Sunday, March 28, 2010

Indian Colorfest

Saturday we went to the annual spring colorfest at the Krishna temple in Spanish fork. All I can say is...CRAZY! Basically it's a festival to worship the Hindu god Krishna and to celebrate fertility. There was singing and dancing in the temple, which was SO fun. I was tempted to pull out my Bollywood dance workout moves (thank you, Celeste). Then we and the other hundreds of people at the festival bought packets of colored chalk and after a countdown threw them all over each other! I don't know when I've had more fun.





Walking to the temple. Clean, but not for long.



Outside of the temple. It was beautiful!


Waiting for the powder throwing to begin...


Some people were a little overzealous and began throwing chalk at me before the countdown had started.

COUNTDOWN AND CRAZY POWDER THROWING!





Me Kasee and Bre. Filthy but happy!


The crew!

Okay, it was fun, but I have to tell you that when the countdown was over and hundreds of people began throwing fistfuls of colored powder into the air, the sky basically went dark and I couldn't breath for a couple minutes. It was a real third Nephi experience. All day long after that I was coughing up rainbows. And my shower is ruined :) but it was worth it. I want to do it again.

4 comments:

Marie W said...

I always thought you had to go to India to take part is such festivities. In fact, it is one of the few things that draws me to India. Now that I know one can experience the Color Fest in Spanish Fork, I am going to have to rethink my travel priorities.

You are super cool, Lin.

Janet said...

What great fun! I love all the colors--why not color yourself for spring instead of messing with those Eater egg dyes? You captured the moment so well on the video. Thanks for sharing.

Celeste Elaine said...

What is Kasee doing in that picture? It's like that video of the guy doing a jig in dozens of countries around the world....

I am super Jel-ea. How could Radha not be jelea?

Melinda said...

Haha Radha is for sure Jeal-a.