Sunday, March 28, 2010

Hare Krishna COLOR FEST

This weekend we went to the Indian temple in Spanish Fork for the festival of colors...this event is HUGE!! There was more than 20,000 people that attended. People came from all over!! It was crazy! Basically what happens is everyone gets a bunch of colored chalk and throws it at each other. Yup, that's it...that's what everyone comes for! But it's amazing!!! Here's the pics!

On our way to the festival...we had to park far away and walk a great distance to get there because there was so many cars...traffic was crazy!

I found some play-do on the side of the road...it was still in it's case...so I picked it up and played with it on the walk over. Everyone made fun of me for it!

This is Andy...Andy is our friend...he comes over all the time...basically Andy is one of the girls...he grew up with 8 sisters...now he has 6 girlfriends...He comes with us every where...he's even coming with us on our girl's camp out trip (I told him the only way he could go with us is if he brought his own tent)...yup, this is Andy













Ok let me just say that at one point on this little adventure I thought I was going to die...literally my life flashed before my eyes. It was crazy! So let me just preface this. There's one point where everyone crowded together and threw their chalk up in the air at the same time. With more than a 1,000 people pressed together in a crowd and us being in the dead center...I couldn't breath guys!!!! It was scary! And it went pitch black when everyone threw their chalk up. It was a rather frightening experience. But it all turned out ok. I'm still alive and breathing.

5 comments:

Debbie said...

Sounds like it is one of those one in a life time experiences!!! Or at least it would be for me!! Chalk it up to clastrophobia!! (Get it??) tee hee

Whitney said...

so fun! thank you for still breathing.

Leilani W. said...

Mary glad you survived it and seriously it really is hard to breath in all the chalk!! SO worth it though. Glad you had fun!:) Great pics.

Annie said...

I love the bright colors...a photographers dream. Do they do it every year?

Mary said...

Ya, they do it every year! It's a crazy event. There's so many people that go!