Residents!

So for the last few weeks we have been working on getting all the things we need to transfer our licenses from Illinois to West Virginia. Last Monday we went to Welch to get paperwork that has our physical address. Here in McDowell Count physical addresses are a relativity new thing. Within the past 5 years they have made it mandatory for everyone to have a physical address. Mountain Mans dad never had the urge to find out what his address in so we had to go to the 911 Addressing Center and get the official paper with our address. Then it was down to city hall to register to vote so that we could get another proof of address on our voter registration card. Sadly there is a waiting period to get your voter card if you don't have a WV license, so we waited for till it came on the mail. The normal wait time is 10 days, luckily I got it on Friday which was half the time they said!! On Tuesday we headed down to Welch to the DMV with all the paper work needed; birth certificate, social security card, Illinois license, and 2 proofs of residence (911 paper and voter registration). We got there and started the process. First we filled out transfer applications, then took a vision test, next all information was put in the computer and finally we got our pictures taken and license was printed.

Yay it was so exciting getting this taken care of and out of the way! I do have to admit it was a little sad letting go of my Illinois license. I do like my picture better on the West Virginia one, Mountain Man thinks I look younger in the new one and they are 3 years apart.