Our Vacation Adventure to Cabo San Lucas Mexico – Day 1

OK, I get it! We’ve only been planning this trip since the first of January. The earliest I’ve ever booked a vacation since I’m inherently a procrastonator. We booked the resort in January and our flight in March. Everything was set and we just forgot about it.

Well, Lily said to me a couple of weeks ago “is everything set? You have the passports, right?” I replied “yep. I have all of them in our room and mine is in my backpack. No problem.”

I spent the last few days getting all of our documents together and confirming our flight, frequent flier numbers for all of us and confirming the reservation at the resort. Dammit! I should have looked at those passports. We headed to the airport today, went through TSA hell, got on our flight — NO PROBLEM!
Once in Phoenix (we needed to change planes threre), our passports were checked again and we got the shocking news! Tia and Maya’s passports expired on July 29, 2008! We were told that Mexico will not let us in and we were immediately sent back to San Jose. However, if they had expired while we were out of the country, the USA would let us come back.

I’m writing this on my PDA on Saturday night in San Jose. We have a 10AM appointment at the passport office in San Francisco on Monday morning and then the airline is supposed to fly us back. We’ll see how that goes.
In the mean time, I’ll keep the blog informed about our exciting trip.

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