Bollywood

So this is the result of my weekend. A henna covered hand. I went to the 25th Anniversary Indian Festival in downtown Richmond yesterday to take in the sights and sounds. I love multi cultural festivals and events and after going to several highland games including the games in Braemar, Scotland, along with the Greek Fest in Halifax and Multi Cultural Festival in Dartmouth, I was really pumped to go to the Indian Festival. The convention center wall packed full of gorgeous people dressed in the most colourful saris, the air was warm and swimming with delicious aromas and I was entertained by dance groups on stage. I really like Indian food but I always manage to order something I don't like. I worked at a station this year that always brought in food for the night staff and we had Indian food quite often. They always had some gross coconut flavoured dish and I don't like anything coconut flavoured, yet I love coconut cream pie. Hmmmm...anyway, bizarre tangent. This time I decided on goat curry. That's right, I ATE GOAT CURRY. And it was effin' awesome! The curry was incredibly hot and I ended up chugging a massive glass of lemondae but I highly, highly recommend trying goat curry the next time you're in an Indian restuarant. The dance groups were amazing. Especially the little kids in their saris, dancing around, swinging their arms while looking terrified yet trying to stay with the beat. There was always one that was looking in the complete wrong direction and ahead by at least a second, but he was always the best. I'd never had a henna tatoo before so I spent $7 to get my hand done. The result is the photo above. It looks really cool but I couldn't move my hand for hours and had to be extremely careful and for most of you who know me, that's pretty much impossible but somehow I managed to pull it off. Apparently one of the finalists from Indian Idol was going to perform but I missed him. Shame. Now that would have made a good story.