Holi Celebration!

They have the neatest holiday here.  I say neat, because it is fun!  They rejoice for the winter harvest here by celebrating on Holi Day!  (pronounced Holly Day)  I couldn't figure if they did anything else to celebrate other than throwing colored rice dust on each other.  I am thinking that we have to figure out how to get some of this stuff home and have a serious party ourselves!  I thought I would just post a few pictures.  We are so loving it here!   We were sad that Emily and Doug missed out.  Emily was sick that day and Doug stayed with her to get some work done that he needed to do.  Bummer for them!

No, Jillian did not grow a mustache, it is blue dust!

Jocelynn's neck was red for a few days!

No, that is not a batman symbol on Olivia!



Reloading.....

Sooo much fun!



This rice dust totally stains clothes and we felt badly afterwards because we realized later that these kids don't have many clothes--so they were more careful about getting it on their clothes than we were.  We had a shelf of old clothes in a room to choose from.  They didn't. 

Even Charlotte loved it, too!

Munchie was loving it, too and then he was ready to be done.

As you can see--poor Cole got it right in the face.  That was painful.  He was so upset later thinking about it, that he got on my camera and deleted all the pictures he could find with him in them.  Thank heavens for Chris--she had snapped this one.  That little stinker! It did look painful and took awhile to get his eyes cleaned!

What a great memory!