A Wedding in Wales

We're back in Azerbaijan after a few days gallivanting around Wales for Matt and Katie's wedding.  It was a hectic weekend, flying straight after work on the Thursday, driving to Wales on the Friday, the wedding on the Saturday, driving back to Heathrow on the Sunday and then flying out first thing on Monday morning.

But it was an amazing weekend, and we had so much fun seeing everybody again...even if it had only been four weeks since we saw some of them last!

Matt and Katie {although, I think probably mostly Katie} had bought flags for everyone based on where they had travelled from to get to the wedding. God knows where they got them from, but we had two little Azerbaijan flags on our place settings.

 

I think Dan's highlight of the weekend was getting to drive into the castle when we went to set everything up in the morning.  It was pretty cool.

 

My highlight? Rich's dancing - the handstand turned backflip with an accidental backwards roll and stumble got the whole floor's attention if they hadn't already been watching his great moves. I have videos, but I'm saving them for his 50th birthday or something.
 

Going back did have it's other advantages - normal shops, with normal things. We cleared out the shelves in Asda of Cadbury's chocolate {the first three HUGE bars that I brought lasted me all of a week and a half}. Sales of chewing gum and tea bags also went up.
 

We exchanged some of our pounds for dollars: The referendum had made the pound crash really badly and currency exchanges were refusing our money {we lived cheaply for the last few days before we flew back to the UK}.
 

Getting back to the hotel from the airport was a bit of a nightmare - it took forever to get through immigration and we had to go and buy new temporary visas as our residency ones haven't come through yet. But we made it back in one piece, despite a dodgy taxi situation.
 

I thought that as we weren't going to be away long  re-adjusting to the time wouldn't be too bad. Turns out I was wrong. Getting up for work on Tuesday morning was tough and Dan was almost falling asleep at work.
 

So here we are, back to the crazy world of Baku.