"We discussed it on the flight that, when we get there and get our hands on her, we're gonna be scolding her and telling her she shouldn't have wandered off. Um, you know, nobody believed it would get to this point," Bearman says.

And, Cobiella says, no one has forgotten her. Not the people in her hometown, or the students she was supposed to join at the University of Alabama. Student John Peters helped hang yellow ribbons around campus in her honor. "We wanted to do it just to show support for (Holloway's) friends and family," he says. "We did it for the friends of Natalee, just to let her know we did care, and we still do care, and we're here to help them in any way we can."

Holloway should be two days into her new life as a college student. A full academic scholarship awaits her, and the school is holding her room in the freshman dorm for her.

Most of the money raised will help Holloway's family members pay their expenses in Aruba.