It's been a busy week for sure. I've been trying to get to the gym more, and I actually went 3 days in a row which I'm so proud of myself, and then I was going to go a fourth and a fifth, but the rest of the week just got crazy. But I'm excited to go next week. I'm actually trying to really like it. LOL. I'm starting to get stressed about Girls Camp it is coming up in 2 months and I feel like I have nothing done for it. So I tried to focus this weekend on camp stuff. I got a few things done and also Saturday was so beautiful around the mid 70's so Emily and I went to Thanksgiving Pointe to their Tulip Festival and it was a lot of fun. Pictures will be posted soon, my camera battery died so I need to charge it so I can down load the pictures. It was a lot of fun and got some great pictures taken. We might even be in the Salt Lake Tribune. We were minding our own business and taking one of our many self portraits that we always take and a guy from the Tribune took a picture of us taking a picture of ourselves because they were doing an article on the festival. We thought it was funny. Emily and I always have a good time together. And of course we both put our both of our feet in our mouth. We were talking about lesbians that I had seen at the gym, and how we don't understand how girls can like girls, and there were two gay guys walking behind us and they stopped us and asked us where you enter the festival, and of course I was like oh, sorry did you hear our conversation about how we don't understand how girls can like girls when we can choose men. Well as I was saying it it dawned on us that they were gay. They were nice about it though they were like good luck figuring out lesbians. Yeah I don't think I ever will or ever want to. If people want to live that way then so be it, I just don't like to see it. I do have a friend at work that is. And I respect her and her life, she even talks about it which is fine. I'm trying to be more open about other people's lifestyles as long as they don't try to push it on me then I'm cool. Enough about that topic.

Life is great. Starting to get busy finally. Not only am I am the camp director I also got put in as the Beehive Advisor and I'm so excited. I love that age and I only have two girls so hand-outs are going to be fabulous. LOL.

THE HOLI FESTIVAL OF COLORS!!!!

Went to the Holi of Festival of Colors today. It's a Hindu religious celebration that they had at their temple in Spanish Fork. They had two different times, and my best friend Emily and her roommate Liz and our friend Rafael and myself headed down for the morning party. It was nuts. We ended up parking probably about a mile away and made the trek to the temple. They said there was about 10 thousand people when we were there. When we got there most people were in white shirts and ready to party. They had music playing and all. We went and bought our color powder and was ready to have fun. This was our first year so we didn't know what we were doing. We didn't know they had a count down and that's when everyone tosses their powder in the air. Everyone though was already coloring themselves up. We had a blast. We tossed, sprinkled, and dumped powder all over each other. Needless to say we didn't stay clean for long, which made it even more fun. Finally after watching a few of the Indian girls do their culture dances the real party started. We started counting down from 20 and when we got to one there is no telling what happened, everyone was tossing all their powder in the air. Everyone had at least 3-6 bags of different colors. It was a huge color smoke cloud. You couldn't see anything for a few minutes. The announcer kept telling us to not forget to breath. It was amazing to see the smoke clouds we went from beautiful blue skies to a hazy dust look. My ears were caked inside with half a bag of green powder and down my chest was orange powder, needless to say my garments are no longer white, nor is my bra. The walk back to the car was fun, and the ride home we just laughed and had weird looks on the freeway from people. It was fun to go and celebrate and learn a little about other people's religion and culture. Very nice people and very respectful. I bet more than half the people there were LDS. I guess it's a huge BYU thing to do. I guess it doesn't take much to entertain us. Give us a couple bags of color powder and let us throw it on each other and we are happy. My friend Rafael said, "it's like a food fight, except it isn't edible.  Thanks guys for a fun Saturday afternoon. Oh a side note, I don't think I've ever had purple burgers before, it was cool looking. LOL!!!!

The Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork Ut
The purple powder
Before anything started all clean!!

Just getting started. You can still see white on our shirts
Best Friends
Rafael, Liz, Me, Emily, this was even before it all started
You can barely see it, but there is green powder coming at me.
Just give me a few bags of powder and I'll

be entertained all day.

                   What? I didn't do it.
     Purple powder don't taste to great
      Hand prints everywhere
      No comment
After the dust of powder cleared out a little

    Rafael, Liz, Emily and I, bunch of color people!
       Good Times!!!
       The cloud of powder!
    Liz, Emily and I after the tossing of the powder
My ear full of green powder

Funny how life can be sometimes

What a huge learning experience I've had this week. Life is good. I'm very blessed and happy with where I am in my life. I may not have everything, but what I have I'm so glad I do and couldn't ask for more.