Have you ever gone shopping for money? My spouse and I did just that this morning.
First the reason - we are leaving soon for a trip to Egypt. We are very excited about this, and really looking forward to it. It will be a Viking trip so we know it will be well managed. We will be staying in nice hotels for part of the time and cruising on the Nile for the rest of it. Doesn't that sound exotic?
In carefully reading and rereading all the pre-trip information provided we discovered that we will need visas to enter Egypt. But no problem, Viking associates will be at the Cairo airport to meet us and take us through the process. We can get our visas right there at the airport. However, the visas will cost us $25 each (a reasonable amount) and it must be paid in cash with US money no older than five years old. That means the bills must be marked Series 2021 (the most recent series number on US bills).
So today we went money shopping. Happily, there was no line at our branch bank and we had two tellers involved in the search for new money. They did have a lot of old money on hand, but very little new. Obviously, we were taking out more than $50 for the trip, but we really needed $50 in new money. We finally ended up getting it all in fives, but they are new fives, so the Egyptian authorities should be satisfied.
We have, wisely I think, set aside that $50 in an envelope so we don't accidentally spend any of it. More on this story when we get home.
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