Vintage Parade

In the Barossa they had a Vintage Festival that happens every 2 years. It lasts for a week and there are just different events happening all around the small cities that make up the Barossa.

On the last day, the main event is the Vintage Festival Parade. It is a parade that lasts about 7k from Nuri to Tanunda. Every float has a different theme and St Hallett decided to do a play on words and go with a Halloween theme; St Hallettween. Because the parade is 7km long (about 2 hours), and there would be drinking, someone had a genius idea of putting a porta-potty on board and decorating it as a haunted house! Perfect!

The day started out early, 830am on a Saturday, it was really not that bad since we had been working so early the weeks prior. Everyone then met at the float at 930 for some breakfast (doughnuts, pasties, pies, quiches) and drinks (never started drinking that early before... so that was an experience in itself).   

We had people dress up as all kinds of scary zombies, the Adam’s family, skeletons, etc. and I was a devil.  We had a great time drinking St Hallett wine and dancing to thriller during the parade. Because I learned the dance in college, I was in the front row at the parade. Some of my fellow coworkers also had a good time scaring some of the people in the crowd. That gave us all a good laugh.

It was fun having the Halloween theme, especially because it is coming into fall here in the Barossa so it felt like naturally Halloween should be coming up.