He passed a growing stream of laughing and happy people who'd either arrived as groups or had met their contacts here. He bobbed his head around to try and see Anna but hadn't yet set eyes on a solo young woman who'd fit the bill. He'd always remembered her hair blonder than her mother's strawberry tint but not the straw yellow of his most recent and unlamented ex-girlfriend.
The crowd thinned and he saw, was that her? Her right side faced him as she leaned over and spoke to a little girl who looked up, both faces held huge smiles as the girl's parents stood alongside and smiled. A broad sunhat on a head covered with hair that just wasn't quite red that obscured the rest of the face, long, bare legs clad in very short white shorts that emphasised her nice base tan, the curve of butt cheek
