Phagwa/Holi 2006

this year, we celebrated phagwa on wednesday. it was too late on tuesday night so we just thought since the whole family was home on wednesday, we would celebrate then. vin really likes playing too. he was so happy when he found out that i went ahead and bought the abeer. i guess he misses these festivities more than we do and i figured that we could have played it anyway. on wednesday though, vin started a new job and we didnt get to celebrate with him.
nan and my mom cooked while i mixed the abeer. since my last adventure with cooking, no one has asked me to make any food in over a week. i am happy. so my job was just to mix the abeer. i didnt know that it was that concentrated though and instead of being blue, it remained so dark blue that it looked black. so nan and i played. she really got me good. i started out in a white t-shirt and blue track pants and ended up unreconizably black from head to toe. it's saturday now and my feet are still blue. been hiding them in sneakers lately and it's really getting to be a hassle searching for socks in my room!

after all the festivities, nan and i had to scrub the blue off the wall with clorox and some other cleaners that my dad kept outside. nan, being as smart as she is, threw the abir on the wall and on me. so we had the whole floor of the back yard the same color as we were.... my mom came outside and we played with her a little. we only used the powder on her and my dad though. she didn't really want to be too much into the celebrations so we respected that.
we were trying to get the color off us. my mom told us to stay outside because we would have gotten the color all through the house. she gave us a bar of soap. a little while after, she got my dad to put on the hose for us and then she came back with a shampoo, two towels and a pot scrubber!!!! talk about exfoliating!!! my skin is still recovering.....=0(
but it's worth the trouble.....this is too much fun. if anyone passing by had seen me and nan, they would have wanted to join...maybe the looney bin would have had us instutionalized because we were dancing too. nan said i should patent my moves for 'rang barse!' we had a good laugh looking at the video we made after. anyone watching would think that we were really drunk.