Unexpected news

When my wife got home from dropping the younger daughter off at pre-school, she discovered a message on the answering machine from my ex-pat brother. He's flying into Washington from Jakarta on Saturday and will be here until Monday. Sounds like he has a full schedule of work related stuff on his agenda, but we should be able to spend at least a little time with him. We figure that since he's flying halfway around the world, the least we can do is adjust our schedules to accommodate him. Honestly, I wasn't expecting to see him for many more months, since he made a special trip to the US last summer (when he was still living in Geneva) to visit. Jakarta is a long (an very expensive) airplane ride away, so I've resigned myself to very sporadic contact with him and his wife. I'm just glad Monday is a holiday, so I won't even need to ditch work to spend time with him!