Have you ever noticed that the word "window" has two W's in it? I tried really hard, but I couldn't think of any more words with two W's. If you think of any, please let me know!

Anyways, I am on spring break now! And I'm not going anywhere. But my parents are going to Jamaica, and my brother and I are staying at my grandparents house, which is still not going anywhere because they live in the same city as us. But hey, my grandmother offered to take me to England this summer, so if that happens I'll call it even with my parents.

So anyways, if I'm to go to England, I'll need an up-to-date passport. My current passport expired a long, long time ago. Last time I left the United States, I was three, so...basically I need a new passport.

We went to the post office, and guess what? The passport-helper-person was taking the day off. So then we go to another post office where - guess what - the passport hours ended at noon, and of course it was after twelve. Bleh. We went to yet another post office where my dad and I were told that they didn't do passports at that particular post office. I really don't understand why it was this complicated.

The fourth post office we went to was actually doing passports! But of course, after waiting half an hour in line, the lady told us that both parents needed to be present and that they needed my birth certificate. I didn't really understand why this was necessary though because we brought my old passport, which should confirm that I was born in the United States. My birth certificate had been shown to post office people before at some point in time, and that old passport was proof. And that thing with both parents being present - I just didn't get that part at all.

After all that, we ended up wasting hours, and in the end, I have no up-to-date passport.