One Less Thing...

It's Monday again, which means another week is over. One more down! 15 weeks over! And even better, we are almost at the halfway point of the tour. Have I mentioned I can't wait until it is all over? Because I really can't. For some reason, the last few weeks have seemed to drag by. Of course, that's always the way. The closer it gets to our vacation, the slower the time seems to go. Only five and a half more weeks, but I'm sure they will feel like 20. Speaking of our vacation, our passports arrived this evening. I know, how strange that they were delivered tonight, but apparently they were behind at the Post Office today, something about new locks. At any rate, the mail lady delivered our passports to the door at 6:30 pm ( I wonder how much she gets paid after 5 pm, but I probably don't want to know). I knew right away what they were. The poor woman probably thought we were stalking her. I'd already checked the mail twice, and Katty checked it after school, and there was nothing. And of course, as soon as Libby saw the mail truck, she went and impatiently waited until she was finished sorting the mail. How disappointing for her when there was nothing exciting in the mail. "Bills are so not exciting, mommy." Tell me about it. Imagine how excited we all were when the mail truck drove down our street, turned around, and pulled into our driveway. All of the neighbourhood kids came running. I'm thinking they mistook the mail truck for an ice cream truck. I knew right away what she had, four Express Post envelopes. I was so happy I could have hugged her. It only took eleven weeks to get them. We sent our passports in via our Member of Parliament office and they were fantastic. They checked our applications to make sure there were no mistakes, and they even tracked them for us. I called a couple of weeks ago to check on the status of our applications. The MP's office called me on May 4 and said they'd gotten an e-mail from the passport office and we would have our passports in 10-15 days (it was actually only 9). They were so reassuring and helpful, not what one usually experiences with government bureaucracy. But in this case, the government actually did something for their constituents. They certainly earned my vote. Actually, our MP is Conservative, so she had it anyway. So tonight, we have one less thing to worry about. We've got our passports and our plane tickets, we're already to go. Is it June yet? Hurry up already.

"Vacation used to be a luxury, but in today's world it has become a necessity."~~Author Unknown