The Inlaws Return
Their arrival is imminent. Hours away. I had thought this moment wouldn’t be presenting itself quite frankly ever again. Instead, in 5 hours’ time, I will be off to the airport to pick my in-laws up, and bring them back. Midnight arrival, in the middle of a forecasted rainstorm.(oh the irony) My father in law is 76 years old, and quite frankly too exhausted to travel this far. My MnL is approaching 70. I’ve written about them many times. I’ve compared them to my parents.(my mom, nearly 66, sent me a few days ago yet another photo of herself in a string bikini….my wife doesn’t wear string bikinis….or bikini’s) My wife has told me they will stay for only 3 months, and I of course, will try and be in China as much as possible during that time. My wife and daughters will be coming back the day after, having spent 5 weeks in Hangzhou. I had thought, after the disaster last summer, that my in-laws would seriously never be coming back. Last summer didn’t g