Festival of Colors

Every year that I have lived in Utah County, I have wanted to attend Festival of Colors. (It is in Spanish Fork at the Hari Krishna Indian Temple. It is a celebration in which, In India, Festival of Colors announces the arrival of spring and the passing of winter. The festival breathes an atmosphere of social merriment where people throw their worries in the wind.) But every year something always comes up and I can't go. This year, however, was different because I was able to take Michal with me to experience this!

When we arrived we bought ourselves some chalk and waited around until it was time to throw our chalk on one another. We sang and danced and chanted with the thousands of people there celebrating and enjoying this annual festival.

When everyone starts throwing the chalk, it is so hard to breathe and there is so much in the air, that you can't even see the sun. Everyone said it smelled bad, but I thought it smelled like flowers.

Here is what we chanted and danced to:

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna

Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama

Rama Rama Hare Hare

I even ran into some of my friends that I went to the Jerusalem Center with. It was sure fun to see them and hear about all of their adventures.

(Someone came by and dumped a whole bag of chalk on Sean's head that he looked like he was from the blue-man group)

However, the best part of all was that I got Michal to come with me! He said he would come on me if he didn't have to get dirty at all... well... as you can see... he sure did get dirty! But I think that secretly he had a lot of fun! I'm really glad he came along and was such a good sport.