David and I and our friends from Salt Lake went to the Festival of Colors on Saturday at some Hindu Temple in Spanish Fork. I've been meaning to go for years but never really got around to going for some reason. Apparently it's a pretty popular event because we left like an hour and fifteen minutes early and ended up getting there 30 minutes late. And let me just remind you that Spanish Fork is literally the next town over! We saw a ton of people walking so we decided to abandon ship and walk too. What we didn't realize is that when we left our car we were still like MILES away from the temple. Oh well, I guess we got our exercise in.
When we finally arrived at the temple, we saw tons of colors being thrown everywhere and on everyone. It was so fun. David and I were determined to get colored as much as possible. We quickly got in line to purchase our own bags of pretty colors but right before we got to the front the lady announced "We're out of colors. Now leave!" Sad day. If we would have walked literally 5 minutes faster we could have been apart of the cool crowd with colors. I'm telling you, David is horribly unlucky! If I would have went by myself I would have been early and never had to deal with traffic. Every since we got married, he's been sucking the luck right outta me. I used to be one of the luckiest people ever. :(
We did end up getting as much color as we had hoped on us though. We just got in the crowd and everyone started throwing the "stuff" up in the air at once. If I had asthma, I would have died. We were breathing that stuff into our lungs like crazy and it made us cough so badly. What people won't do for "culture." Hey, it's hard to come by in Utah, especially Utah county. All and all it was a fabulous way to spend Saturday.