When you do not know what color Mickey Mouse’s nose is the best thing to do is ask.

“What color is Mickey Mouse’s nose?” 4-year-old Aubrey asks her big brother.

 “Red,” Hunter, 8, said.

“No. His hands are red,” Aubrey said.

“Then I don’t know,” Hunter said.

The two sat at a table in Morrison Hall at Wichita State while their parents applied for passports at WSU’s Passport Day on Saturday. Aubrey colored Mickey Mouse coloring book, while Hunter colored in Lightning McQueen with a red crayon.

“Their parents are going to love me because of these stickers,” WSU Postal Service manager Mike Sperlazza said about the coloring books.

The U.S. Department of State sponsored its fourth annual Passport Day this weekend as a way for people to get passports without having to take off work and make an appointment during the week. This is the second year WSU has been involved.

WSU was the only Passport Day participant out of five facilities that accept applications.

“If you apply for a passport you’ve got to take off work,” Sperlazza said. “It helps the community. It helps faculty and staff that are planning on trips.”

For graduate student Holli Gill and her husband, without Passport Day, getting a passport would have been a nightmare.

“We both work during the week,” she said. “We don’t get home until the post office closes and there it’s by appointment only. It just worked out so well.”

Alumnus Ricardo Melon and his fiancé are traveling to the Caribbean Islands for their honeymoon this July, and were happy they came back to WSU to get their passports.

“We called the other post office and they told us over the phone to come here. They were appointment only and they closed at 11,” Ricardo said.

Wait times lasted no longer than 10 or 15 minutes and children were able to keep busy with coloring and activity books.

Last year, Sperlazza issued 43 passports on Passport Day. This year, 75 passports were given out in five hours.

Numbers may be increasing because facilities are becoming less accessible to working families, Sperlazza said.

State passport agencies closed Saturday due to the budget sequestration, and because this weekend’s event would require salary and overtime pay, only local post offices, clerks of court and libraries are able to participate.

The closest participating facility Saturday was Newton, so WSU saw plenty of traffic this year.

“When push comes to shove,” Sperlazza said, “we help the community.”