MR LAX
Well you see one would expect you to have less of a clear memory about it, because your mind was focused on other things at that time.  You were so busy worrying about all the issues around this baptism of your son, why would you have paid, all the more reason why you should have forgotten about these facts, rather than remember them.  Added to which you weren't there a lot of the time, as you said you took time off to go here, you took time to off to go there.