AIRLINE TICKETS REBOOKED

Today I re-booked our airline tickets to India.  I am so happy.  We leave 1/14/13 for Florida and fly out of Orlando to Delhi.   There is much to do between now and then.  Thanks Giving, Christmas and three grand kid's and my husband's birthdays are near.    Then taxes will be done and our Tennessee home will re buttoned  one more time.  Things do happen for a reason.  We will be able to stay for a year or longer. We lost the house we were going to rent due to the delay.  Our Son, Jeevan in Haldwani was able to find us a 2 bedroom house to rent for $200.00 USD in Bhimtal not far from the house we were originally going to rent.  My husband did not find out if it is furnished or not. If it is, great.  If not I will have fun discovering my own Indian style.  Now that Obama has won the election I am even more determined to make India our home if she will have us.  There is something freeing, just going with our electronics, clothing, toiletries and our two dogs.

SAD DAY FOR AMERICA

The electoral college has spoken. Obama is re elected.   A sad day for America.  My country is no more.  I have known it for awhile.  India calls to me.

INDIA CALLS TO ME

The night President Obama announced, "We are five days away from fundamentally changing America", I had a sickening feeling.  In the beginning I thought about voting for him.  He sounded like he would bring us together.  Then I read his book, Dreams From My Father and Obama Nation by Jerome Corsi.  I realized this man was far left.  I cried when I read about a nurse  in Chicago that held and comforted a dyeing baby.  This baby was the product of a failed abortion was left with medical waste to die alone.

With a Democratic House and Senate,  Obama has set about passing Universal healthcare.  Spending was out of control. He went on an apology tour.  I realized he hated America's exceptionalism and was going to lead us down the path of Socialism.

I became one of the first members of the Tea Party. Sept. 12, 2009  I marched with my husband and 1.5 million like minded individuals on Washington DC. I marched again a year later.  Many thought the movement wouldn't last.  They were wrong.  For seven long years I have shouted,  Wake up America!  Look what is happening. Wake up!

September 11,2012 is the day the final nail was placed in the coffin of the United States of America.  President Obama left our Ambassador and three other Americans to die in Benghazi.  They requested increased security as conditions deteriorated during the months before Sept. 11.  It was not only denied it was reduced.  Three times the White House Situation Room received calls for help. None came.  America has never left her military or citizens behind.  Sept. 11, 2012 was that defining moment when I realized I no longer recognized my country because my country as I knew it was dead.  I have shed buckets of tears.  I have shouted, look what has happened.  Open your eyes, look!  Just look.  I now understand,  the media is owned by the government and we have become the Communist Republic of America.  My country is no more.

I now am at peace.  I have done every thing can do.  I have written hundreds of letters to Congress and the President.  I have written the media.  I have screamed until I can scream no more.  In less than 48 hours the people will choose their  next president.  If Obama wins, America will continue down the path of Communism.  There will be no hope.  America will be but a memory.  If Romney wins, he may be able to help bring about a miracle and start to bring her back.  I am not hopeful that he can.  I fear we may be already too far gone.  I am prepared to make the best of it.  If need be I am prepared to leave this country.  India calls to me.

TASTE OF HOW INDIA WORKS

Guess I am getting a taste of how India works or I should say doesn't.  The Indian Customs Officer did not process our paperwork timely and stated he did not have all required documents. We contacted a professional pet re-locator, Pet Fly who looked at our documents and said we had provided everything necessary. Guess the Customs Officer  did not get a bribe from an inexperienced family member helping us. Bottom line, $600.00 to re book our tickets and will have to start the pet passport paper work all over again as every thing must be done within 14 days of departure for India, 10 days for airline and 30 days for USDA in Nashville. We will use the Pet Fly, the cost 15,000 INR/ $277.00 USD, peace of mind priceless.   We plan to go at the end of Jan. after we have filed our taxes. I am sorry to have missed Durga Puja.  The good thing, we will not have to come back to the States to do our Taxes in March.

DISAPPOINTMENT

Today we were to be on our way to India.  It did not happen.  We did not receive the NOCs (No Objection Certificates) from the Indian Customs Health Officer for our two dogs.  Huge disappointment.  Yet things do happen for a reason.  I trust the Universe in that.  Tomorrow we drive back to Tennessee.  India still calls to me.

BIG HITCH

Big hitch with dog papers.  We may or may not go tomorrow.  I may go alone tomorrow. Everything is up in the air.  Despair.

OUR INDIA ADVENTURE BEGINS

We have buttoned up our Tennessee home, said our goodbyes.  Our India adventure begins.  Today we and our two dogs drive to Lakeland, Florida to see old friends and family.  On the sixteenth we fly from Orlando  with a layover in  Frankfort Germany and then on to New Delhi.  It's taken almost a year of planning and doing.  We go with the intention of making India our home.  I am excited to finally meet my Indian family and nervous that I will not adequately fulfill  my role as a proper Indian Wife and Grandmother.