The big wooden box

On Tuesday, we went to see David (alias gnougnaf) presenting his work on his thesis. We then celebrated 4 years of hard work by a long night of hard partying.
After waking up way later than we should have, and meeting with JC who had forgotten his cell phone at the party, we drove to Chablis.
As soon as we were in the house, we climbed upstairs to look for the lost passports...and we could'nt find them. We recalled them being in a big wooden box, but it was nowhere to be found. I phoned to the traveller-checks agency to ask them which had been used, but none were spent.
We looked in the kitchen, the living room, the bathroom...everywhere. All of this under major stress, which is no fun with me.
At that point, we decided that if we were to look into the toilet bowl, we should probably look more into our non-wooden stuff, where we found 2 passports and travellers checks...end of the story. the mystery of the big wooden box was never solved.
We then took all our papers to the post office, ready to fax the documents to the Vietnam ambassy as planned.
The fax never went through the system.
Don't forget that we tried to call the ambassy about 10 times last week, and it never went through either, so that was not a big surprise to us.
Therefore, we sent all the documents via Chronopost, so that everything arrive this morning around 10 am.
Back home, it was 5 pm, and that was all we had done. We called the ambassy to let them know that we couldn't fax them so documents, and we had to send them, to what they answered: "yes, fax machine number no good, try 24 instead of 42, better!". No comment.
I called the ambassy this morning to see if they received our mail, but "no mail before noon, call back at 4pm".
We need those visas by Tuesday, because we leave on Wednesday. This is getting very scary.
Today, we are going to subscribe to a travel insurance, book the flight for New-Zealand, look for new glasses for Laurent, sort all our stuff to see what fits in the backpacks.
I need to go to Phildar buy yarn to calm myself.
Gochoun