Acknowledgements

[coalescent]

I'm back! And I had a good time. And eventually managed to find most of the items of clothing that I needed. The trip back was fun; the flight we were meant to be on was cancelled due to lack of cabin crew (actually, it was the previous flight out from london that was cancelled, the fact that my flight was cancelled was just a knock-on effect). This meant we ended up on the late flight, which left at about 8pm. I was then shuffled around three different seats in order to accomodate families who had been split up in the attempts to fit everyone on to one flight. I ended up sitting behind a man who insisted on tilting his chair back as far as possible for the entire flight; as you may imagine, this did not leave me a huge amount of leg room, so I was a little cramped.

Thanks to:

My Dad, for being far more generous than I expected by not only using his air miles to buy my tickets, but deciding to pay for large chunks of the clothes I bought as well.

My Mum, for being generally Mum-like and level-headed.

(I wouldn't say I'm someone who is particularly close to my family. I don't feel the need to share everything that happens with my parents; if you read this regularly, you probably know as much or more about my life as they do. This may well change when I move out,since currently, as you might expect, there are lack of independence issues getting in the way, and these did carry over a little on the holiday. However, I want to be absolutely clear about one thing: My parents rock.)

applez for being host and tour guide extraodinaire, introducing me to Cowboy Bebop and at least two fine, fine eating establishments and generally being his usual genial self.

And last but not least, anyone who posted in this thread. It was very cool to log on every couple of days and find new messages, and it seems to have worked out as a rather neat summary of my holiday.

So...have I missed anything important?