SPRING BREAK

My first activity in Utah was going to the festival of colors. It is a religious tradition that the Hindu's celebrate the beginning of spring or new life. They have a celebration where they perform different dances in traditional costumes, and a band plays music, religious hymns. Which they were pretty upbeat songs. They have traditional India culture types of food. There was a llama petty zoo . The llama symbolizes something to do with the Hindu religion, but I'm not quite sure what.

The funnest part is when the celebration starts by burning a demon, once the demon is on fire the celebration begins where you have all different colors of powdered chalk in bags and you throw it on those around you, hence the festival of COLORS. There were probably 2 to 3 thousand people there. We were right in the middle of the crowd. Pretty close to the demon.For about 5 minutes there is so much chalk dust in the air that you could hardly breath. I was trying real hard not to lose it. Since i am extremely claustrophobic, but i was pretty proud of myself. I did OK. We met up with a friend of Holly's, Adam Channer. And also Alan's close friend Molly Flynn. It was actually more like a rock concert, minus the hard rock. There was some what of a mosh pit, where people were body surfing. i actually got asked if i wanted to do it, but i of course declined. not that i wasn't tempted. but i could just see the headlines in our community paper. " 5o something Preschool teacher killed while body surfing." That would be the last time David let me go on spring break by myself. It really was quite fun and interesting.

group shot before the festival begins. Group shot after the festival.

And we tell our kids, they need to be good. It was really a kick.
Holly, Me and Aubri

There were at least a couple thousand people there. Totally Insane.

Our Road trip to Utah for spring break was a lot of fun. We had Fern who went with us to visit her Brothers, David, Tad, and her sister Gladys and a bunch of nieces , and also some of Lovell's family. She was a real trooper in helping keep Jack ( baby) occupied. He is just like any other kid, give him a phone and he can be on it for hours. he looks like he actually knows what to do with it.