Varanasi....so much a photo could not say

Varanasi is a crazy city, and everyone will tell you that. I love it....Rigth now we have a place with a balcony right on the Ganges.....Meer Ghat....Lu and I that is. It is magic. You know traveling everything is happening so fast there are so many photos you just can't get. And on this trip there have been so many holy places and situations where taking a photo was just not approriate. I mean no one would come into one of my religious ceremonies snapping photos, I would hope. So when I see it happen here I cring.....So the photos I could not take. Last night a few of us were chilling out on the rooftop deck of our guest house and all of a sudden I notice monkeys are slowly surrounding us. I reach for a camera and just as I'm about to take a photo there is a monkey turk war right on the table in front of us. I'm screaming and the monkeys all run off, so it's over just as soon as it had started....then we leave the guest house to meet friends for dinner. On the way we wlk along the Gange and we see a crowd off Indians crowding around an English guy in a top hat. He was a street preformer....hillarious and magical and the whole thing was just brilliant. At the end of the show he said Thank you but I want no money. Just take with you a smile and share this good feeling with another.....in India everything is about money and everyone is selling you something, so I thought this was a novel idea for spreading a good feeling. After this a man dressed as Santa Claus comes up to me, which just is off in India and the Santa Claus had a terrifying squeezed face....I wouldsn't shake his hand. I felt like a child going to see Santa at the department store for the first time. India is crazy and I love it.