The next day after the pool and dinner get together with friends and siblings, my new hubby and I went to my home village. It was his first visit to the place where I grew up. He was surprised when all of the neighbors and their children came to meet him. He said that he felt like he was being treated like a rock star, especially from the kids. I told him that kind of treatment was normal there in my village, especially if you were a foreigner.
We spent the day there in the village eating my favorite dishes and chit-chatting with friends and relatives. Even though the village is only forty miles from the city, I had not spent much time there recently because I had so many things to do in the city preparing for the wedding. It was a great day to relax and for my hubby to spend time getting to know my family.
At that time my family still did not have running water in the house (that has just been recently installed). Since there were no nearby appropriate accommodations (shower and indoor plumbing) we needed to return to the city that evening. Since you can only rent a car with a driver there, we would have had to put him up overnight as well. That made it very inconvenient to spend much time in the village. We were limited to one day excursions back and forth from the city. Fortunately, they opened a nice new resort on the lake a couple of years ago only a few miles from my home. We stayed there two years ago when my sister got married.
We spent most of the remaining time my hubby had there at the resort in the city. He could only afford to spend three weeks away from his business and the time was going by way too fast.