Festival of colors…so they say. This is a day that has been dreaded every year, by my new family. When I asked “Have you EVER played holi?” the answer was no. I then asked, “Why do you think this is such a bad day, then?” the reply was…”Everyone says so”. Hmmmmm…
Luckily, a couple of years ago, I had asked Prabal that when I was there when holi was being played, if he would play with me. (I also asked him last year, when he said that it was “holi”). He told me yes…because of course, he thought I would never be there at the time of holi. HA HA HA! He almost freaked when he realized that holi was going on while I was here. He tried to scamper out of it…but I held him to his word and told him…”You have to play holi at least ONCE in your life!” I made arrangements to play holi with Tota and her family, which has a nice rooftop flat with a large terrace. Perfect for holi play 
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Tota reaking havoc!
For holi, you don’t want to wear your best clothes…the colors tend to stain and may possibly ruin them. I wore my best bad salwar kameez/churidad for holi. I had a lot of fun here…I think Prabal did too.
Prabal's first holi, too 
adding more color to Tota
Tota wanted sooo much color, she started adding it to herself!
This is all you see on the “footpath” is color!!!!
Colors!!!!
There is a family, that I have talked to – well, sort of – on my walk to work. They have a tea stand and have given Scoots (our rescued pup) biscuits whenever we pass by. I took a photo of them while they were playing holi and they shared their color and painted me too…
Tea stand family
Ran into more people playing holi:
Those innocent looking girls colored me too!
…and this is what we ended up looking like:
nice mix of colors!
It was a nice Sunday to play… and a great first time! (Just a little stain of color – that’s all )
How ultra cool. I can sort of relate to Prabal’s initial reaction. There was a time in my life when such a loss of dignified appearance would have been not only unthinkable, but the cause of physical flight. Now I have grown much more accepting of this kind of thing and generally “go with the flow.” I think that it is wonderful that Prabal discovered it without have to age as much as I did before the light went on…
There is a lot of things that I want to “introduce” to Prabal. At a slow rate of course
I don’t want to have him RUN on me 
. I would love to take him to Disneyland. We won’t go on the big crazy rides…not at first. 
If it seems he’s up for it, then a gentle roller coaster after “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “The Haunted Mansion”. Those are goodies! Everything at a well paced manner 
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