Holi color-wala, Batman!

Being that people here are celebrating Holi, I couldn't resist the title... for those of you who aren't familiar with the old TV show Batman, his sidekick, Robin, would always exclaim things like this.

Imagine you live in a place with no snow to have snowball fights, no paintball, and no water park. Well, they have combined here what we love about all those three things: they chuck watery powdered paints at each other in this spring festival.  It leaves the city -in some places- very colorful.

Matt and a friend went out the night before Holi thinking that they would explore part of the city and not get ambushed by color walas, but they were wrong! While videoing an early parade of people be-decked in splashed colors, one man in the parade took note of them and came over to smear paint on both of their foreheads. As he was doing this, several other men followed and began chucking paint on Matt and his friend.

All in all, I enjoyed this vicariously through Matt because Emma and I stayed home that day and the next to avoid the paint party. When she gets bigger, she will LOVE this... they even have slip-n-slides of colored water and encourage the kids to get as painted up as possible. How fun!