March 5. 2007…Happy Birthday COLIN!

Today Colin turned another year older…I hope you have a great day and know I miss you. Just know I went swimming in memory of you (this was pool #3 that we have been invited to and gladly accepted). I also went to Jo’Burg to get my passport replaced. It was quite an interesting experience to get to the US Embassy and get into it. First of all Rach and I got lost. Go figure and no petrol stations sell maps and no petrol attendants know how to get anywhere or for that matter even know where they are. So next time you pull over and ask the gas attendant how to get somewhere and they are able to direct you thank them. When asking for directions no one tells you street names, or how many km it is, everything is listed by landmarks, which frustrates the heck out of Rach and I. Anyhow we pulled over at one gas station and this man who we refer to as Ted the Angel told us to just follow him and he would take us there. Pretty sure Ted came out of nowhere cause God knew how frustrated we were…so Ted drove us 30 min. to where we were supposed to be. Woops we went a little out of the way wouldn’t you say. Once we got to the Embassy I had to walk through 3 security doors before Rach could walk into the security room. All I could do was wave to her it was quite funny. When we got in the passport peeps couldn’t believe that people came into a church to rob us…they thought it was a joke. Oh, no my passport peeps this is not a joke. Than I had to list my parents names, where they born, and their birthday. This gave me the most trouble because both my parents (thanks parents) have changed their legal names in the past yearish so it was hard for the passport peeps to understand this. I felt like they may as well strap me to the lie detector to see that yes it is true my parents for kicks and giggles like to change their names to throw off the USA gov’t.