31 Dec 05 The Visa Report: Part Two and Farewell Ithaca!
The transit strike in New York City was an event extreme enough to cause a ripple effect for us in Ithaca, so I can only imagine the mental anguish it caused in the city!
Back to Tuesday afternoon - after our contact at the visa rush service crawled back out from her pit of dread, she phoned back to say she did, in fact, receive our applications and should be able to process them Wednesday. Total relief. We arranged to have our passports delivered to my dad’s place in Calgary so we wouldn’t have to stay an extra night in Ithaca just to wait for a FedEx package.
The movers finished loading boxes into the shipping crate in their truck. All but a few boxes fit in one crate, though I don’t know yet how many cubic feet it amounted to. My original estimate was 250 and I think in reality it was less…
Cleaned out the apartment in the evening then retired to our room at the fabulous Meadow Court Inn across from Wegman’s on route 13 for our final sleep in Ithaca! We dumbed down with our friend slash truckdriver Brad and watched multiple consecutive episodes of Dog the Bounty Hunter. If you don’t know the show, just go ahead and click the link - Dog’s cleaning up Hawaii one scumbag at a time :O)
Wednesday: After a last breakfast at the State Diner we packed the truck and met with the landlord for a walkthrough. Then confirmed with the visa rush service that our applications were filed with the British Consulate - woohoo! - and drove back to the home country without much fanfare.
Thursday: Mid-afternoon we checked our email and each received notice from the British Consulate that our visas had been APPROVED ! When we landed in Calgary later in the evening my dad greeted us with the Grand Poobah of FedEx packages, containing two passports beautified with lovely UK Visa stickers expiring in 2011.
JOY!
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