Passports R Us

We left for the Passport Office in DC at 5:45 this morning and beat the traffic on 495. Fortunately, the Passport Office is across the street from Java Green, so we stopped by for breakfast. Unfortunately, neither DJ nor Cheewoo were at the restaurant. =(

We went to the Passport Office, only to discover that the next-available appointment JJ had booked was for next Tuesday! Doh! It was such a slow and rainy day, though, that the clerk felt pity for us and allowed us to proceed to the waiting room to get our passports. Hooray for same-day pickup! They even had time to reprint Shel's passport, as they had left off either the first or the second 'L' in her name, depending on how you want to look at it.

In between applying for the passports and picking them up, we had time to drop off our old DC license plates, see the Glidehouse in the Building Museum, have lunch with some friends, and dry off from the incessant and heavy rain.

Hopefully, tomorrow will be a little slower so that we can finish preparing in time for our flight on Thursday morning.