We'd booked the holiday online 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you can imagine my surprise when we were told at the check-in desk that we couldn't fly because our son's passport was out of date.My wife and daughter checked in and off they went.Nick and i rushed home,got his birth certificate and tried to get a new passport.There was huge queue at the Passport Office,so i pushed to the front and cried."My family's gone on holiday and my son urgentlyneed a new passport!"Within and hour we had 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.