Val & Collette Cook Family

I love coming to India the best part is the people I get to meet. Sunday my friend Fatithima was having her daughter blessed. I was so glad we could be there on that occasion.  Here is a picture with her and her baby and my other friend Glory.   I met some new friend's  Amrita Korsa,  Geetha Rajesh, and  Ujvala Ramesh Also Lynda Dunna came to visit with her new son Ethan. He has such cute black curly hair.   I am so grateful for all the friends I have met.  Val's employees are very nice and are helping me learn about their culture.  At lunch time I usually eat with Luna and Sw  We would tell about each others cultures.  They would ask many questions like do all older women have short hair.  Barbara Bush and many other celebrates, and myself have short hair I told them many women have short hair even young women.  It is rare to have short hair here in India. Luna from work took me to a dance perfo...

I am in India with Val.  On Sunday walking down the steps Val noticed I wasn't holding on to the rail. It's my new Normal! I hadn't noticed, six months ago I was holding on and now I am getting use to my new normal. Our move to Utah has kept me busy to say the least.  We have settled into Val's dad's home while waiting to be able to move into our home on December 1st.  I get to be in India for two week this will help the time fly before moving into our home. It is good to see all the friends old and new that I have met here. Before Val went to India I went to the Huntsman Cancer Center and met with the doctors and staff  there.  They are really nice and I will be in good hands with them.  I also met my local oncologist and will be getting my shot and port flushed there.  They are located at the Utah Valley Hospital so I don't have to drive to Salt Lake City each month. My health is great, I am stable and getting back my strength.  It is not...

What a crazy summer we had.  It started out just looking at houses on line in Utah and ended with the sale of our house and purchase of our new house in Woodland Hills in Utah. And we threw in a family vacation in the middle of it all. For our family vacation we went to North Fork Idaho where are kids all joined us.  It was so fun to be with everyone. We went fishing and had a tale gate dinner. Emma did a frog swan dive, unfortunately we didn't get it on camera. We met a moose Saturday we were all together and we went for a hike along the Lewis and Clark trail. Watched a rattlesnake cross the road.  cows Eat lunch

While in India Val had a business meeting in Ahmedabad, we were there for two days, he was in meetings and I went shopping and site seeing. The first day I need a scarf so I went to a market that was close to the hotel.  I found some very cool scarfs or dupotas and some friends.  It was hot so after I bought stuff they offered me to sit and they brought me water.  DJ kept trying toto get me to buy more things. I told him I was closed.  We laughed and talked Mother, son, daughter Man I bought a belt from The auto rickshaws were very cheep and very nice.  The next day one of them took me to Gandhi's Ashram, where he lived for awhile.  The auto guy waited for me and took me back.  I walked around and took pictures.  It is such a special place there is quite the feeling there. Then I went back to the hotel, which I had already checked out of because we had a late flight and weren't staying the night,  I ate lunch a...