In one of my previous entries I mentioned how S had to drive back home before our cruise left to get our marriage certificate because we made the cruise reservation's in my married name but didn't notice that my passport was still in my maiden name. Well, the interesting thing was that even though the Norwegian rep told us we must have the document in order to board the ship, nobody checked any of my documents besides my passport.
That part was mostly annoying because S drove 6 hours the night before just to get those papers but what's a little disturbing was that I was taking a baby out of the country and nobody questioned the fact that my document had a different name from not only my reservation but also my passport. Nobody even blinked when looking at my paperwork. A took most of her looks from her dad and looks nothing like me and I was quite a bit surprised nobody even asked or mentioned why our names were different, where is the dad or anything.
Then when we were going through immigration at the Bahamas we needed our ID and passport to get back on the boat. My ID is in my married name but my passport was in my maiden name and again, nobody said anything. They didn't even ask to see ID for the child.
Its pretty scary how people can be so lax about things that could change someone's life. We are hearing more and more about child abductions lately and its quite an eye opened when you see things like this happen. Obviously it wasn't an issue here but its scary to see how easy it to take a child out of the country without anyone questioning anything.
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