Nice writing about this short trip...and you ask a question at the end of your writing,well,actually has been asked by the humans since the begining of humanity. So he answers were the food,health and a home for the old people.In fact answers are not chaged,still are the same but human changes. I mean the human-beings are greedy creatures because of their creation. They buy a house and they buy one more time and at same thing is for the cars and clothes and all the other things.
So i say for the answer people makes people happy. Because all the houses cars and the other things that we bought,buy and will buy are temporary. But friends are not temporary.
And one more thing from Aragorn's poem:
The beautiful things save the world // and everything that starts with loving a person
thank you for sharing and have a nice day my friend...