My parents have come back from a five-day trip around Hokkaido and Tohoku. They did not take planes but took trains all the way.
I called my mother on the phone. They seemed to have enjoyed the trip.
Unfortunately, it was raining during their whole trip, she said.
In the evening in Kofu, it started raining cats and dogs. When I was about to leave the office back home, the rain stopped, so I rode a bike. It started raining again on the way back home.
I got all wet.