Jade smiled at Laura, "Nice to meet you. I'm Jade."

Jade also nodded at Roxanne. She would always and forever think of her as 'Roxanne' so she was good on that front.

Looking at her department co-workers and the three Environment department employees (including Roxanne), she couldn't help but think that this trip wasn't going to include as many people as she first thought. It sure would be a cozy intimate trip.

She let out a little giggle. She didn't think that Derek realized just yet that if no other man showed up, he would be the lone man on the trip. Now she would worry about flirtation, etc IF it was any other man besides Derek. In all the years that she had worked with him--she had never heard him discuss a significant other EVER.