Holi Colorfest 2010

Jess and I headed to the annual Holi Color Festival in Spanish Fork at the Hare Krishna temple. I have always wanted to go, but we are ususally never around. So, I was super excited that we got a chance to experience it. And boy, was it an experience! Here we are waiting for the shuttle from the local high school to the temple.

 

The Hare Krishna temple! beautiful right? don't mind the port o pottys, they are usually not there. The LDS church actually helped them build it! Cool huh?

                A view from the temple steps of just some of the crowd. I felt like we were at some crazy color Woodstock!  They are estimating maybe 15-20,000 people were in attendance, and this was the afternoon color throwing.

 

They are gracious and allow you to enter their sacred temple. After removing your shoes you enter one large circular room. Here is one of the beautiful shrines.

              Here is the largest shrine where people would leave fruit

                   Ready to go with our bandanas!

 

Some bands played and I sat on Jess' shoulders for a while were I nabbed this sweet shot looking uphill at the temple

                        This is us after the cloud of color went up. I must say I had a brief moment of panic as it happened. You literally could not see ANYTHING. And some chick knocked my bandana off and I inhaled a ton of the dust, and almost vomited. It was surreal that we had just experienced that! But so cool :)

                       It took a while for the color dust to settle

 

My aren't we pretty?

Me on the ride home..well not really ride more like stuck in horrible traffic for almost an hour. I felt like I had war paint on! Oh, and let's not forget the balloon I took from Subway for the buddy :)

Definitely an experience for the books! We are going to the festival now every year! I suggest anyone who is in the Utah area the end of March should go too!