Well, we’re back from our journey to the homeland for the holidays. Overall the trip went pretty well, thanks to all the efforts that my family went to in order to host so many visitors. We were all in one house for the first half of the trip, and then we spread out into two houses for the second half. The Degliantoni’s down the street donated their place to put everyone up, and it helped a lot with the sleeping arrangements.
I think that Kuniko’s parents enjoyed their first visit to California. Kuniko’s dad was intensely curious about everything around him, and we spent a lot of effort trying to keep him informed and answering his questions. The only problem was that they weren’t that comfortable just lounging around doing nothing. They spent hours and hours on puzzles and since they couldn’t really communicate with anyone I think that at times they got lonely. Luckily once Kuniko’s sister and her husband arrived there were more people they could talk to.
Now that we’re back in Japan we’re looking at our plans for 2014, but there are some question marks in our careers that will need to be sorted out before we do anything major. Hopefully some of these will be resolved in the near future…
