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DH and I have dreams of traveling the world.  Silly us, we both let our passports expire, long before we had finished seeing what there is to see.  He's been to Japan, and I've been to Mexico and Peru.  There is a lot of world to see, and we've not seen much of it together yet.

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So we made a deal that we would start by getting our passports renewed.  It's been an adventure so far! We went to the government website to fill out the applications online.  We each went through the form, answering all the questions.  Then we printed it out, like they said.  Doing this we discovered that there were more questions on the printed form than what we had been prompted to fill out.  The web site apparently filled it out for us.  It decided that neither of us had ever been married, and we both have two moms, who happen to not be US citizens.  This struck me as super funny: two major issues guaranteed to cause a row in this country.  And I live in Utah, so that makes it even funnier.  

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The website said that since our expired passports had been issued more than 15 years ago, we had to appear in person at the appropriate local office.  It also said that we could pay with credit card, check, or money order.  Or at least that's what we thought it said, using our supreme reading comprehension skills.

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We gussied ourselves up pretty (this photo has to last 10 years!) and headed over.  Upon arrival, we discovered that they wouldn't accept a credit card.  We looked at each other, "do we even have any checks?"  Since we were already pretty, we thought we should go ahead and get the photos done before the varnish wore off.  Then, further perusal of the forms indicated that we also needed our parents birth dates, cities of birth, oh and exact days of our prior divorces!

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I couldn't remember what year my dad was born, and the day of my divorce?????  How should I know? I was too busy partying it up!  The internet is a lovely thing:)  Ancestry.com told me what year my dad was born, and the Texas divorce index gave me that information.  We did find a check, and ran back over.  I know those poor people thought we were absolutely insane, but they smiled and took our money and said we should have passports in 6-8 weeks!  Yeah!  I'm watching for travel deals now:)

What are you doing on this fine Wednesday?