We love to travel and see new places, and it turns out most of the places we haven’t seen are outside the nominal borders of the country we currently live in. This year we wanted to make sure the doors were open to take the kids further afield on our adventures.

This is part of our 100 Things in 2017 challenge. Click on the photos for a closer look!

My passport was about to expire, Will’s already had, and Lucy had never gotten one. So we filled out forms, went to the drugstore and got overcharged for terrible photos of our faces, and sent them off with our hopes.

Now they’re back, and there’s one less obstacle between us and international explorations as a family.