we'd booked the holiday on line six months earlier and i hadn't bothered to check our passports.i'd just assumed everything was ok.so you can imagine my surprise when we were told at the check-in desk we couldn't fly because our son's passport was out of date.my wife and daudhter checked in and off they went.Nick and i rushed home,got his birth certificate and tried to get a new passport.There was a huge queue at the passport office,so i pushed to the front and cried,"My family's gone on holiday and my son urgently needs a new passport" Within as hour we has his passport. we rushed to the airport,but they told us we were too late and the next flight was at 5 am.at this point i lost my temper.we spent the rest of the day wandering around the duty free.we finally arrived at our destination twenty hours later,exhausted but relieved that we could start our holiday.