Sunday Suprise from the World Travelers

At 5:30pm yesterday I received a very exciting phone call. "Jess, this is Liz. We decided to get bumped on our flight home from Paris, and we are in Seattle for the night, how far away from the airport do you live?" I think I may have seriously scared her with my excitement. I think the words "I'm fifteen minutes away we will be right there!!" came out of my mouth faster than you could say "uncle". So my brother Isaac, wife Liz, and two cute kids Sarah and Josh got picked up and brought to the Brown household for Sunday dinner.

They were just flying in from a two week trip to London, where they visited my parents, and also traveled around Europe, visiting Germany and France at the tail end of their trip.
As luck would have it, it was also Isaac's birthday. So we got to all sing the Paxman round of Happy Birthday songs to him while he blew out his tea light and thought of what he wanted to wish for on his 38th birthday. I couldn't believe how good the bunch of them looked and sounded considering they had been awake for 23 hours and counting.

We enjoyed a wonderful visit with the Paxman's and tried to hold on to them as long as we could but after a few hours the travel and jet lag kicked in and it was time for them to go get some sleep.
Amazingly Isaac was able to peel the kids off of my couches and we drove them back to their hotel room to sleep until 4:00 am when they would get on their final flight home.
Sleep well Paxmans. It was fun seeing you.