Why Sri Lanka without kids but with Czech Boys instead?

vathsanclan
Jul 13, 2017
3 min read

We love to travel with our kids! We think they are really cool and we thoroughly enjoy the experience of taking them on a trip. We obviously also believe how every adventure is simply good for us as a family. It gives our kids wider perspective of the world and is a little bit like a team building exercise.

So why did we make a decision of leaving them behind in India? Ok....already I will stop you there because " leaving them behind" sounds a bit dramatic! : ) Let's not forget that on daily basis we are a very small family, only 4 of us, living in NZ without any nanas or aunties around. When other young couples or parents go out, we very often don't. We are quite good at taking turns, so I will join girls for night out and Vathsan will catch up later on with guys for a poker , but when it comes to both of us going out on a date, that happens very little. But we all know how spending some time without kids, once in a while is good, (especially for sanity) . And if me and Vathsan get to spend this time together is very important for us as a couple, to see each other more as a men and women, not only Mummy and Papi. So asking kids to stay for few days with grandparents in India was almost like catching up all these evenings we did not get a chance to go out. I am sure if you put together 4,5 years of parenting, you will get that 10 days at least. Because 10 days in Sri Lanka, this is only how long we lasted ( there were also other factors pressurizing our calendar back then ). Bruno with Yana were waiting for us in tropical Coimbatore, not in rainy cold Auckland, they were surrounded by family, experiencing all sorts of attention and many new flavours, so I am sure they were not bored. Now we are coming to the point when you can ask Why on Earth did we ended up going with two Czech Guys, couldn't we go only two of us? Sure we could! But what for? We are way too social for that. The more you travel the more you end up picking up new friends all over the world. We met Lukas Horyna back in 2014 in Samoa. He was fun so we invited him to our house in Auckland. Since his stay was equally fun, we visited him one year later in Europe. By 2016 it was time to meet him half way, so Asia was right in the middle. Lukas came with Mira, his childhood friend. That put a whole new spin to the equation. Mira spoke very little English and never left Europe before. I am not even sure if he was ever on board of an airplane before or going to Sri Lanka was actually his first flight. So traveling with Mira was almost like going on a trip with a big kid. He was managing himself much better than a pre schooler, and was able to drink big amounts of alcohol, but there was sooo many Mira's " first times" we were witnessing over this holiday, it gave us a sense of parenthood. We were throwing on him challenges left and right, to keep him amazed and entertained, but also consulting with Lukas, to make sure we draw the line between how many new experiences would make him happy and how many overwhelmed. So over these few days in Sri Lanka we saw Mira for the first time: - taking a rickshaw