Festival of Colors.

I have wanted to go to the Festival of Colors

 ever since I have moved to Utah and have heard 

about it.  Last year I was really close to going, but 

Hillarie  had to head back to NM and it just didn't

 work out.  I was determined to go the next time and

 I did! I was glad someone mentioned it was this week or

 else I would have missed it again. Kayla, Katie, Rich

 and I went together. The minute we got onto the 

highway it was packed.  It took forever to get to

 Spanish Fork, but we  eventually made it. 

When we got into Spanish Fork we noticed a lot of

 people were parking a long ways away and walking

to the temple. I knew we were going to have to walk but

I didn't think it would have to be that far. We decided it

would be best to pull over and park before we risk 

getting any closer and not finding a place to park. We 

had  to walk about 1.8 miles to the temple. It was an

easy walk there, but after fighting the crowds at 

the festival it was a long walk back. It was absolutely 

crazy and scary walking to the festival. There were so 

many people and  cars trying to share the road.

 Some  people driving down the road would stick

 there hands  out the  window asking for high fives, while 

big trucks tried to run people over. It was quite an 

adventure.

Getting into the Festival was really interesting.

Kayla and I prepaid so we wouldn't have to stand in

the long lines, but there was no real line. Everyone 

just pushed their way to the front. For example, Kayla

and I left Katie and Rich to find the prepaid line. We

walked up a bit and weaved in and out of people trying 

to figure out where the line was. We were standing in a

 "line"  when all of the sudden I see Katie and Rich. They 

just pushed  their way to the front  of the line and caught

 up with us. We  decided to followed their lead and got

 to the front a lot faster. 

One thing that took me a bit to get use to was 

random people throwing color on you or touching

you. I guess I expected that the only color throwing

happened at the set time. But it wasn't like that at all. 

People were throwing it constantly-- At friends and

at complete strangers. Some were nice and threw it

on your back, while others were completely rude and

threw it at your face with no warning. Good thing it

was only corn starch and organic dye. Eventually

I found myself throwing it at random people too. It

was fun :) Enough about my ramblings though.

I know all you want to see is the pictures. 

Before the throw:

Kayla, Katie and I trying to get a picture. I 

was so scared that someone was going to throw 

chalk in my face while trying to take the picture

(Hence the turned in face in the middle picture)

During the throw:

 After the throw: