One More Thing to Cross Off the List

Checking out Lake Michigan after our appointment

So...after an incredibly busy weekend of wedding shenanigans, La Furia Roja winning the World Cup, and moving the store back into our newly remodeled space, Matt and I drove 6 hours to Chi-town to drop off our visa paperwork.

After spending some time with my aunt and uncle/family and getting lost trying to find Elmhurst to meet Tony for dinner, we woke up at 6 am Tuesday morning and took the Metra to Michigan Ave.

The whole appointment took 16 minutes, but we made a few connections at the consulate with some other people in the same program. All of our documents were in order (thanks Andrew for the insurance papers!) and we were told to email them in 6 weeks to check on progress. Hopefully it won't take that long, and we'll have the visa before September.

Everything seems to be coming together, we have our tickets (21st of September!), visa stuff is in the consulate's hands, and I put in my last day at work (yessssss). So now it's just saving $$$ and waiting for departure!

originally published 7.16.10