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Update! We leave Friday, June 15th. We will arrive Saturday night, just in time for Father's Day!

The passports are coming. The passports are coming!!!

"We have finished processing your passport, and it has been mailed to you. " This is a copy & pasted quote from the U.S. Passport application website...can you believe it?? They said that we should receive them by June 14th. Okay, now I'm really nervous. This means we're really going. We bumped our flights all the way to the 20th because of scheduling difficulties, but I'm pretty sure with a little finagling we can get that changed. Wow, has this been a long & drawn out process...13 wks & 1 day to be exact (and that's if we actually receive them when they say we will). Okay, let's cross our fingers. I'll keep you posted.

Just a blip on the radar

Okay, so maybe we're not on our way to discover the land of Qatar. What can I say. So here's the latest non news that there is. I finally got thru to the passport hotline last night after 10:00pm. I was so excited to hear that my hold time was only 5 minutes (they usually disconnect you & do not allow you to hold). A lovely lady answers the phone after around 6 minutes...only to deliver the blow. She shows that Kristi & I have applied, but does not see that the process has begun. Oh my gosh! Needless to say, I fell apart on the dear lady and she had to hear my sad story, as I'm sure she has already heard many others. But she listened & empathized. She sent an urgent message to the Houston Regional office to get our passports out ASAP by Fedex. I think somehow she was trying to humor me, because by the end of the conversation she wasn't even sure if they looked at their email. She did offer to make me an appointment in New Orleans to go thru the process (as the Houston office is completely inundated). I was too upset at the time to process the info given to me and hung up the phone. I immediately fell apart, then pulled myself together & called David 8000 miles away to see if he could solve my problem. He did just that. He listened & I got over it. Just another blip on the radar that somehow, someday will be so unimportant.

Nope :(

And that's all I have to say about that...

Not Yet!

For all of you who keep asking the age old question....Passports?? NO, WE STILL HAVE NO PASSPORTS!!! But we do have plane tickets leaving out Sunday afternoon. Just two more mail days before Sunday. I like to keep a positive attitude, but somehow I see myself sitting back at my desk come monday morning at JGA. Now, that in itself would not be a bad thing, because I love (loved...awww) my job. I said goodbye today to a great group of people that I love dearly & enjoyed working with for the last six, almost seven years. I would be amiss not to send a heartfelt thank you for the most awesome crawfish boil. So, I raise a toast to the JGA gang. It was a wonderful ride. Cheers.