Festival of Color!

On Saturday My friends and I had the opportunity to Attend Holi Festival of Colors in Spanish Fork Utah. Holi is a traditional Indian holiday to celebrate a few different things, but mainly to celebrate the coming of spring. All of this takes place at the Krishna Temple, and is an all day event.

            I had seen pictures of the festival from previous years and looked like so much fun, but I had no idea why it was celebrated. So before going down to celebrate with thousands of people I decided to study up on the religion and the Holi Festival. The festival Is names Holi after a woman named Holika who was a witch of sorts and could not be burned in fire because she had a cloak that kept her safe. Because of the cloak, she would walk through fire with babies to kill them.

There was an atheist father who had continually tried to kill his son because he constantly prayed to Lord Vishnu. No matter how hard his father tried he never died. His father then asked Holika to walk his son through the fire in order to kill him. Right before Holika walked the boy into the fire, a wind blew the cloak onto the boy and Holika was burned in the fire.

At the festival they have a bonfire and burn a dummy as a symbol of Holika burning in the fire. As they light bonfire the throwing and celebrating begins! Here are some pictures and videos form our FUN day experiencing different cultures! 

This is a video of the throwing..... imagine being in the middle of that. Yup it was really hard to breathe, but so worth it!

Here we all are after the throwing and festivities! 

Dani, Makenzie, Britt, Jessie, Heater, Me and Stephanie

 we made shirts with our last names on them

 Dani and i

 We were having so much fun! i really like my hair green....

 our pearly whites... this should be an orbit commercial

our lips were covered in chalk and i can still taste it today.

We all had so much fun! I am so glad i have these wonderful friends to share these fun times with! Yes it dye my shirt and i know it dyed some hair. luckily i have brown hair so i was fine. I would definitely go again, where else do you get to go crazy and throw chalk powder at people :)  

So close to Disney Land

Tonight Josh, Lily and I went to Disney on ice! It was a great night together, We watched all the greatest disney characters skate, sing and tell stories. Here are a few pictures form the night.

she caught josh looking back at her 

Lily found the camera while we were in the car driving, so she decided to take pictures of josh and herself. She has already started perfecting the skill of taking Facebook pictures :)

Lily and her cotton candy mouth... yumm

We tried to get a good picture of us 3 but the show was so fun that none of us even looked at the camera.

A quick smile for the camera 

Mickeys magic brooms

"Valentines day" with all the Princesses

Some of the Princesses and their valentines 

Woody and Jesse

The pig was our favorite. he was so cute and funny!

After a wonderful show we headed back to the car for our journey home. Lily still had her snow cone and cotton candy and couldn't have been happier. On the car ride home i asked her what the best part was and i am pretty sure she mentioned everything then finally just said "well i can't really pick a favorite cause it was all so good!" I am so happy she enjoyed it and since we couldn't go to Disney land.... Disney on Ice will have to hold her over till she gets to experience it.