Leisa, that was some update! Had me holding my breath to the very end (I read fast.

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The Source was definitely with you that day....ready for the next exciting installment.
Now that I am finally keeping up, wouldn't ya know my surgery is scheduled for Tuesday...don't want to even think about how far behind I'll get then!!
Must figure out a way to have the laptop on something besides a lap so I can spend all day time reading the rest of next week.
Sheesh, Christine!! Don't hold your breath too long!! I can't give you mouth to mouth from here!

The next installments won't be quite a tense, but rather a bit more light-hearted.

So you have a week (a little under) before surgery. I'll try to get one more update done before then. We'll see.... it's day by day around here right now.
YES!! I vote for a laptop on something else!! Hmmm.... a breakfast in bed tray? With eggs benedict on it before you start??
I don't how you manage that stress, I would have been crying, yelling and pouting all at once.
I'm so glad that you got your egg shaped stamp though!
It would have been a good day for valium!
Liesa----Phew

I am cracking up that he was telling you how to copy the stamp

Thankfully he made it there when he did....of all times for a flight to be EARLY!!
Tracy
Hey Tracy! Yeah, imagine that! A gov't agent telling us how to go around the system. Kinda like an IRS agent telling how to "creatively" fill out the form.
I'm realizing it's just as bad to take off early, than it is to take off late.
I tell people at work all the time we are soooo spoiled with all of the freedoms that we take for granted and others have lost their lives for!
Leisa, I'm glad that you were able to make out of the country as a family. If the plane had to leave before you recieved the stamp what may have happened? Would you all have to stay or could it have been taken care of at your next stop?
Freedoms are definitely worth fighting for- it makes me sad when they are abused by not coupling them with responsibility, or like you say, taken for granted by not appreciating them.
Good question! We certainly asked ourselves that. Someone told us it likely would have meant a detainment at the Almaty airport as we tried to fly out the next night, while it was "straightened out", (likely with a LARGE fine) and we would have probably missed our flight. (good bye trip into Germany) I doubt we'd have been taken to jail, since it was their fault, but certainly not out of the realm of possibility.
I made a major goof up one time when my daughter was born in Thailand (didnt' get a visa when I should have ) and it cost me a TON of money to exit.
Hi, Liesa. Just wanted to pop in and say hi. I have a lot of catching up to do. We're now on Marco Island and I hope to spend part of my evenings catching up on your trip.
Super you made to the island! I hope you're having a fabulous time basking in the sunshine! Have a tropical, fruity something for me.
I hopped on the DIS on my phone for a minute... checking the Dec canceled ADR thread like crazy still trying to get a CRT ADR for December.
I know that it must of been super stressful. Hope the payoff didn't cut into your Disney money!
... throwing at a government official...
I assume you didn't get anything- or you would have told us. RIght?
Naw, that Disney $$ was in my Mickey book, stashed in my account, or already paid. I was in good shape!
Oooooh, good one!!!
Leisa, I am so glad you were able to get the stamp in time. Pretty close though! I love the pictures that you are posting. They really help us get a sense of things and what they look like.
WAY TOO close!! Honestly, even though I had this TR in mind as I went, I didn't get nearly enough photos- especially of this part of the journey. Too much other "stuff" going on. Where the pix are lacking, I'll try to make it up in words.
