Dil Mahambala

That's Hindi for "matters of the heart". It's also the first two words in this cool song called Mast Kalander. I'm thinking about burning all of you a copy of some of this music. It's some of the new stuff coming out of Bollywood. There was a movie that came out last month and this song, among others is on it. There seems to be very little seperation between the movie industry and the music industry here. In fact, music videos are often sections of the movie in which they appear...

Anyway, enough about that. We had our first Indian trade market experience. It was cool! Here are some pictures. There are some mean hagglers here. It's expected. I had to pretend to walk away from the shoes that I wanted, which I did, until the guy said "wait a minute waitaminute... sitdownsitdown!". Anyway, I got these cool leather sandal/shoes for about 6 bucks (US).






I think I heard the guy in this picture below saying "OK, nobody sneeze!!"


So anyway, we are all doing fine. We are in a solid routine. We have about 4 and a half weeks left. It was 5 and a half. Why is it shorter you may ask? Well I'm glad you did. We're goin to ITALY!! That's right. It's official (well, almost official. We have the flight change on hold pending a quote). Deloitte is cool with Natalie cutting the trip short and extending our layover in Europe. We have to downgrade to coach, but so WHAT?! At least we aren't flying halfway around the world all at once anymore.

Anyway, we're super pumped about it. Mike, thanks for the info. We are definitely going to spend a lot of time in Florence.

Oh yeah, Dan and Judy are going to meet us there. How cool is that? It's probably not cool if you're Mike and Molly and you have no kids... but we gots em!!

So post already people! Time for a Coopbro PING?!?