket there and then at about 2.5x the cost of what I almost ordered one for the day before online! Oops. It was so annoying because I knew exactly when I was coming home, I just hadn't bothered ordering one yet. Oh well - you live and learn.

Here are some pictures so far:

A couple of views from Vanessa's balcony.