August 2--Street Legal

[zyzyly]

Our big project for this trip was to attempt to complete the process to have our marriage legalized here in Thailand. When we were first married here in 2007, we didn't register it, as we were planning to get married in the US. That turns out to have been a mistake, as it is much more difficult to register a marriage here when you are married

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[wantedonvoyage]

I love the walkway with the bamboo, and I am so glad to have you posting again!

We have an opportunity to claim Italian citizenship through a specific sequence of events in my dad's family history. It starts out with a one-page form but I suspect in the end it will lead to MUCH more paperwork and buying a lot of people "coffee".

[zyzyly]

I think there is some similar thing with Irish citizenship, though I have never looked into it.

That bamboo road was the best thing about the temple it leads to.

[thoughtsbykat]

Congratulations! What a process!

[zyzyly]

Thanks! I think one more roadblock would have made me lose all hope.

[mallorys_camera]

Congratulations!!!

And that coffee mill is an exceedingly beautiful building.

[zyzyly]

It is such a cool building. The coffee is more expensive there, but I go for the atmosphere.

[flying_blind]

Thank goodness you'll no longer be living in bureaucratic sin!

[zyzyly]

Yes, my guilt is assuaged.

[maju01]

Wow, so much paperwork!

[zyzyly]

Everything here is a lot of paperwork. I had to sign 20 documents to get an atm card. No idea what any of them were, either.