SIGH! It's been a long day.

Today Margaret and Peter started off the day at 8:30am by going to Town Hall to get a new marriage license. Luckily, Margaret had a birth certificate, so that was already taken care of. While at Town Hall we find out that the computers are down and they don't know when they will be up. The woman in charge of this paperwork was due to come in at 9am. So Peter and Margaret waited. Luckily, Margaret had one extra original of the marriage license, but needed another marriage certificate. The woman said she would be able to do the certificate on the typewriter (didn't know these still existed), but would not be able to give us a marriage license (which was fine, since we had one already). So after that long wait, we headed to Riverhead. Keep in mind it was raining in New York today and there were a lot of Sunday drivers out. We finally made it to Riverhead, and the woman did our county clerks certified documents. Margaret looked at them and wouldn't you know it..........THE DATES ARE STILL NOT IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, are you kidding me. I asked the woman how can that possibly be. She explained to me that the judge takes a stack of blank forms and signs them and dates them, and she just uses them and then on the bottom of the same page, she certifies it with today's date. UUGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH. Margaret asked if there was any one, to get them to be in chronological order, she said no - that is the way they've been doing them and it's been fine. So, now I am going through the same authentication process for the same mistake we got kicked out of PGN. So, Margaret decided to still go into the city, and hopefully on the way will find out some answers. Margaret called her husband to let him know they were going to the city, and it turns out that Kerry had a 1/2 day so he took a trip into the city too. Since the day started off bad, it might as well continue, we managed to miss the 12:08 train, because it is IMPOSSIBLE to find a parking spot midday at any Railroad station. So we caught the 12:35pm. While on the train Margaret tried calling her lawyer to ask about the last page not being in Chronological order - it was pretty hard to talk to him on the phone, so Margaret told our lawyer that she would call him this evening to talk about it. Margaret and Kerry discussed it and decided to not go to the Guatemalan Consulate until tomorrow after we talk to our lawyer this evening about the paperwork. We made it into the city and took the subway to the States Dept - the place was PACKED! Margaret has never seen it sooo packed. The woman at the window said that they close the window at 3pm, that's why everyone is here, before the window closes. Margaret and Kerry discussed what we were going to do about the paper work, because if we omitted the last page (the certify, of the certify) then we wouldn't have to worry about the chronological order. So once up at the window Margaret asked the gentleman about omitting the last page and he said, that 's the most important page, because that exemplifies everything else. So in actuality, one document was certified 3 times, but all our other documents in the dossier were only certified once and they didn't have a problem with PGN. It's a Suffolk county thing for sure. After the State Dept. we met up with Peter's cousin Tami for a bite to eat and then we headed home on the train. We finally got home at 6:30pm. Luckily Peter napped on the way home on the train, so he was ready to eat dinner. Lets see how good he is tomorrow when we have to take another train ride. :)