Address Book size under Mountain Lion is very big...

Hi!
I've recently upgraded to ML, when I Backup my address book "File>Export>"Contact Archive" my 230 contacts become a 1.4GB file.
Is that normal with only 230 contacts? My old backup files are lik 70mb.
Thank You!
Nandor

Ok, I managed to get it down to 8MB vs. 1.4GB
This is what I did,
1. Backup Contacts.
2. Turned off Contacts under iCloud, I selected Delete contact from Mac.
3. Deleted everything under user>Library>Application Support>AddressBook
4. Started Address Book, came up all empty nice and clean.
5. Turned ON contacts in iCloud, in a few minutes I had all contacts with pictures back
6. New Backup file size is 8MB
I hope it helps someone.

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