world vegan day

besides the halloween party (pictures downloading as i type) we also went to world vegan day celebrations last weekend. this was the 4th annual celebration held in melbourne for world vegan day. the past 2 we've been away (cuz it usually falls on cup weekend and we tend to go away then) so we had only attended the first melbourne vegan day event in 2003. that involved us and about 25 others (and their dogs) all huddling under a small tent in albert park in the rain eating vegie burgers by gold coin donation and hearing about a few vegan organazations. this one was HUGE compared to that. the only problem was that it was out in east malvern (involved a tram ride and a train ride and then free shuttle bus to get there from our house). TONS of AMAZING vegan food though and lots of cool vegan products. fnb also had a stall which we ended up running for a bit (well zac did most of it, i took off in search of coffee. and another round of samples of chocolates and bread and whatever else i could find).