Karrie's Box of Thoughts

Monday, March 07, 2005

So.....

Yeah, so I was going to post something a little sooner then this. But I had one of those rare lazy weekends and took full advantage of it!!

So the Canadian Immigration story: When we were at the T-Birds came a few weeks ago I noticed the 3 Musketeers plotting again *snort* They're so obvious! So when I demanded to know what's up, they had decided to make a run for the border and catch the Totems, or Tots as Em as dubbed them. A nod to the movie Napoleon Dynamite, I'm sure. You're going to Canada to watch the Tots....Fine by me. Have fun, I'm staying home. Call me when ya get there!

Off they go by 11:30am Sunday, plenty of time to make it over the border and to the game by 1:30pm. And so I get a call.... "So you made it?" silence..... "Not quite" silence.... "Where are you?!" silence.... "Canadian Immigration" EXPLOSION... "You didn't bring the kid's birth certificates did you?!" silence.... "Um, no..." And so I ended up scanning their birth certificates and emailing them to Canada! Oh and then he calls me to tell me they don't need them, 'cuz they're listed on his insurance card and they'll take that. Isn't Canada nice!! So I sez "Well, keep them 'cuz ya still have to come home, and I might just call someone at the not so nice US border and tell them not to let the stupid people back in!" "Gawd, Frickin' Idiot!" (There's my own nod to Napoleon!)

Side note on getting to Canada without your child's birth certificates: I few years back (Ok, quite a few years back) Meems was about 3 and I was preggers with the Boodge and we all went up north camping. Grandma and Grandpa had a new motorhome and so Meems wanted to ride with them. Not a problem, 'til we got to the border. There sat the motorhome in front of us for the longest time.... When we finally pull up the guy is just laughing his head off and asks if the little girl in the motorhome is ours? When we say yes, he looks at me and proceed to inform hubby that he agrees with my daughter and he should sleep on the couch! WTF? It seems that when Meems was questioned she wouldn't shut up and kept talking and talking. Finally telling the guy that her daddy snored really loud and that her mommy sometimes ended up on the couch 'cuz she couldn't sleep. And she didn't think that was right 'cuz mommy was going to have a baby and she was going to have a baby brother and be a big sister and on and on and on... The guy said he figured with all that info, she was where she belonged!

Really, how did I get involved with these people....

As told by moi5:33 PM ...

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