Yesterday was Holi, the festival of colors. It is celebrated by throwing colored powders and water at one another. In the morning, the kids and I went up to the terrace and threw waterballons at the pedestrians and cyclists in the street below. I thought it was amazing that every single person laughed when we threw the balloons at them (probably because we missed every time) and one guy even threw a waterballoon back at us.
In the afternoon, we got a call from our landlord/neighbor, Guncha, to come down and play holi. I'm starting to have a Pavlovian response to her phone calls ... because it's always something awesome! She has someone to clean my house, or they want us to come fly kites on the roof, or there are monkeys in the driveway! We threw colored powders and shot waterguns. Eventually, just started dumping buckets of water on each other. The kids (and grown-ups) had so much fun!
In the afternoon, we got a call from our landlord/neighbor, Guncha, to come down and play holi. I'm starting to have a Pavlovian response to her phone calls ... because it's always something awesome! She has someone to clean my house, or they want us to come fly kites on the roof, or there are monkeys in the driveway! We threw colored powders and shot waterguns. Eventually, just started dumping buckets of water on each other. The kids (and grown-ups) had so much fun!
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| Katie's nose is still pink. |
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| Playing Holi |
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| More Holi fun in the driveway |
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| Sana |
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| Sanjeeve |
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| Group Shot |
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| Watch out for that one! She's sneaky! |
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| The kids - dirty and happy! |
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| Family Portrait |
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| This was after we started throwing buckets of water. |
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| The dirtiest player gets the dirtiest. I think that's how karma works. |
Happy Birthday Katie and Michael! love, big Katie's sister
ReplyDeleteSo cool!!! Can I request posts? I want to know about any really scary animals/insects in India. Snakes, scorpions??? Anything like that? Go!
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