An awful lot of mince pies!

Because we intended to bring back some Christmas stuff, we had set off with two large, hard-shell Samsonite cases. We naively thought that going, we'd be well within the 15 Kg. limit set by Ryanair. Mine was a little under and Jan's was well over. So much for our planning. The biggest problem with our old Samsonites is the weight of the cases themselves. A 15 Kg. weight allowance isn't much use when the cases themselves weigh about 8 Kg. each. Anticipating too much return weight we bought a new carry-on bag which we can fill with an extra 10 Kg. In the event, we were just over all the weight allowances when we checked in, ie. 12 Kg. more came back then we went out with. Now that's a lot of mince pies! Why so many boxes of mince pies? Well, as Jan pointed out, with 18 people at Christmas, 1 mince pie each means three boxes. Hmnnnn.