The Festival of Colors!!!

WICKED FUN! If you have never been to this spring Indian tradition, try and plan it into your life. I only know of it because there is a temple just half an hour from my house. But as far as I know, this happens all over the place. I had an absolute blast!

This year was different than other years I've gone because NO ONE wanted to wait for the actual countdown to the throwing of colors when they light the bonfire to burn the witch in effigy. So there was color everywhere hours before the bonfire but it was still good fun.

This was when we were clean:  

We had only been at the temple for 20 minutes: 

this is when you could still see individual colors, still BEFORE the official throwing of colors: 

And the final product of our adventure:

Feel free to scroll up and down and see how our white shirts turn gradually colors and then the dull gray-pink tint. :) haha

Insanities but it was a great time. 

A little history (provided by Wikipedia):

It is primarily observed in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka,^[1] and countries with large Indic diaspora populations, such as Suriname, Guyana, South Africa, Trinidad, United Kingdom, United States, Mauritius, and Fiji. 

The main day, Holi, also known as Dhuli Vandana in Sanskrit,also Dhulheti, Dhulandi orDhulendi, is celebrated by people throwing coloured powder and coloured water at each other. Bonfires are lit the day before, also known as Holika Dahan (burning of Holika) or Chhoti Holi(little Holi). The bonfires are lit in memory of the miraculous escape that young Prahladaccomplished when Demoness Holika, sister of Hiranyakashipu, carried him into the fire. Holika was burnt but Prahlad, a staunch devotee of god Vishnu, escaped without any injuries due to his unshakable devotion.