Crazy Visa run Day

To live in another country, you have to have permission from the
government to be there: this is called a "visa." We've had several
different types of visa's over the nearly 4 years we've been here, but
the current visa is a year-long visa that requires us to leave the
country every 60 days and then come back in. We decided to try out
this visa because the city we live in is fairly close to a couple
different "out of the country" travel options. Joseph was needing to
be out of town when our 60 days were up, so we quickly began looking
at various options to get us out and back in, as quickly as possible
-- in less than 24 hours if possible. Our options were:
(A) Drive 10 hours north, walk across the Maylasian border, walk back
in, Drive 10 hours back south to our city. (A veeeeeery long travel
day.)
(B) Fly to a nearby airport, take a ferry to Singapore, spend two days
there, take ferry back, fly to our airport on next offered flight.
(This option took nearly 3 days. Not enough time.)
(C) Fly to a nearby Maylasian city, run to immigration and go into the
country and immediately out back again through immigration, run to the
same airplane we just got off and catch the return flight. (This was
the best possible option, but the turn around is just barely 25
minutes!!)

We decided to opt for option C . . . the airline told us it was
possible, so we began our marathon travel day with hopes of returning
to our car parked at the airport some 4-5 hours later. No problem
getting on the plane; as soon as we were seated we informed the flight
attendant of our crazy plan and asked if she could let the pilots and
any one else know that would need to and said, "Please wait for us,
yah?" She smiled and nodded. As we landed, I shared with Anna that we
were about to play a really fun game called "How fast can you run?"
She was really excited :) Walking off the airplane, a representative
from the airline met us and said he was here to help us. He heard our
crazy plan, looked at us a bit like we were indeed crazy and then
said, "let's go. Anna and I began to book it and Joseph followed with
Emily and the rep. We were -- yeah!! -- first in line at immigration
-- yeah!! -- and the rep guy said he'd meet us in just a minute and
ran to go get our boarding passes (yeah! We wouldn't have to check in
again!). We stepped up to immigration and handed her our immigration
papers that we had filled out on the plane (b/c we're prepared, yah!)
and she looked at us like we were crazy, and said "These are the wrong
papers. You'll have to fill out these." AGGGHHHH. So, we dropped to
our knees to begin filling them out and saw everyone we had just
passed, get in front of us at immigration. The rep. came back while we
were still waiting and asked "You're still in line?!!" He kept
nervously glancing at his watch and had us sign our boarding passes.
As soon immigration was done, the rep ran us to an elevator and took
us a back way to 'exit immigration.' The exit immigration people,
again, looked at us like we were crazy and said "Didn't you just
arrive today? (Yes, we did) And you want to leave today? (yes, we do)
Oooookay." They then proceeded to tell us that if we were Maylasian
there's a rule where you can't leave and re-enter their country on the
same day; you must wait 3 days. Joseph and I looked at each other a
bit panicked and wondered if our country had the same rule . . . well
we'd soon find out. The exit immigration guys stamped our passports
(we never even saw Maylasia) and we ran back to the airport. Anna was
not a fan of the "let's see how fast we can run game" this time
around. We ran onto the plane, the last to arrive, and the engines
started immediately and we were off. And now we hoped there was no
such rule as we were turned back around and heading home. We waited
nervously in line for the same immigration guys to let us back into
the country we had just left 2 hours before. The looked at us
surprised and said "oh, you're already back, huh?" We said "yes, we
are." and they stamped our passport, made small talk, invited us to
their coffee plantation and then we walked outside. And, there you go,
that's how you do a visa run in 4 hours. :) Yee-haw.