Travel Declaration

I suppose it must be for disease control that MOE requires the kids to submit travel declaration forms every school holidays. The kids want to go to Bintan this December, so we have made a booking, but we haven't officially announced it to them yet.

Last night Sarah said to Sean, "Daddy, can we go to Bintan please? But Mummy already put Indonesia in my travel declaration form."

Sean replied, "Do you think that Bintan is a country?"

"Yes?"

Matthew went, "Bintan is in Indonesia!"

You could literally see the dawn of understanding breaking over Sarah's face as she processed this information, and her delight at the end of it as she cried, "Yay! We're going to Bintan!"

Then she added, "Daddy, next time on the travel declaration can you put Australia?"