Oops!

While driving around Amman and taking in the sites, we rolled up to the US Embassy. Considering it a home away from home, a couple girls decided to take a picture. Why not? We were already photographing everything in sight. So, we pulled the truck over, rolled down the window, aimed the camera.... and came face to face with several guards shoved into an even larger truck topped with a machine gun.

"No pictures! No pictures!" they barked.

"Uh oh...."

The intimidating truck pulled a quick U-Turn and made its way over to our van ready to shoot us full of questions. Where are you from? What are you doing in Jordan? Where is your camera? We handed over the iphone, which posed no problem for the guard as he navigated his way over buttons and through files. After a few minutes, enough time to probably check his e-mail, he handed it back and reminded us that pictures were off limits.

So began the first joke of the trip.... "Are you sure we can take a picture of that?"