May 2008 - Julia was set to arrive in the Ft. Myers airport at 11 am on Wednesday, May 28th. We were so excited to have her home. We had told everyone in the ward so that they could be at the airport to greet her if the wanted to. On the Monday before, my parents got a call from Julia. She said that she was going to be arriving in the Miami airport at 5am and wanted to know if we could pick her up there so that she didn't have to wait 5 hours before flying to Ft. Myers. They called me and we all talked about it. We decided that we had no way of knowing who in the ward was planning on coming to the airport in Ft. Myers to greet her so we should just keep things the way they were. Aaron had patients scheduled in the morning so he couldn't go to Miami and my mom was scheduled to work in the morning also. So we hung up with Julia being really disappointed.
As soon as we got off the phone and I started thinking about it, I realized that we had made a huge mistake. She is our family and we hadn't seen her for a year and a half - how could we not go get her? All day on Tuesday we worked out plans to go down and get her in Miami. We weren't sure how we were going to find her since they don't let you enter the gates without a ticket, but were determined to make it happen. At 3 am my mom, dad, Jonathan, Val, Lexy and I headed down to Miami. We got there right at 5:oo to discover that her plane had been delayed an hour. We went into the building that said "Customs" and hoped that somehow we could find her. When we started asking around we realized that she would have to go through customs before she could go to her connecting flight. So we sat and waited and waited and waited until finally we saw her. She was too busy trying to figure out which way she was suppose to go so we just stood behind the big glass wall waving and smiling until she looked at us.
It was great to be there to surprise her. On our way home we stopped and had breakfast at Denny's and made it back about an hour before we had to go to the Ft. Myers airport for her second "Welcome Home".
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