Passport on it's Way!

I left work early yesterday to get to the post office before it closed at four. I made it there at 3:41, I didn't expect to see anyone in the line for passports. I mean really, don't normal people have theirs by now? To my surprise there were people in their 60's applying for the first time ever. I am so glad it didn't take me that long to make a decision like this.

The gentleman in front of me in line was around 45 i would say, getting his passport for the first time for a trip to the Bahamas that someone was paying for. I sneaked a peak at his birth certificate, turns out he was born in the zip code we live. So he very well could have been here his whole life. Pretty depressing I think. Anyway, by the time the line had moved once I was about 6 people behind and it was 5 minutes till 4, I thought I wasn't going to make it and they would tell the people in line to leave and come back tomorrow in the three hour time frame that they process passports. The lady doing it was very nice, she brought out a red ticket and gave it to the last person in line and had him tell anyone else that got in line behind him that it was closed after he went in.

I finally went through the door and went through the motions of getting my very first passport. I raised my right hand and swore that everything on the application was true, signed my name and gave the government $100. Now I play the waiting game, I can't really apply for anything until I officially have my passport in hand. Afterwards however, things get interesting, afterwards I spend hours in the Icelandic embassy asking every question I can think of. Then I spend hours on the computer talking to people in Iceland about finding a place to live, making friends, finding people wanting to join a band and all that good stuff. Things will get very interesting very fast.