Kids know neatness counts on passports

Photos by IRIS SMOOT/Acorn Newspapers

CURIOUS KIDS- Above, Alex Lockney, 5, of Thousand Oaks peeks at her brother's passport photo while waiting for her family's passports to be processed at the Thousand Oaks Post Office Passport Fair on Saturday. Below, Mariana Smith, 5, of Thousand Oaks watches carefully as her father, John, completes her passport application. Americans now must have passports to travel into any foreign country, including the neighboring nations of Mexico and Canada.