HOLI MOLI!

Word of the day: Recessionitis
the new disease much like chronic bronchitis it can take months even years to go away.
The new excuse not to do anything, this is the act of excluding yourself from activities simply because you can't afford it.

LEE: you coming to the movie?

Amber: Ahh I wish I could but I got a mad case of recessionitis.

Quote of the Day:
Laura: oooh if you plug the tub you can see every color come out of your hair....and I totally had purple snot!

Listening to show me what I'm looking for by Carolina Liar

So for those of you who don't live here in Utah there is a wonderful thing called the Festival of Colors or Holi at the Krishna temple in Spanish Fork. This is my second favorite place I come here at least 5 times a year for different festivals and field trips for my clients. This particular event requires you to throw an array of colored powder into the air or on any possible thing with a pulse and it is always packed I counted at least 3 thousand...roughly.


see thousands! I love people..

we got there at about 430 pm and had to hike to the Temple from about a mile away but it was a gorgeous day perfect for the occasion. I had went the day before and bought 16 packets of color I was counting on at least 4 people to show but only 3 did but we still had a blast! We sat down on the grass at first and watched a few shows but then decided to explore and that is when the inevitable hap pend and I got lost from my group, now getting lost is a special thing especially when you don't have your phone because Summer had it along with your purse and all the color you had previously purchased. I JUST HAD to go into the temple and see what was happening on the second floor and I got some sweet video


everyone was just jamming away to Hare Krishna Rama Rama it was cool even though I didn't join in on the chanting. When I came out of the temple I knew it was about time to start and couldn't find Summer! I was crushed when they started to throw powder and I had none so I decided to make the best of the sitch and head to the middle of the crowd and that is where I got pelted! I couldn't breathe but being a part of something so huge was totally worth it!


after things settled down I just sat on a random stage and decided to stay in one spot so that Summ could find me easily and she did of course she did and brought our friend Catherine with her and they saved my share of the color! then these people came up behind us and I overheard them complaining of not having any more color to buy (they had gotten there late and were clean) so I offered up 3 bags of my own to them and thought that we would just throw it at each other until about 30 others saw that we had more color and rushed to us the photo below is of that happening and I am smack dab (whatever that means ) in the middle so ya it was worth being lost because I got a ton of attention later haha!
I have one more video of the actual crowd throwing the color and me being lost..






after we found each other we headed down to the concert where there was more chanting,moshing, shoe throwing *see above pic* and body surfing. we were in the middle of the crowd and I was scared for my life mostly because there were so many body surfers and I didn't know when to put my hands up and grab their butt"appropriately" of course (Mormons need to get out more) in this pic below there is a girl being hoisted up in the top right corner. so after the sweet close to death experience we decided it was time to clean up a bit because people just dropped all of their wrappers all over from the color so Summer and I picked a perimeter and picked up a few trash bags full of the stuff some people even helped us. We felt like we did our part anyway to help with the clean up GO CLEAN EARTH! or Krishna Temple or whatever


I would have done it all over again....getting lost and everything!