Mardi Gras Fair Day

Sydney does a HUGE celebration for Mardi Gras. In Sydney, Mardi Gras is pretty much synonymous with a pride celebration: there are events, concerts, a parade, and something called a fair day. Fair day, as it turns out, is basically a huge festival with performances, concerts, and tons of booths and food.

Atlassian sponsored a booth for the first time this year, and a few of us volunteered to staff it during the day. I had a couple hours' morning shift. Even though it was scorching hot, it was a ton of fun!

Even though I was hanging out with lovely people, by far one of the best things was hanging out with Holly the dog. She was a sweetie and a real people dog!

But of course, we were there to talk to people and socialize. It was such a fun crowd; everyone was in festive moods and just plain happy to be there!

After my 2 1/2 hours on the booth, I met up with T and we walked around to check out the rest of the fair. 

There was so much fun stuff at the fair! At Doggywood, there were all kinds of contests: like a dog and owner lookalike contest, a doggie costume contest, etc. All the dogs were so cute and friendly - they were all so happy to be out at Fair Day!

There were some other animals too. Taronga Zoo had a booth and they had an echidna waddling around so all the kids could see it. So cute!

There were also tons of vendors with free stuff, like Lush body products and Ben & Jerry's! It was a really really fun day!!!