Oh my god monkey. Alternate title: blessed by an elephant.

I have seen two monkeys and an elephant in the past week.

In Mahabalipuram, there was a really old guy walking down the street with a monkey on a leash. I was like oh my god monkey. He let me hold the monkey, and Jin took some pictures. The monkey crawled up my body onto my shoulder, but mostly I just kind of held it while it kept biting me. Like, in a playful way. Thank god for vaccinations. Anyway I named it Mojojojo.

I also saw a monkey at the schoolyard yesterday. All the children rushed to one area and I was like what's up kids and they were all, monkey in the tree, check it. For ten minutes we yelled at the monkey, just being all "MONKEY! HEY MONKEY! MONKEY, OVER HERE, MONKEY!" but it was not interested in us at all. I didn't name it, but since I'm here, I might as well...and since I'm in Pondicherry right now I'm going to go with Francois.

Yesterday I went to a temple in Kanchipuram solely because it has an elephant. There it was, big huge elephant, kicking it in the back with some dude who takes care of it. You get close to it and it puts its trunk out, then you put some coins in and it gives them to the guy, then it bops you on the head ever so slightly with its trunk, which is a blessing. I got some kick ass photos of the elephant. I named it Stampy.