i'm stampless :(

we got our passports in the mail monday. how bout that for fast turn around. we applied for them april 5th. that's only two weeks from start to finish. pretty impressive.

now, i have to admit i was sad to let me other passport go. i already had two stamps in it from my trip to europe, but i couldn't renew it. the upside of the new passport - besides getting rid of my terrible albino picture - is that they've redesigned the interior (tax dollars hard at work). no more plain pages. every page has a "american icon" design.



i feel so patriotic now. i also found out that they apparently have some kind of chip in them too. very high tech. i'm going to have to go home and investigate that further.