As Becky put it, this Holiday is way more fun than Halloween - it may be a new fave. Holi, the festival of colors. A celebration of the return of Spring. lovely. bright. colorful. Few vehicles inhabit the road. It's eerily un-crowded like Sunday mornings. But groups of men, women and children walk along the road looking fairly normal except for their bright pink faces and the green and orange smears across the backs of their shirts. Families on bicycles (yes, bicycles, not motorbikes) ride down the street all covered in pink, red, green and blue powdered paint. Your taxi driver picks you up covered from head to toe, and cars drive by with splatterings of purple paint on their doors. And everyone is fantastically cheerful - Happy Happy Holi!
Jon and I geared up for our first Holi party (not sure what we did last year, but for some reason didn't participate in Holi-ness). I selected some clothes, which I have now deemed as my permanent Holi outfit, greased my hair in oil (some of my kids last year had permanently dyed pink hair for the remainder of the school year...), and wrapped a bandanna around my head. What a hoot! We tossed paint onto one another and shot water guns...a child's dream. Or, um, a child at heart? Can't wait until next year!
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