New York Here I COME!!

It's Tuesday, three days until I fly to Europe! I came to New York three days early so I could see some family and wait for my flight out of JFK airport. Also while I am on Long Island, I will try to catch up with some old Catawba friends who some of you may have heared of : Mr. Rio Baggs and my old trusty ex-room mate Sean Duggan. Sean is a real winner but unfourtantly, he will proably be to scared to hang out with me. He has a couple of bad memories: GAT GAT GAT.

Time to Start Packing

Packing; one of the most boring things about preparing for a trip! Since I am going to be in Madrid for about a month, it is going to be pretty hard to figure the amount of clothes I should bring with me. As I started to get everything out that i thought I might want to bring, I got tired from looking at all my options and decided to take a break. After three hours of watching television, I was starting to notice that I still did not have anything packed. So I did what any "momma's boy" would do and shouted "MOM I need help!" She was easily convinced, thank God! So I put everything out and made a list of all the things I needed. By the time I was done, the clock said 11:30 pm; who thought that packing would take so much effort! Then I realized, I can't find the one important thing I need; my camera charger!!!!!!

Passport Drama

So it turns out, it is not that easy to get your passport. In order to get your passport, you need a birth certificate, a social security card and a number of other things. So, I had to go back and forth to the post office three different times. I also assumed that they took the picture for you at the post office that is placed on the I.D. They do offer this to you, but it costs an additional fifteen dollars. So when I found out about that, I had to call my mom and tell her to transfer fifteen more dollars to my bank account. After three days of struggling to get this passport, I finally had all of the right paperwork and amount of money to get my passport. Yet, what I failed to remember was that the majority of post offices take about twenty days to process and create the actual ID. Thank goodness I did not wait until the last second to apply for my passport like I do for most other stuff!