Holi - Festival of Colors

This weekend was the Festival of Colors at the Hare Krishna temple in Spanish Fork. It's the Hindu celebration of the end of Winter and beginning of Spring. The holiday was actually last weekend, the 22nd but I guess we're not getting technical here. It is celebrated by tossing colored powdered chalk and burning the effigy of a witch. Here are some pictures just click on them to view them larger.

The cloud of chalk was visible quite a ways off.

A view from the temple veranda of the crowd and fire.

We definitely didn't get as messy as most people but it was still a lot of fun. If only it didn't snow the day after our spring celebration I would be a lot happier.

More Favorite Words

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I Confess...

I originally started playing World of Warcraft on a 10-day trial to see what I thought of it. I had definitely had previous exposure to the game as some of my friends play. When I first met them I didn't know how far the friendship would go based on this fact alone. (Guys I jest, I jest... kind of.) As I started playing I had a lot of mixed feelings, slowly though I was won over. Maybe it was finding my first online WoW friend, or maybe it was when my character reached a high enough level to get its cat form. Whatever the special moment, I'm now Elishiwaki a level 31 Tauren Druid. What has happened to me?

P.S. For your benefit there are safe levels of playing that should be followed. This last week I reached gaming overload. Symptoms included dreams of questing, staying up til 5 am playing, and getting excited over a guild promotion. I promptly took care of it though and am at safe level once again. :p

A Hello Kitty Easter

I have been unaware of the Easter market following the Valentines Day trend of themes like Spiderman, but I quickly learned when I decided to pick up an egg dye kit from Target on Saturday. Given my choices I ended up choosing Hello Kitty. I enjoyed the poster as much as the stickers. By the way, if you can't tell, I'm trying to impersonate Hello Kitty.

Here are the 6 little eggs that we struggled to dye. Next time I'll remember to get big cups. It's really not easy dyeing eggs in small square tea cups. I gave up and dyed 2 of mine green and yellow and then decided the last one was going to be Humpty Dumpty. Somehow Humpty ended up with an "internet face" as I like to call it. That wasn't preplanned. Although what is planned is a fight between Jason's Rock Baby and my Humpty Dumpty. Next time I'm getting a better kit for better results. :)

Have Prizm, Will Travel

Mickelle's traveling home to Arkansas this weekend, but can she match this kind of fun? This pic is from my last trip home for Christmas.

I drove the '92 Prizm out for her in June and now it's making the trek back across the country a mere 9 months later. Everyone underestimates that car. Have fun in Arkansas Mickelle!