A Mother's Sin by Mia Henry

Author:Mia Henry [Henry, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781524650940
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2017-02-22T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

FAMILY HOLIDAY

In the meantime, Richard had received a substantial settlement from his accident and as a token of his appreciation for all that the family had done for him during the time of his accident, he gave each one a generous portion of the settlement.

The family decided to use that money for a once in a lifetime family holiday. Ella put together a proposal and it didn’t take long before the holiday was booked. During the Easter holidays they would embark on their dream holiday, to Disney World and a Caribbean cruise. It would be, Eduardo, the patriarch, together with his three children, spouses and his grandchildren. There would be eleven of them in total. Eduardo, Ella, Rob, Tammy, Troy, Amy, Richard, Stella, Gina, Linda and Ken.

Amber did not object to Richard taking Stella and Gina to America.

Ken, Linda, Ella and her three children planned to go a week ahead in order to spend some time in New York before meeting up with the rest of the family in Orlando.

The children were beyond excited. They all had calendars with ‘mark down the days’ in their bedrooms. Amy had saved frantically. She wanted to enjoy her own little shopping spree in New York City.

The time had arrived. Two days before they were due to depart, Ella called at the travel agent to collect the tickets, documentations, passports and then stopped by at the bank to sort out the foreign exchange. That evening Ella sat in her lounge, separating each one’s passports, adding to each one their own air ticket, cruise ticket and all other travel vouchers, insurance and at the same time double checking the passports, and to her horror Amy’s passport had expired.

‘Noooo!’ Ella cried out loud, ‘Amy’s passport has expired!’

Amy heard her name and rushed downstairs.

‘What’s wrong?’ asked Amy.

When Ella tells her, Amy instantly bursts out crying, ‘What does that mean, mom?’

‘But why did the travel agent not pick that up?’ asked Rob.

The travel agent did their best to expedite a USA visa for Amy but they were not going to take responsibility for the expired passport. Amy was going to enter the USA on her EU passport, which did not require a visa. Her EU passport had expired. Fortunately she had dual passports and her South African passport was still valid but with that passport, she needed an American visa. It is normally a time consuming procedure, requiring appointments, interviews and flying to either, Cape Town, Pretoria or Durban, to the American embassy.

The following day, after a sleepless night, Ella established that there would be no way that her and Amy would be leaving the next day for New York City. Amy was devastated. Ken and Linda would still go ahead and take Tammy and Troy with them. Ella and Amy would join them once she got a visa.

Ella called the American Embassy and was given the worse case scenario. ‘It can take up to 10 days to process a visa’.

That would mean that besides missing their New York leg they would also miss half of their stay in Disney World.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.