１３日目最終日 13th, Last Day パスポート Passports

高校のときの大親友、クミコさんがちょうどこの日に関空に居合わせるというので関空で１２時に待ち合わせることになっていましたが、１０時半にいざ出ようと思ったら、入れてあったはずのところにパスポートが３冊見当たらない・・・（・＿・；）エー？おむつバッグやポーチ、スーツケース3つのカバンじゅうあっちこっち開けてもない。キツネに包まれたような感覚で、隅から隅まで何回も何回も手探りで探すが出てこない。お母さんにも手伝ってもらって、ガレージで全部ひっくり返しても出てこない。１２時にクミコに電話でどよ～んとした声で事情を伝え泣く泣く帰ってもらい、「もうここまでしてもないということはきっと子供が探し当てて引き出しとかに入れてるのかもしれない」と思い、家中あっち開けたりこっち開けたりして探すがそれでもない。もうこれは鳥羽水族館でご飯を食べてた間に盗られたのかも、でもあんな田舎でそんな人がいるとも思えない、と色々想像をめぐらし、チャックが閉まっていたからまさか、とは思いながらとにかく鳥羽水族館に電話。旅館にも電話。警察にも紛失届けを出す。もうめっちゃあきらめモードで、もうこれでないなら、再発行してもらうしかないと前進することを考える。インターネットで再発行の機関を探す。エマとリディアの出生届をジェイコブに送ってもらってから申請しに行ってそれから１週間かかるらしい。料金は５万円。航空会社に電話で変更可能か聞いてみる。これも５万円。ジェイコブにも電話。ジェイコブもめっちゃ落ち込む。電話の前でトオイメをしていたところへ、父の怒鳴り声が！「ここにあるやないか！！」
I was going to meet my friend who couldn't come to the school reunion at the airport at 12 because she was flying in there from Tokyo on the same day. At 10:30 AM, I was about to leave home but couldn't find our 3 passports in the pocket where I had kept them. I looked everywhere in my purse, diaper bag, and 3 suitcases but they didn't come up. I looked again using the hand from corner to corner everywhere but they still didn't come up. My mom and I tossed everything out of the bags in the garage but they were not there. I called my friend at 12 very distressed and asked her to go home. Maybe my children opened the zipper and played with them... We started looking into every drawer within their reach in the house, in vain. I called the aquarium, hotel and the police with no luck.
I gave up. They are not going to come out. I researched where I could reapply for the passports on the Internet. It said they would need Emma and Lydia's birth certificates, so I was going to ask Jacob to fax or mail them to me, and after I received them, it was going to take a week. The fee was $500. I also called the United Airlines to check if my itineraries could be changed. Yes, but this fee was also $500. I called Jacob. I could feel his disappointment. Then I heard my dad's angry yell, "They were here!!!!!"
最初に入れてたカバンの、私も母も知らなかった、隠れた内ポケットにチャックが閉まった状態で入ってました。そこに移し変えた人は私の愛する人なのでここでは言いませんがとにかくあったんです。このときにはもう４時すぎ。出発まで、１時間半かかるところがそんな時間もありません。全員車に飛び乗り、携帯から航空会社に電話。普段めちゃくちゃ慎重で「高速でスピード出しまくるやつはけしからん！」と怒っている父がこの日だけは赤信号でも青に変わる前に発進、高速は１２０ｋｍでぶっ飛ばしてくれました。空港まではなんと５０分で着いて私は待ち時間があったほど。空港に着いて車から生きて出られた時は「私はこれで天に帰らずアメリカに帰れるんだわ！」とウキウキしました。いつもなら荷物検査のところでいつまでも手を振ってくれる家族も、この日ばかりは疲れきってサッサと帰ってました(・_・、) と思ったら、後で電話があって実はいたんだが私からは見えてなかったらしい。上の写真は飛行機の中の様子です。エマの目がイッちゃってるところが気に入ってます。この後サンフランシスコで「もう起こされんの～？」と思うまで、３人とも爆睡しました。家に帰ってからもバタンQで、ジェイコブが帰宅の電話をかけてくれ、ここから３日くらいあんまり記憶がありません＾＾
They were in the original bag, in the hidden inside pocket that my mom or I didn't know. It wasn't me who switched the places, but the person who did it was someone I love, so I can't tell you who that was, but anyway, we got them!!! This time, it was already 4 PM. It takes 1 1/2 hours to the airport but we didn't even have that much time until departure. 6 of us jumped into the van and I called the airlines from the cell phone. Usually my dad is an extremely careful driver, and he used to complain about speedholics. But this day, he didn't wait until the red lights turned green and flew at 74 MPH where the speed limit was 49 MPH on the freeway. We arrived at the airport in 50 minutes and I even had a waiting time. When I got out of the van, I was very excited, "I am not going to heaven today; I am going back to the United States!" Normally, my family wave at me until we can't see each other at the luggage inspection, but they were too tired; they took off very quickly this day (so I thought, but my mom called me later and told me that they were where I couldn't see).
The above pictures were taken in the plane. I loved Emma's tripping eyes from fatigue. We conked out after this until we thought, "Don't wake us up yet~," at SFO. We conked out again at home; Jacob had to call my family for me and don't have any memory for the next 3 days...