Well, it's day two in my adventures to get new passport pages sewn into my passport.  It looks like there's going to be a third day.

Yesterday, I fought with Sofia's trams to get to the US Embassy.  Today, I decided to walk. It was nice this morning and I got there in less than 50 minutes.  Not bad.

Today, I got to the embassy, had my phone and camera taken a the door and checked, stood in the line for Bulgarians until I asked a guard about if this was the line for American citizens.  She said: oh no.  I thought: really?! I am a head and shoulder taller than all of the women in line, my hair is at least five shades lighter than the other women in line with me and natural, and I've been speaking to you in English and you think I might be Bulgarian?!

Oh well, so I go and get in a new line.  Luckily this one only had one person in front of me.  So I thought: Great!! This is of course the mistake I made.  The one that condemned  me to failure today.  I made the application for new pages, they collected it and my passport and told me hold on it won't take more than 15 minutes.

Thirty minutes later I still didn't have my passport back.  Forty minutes later I was called to window 11.  Um, there's no window 11 so I have to ask.  Oops she'd meant to tell me window 8.  Alright.  At window 8, I learn that the machine is down.  Of course it is.  They offer to keep my passport and I can pick it up later or I can take my passport with me and come back when the machine is working.

This afternoon I got a call from the Embassy.  I can come tomorrow for my new pages.  Great.  So tomorrow will day three in my adventures to get new passport pages. I don't want to even think about how many hours I've spent on this adventure.