Good things and bad things

There are lots of great and wonderful things about India. And there are some things that suck. Here is a list:

Good things:

• cute kids that wave and say Hello
• cute kids that wave, say Hello and want a picture so they can see themselves on the LCD screen of your camera
• cute kids that wave, say Hello, want a picture with you and all their friends
• an old lady who wanted a picture with Leah, and then gave Leah a high-five!
• astonishing sculpted cave temples - carved out of the rock
• the food is amazing and cheap!
• friendly people that go out of their way to help us
• Shake the rickshaw driver who took us around the caves in Aurangabad and helped us negotiate prices from the roadside fruit vendors
• groups of girls are always friendly, smiley and they giggle when we wave and say "namaste"
• the fact that we are rockstars here, and everyone wants to talk to us (Hello where you from whats your name)

Bad things:

• cute kids that don't leave you alone, and chase you down the block (basically every group of boys)
  
• people with acute staring disease
• creepy men who sit a reasonable distance away and then stare unabashedly
• weird people who video tape us as we walk around
• weird people who ostensibly take pictures of their friends, when they're clearly framing the shot around us
• raw sewage
• sewer gas in the hotel
• touts that try to sell us garbage, and don't leave us alone when we don't want it
• rickshaw drivers that overcharge. every time.
• taxi drivers that overcharge. every time.
• people throw garbage everywhere
• men consider India a large-ish urinal and feel they can pee anywhere, at any time
• most toilets do not have toilet paper (of course) but they also don't have a little squirt gun, just a water bucket