One of the strangest things about China was how many people wanted our pictures. Many people would come up to us and ask, "Can I take your picture?" However, most people would just take pictures without asking or pose their friend near us for a picture and pretend to take a picture of them when they were obviously aiming their camera at us. It was very strange to be singled out so much. Unfortunately, Brynna's kids really hate it when the Chinese people take their picture. I can see why too. They don't just take their picture, but they pick them up or rub their hair. They get right in the kids faces and are very aggressive about the whole thing. Only one or two people asked permission to touch the kids.
The worst day of this happened when we were out walking on "the bundt". It has a great view of the city so we went. But it was a holiday so there were a lot of people there. We could barely make it through the crowds because people were flocking to us and taking our pictures and touching the kids. Obviously, the kids were really scared and upset. So Jeff decided to ease the tension he'd start taking pictures of the people taking pictures of us (we called it "Zapping" to make the kids like it more). Kind of an eye for an eye approach. It definitely helped get the kids through the situation. Here's just a few of the folks who caused so much drama for us that day.
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| This guy followed us for about 10 minutes! |
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