Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Time To Celebrate

There is surely cause for celebration.

Two things:

Spring is here. (Though it may not look or feel like it out here in Utah.)

It is also my Birthday today.

There was a celebration. It wasn't really for my birthday, but I like to think that's one main reason I went. I was never able to go the previous years.

I mentioned the Holi Festival in my last vlog. Holi is a Hindu religious festival celebrated at the passing of winter on the last full moon day. People get together, throw colors, have bonfires, sing, dance and chant mantras. In India, colored water is typically thrown along with colored powder. Here in Utah, they throw colored powder. Throwing water at each other 30 degree weather might make a lot of people sick.

So many people go to the Festival of Colors each year. This is the time of year when everyone in Utah's facebook news feed is filled with pictures of people covered in color. It gets to be a little much, but going to the festival is a beautiful thing.

I put together a short video about my experience. Please forgive the terrible quality and camera shake.





























My shirt started out white, and I'm not sure if that scarf will ever be the same... But I am so glad I was able to go this year.

20 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday!!Have a wonderful time :)
    My friends went to the Festival of Colors last year, and I saw there pictures and immediately wished I could have gone! You're Lucky you get to go again ;)

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  2. First of all -- HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

    This looks so freakin awesome, I've never heard of anything like this before! It's really great to see how obviously happy you are... you are seriously such a cool person and it's good to see your good karmas finally catching up with you!

    Keep celebrating all week!!! :)

    xx, Kara

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  3. Happy Birthday! That looks like amazing fun!!!

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  4. I'm so jealous - that looks absolutely AMAZING. What a great photo opportunity too! Hope your camera didn't get paint all over it ;)

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  5. Wow. What a beautiful posting! The part after the countdown was my favourite. Goodbye winter HELLO SPRING! P.s Happy birthday :)

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  6. Happy Birthday! I would love to have something that colorful happen here, but MD is all about monuments and Cherry Blossoms (which is nice, but not so much FUN).

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  7. Happy Birthday Beautiful I hope you had a wonderful day!!! Looks like you had a great time and got totally messy :)

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  8. SPECTACULAR!!! Hope things are looking up!

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  9. Happy Birthday!
    Wow, that looks like so much fun! Love how you all look so colorful! xxx

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  10. that festival is always fun. glad you got out and enjoyed it!

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  11. ummmm, i wanna go!!!!!!! and happy birthday! that looked so amazing! you kinda look like you participated in a murder bc all the colors on your face are reds!! hehe

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  12. Such color!!!!

    I want to be the woman on the wedding dress!! How fun!!

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  13. that is SO neat. I love your photos :-)

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  14. ha, seems like everybody's celebrating! :o)
    happy birthday to you!!

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  15. so fun! you're all bursting in colours!

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  16. So beautiful! What a wonderful experience. Happy Birthday!!

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  17. That is endlessly cool!! Never heard of or seen that before. What a wonderful way to spend a birthday. Hope it was endlessly happy as well :)

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  18. oh i really want to go to that one day!

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