Holi Festival

According to the calendar it's supposed to be be spring, however mother nature seems to have other ideas as I continually wake up to snow. So in hopes that spring will keep on a coming my sisters , husband, and I went to the Holi Festival of Colors in Spanish Fork. It takes place at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple and is so cool. Basically, it's a festival to celebrate the colors of spring. So you get these powdered colors and at a specific time we all throw them in the sky together. It's also to celebrate differences and how everyone can be a different color, check this out: "Holi means fun. Holi means colours. Holi is one of the oldest Hindu festivals that goes back thousands of years. Like any Indian festival, it is full of meaning. But Holi is not just about colours…Originally Holi festival is known as Utsav of ‘Holika’ or ‘Holikotsav’. It’s also celebrated as spring (vasant) festival in northern India. But Holi is not just about colours as it is quite symbolic of the colourful diversity in India. A closer look at Holi reveals an Indian lifestyle which is so colourful in every way that it comes across as an overwhelming experience to a tourist. But the humble desi takes it for granted as he lives and breathes those colours everyday.." It was a lot of fun and TONS of people were there. It was on the 26th, and 27th of March and they had throwings every two hours starting at 11:00 to 8:00. We had lots of fun. Before and After shots. We started with snow and ended up with mud. Trying out the colors.

At first we were slightly bummed with the colors that we bought. They weren't as bright or stuck on you as well as the others. But then random people would be throwing and we would get little bits on us. Every few minutes we would find a different color on someone. By the end of the throwing we ended up with a lot more colors on us, check out the colorful hair pic.

They started by getting everyone together and saying, " No early throwers people don't want to date an early thrower." Except we totally had early throwers in the first one. Then they counted down from ten and BAM! Colors everywhere. It was crazy being in the middle of all the people after they started throwing the sky around us got all dark almost like we were under a tent and some of the colors were scented so we had a pretty strong smell going on as well. Then the dust somewhat settled and everyone is covered. So fun. We got there for the first throwing and then stayed for the second. Oh the best quote of the day the annoucer guy says, " Are you guys ready for the first throw of 2001?" umm......let's add ten years to that. =)

After the second throwing, we got a lot more colorful and no early throwers.

Awesome. Happy Spring everybody!