Geckos and travelling Birth Certificates

This week we’ve been trying to get some of the paperwork that we need for our VISAs. It’s quite the procedure, as you may imagine! You wouldn’t believe all the paperwork that’s involved. Unless you’ve moved to another country, in which case you know exactly what I’m talking about. I figure that my birth certificate alone will have travelled 5x farther than me by the time we’re all settled in Mexico. That’s hardly fair! But of course, we’re paying for its travel. Each new form, each new stamp and certification, and another few bills leave our wallets. But I’m learning lots of things that I didn’t know before about the whole process.

We’ve also been looking into the remaining immunizations we need, other needed paperwork and various things we need to deal with as we move. We’re getting together some Rubbermaid Roughneck bins to pack our stuff into. We can always use more of these – I’ll have to put the specs on our Get Involved! page, in case you have some kicking around that you don’t need. They’re on sale this week at Zellers, so I got a few to get us started. If we get a bunch of these the same size, they’ll be easier to stack and store on the road, and they’ll keep out dirt and bugs. Mostly.

In the midst of all this, we’re getting ready for Nathanael’s birthday party tomorrow. On Sunday he turns 2. Nathanael is having a gecko party – he loves geckos. In fact, gecko was one of his first words. So that should be fun. He just saw his birthday cake, so he’s pretty excited about that!

So that’s a bit of what we’ve been up to lately.