A Little Trip Around the World

This weekend was Holi Krishna (The Festival of Colors to welcome in spring). I've always wanted to go to this festival, but I've always been in Rexburg during the festival so it was never an option. But this year (woo hoo!) I was finally able to make it! I went with two of my friends (Elisa and Jacob), my friend's younger sister (Kristen), and Kristen's friend Orlando. We set off from Salt Lake at 2 to pick up Orlando in Provo. That only took about an hour. But the drive from Provo to Spanish Fork (typically a ten minute drive) took over an hour because of all the other people on their way to the festival.

But, thank goodness, we did make it in time. And this is what we saw a we walked up to the Krishna Temple:




It was a beautiful Hindu Temple and thousands of people surrounding it.

It's hard to imagine that this is actually a place of worship because 1) it felt more like a rock concert and 2) they have a gift shop on the first floor of the temple. It was definitely not a place of contemplation and reverance like the LDS Temples. I'm so grateful for our temples and the peace felt therein. This was definitely not a "spiritual" experience for me (even though it was held at a temple); however, that did not keep me from having an absolute BLAST at this festival!


from left to right: Elisa, Kristen, Orlando, Me, Jacob

This was at the end of the festival and we had dusted most of the color off by this point (so you can imagine how bad it was before then)!

We were probably in the middle of everyone right now. So this picture probably shows about a 6th of the people that were there (and this was the second round of the festival)

There was colored dust EVERYWHERE!!!


I love any opportunity to get good and dirty!


After our Hindi adventure in "India", we jetted over to Korean, China, Vietnam and Thailand for dinner (aka Asian Fusion Resturant) -- lots of yummy dumplings and curry.

From Asia, we made our way to Italy to get some Gelatto. I got Almond and Hazelnut. Yummy!
We got lots of interesting looks from the people at the restaurants because, as I said before, it was almost impossible to get all the color off without water. So I still had very pink hair and eyebrows.



From Italy, we returned to the States but stopped in New Orleans first and watched the Princess and the Frog. It was the cutest Disney movie I'd seen in a long time. It had such adorable music and I loved that it was hand-drawn cartoons and not cgi characters. I think I may have to buy it!

I finally got home at about 12:30. There was no way I was going to go to bed with all this color all over me though, so I got in the shower and turned the entire shower pink in the process. But I finally got all the colored dust off and went to bed -- exhausted but very happy.