My Parents visit

うちの両親が１週間お休みを取って遊びにきてくれました。母は途上国は初めてで、父も健康面が少し心配でしたが無事に色々観光して帰国しました。

My parents came to visit me for one week. It was a very short visit, but I was extremely happy to host them.

During the short period of time, we managed to:

• Do a mountain flight to see the Himalayan range and the Everest！
• Went to a national park and stayed 2 nights in a fancy lodge and completely “safari-ed” out (see the picture of the elephant safari and rhinos!)
• Spent nearly 7 hours at the airport waiting for flights (there was an on-going raider antenna maintenance… such thing is un-heard of…)
• Visited a temple, old palace, museum,
• Ate traditional food, Tibetan hotpot, soba-noodle made with local buckwheat, cooked at home with my mother
• Lots of talking about everything and nothing
• stayed up late to solve “su-doku”with my mom

They were able to see the glimpse of my real life here, including load-shedding, smell and dust on a street, crazy traffic, long wait for everything, meeting my good friend among many things.

二人は私の生活が垣間見れたと、喜んでくれていました。短い間だったけど国立公園のジャングルの中のホテルに泊まりサファリをしたり、エベレストの遊覧飛行をしたり、私も今までしたことのなかった観光をできて楽しかった。でも何より両親と話したり、一緒にご飯を作ったり、スーパーに買い物に行ったり、私のこの国での日常を味わってもらうことができて嬉しかった。海外旅行に招待することなんかは親孝行の内にも入らないのは百も承知だけど、色々な景色を見たり、変った物や美味しい物を食べたり、両親が楽しんでくれて本当に良かった。遠いところを来てくれてありがとう。

I was quite impressed with how they handled everything pretty well. I hope they stay healthy and will be able to go on many more trips.

I was so sad after they left. It is much harder than coming home after I visit them in Japan.