To Thailand to see our granddaughter -1-

During our New Year's vacation, we decided that we should go to Thailand while Yuki was working (it means we enough income.)
In February it is the cheapest season to travel abroad in Japan.
And we can still afford to pay for the travel.
Coincidentally  Yuki found  a reasonable tour package.
Yuki and I are not used to traveling abroad by ourselves. So we booked a tour including a stay in a nice hotel but with no plans. You might think why we don't stay with our daughters' family.
If we stay there for more than one or two weeks, we will stay with them, but our plan was two-day and four-night trip, so we didn't want  bother them. ( I know they haven't organize a guest room yet, it means guest room is still  full of stuff which they brought from Japan in October, though there are two big beds.)

Well it was a short trip, but we had to take lots of things, Yuki thought we could go there with our own carry-on bags. No Way! We didn't need to take two big suitcases, but  at least one was necessary.

We needed a lot of cloths. Ah-chan's toy, and Ah-chan's Japanese stationery.
While we were waiting for the day, we prepared for our travel well, actually it took many days for preparing for it.

As I told you, I'm not used to traveling abroad.
So the day was approaching I got nervous. I had a toothache. So I went to see a dentist. I had a trouble on my fingers. So I went to see an osteopath.
Yuki was very busy to schedule his two days-off to travel.
Anyway the day was coming by.
And --- two days before our departure day, our younger daughter M caught the flu.
(I knew, Ah-chan had fever 4 days before our departure day, but it was not the flu. )
Now, or always (M says) , some people catch the flu in Bangkok. ( Later we really understood the situation, because the outside is very hot, but the inside is very cold by the perfect air conditioner so it is like Japanese winter.)

Here in Japan the flu is going around. We manage not to catch it by avoiding to talk with such people. Ironically we are going into the flu world all the way.Luckily we are going to stay in a hotel.

Our departure day comes.
We wake up at 3:50 and left here at 4:15. And got to Narita airport at 7:30. ( we parked our car in a private parking lot)
Our departure time was 9:35.