Jin and I are going back to Japan!

[he announces it brightly, before realizing how it could be misunderstood.]

Oh, only for a few days. The tickets were a Christmas gift. I want him to meet my mother, and he wants me to meet his family as well.

[he sounds a little more solemn at that. because, well, jin's family is dead. but he wants to go to where they lived when they were alive, and pay his respects to them.]

I think we're the best qualified, don't you? We're kind of the same place.