The further we go on this trip the more we stand out! My hair keeps getting blonder and blonder in this sun and I swear Tor is getting taller! It started in Greece, Egypt was bad, nut now in India I feels as though we are just freaks of nature. Staring is common, but lots of people point and come up a little closer to take a look.Many others just take pictures of us. It's crazy! The people in South India were very sweet about it...most would come up to us and just say "hi" and look and people waved to us everywhere we went. On the beach one of the groups of people that came up to me, carrying their camera, asked for "one click? One click?" I thought they wanted me to take a picture for them all together, but instead they wanted it of me with them. It happened again today here in Delhi. But most people just take pictures with their phones.
As for being a single mom with a biracial son and a daughter who's not...well I think that just boggles them. I've lied so many times about where my husband is I'm starting to believe I have one back home working and he couldn't take time off. (hope he's there) I don't think we look much like many other American tourist families they see, if they have.
Torrey and I have been very careful about our dress. (especially in Egypt where it's nearly all muslim, with women covered from head to toe...some with only eye slots in their robes) But regardless of how conservative we dress and subtle we try to be people actually laugh at us.
Elijah has been a different story...everybody from Spain to Egypt has loved Elijah! They all say he looks like them!. (here, not, but he's a boy, so he still gets some special treatment) People have came up and started speaking to him in Spanish, Italian, Greek, Turkish(?), and Arabic with out a second thought. All the men just get chummy with him as if he was one of there family members. In Egypt when people asked and he would tell people he was African-American, they would really embrace him...telling him that he was one of them! Our nice bell boy (older man) kept trying to take him home with him. It was very cool for him to have that experience in Africa :)
Well, tonight we head off to Thailand. Torrey's really going to be a tower there! At least we'll never loose each other in a crowd.
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