I have today finally received my passport and can now travel to Italy with my mum, it has been such a pain to get it all sorted out, it started with my mum deciding that seeing as I was the only one out of her six children never to have been abroad that I can go with her to Italy to see one of my brothers, well it sounded so simple really, get the form, fill it in and send it off, wait for six weeks and I would have a passport, hmm as if anything ever runs that smoothly.

I got the form from the post office, filled in my part, took it to my boss to fill in her part, sent it to my mum because she wanted to fill in a bit as well as pay for it, she did that then took it to the post office for them to check it, they told her that no it needed redoing, which didn't please her at all, she took another form home to redo her's and fine parts, took it back to the post office and was told that it still wasn't right, so in the end after five trys the post office was happy but I needed it back my end of the country to sign and get my boss to do her part again, my mum sent it to my boss after ringing her to make sure that it was ok, then I waited two weeks for it to come back from my boss, then I signed it again, with instructions from Mum to post it off as soon as possible with all the relevent ID, the passport people got it on the 26th of April.

In the mean time Mum has been ringing, texting and emailing me to find out what is happening with it, I was also getting worried that my ID hadn't come back so on Wednesday the 4th June I phoned them to find out what had happened to be told that my ID would be with me that day and that I have a letter coming to ask me to phone up and make an appointment, they said that I needed to ring their call centre, the nice lady gave me the phone number that I needed to ring, seems like it was nearly sorted. I phoned the call centre, got a grumpy lady on the other end of the phone who informs me that there is one appointment for today, (no can do as it is to far to go in the time left to me), or I can have an appointment on Friday, which I say is fine thank you, she gives me the time and I think it is all ok.

Friday morning gets here and I am a bag of nerves as I hate interviews, hubby drives me the half hour drive to the interview only to find when I get there that the grumpy lady I spoke to made the interview for the Wednesday, which apparently is not allowed to do, so they tell me to go home, wait until the Saturday and phone up again, I was truly vexed by this point, hubby tried to cheer me up but to no avail, so once I had got home I rephoned the call centre, got a lovely man, who said that there was an appointment free for the following day (Saturday), which I accepted gladly, got up on the Saturday still a bag of nerves, hubby once again drove me the half hour journey, I go in to my interview, the ask me questions that I answer and ten minutes later I am ok to leave.

I get home email my Mum who is waiting very patient to hear what happened, then all we have to do is wait to see if the passport comes, which I was told if everything was ok would be within five working days, so fingers got crossed and everything, then today (Wednesday) my passport finally comes through the door, hubby was very pleased for me and phoned my mum straight away to let her know the good news, we will chat later mind you.

And all this hassle so that I can see one of my brothers, he on the other hand knows nothing about me going, Mum wants it to be a surprise for him, he has been emailing her to find out when she is going out there, she has stalled by saying that she had to renew her passport, lol I just hope that he likes the surprise, he is one of my favourite brothers, and because his girlfriend is Italian I have been trying to vainly learn Italian, but what with work and the stress of wondering if the passport would come through or not I haven't been able to learn much, but I still have a while hopefully before we go so I might be able to learn a bit more, I just thought it would be nice to be able to say at least a little in his girlfriends language, I don't want to appear rude and not be able to say anything to her in her own language.

Well that is the story of my passport trials and tribulations

Brightest blessings to you all

WiccanRebal

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