Legal Beagles

We are officially legal beagles here in the Netherlands. We finally went yesterday and picked up our driver's licenses. We received our residency cards a few months back and then were able to apply for our driver's licenses. It cracks me up how they literally take a mug shot of you for your residency cards and driver's licenses. You can't smile and they have to be able to see your ears. Why? I don't know - maybe ears are our defining feature. Andy and Rachel have residency cards that don't expire until November 2009. For some reason though, mine is only good for a year. We asked our relocation assistant why that is and she said it's because I'm the non-working spouse. Basically they want to make sure we're still married in a year. In order for me to register here we had to fill out a bunch of forms because Andy and I had been married less than 10 years. It cracks me up! I guess marriages here aren't truly solid until after 10 years. Another strange thing - on the back of each of our residency cards it lists our place of birth and birthdate. Andy's and Rachel's are correct, but mine says "Onbekend USA". Onbekend means strange. I guess Bountiful, UT is a strange place to be born! :) One more thing, I received a driver's license class that allows me to drive and pull a trailer. Andy wasn't so privileged. Why? We don't know. We are glad to have everything taken care of for now. We won't have to visit town hall again until after the baby is born. Very nice! I took a picture of Rachel's residency card and then cropped it so you could see how funny our pictures look. We took our pictures way back in December when we were still living in the hotel. Rachel's is the cutest out of the three of us! :)