On June 20, 2007, our dear friend Lorrie (also affectionately called "Lonnie" for those of you faithful readers who don't know her...) departed Columbia for adventure and teaching at a school in South Africa. She was gone for a year and last night, 3 very excited friends picked up their friend from the Charlotte airport. Julie, Jeff and I arrived (ALMOST late... running through the airport garage and into the baggage claim area) with sign in hand, and little horn things (I never know what to call them). We had one goal in mind (apart from retrieving our long-lost friend): embarress her when she gets off the plane. Lorrie has always been easy to embarress. So what better way to begin her time back in the states? We waited patiently (and sometimes impatiently) for her to come down the escalator, and when she did, we were waiting- RIGHT at the bottom, behind the sign and as soon as she appeared, and we just started blowing our little horns (and I was simultaneously taking pictures). EVERYONE looked. You can see the progression of her embarressment in the pictures below :)
Here's Jules with our beautiful sign...
Take 1 of Julie, Jeff and Becca...
Take 2, much better....
Here she comes down the escalator, not quite sure of what she's seeing... (How awesome would it have been if THIS guy's name had been Lonnie... he would've been so excited and then disappointed...)
Then, once she realizes what's going on, she gets a little embarressed...
Then she sees the large crowd of people whose attention had been drawn due to the loud noises, and tries to quiet us down with her hands...
First embrace for Julie and Lonnie...
Then a hug for Jeff...
Here we are, carrying all of Lonnie's worldy belongings through the garage
First hug for Devin back at the house...
Showing Lonnie the novelty of the American fork (she'd been gone for a while... for all I knew, she forgot how to use one...)
Jules, Lonnie and me! Together again!
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