Wow, llamas are sort of weird… but I think I like them anyway. I can say that because I spent several hours today just hanging with the llamas at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork. Apparently they have an annual event called ?Llama fest?. I did some reading to try and figure out what the background is for the festival and here is what I found.

“The Llama Fest was originally conceived as an opportunity to highlight Llamas and their owners in the most public way possible: in the overall cultural context of food, music, spinning and weaving demonstrations, music, dance, and competitions between the llamas and their handlers.”

I wasn’t sure if what to expect but both Angela and I spent several hours at the temple and had a great time. There wasn’t any pressure from the Hare Krishna?s to join up or anything like that. Instead it was just a bunch of people hanging out, playing music, dancing and selling stuff with, of course, tons of llamas just wandering about.

I think the high point was when an obnoxious college kid who after pestering the llamas got spit on right in the face by a large black one from like twelve inches away. It was the best to see him so mad afterwords rubbing his eyes like a little bitch.

The low point was watching as a group of BYU students mocking the Hare Krishna inside their own temple. It was really, really sad and embarrassing to see such young kids who probably haven?t been past the Utah County border? ever, be so facetious and close minded. I mean I don?t care for any type of religion what-so-ever but c’mon guys, you can?t just come and enjoy without being threatened.

But other than that I was great. You can check out the pictures here.