Picturing Copenhagen...

And a website: www.copenhagenpictures.dk

Visa Woes

I'm finding that getting a Visa is always going to be difficult in one way or another. It's the nature of the beast.

When I got my Visa for Brazil, the Church Travel department did most of the work, so it should have been easy, right? Wrong. Not only was my face too big in the passport photos I had taken, so I had to get more pictures unprepared and looking like a first rate fright, but after that my papers got lost in the mail twice...not once, but twice...on the way to Austin to get stamped. A coincidence? I think not.

I no longer have any confidence in the US Postal system. In fact, I've had more sucess sending snail mail in Brazil, where the stamps cost less than one American cent.

Now...for Denmark. I sent all my stuff I needed, or what I thought was all the stuff I needed (according to the website and various frazzled phone calls I'd made) to the Danish Embassy in Washington (fedex so it wouldn't get lost). I thought I had all my bases covered. Little did I know that I was actually supposed to send it to New York. So...I got that taken care of, then found out I needed to send another photo and $137. So I did. That got there alright, but then I found out they don't accept personal checks, only money orders. SO........today I get to send that. And pray that I get my passport back in time for my flight on Sept 10.

(I'm not really very upset about it, it's just fun to pretend I am)

The Joyful Song of Carless Bliss

Oh, hateful Clifford, the big red van!
Your presence tortured me as no mortal can!
Now that you're gone, my steps feel so light.
Your absence frees me from an unenviable plight.

My words hold no sarcasm, you will see...
for there's a bicycle in Copenhagen, waiting for me!