My sister Rissa has been planning a 3 week trip to Europe for a year now. I couldn't go without quitting my job (I want at least a year at this one to rack up some experience), so my mom agreed to go with her.

My sister ordered her passport a month or two ago, but it still hadn't arrived before she had to leave school and came back to Texas. Her flight was scheduled for this last Tuesday. She called and called, and was assured her passport would arrive through the mail before Tuesday. Over the weekend, she was confident it would get here in time. Monday it didn't arrive. She called and they said there was no way it was getting there on Tuesday. My sister bawled in our room and my mom canceled flights and hotel reservations, and they discussed how in the world they were going to get this trip to happen. We watched Heroes and I generally tried to cheer her up from the terrible funk this disappointment had put her in.

Tueday morning, at 8am, a FedEx truck pulled up with Rissa's passport. XD Mom was able to re-setup their flight for that evening, and they packed like mad and were able to get out and go! ^_^

They started in London, saw Wicked on West End, and are in Paris now, seeing the Louvre and Versailles. They'll be going down to Italy in a day or two for some extensive Romanism. Rissa is a Latin major, so she's totally in Old World heaven. They'll go back up to Brussels, Belgium, and stay with my brother Tim and his wife, who are doing some sort church-sponsored job center setup thing all over the Dutch-speaking areas this summer. Ah, my little world travelers.

I'll eventually get myself over to Europe too. I want castles and art museums. Except with a tour, as I'm too lazy to want to plan it all myself. XP

If you are PLANNING TO LEAVE THE USA in the next year or so, please order your passport now, as they are in a tremendous backlog. I have no problems with passports being required for all extra-country travel, oh Government, just be smart enough to hire enough passport people to handle all the citizens who always pop down to Mexico every year and are now required to get a passport! Jeez!

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