My New Friend

Here is the lovely woman that I was seated next to. Sadly, we weren't able to communicate with words, but we shared a lot of laughs, especially when she decided that it was time to deplane and we hadn't yet landed. She motioned to Craig to retrieve her suitcase from the overhead bin, just as our plane began to descend into Addis Ababa. Craig, confusedly acquiesced. She marched her luggage up the aisle to the exit, only to be sent back to her seat by the flight attendant. Craig re-stowed her suitcase, she sat back down, and she and I had a good laugh. She had managed to somehow make me understand that she had been in the U.S., away from home for one year. Apparently, she was anxious to get back home!