Today Steve and I applied for passports because this summer we are going on an Alaskan cruise and will need a passport when we stop for the day in Victoria, Canada.
Who knew it would take up most of the day? Of course we started out in Richardson at the main post office. We quickly discovered that my birth certificate from the hospital and a document of citizenship would not suffice. I had to have an official copy of the state registered certificate. So then we had to go to the Collin County office in Plano. After paying $23.00 for a copy we were excited to see there was a different passport office right next door. So we go in only to find out we have to have two forms of payment. Either two separate checks or a check and cash. Well, we did not have the checkbook because we NEVER pay anything by check anymore. They did not do money orders (which is the way we were told to pay at the Post Office). Of course if the guy at the post office would have set the scenario up for us (after all he did give us a map)then we could have got the money order at the post office and taken it with us, but no....we had to return to the post office location and then wait 45 minutes to be seen again. Also, who would have thought that passports cost $75.00, plus a $40.00 processing fee??? The most frustrating thing is that we then missed the beginning of "Australia" which I was hoping to see today. Guess the good news is we now will have the passports and can look forward to a cool trip (no pun intended)this summer.
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