I don't know if you can get it through Customs, but if you were here on the Right Coast, I'd think about maple syrup or maple sugar candy, which is pretty damn exotic nearly everywhere else in the world. Tree blood! Also, Indians that I've met appreciate sweets, so there's that. A couple of times I've suggested breakfast places around here to foreign visitors, with an injunction to try real maple syrup on their pancakes.
What local goods could you get from Colorado? Anything cowboy-related, like a miniature Longhorn figurine? Or little dreamcatchers, like the kind that people hang from their rear view mirrors?
I've not had any issues getting packaged food through Customs in India, but YMMV.
For those planning on medical donation, have a backup plan. My beloved was MRSA-colonized by the end, and the medical school wouldn't take him, so a quick alternate had to be arranged.
Thanks for the ideas. I checked with my US co-worker on how many she was bringing. There is a group of 10 people that we interact with on a regular basis plus 90 field staff. She is bringing something for everyone. I can't imagine that. I'm ok with finding something for the 10 people that I work with.
All the ideas that pop in my head are crafty - crocheting the CO flag into a bookmark, making mini cross stitches of the flag (but that would involve Hobby Lobby and I try very hard not to give them my money). Or something with the mountain line, that is very Colorado. Hmmmmm. I have between now and late Wednesday to make any purchases and if I go crafty, I have until late Sunday. The more I think of bookmarks, the more I'm liking the idea - some with the flag, some with the mountain line, and maybe something else Colorado-ish. Oh, if I had time I'd do something with Blucifer and the Blue Bear (if you aren't familiar, google them. One is universally loved and the other universally hated).
Doing 15 crafts this week sounds bananas to me! But you know the projects and yourself.
Maybe I'm a weirdo, but I find it a little baffling to care what happens to my body when I die?
Also along these lines, I'm annoyed at people who want to make really specific restrictive bequests. You won't be here to see what we do with your money! And yet we will be locked into whatever you say!
Dear friends: when you are making charitable bequests in your will, just give the money unrestricted, would you?
For you, Jesse, I will. Go wild with my thirty-seven cents, or whatever!
Part of me wants to be turned into a Lifegem so my descendents can wear me as a creepy haunted necklace,
That is exactly my plan, but I expect flocks of babygoths to battle in a tournament to win the honor of wearing my remains.
That is an excellent plan, Atropa.
For those planning on medical donation, have a backup plan.
Yeah, it still makes me sad that none of DH could be donated because of circumstances. He was so in favor of organ donation. Plans for what'll happen to your body are just as liable to change as plans for your life, I guess.
