Festival of Colors

Well, Brent is in full finals mode, but that doesn't mean that I can't have my fun too! Well, I have a small list of things that I want to do before I leave Provo. One of those things was attending the festival of Colors. Now I did a post on the Krishna Temple a few weeks back and we found out when the Festival of Colors were. So Jenny and I decided to go.

Over 10,000 people show up every year so we had to park only two blocks away, some people had to park almost three miles away! That is why we decided to go an hour early!

The Festival Started at 4:00 pm, but the colors were until 5:30 so we kept ourselves busy by feeding the llamas and looking around.

The we just relaxed on the Lawn watching the dancers. The main guy was kinda crazy, you could tell his rhetoric was sometimes aimed at the Large LDS population, which was kinda funny!

So the Above was a picture before, and some of you may ask what happens at this festival, well they light a "witch" and then everyone throws colored chalk everywhere, here is what the madness looks like!

The First picture was before the Festival, this is right after where the color is still in the air a little bit!

Here is how we looked when we came out! It was crazy and I am positive it is going to be hard getting the chalk out of the car!

It was a lot of fun, but I doubt I will go again without Brent. It was terrible not having him there, but it was fun to cross one of the things off my list! If you ever live in Provo you should definatley make a stop by the Festival!

Update!

Every now and again I have nothing that is terribly interesting to report, but there are some minor changes that have occurred. So like all of those times it is time for a Huntley Family update!

1.) We are officially moving to OREGON!!! Well at least for the Summer. We are both very excited to get out of Utah for the summer. Brent will be working with Bro. Kerr, someone from the homeward. We will be leaving Utah on May 1st (at the latest) and stopping in Boise for a day or two to visit friends and family, we should be in oregon city on the 5th or 6th.
Because of this I have made a list of deep cleaning I want to get done before we leave, so hopefully that will help fill my empty days!
We are also planning on leaving for the summer and we REALLY REALLY want to keep our apartment, but it would be great if we could find someone to sublease it, even at a fraction of the real price. So if ANYONE knows in the area who would like to have a nice apartment to themselves for the summer including washer and drying and dishwasher if you could let me know that would be amazing and that would help save us so much money!

2.) My last day at Icon was last Friday. Today was my first weekday of nothing to do since September, and to be honest I didn't love it. I thought I would commemorate the day by sleeping in late, but I started getting phone calls at 7:00am! So the luxury of sleeping in was not really what I wanted it to be. I have timed out the rest of my homework, but I really have little left to do.

3.) Brent is working hard on studying for finals but he took some time out to play on the Ward Basketball team! They made it to the REGIONALS and even made it to the Elite Eight in that category! He loved getting out and getting some physical activity.

4.) I am still puttering away towards my degree and with only three weeks left I am seeing the end of the tunnel! I have finished all of my papers and assignments for two weeks out and after I finish one last paper (which I plan to Finish this week) I will have to only worry about finals. I am not going to lie, senioritis has hit me hard! Working 40 hours a week and going to school full time was really difficult so I am glad to just pass (although I am sure I did better than I think I did).

5.) I got a job in Oregon City for the Summer! I am going to be the camp director for Rivercrest Summer Camp. I am pretty excited an nervous! I get to work with and old friend, Sheena, and it has been a while since I have been back in the loop! I still need a job for the months up to then, so if there are any ideas please let me know!

6.) Brent and I have started planning mini vacations we can take. So far the plans are Seattle, Vancouver Canada, The Coast and anywhere else that we may be able to escape for a weekend! If you have any other ideas that would be great!

Well I think that is all that is really going on! We are going to a Luau tonight so there should be fun pictures about that later... Remember I need two things from anyone and everyone... 1.) Someone who might be interested in subleasing in our apartment and 2.) any other great close vacation ideas

Weekend Adventures!

Well we have got to eliminate 7 more days from our count down to graduation calender! We are left with 4 and a half more weeks of school! With this semester seeming to wrap up much more quickly than it began I had to get on some of my outside of class assignments! For one of these classes I had to participate in 2 inter ethnic activities. One of these that I had wanted to go to in since I found out it existed, the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple! This is a Hindu based religion that has a Utah sect. So I thought I would post some fun facts along with the pictures we took!

Hindu's recognize that the cells in our body change out completely about every 7 years so we reincarnate through out our lifetime. They also use this to recognize that the bodies are always changing and therefore the should is what is important... This is Brent and I in front of the temple! It is very pretty on the outside!

Those who practice Hindu are vegetarians since everything has a soul (since the body isn't important) and so they only eat things that are dead or in the process of dying when they are eaten such as grain or apples! This is one of the ornate statues outside of the temple! Jenny had such a fun time revisiting the Eastern Religion.

There are peacocks and Llama's that run free around the property. It is the peacock and Lotus leaf that are very symbolic to the Krishna because the lotus flower represent that an individual can be in the world and not of the world (because the lotus grows above water not in it). Also the pose which we see most hindu God's (the crossed legs) is the Lotus position in Yoga and is considered the way to communicate most cloesly with God. Jennifer and I had fun petting and feeding the Llama's weeds, until we realized the Krishna probably wouldn't have picked the weeds to feed the Llama... oops!

Overall it was a very fun experience and it was a ton of fun to have my two best friends in town at once! Jenny hung out the rest of the day and Jennifer came back on SSunday for dinner and a fun round of Phase 10! Kim, Jennifer's sister, ended up winning but it was a race to the finish! I have officially decided that I need to make a trip up to visit Jennifer in LLogan so expect that post in the next month!