First, passports

OK, so it was foolish to leave our passport applications for so long. We just kept looking at the lineups and thinking "we'll go when it's not so busy." But now we're caught up in the rush to get passports before the mandatory requirement kids in January 23rd. There's a lineup to get into the lineup in the passport office and it seems to take 5-6 hours to get through it. We checked it out last week and decided to devote a day to the process - we're here with George, two camping chairs, a laptop, and lots of books and magazines.