Our plan was to get down here and, in the first week, get our drivers licenses and library cards. Before we moved we checked the DMV page to determine requirements for changing our license. We just needed an unexpired license from another state and the vision test. Great! To get our library card we needed our Florida license. OK! We were going to be able to get those two tasks knocked out on the same day!
So, on said day, Derek walks into the DMV to get his license and they tell him he needs two forms of id and his birth certificate and social security card (or some combination). Turns out we left all of that paperwork in our files in Juneau. Which means that they were packed by the movers and are on their slow way down here. In fact we were not going to access any of our stuff the movers packed until we moved into our new home (which might be six months away!) So, the drivers license might have to wait a bit. BTW, it turns out they changed the requirements in the three weeks between our checking and our walking into the DMV. Another side note, everyone down here has been incredibly nice and polite and as helpful as possible. The DMV lady was the first person who was not.
Now the library card. Luckily you can also get one with proof of residency like a lease (maybe a title transfer?) Since we haven't sold our house yet, we are putting off making new living quarter decisions. However, life in a small hotel room is getting old. The kids immediately start hurting each other or the cats when in the room for any length of time and we are not getting cleaning service because they are afraid of letting the cats out. (I respect this actually. Albert has already gotten out a few times.) So, a lease and a library card may be in our near future!
Do you know how dreary life can be without a library card?
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