Famous.
Tuesday was Indonesia's Independence Day. Sean shared on his blog about our little outing on our "day off."
We really had a great time lounging by the pool (which we paid all of $6 for our whole family to swim in). We felt as spoiled as any Hollywood celebrity. And, just to make us feel that much more famous, we were approached by a young couple taking their wedding pictures at the hotel.
They wanted our girls to pose with them!
For a picture.
A picture in their wedding album.
We didn't know them. They didn't know us. That didn't matter!
People here really do get a kick out of white kids! My girls get their cheeks pinched daily by doting women of all ages. I've seen women stumbling all over themselves just for a chance to touch Maddie's near-white hair.
It's kinda how I feel about the kids here with their snappy dark brown eyes and smooth brown skin, though I haven't pinched any cheeks. Yet. I'm finally in a place where such a thing is perfectly acceptable!
So somewhere, in some obscure corner of some random house in Indonesia, my daughters' smiling faces will grace somebody's wedding album for all eternity.
The end.
p.s. They didn't bargain on Maddie's inability to look natural and happy in a picture. The kid pulls all sorts of strange faces when somebody says, "Say Cheese!" Must be something about that age - Brooklyn used to do the same thing!
We really had a great time lounging by the pool (which we paid all of $6 for our whole family to swim in). We felt as spoiled as any Hollywood celebrity. And, just to make us feel that much more famous, we were approached by a young couple taking their wedding pictures at the hotel.
They wanted our girls to pose with them!
For a picture.
A picture in their wedding album.
We didn't know them. They didn't know us. That didn't matter!
People here really do get a kick out of white kids! My girls get their cheeks pinched daily by doting women of all ages. I've seen women stumbling all over themselves just for a chance to touch Maddie's near-white hair.
It's kinda how I feel about the kids here with their snappy dark brown eyes and smooth brown skin, though I haven't pinched any cheeks. Yet. I'm finally in a place where such a thing is perfectly acceptable!
So somewhere, in some obscure corner of some random house in Indonesia, my daughters' smiling faces will grace somebody's wedding album for all eternity.
The end.
p.s. They didn't bargain on Maddie's inability to look natural and happy in a picture. The kid pulls all sorts of strange faces when somebody says, "Say Cheese!" Must be something about that age - Brooklyn used to do the same thing!
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