Last night Gene and I drove up to Saint Louis to stay the night for our fingerprint appointment this morning. I was petrified of being a few minutes late for the appointment because somehow if you miss your appointment you may be scheming evil plans and then your application is kicked out and you start the request to bring an orphan home all over again...not going to let that happen :)
This morning bright and early we drove to downtown Saint Louis. When we got there we realized we did not have any cash to pay for parking so we parked on the street, hoping our car would not be towed away and looking like lost tourists, headed towards the Federal Building, a nice police man even stopped us (I looked extra lost so we didn't get a ticket for the car) and pointed us in the right direction.
Inside were the usual security procedures and as we walk through the scanners Gene gave me a near heart attack when the security office yelled at him to stop and wait his turn to walk through the system. (I thought for sure we were going to be thrown out and our car would be towed and we would have to walk to the police station or something- hey maybe while we were there we could get a background check)
We had to wait about 10 minutes and then took our fingerprints aka biometric appointment on a computer scanner and then we were done. Apparently Gene has a scar on one of his fingerprints but mine were perfect! I tried taking pictures for our life book but apparently that is against some federal rule...I did sneak a few that I will see if I can post.
On our way out we thought maybe we could at least take a picture outside the building...that nice police officer, well he became not so nice when we started taking pics....apparently you can't take pictures on Federal property at all.Oops!
Anyway, we drove home, stopped by the police department and thanks to name dropping our friend Officer Edie, we got a local police check and then stopped by Commerce bank for notarization then on to Walgreen's for some passport photos- yes, we already have our passports but we also needed two pictures for the dossier as well, passport size.
All in all a very productive day!
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