Yesterday, we spent a good part of our day pretending that we were Indian again. The Hindu festival of colors (or Holi) was celebrated at the Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork. It is a celebration of the coming of Spring by throwing scented colored powder at each other. A bunch of us from our ward got together before we left and had a potluck Indian lunch. Then we all piled into the cars and drove down to Spanish Fork and waited in an eterni-line to buy our bags of powder. But after waiting in line for an hour and a half we were frozen stiff from the cold and the wind (what happened to Spring?) so we hurried inside the temple and defrosted while our friend Kapil told us the story of Holi and the names of the statues inside. Finally, the much anticipated moment had arrived - the lighting of the bonfire and the signal to start throwing powder. We quickly hurried down to the crowd (about 3 thousand people) and all of a sudden we were transported to what looked like the inside of a rainbow. It was the craziest thing I'd ever seen.
Here we are waiting in line and before the colors (obviously). Notice the clean air, the distinct faces...
After the colors (obviously). Notice the hazy air, how everyone looks the same...
From left: Allison, Amanda, Kapil, Ben (the tall one), Amy, Aleks, Anil.
5 comments:
That looks like a lot of fun! So did the colors come out?
Umm...mostly. I now have a dyed pink undershirt and my skin is dyed red. But other than that, at least I'm not green or blue. :D
We saw it on the news! looks like you guys had fun!!!
Craziness.
so this was now completely awesome. we should do it together next year too... or at least the festival of lights!
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