Kremlin or FBI

How come passport photos make you look like you could potentially be a double agent? You can't smile, you can't show any bit of your teeth. You can't do anything except look like you are miserable in life.

I guess that travel isn't always the most pleasurable experience anyways. You have to figure out what you need to pack and not go over the weight quota, then you head to the airport 2+ hours in advance to queue up to check in and then queue up again to go through security.

Then you queue up at your gate where you are always behind someone near the front of the plane who can't get their stuff into the overhead cabinet and hold up everyone else getting on.

Then they are the ones holding up the entire plane trying to get their stuff down from the overhead cabinet. Then you hope to God that your luggage arrived.

Then coming back is even more stressful, especially when you are know that you are way over the customs quota when it comes to your purchases. And you are wearing 5 layers of clothing coming across the border and beginning to sweat.

In any case, traveling abroad is a chore. To put it nicely.
And to travel you need your documents.
And Kieran's was expiring in 2 months.

So we had to get a new one. We went to Wal-Mart to get it done. We got his haircut but his nose was so red from dried boogers from blowing his forever runny nose into a 1-ply kleenex. I wasn't sure how it would look, so I took him anyways. And it wasn't pretty. So I put some aloe very gel on it and to my surprise the next day it was much better. Man, kids heal fast. Or it was the aloe vera? In any case we re-took them at no charge.
Version 2 was the same result, just no redness.

And no smiles either. Look straight ahead and pretend you are traveling. So you look miserable. Just like his mama's passport photo. Which looks like agent Krause.


All this to make traveling easier and safer.
Yep, believe it or not...this is a picture of Kieran.
Even Kieran couldn't believe it.
Too bad he didn't have the same photo as his 1st year Casa one.
That's the best.