The "Holy" Days...

Hmmm…. "Holy" Days...or "Holi" Days or simply Holidays... whatever...
But those two days of Holi were simply full of fun. Maybe I enjoyed it more because I missed it last time.

I always look at festivals as an opportunity to meet all or at least most of the relatives and friends at one go and these festivals like Holi or Ganpati where u need to work together are even more important for a person like me since it helps in filling up any gaps that may have been generated due to long absence and brings the relations to normal.

Above all this Holi was a bit special since we took over the decision making control of "Holi" activities from "old generation" and the very first decision was to switch the Holi tree from traditional "bhendi" tree to the "Supari" tree...

The decision was to be implemented immediately and in excitement we selected a bit big Supari tree for burning. We were totally wrong in estimating the weight of the tree trunk and number of people required to move it. (Some call it youth inexperience)

Even with help of all the 10-15 people it was too difficult to bring that tree to the
"Holy" site and after that making it stand there was altogether a different episode...

we had to make use a truck to make it stand at the holy place... this fact alone should make the difficulty clear... finally after some Shekhchilli episode where after making the tree stand we had to carry out another exercise just to remove the ropes tied at the top, everything was in order.

This Holi was significant for another reason also... we saw our elder generation sitting together and enjoying drinks after a long long gap... I had memories of elders doing this when we were 6-7 years old...after that may be all the family responsibilities and all must have put them under too much pressure to enjoy...

but now since our young generation took the mantle ahead...everyone has sons daughters who are well settled in career and all they were again relaxed... and we could see it on their face...major topics of discussion were of course about our marriages since we are all in the age group of 23 onwards...

We of course had our own drinks party late night...unlike earlier times...this time "seniors" were aware of it ;-)

The next day of "Rangapanchami" was also equally exciting.... the usual fun of colors was even more since we had banned all those oil paints and any other color that may not be removed easily. Incidentally it permitted us the use of mud too....we of course exploited this loophole too…

After the usual activities of going at every home and coloring were over... we were dancing for almost 2 hours... a day full of enjoyment was ended with a party at Arnala beach.(I missed that party ;-( since my sister had come to meet me...)

Overall the vacation was too good.... too exciting for all other reasons mentioned in earlier post too....