Passports

We’re taking a little family trip in a few months time. It’s out of the country (Vietnam, thanks for asking) so we’ve all had to get new passports. The kids because they’ve never had one before, and the adults because ours have expired.

Hoo-eee, has it been a difficult process.

Firstly, you have a go at getting 2 kids under 3 to stay still, not smile, not cry, have their mouth shut, hold their chin up etc. for a picture. It can’t be done, I’m telling you. Or at least it can be, but not without crying at such a pitch and volume that the whole shopping centre turns around at once to stare at you. And that’s just the adults!

Anyway, we got some pictures eventually, and I went down to my friendly local post office for the interview. It turns out one of the kids’ photos wasn’t right – the distance between the top of the head and the chin was less than 2 millimetres out. 2 mils! So we had to do it again.

Then there’s the form itself, which is available online. You can’t download it and fill it out by hand in your own time. No, you have to go through an extremely tedious wizard thing. At every second step it turns out you need some piece of information you don’t have at hand, so you have to do the whole thing again (because you forgot to write down the code they gave you at the start of the process).

I’m a little cheezed off with the whole thing, let me tell you. It might just be easier to stay home.

Running
A 10km run this morning, with AM. I’m not sure she (AM) was quite at her fleet-footed best, I know I wasn’t. So it was a pretty gently stroll along the river, but in lovely weather.

I’m tossing up doing the Maroondah Hospital fun run this Sunday morning. It pretty much goes past my house, so I should enter. I’m thinking about taking one of the kids in the pram. That might be fun???