HOLI: Festival of COLORS!!!

Festival of colors....the most amazing Hindu festival EVER!!! My friends and I went to this festival down at the Hare Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork. I went last year and so this was my second year attending. It basically is the most fun you can have on a saturday! This is what our saturday consisted of:

1. Packing people into my car and making the drive down to Spanish Fork
   
2. Buying our packets of colored dye


3. Feeding Llamas and peacocks


4. Eating weird vegetarian Indian food which was surprisingly good?
   
5. Watching a demon effigy be burned in a bonfire
   
6. The big countdown to the color throwing and then POOF!
   
7. Colored chalk and dye everywhere!! If you are in the middle of the mass of people you cannot see or breathe very well for a little while :)
   
8. Throwing as much colored dye as you can at anyone and everyone
   
9. Dancing around in a huge mosh (?) pit and hoping you don't get pushed up into crowd surfing
   
10. Listening to a rock band play the Hare Krishna chant over and over again to different music


11. Walk back to the car
    
12. drive home and take a shower
    
13. watch the dye wash off of you like koolaid
    
14. Blow your nose, and purple snot comes out
    
15. Relax and watch a movie
    
16. BEST DAY EVER!!

Have a gander at these photos: