Today was the Kite Festival! A National Festival. Wikipedia says that they celebrate over 1,000 festivals in Gujarat State. I don't know how that's even possible, since they are only 365 days in a year. The Kite Festival is a 2 day festival to celebrate half way to Spring. Which is worth celebrating! Even though, here the weather is quite nice in the Winter, and miserable in the Summer. It is cold when the sun is down at night, but so warm in the daytime. I even took off my sweater.
We were invite over to Ashok's for breakfast this morning. Breakfast in India is basically cold cereal that is spicy on a plate with no milk. This morning, they also served yellow rice with lots of things added to it, because it is a holiday. After breakfast, we walked to the farm to relax. They grow all their own food here. There are no places in Mota Fofalia to buy food. After the farm, we ate lunch. We pretty much ate all day! Because after lunch, we walked in to town for the festival, where we also ate! Just like we do for holidays in the states. While we were eating, we flew kits. I tried to get some going, but was unsuccessful. Everyone stands on top of their roofs to fly the kites. We had a stack of kites on our roof. There is competition to 'cut' each other's kites down by running your string into there's, which literally cuts it, and it falls to the ground at an unknown location. This went on for hours. After dark, they let off lanterns, balloons, and fireworks. It's pretty neat to see all of these things going on! And, people where masks and glow in the dark bracelets and necklaces. Kind of like on Fourth of July. They do this two days in a row, because the weather is not always favorable for kite flying. So, they want another chance! I sure hope we can get some education done tomorrow, though! We actually did get some done today, since there were nurses working, and they sent all the patients home for the holiday!
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