sometimes you just have to jump on a plane

And then head to a hotel where your brother is staying where he will speak at a conference later in the week.  And catch him on his day off so you can walk to a mall to go to the Apple store to get a cable for his computer, and then to a seafood restaurant found via Yelp, where you will sit and drink pina coladas, because you are adults and adults do these things when they are without their kids.  And they have the time to catch up and visit with one another.

And you will eat a leisurely lunch and chat for over two hours and then walk back to the hotel and see exotic penguins and flowers on the grounds that you have never seen.  And then you and your brother will sit by the pool and relax some more and have some laughs.

And on the plane home you will marvel at how life happens and one day the boy who hit you with a snowball from the neighbor's yard and teased you sometimes but also helped you get through high school math and stood up for you when you needed a big brother is now a married father of three, and a respected physician published in the New England Journal of Medicine, presenting his research and slowly changing the face of medicine in ICUs all over the world, a great doctor who saves lives every day.

And when you look back you will be glad that for one day the two of you were able to relax together, because you both deserved it and you haven't done this since college.