Check in and sign your name on the long list…you can now wait your turn.

“What? Why can’t I go home and they can just help me from there?”

“Darling, this is what happens when you have to get a license to do something special, in this case, a passport, to leave the country. Soon, you’ll have to do this again to test for your driver’s permit.”

“What? Why?”

“It is called bureaucracy, my dear and this is just one of many things on a long list of things that are controlled, defined and established by it. You’re growing up and you’d better get used to it…or get ready to change it.”

~ Dawn aka Hat Girl (wearing one heck of a fancy hat on Kentucky Derby Day!)