The jaw drop and then the ear to ear grins!
From the previous post you would have gathered by now how I was lurking behind the pillar as Nikita came out of the immigration and customs area in Washington DC airport after two long flights from Uganda.
Keeping a safe distance of a few feet I kept weaving thru the crowd. And then when she reached a less crowded spot, quickly paced up, approached her from her rear right and said “Excuse me!” like I was trying to pass her.
She instinctively said sorry and withdrew to her left.
I made eye contact.
One Mississippi. Two Mississippi.
And that is when the jaw drop happened. I caught a part of her face (you can see in the top part of the picture).
Spent a few minutes with her fellow interns returning from Uganda, took a group picture and came back to my hotel to start my day. She is staying with her friend tonight. And we will go back home tomorrow.