Holding Pattern

So for our move to London has gone very smoothly. We sold our cars, packed our house, and made all of the other preperations that you would expect. Everything was going along swimingly. In the midst of all this great progress there was a fear. It was small at first, at the edge of the mind where you could easily shove it aside, but over the last few days it has grown larger and larger.

This fear: The British Consulate seems to have lost our passports.

One would think that a consulate like the one in Los Angeles would know how to deal with people’s passports. You would think that they deal with hundreds a day without misplacing them. You would be wrong.

Two weeks ago, I got my official work permit for the UK. We immediately sent our passports and visa applications off to the consulate in LA. Jenna and I both got email early last week that our visas had been granted. That was the last we heard. We haven’t seen our passports, nor have we been able to get a straight answer out of the embassy.

It could be that FedEx lost our passports, it could be the consulate staff mailed them back to us instead of using FedEx, it could be a lot of things, but so far we have no answers.

So, for right now we have changed our flight from Tuesday to Wednesday. We’ve extended our hotel stay in Mountain View and our rental car through Friday and we’re going to spend some serious time with the consulates 900 number tomorrow to see if we can figure out what happened (that’s right they have a 900 number that charges you $2.10 per minute).

If you were expecting to see us in London on Wednesday morning, we won’t be there. Stay tuned and we’ll post more news as we have it.