Cleansing Ceremony

This will take a little explanation!

Today we had the cleansing ceremony in the morning for Sapna and Ethan. Sapna's family was on one side of the room and Ethan's family on the other. Ethan sat on a little stool and the family spread tumeric on him, and then on each other. It is wild and crazy and turned into a wrestling match in tumeric for some of the guys! Sapna's family did the same to her, as you can see!

We have some wonderful pictures, and many, many thanks to Rob for spending a few hours with me this afternoon trying to figure out why we can't upload pictures. After two hours we figured it out and we were able to upload! Now we have to resize the pictures we want to put on, so we are working on that and they should be added soon.

After the cleansing ceremony the women came together to have henna painted on their hands. That has taken most of the day, as there are so many women here. The results are beautiful, we will show you pictures tomorrow. Sapna sat on her throne for about 6 hours having her hands and arms painted.

Tonight we dress up in special clothes and have a party. I know the wedding party, and Sapna and Ethan have been practicing dances all week, so they will entertain us!