we were going on holiday to san diego, USA. we'd booked the holiday online six months earlier and i hadn't bothered to check our passport. i'd just assumed everything was OK. So you can imagine my surprise when we were told at the check-in desk that we couldn't because our son's passport was out of date. my wife and daughter check in and off they went. nick and i rushed home, got his birth certificate and tried to get a new passport.