We had to rush to D.C. on Saturday before we left for Kenya to get emergency issue passports because the Kenyan Embassy never sent them back to us with our visas (of course they did find them AS we left for the airport on Monday... a little late, don't you think?)
Can you say long day? We left home at 5am to get to the passport place by 8:30 am and then hung out at the Smithsonians (Hirshorn gallery of modern art) and walked around D.C., found a huge and awesome fountain full of ducks (whom we tortured with false promises of bread), and then returned to the office at 1pm to pick the passports up (can I just say I liked my other passport photo way better?).
Anyways, three-hundred dollars and a call to our senator later, we got our passports and avoided one more delay. (note that a ticket change would have cost us $700).
As a side note, on the way home the interstate traffic was going as slow as molasses and I was totally about to start kicking up a fuss when we started seeing cops on the side of the road, one every mile for about six and then a cluster of four police cars on the seventh. After we passed them the traffic cleared right up and everyone was going the more preferable speed of ninety to nothin' trying to make up for lost time. Listening to the radio five minutes later, we heard the reason the police were lining the roads was because someone had called the police station saying that there were men with guns on the side of the road, and that's when the announcer on the radio started laughing. "Turns out the men were hunters!" the announcer said.Okay northern Virginians, this is hunting season for goodness sake, and turkeys are in!
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