The whole weekend had another interesting story developing. Joisey Ken, his wife Dawn and daughter, were going on a cruise from NY to the Bahamas with Ken's relatives. The cruise was to leave on Sunday and on Saturday Ken went to check in online, only to find out they needed a birth certificate with a raised seal. Unfortunately, they didn't even have a birth certificate! After she was born, Dawn got sick and Ken was working on rehabbing two homes and they just forgot about the certificate. Doh!
So they ran down to the department of vital records, but on a Saturday you can imagine how little progress they made. As they ran through their options, they settled on one person going on the cruise on Sunday and the other would take Stella back the records facility on Monday and get the certificate. Then on Tuesday, they would fly to Florida and meet the cruise there. Which parent would stay and which would go?? They decided to draw from a deck of cards with high card winning. Ken drew first and drew a 5. Guess who was staying? That's right, Dawn. She drew a 4!!
Ken spoke with the cruise company and at first they wouldn't let them join a cruise mid trip. Later though, they said they could, but it would be a $350 fine per person. Add that onto the cost of a last minute flight to Florida in the spring, and they were going to be out $1,500 easily. Still, it beats two of them not going at all! So Ken got on board on Sunday and Dawn and Stella joined on Tuesday without event. Now they are sunning themselves in the Bahamas, happy with their decision I'm sure!!
3 comments:
All these records and things are such a pain. I suspect I would have been plenty stressed out.
wow, they are troopers. I suppose there was nothing else to do in the situation!
Well at least they were able to work out some kind of solution.
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