Lost Luggage Caper Update

HEY there! well, i forgot AGAIN to bring my camera out with me. i keep intending to bring it when i go for walks but i forgot again. oops! So sounds like we had a big winter storm there at home. wow! so awesome. sorry i missed it. i love to stay home in winter and watch the snow come down (AND NOT DRIVE) or I love to go snowboarding when there is a whole foot of fresh on sun peaks. of course. BLAAA! so jealous. hee hee.
Anyways.... there's news. The Great Luggage Caper has taken a positive turn.... Nakul's cousin went to the airport. It was a great ordeal involving him needing to bring two passport sized photos so they can make him a temporary i.d. entry pass just to enter the airport. What a process. At one point he phoned us and said he had talked to the baggage claim "officials" who were telling him that in addition to any customs charges which could be up to $200cad, that there would be an additional "storage fee" since my luggage had been there for almost two weeks. Oh that phone call made me livid. That they would have the nerve to charge storage when THEY lost my bag, when THEY failed to deliver it on the prescribed day, when THEY failed to answer the phone we we called repeatedly over 4 days. wow! wow. wow. ya, so... amit was calling us and giving us updates as things went along. Amit works for human rights in delhi, he is some kind of official government guy himself, so... i have him to thank for spending his whole day off there at the airport, trying to sort out MY baggage woes. I have him to thank for the customs officials in the end not opening my bag at all, just scanning it through with their x-ray machine (i tell you, the bag was so meticulously packed. If someone were to open it, they would never be able to get all that stuff put back inside, mom, you saw the mountain of stuff i had and the small bag that i was determined to fit it all into, so you understand). I have Amit to thank that i didn't get charged storage fees or customs fees and my bag was given to him unopened, unharmed and completely free of charge. So after all that stress over the stupid bag, the result couldn't have turned out more favourable. I think they were a little scared of Amit because he works for human rights and is this big official type guy. Nakul says for sure if it was me who had gone to the airport, they would have extorted the highest fee possible for the return of my bag. So this is all great. I have promised to throw amit a big party, next time i see him.
So now, we will either courier my bag from delhi, or i will go get it, or nakuls brother is going to delhi in a couple weeks and might bring it back. but the bag is in our possession now, and out of the hands of the stinking authorities.
so that's about it all that is happening exciting.
hope you are all making snow angels and enjoying the white stuff for me.
love and kisses,
ang