The Festival of Colors!

This past Saturday we had the opportunity to go with some of our friends to the Krinshna Festival of Holi (aka the Festival of Colors).

"In India Holi announces the arrival of spring and the passing of winter. It is a festival that breathes an atmosphere of social merriment. People bury their hatchets with a warm embrace and throw their worries to the wind. Every nook and corner presents a typically colorful sight. Young and old alike are covered with colors (red, green, yellow, blue, black and silver). People in small groups are seen singing, dancing and throwing colors on each other."

The festival is held every year at the Krishna temple, located in Spanish Fork. We actually attended last year, but didn't make it in time for the color throwing. People from all over Utah and Salt Lake counties, including numerous BYU students, attended the festival.

Here are some pictures of us before and after the throwing of colors:



Here we are holding the colors before the throwing began. The color consists of chalk/flour-like powder.



And here we are afterwards. Notice the cloud of dust in the background. The cloud was MUCH much larger during the color throwing, we're lucky we didn't suffocate!



I'm cleaning Austin off on our way home. He withstood a very colorful blow to the eye!