Happy Family and Community Day?

One of the nice things about being overseas is getting Australian holidays. Australia, being a federal country like the US, also has state and territory holidays. And I'm enjoying one of those today, here in the Australian Capital Territory.

Family and Community Day.

How BLAND can you get, right? As far as I can tell, this is mostly celebrated by piling the family into the car and joining the community at Batman's Bay or Eden or Ulladulla or some other beach town.

Oh, and the fact that F&CD happens to coincide exactly with the Melbourne Cup - Australia's top horse race of the year, watched by some absurd percentage of the population - which is the occasion for a state holiday in Victoria? Purely a coincidence, I'm sure.

So Happy Family & Community Day! Go tell a family member or a community member that you are happy for them, too!