I'm half Australian half Indonesian. I grew up in just outside Melbourne.

And I've been living in New Orleans permanently since 2009.

There was just something about New Orleans that, yeah, it really just got under my skin.

It's like addictive and you can be whoever you want to be.

And like there's always going to be somebody who says, you know, that's okay.

And that especially happens during Mardi Gras.

You never want to miss Mardi Gras. It's sort of like that's when our year begins in New Orleans.

There's lots of different versions of Mardi Gras.

And I feel like this year I really perfected it. I was like, great.

My four or five days started with these smaller parades.

I have like different costume changes, four different costume changes.

And then my ultimate costume change happens on Mardi Gras Day.

And that costume, it's themed around cats.

I probably worked on it for about two weeks.

And I marched in Crude of Vue, which is like one of my favourite parades.

It's a very tongue and cheek parade.

It's a very sexy parade.

And it's always full of locals.

The streets were filled with people and we were all ready for like what we love to say is just the party of our lives.

And then you run into everyone, you know.

People that you haven't seen in years or sometimes I say to people, I'll see you next Mardi Gras.

It's just an amazing time for community and for people to just spend time together and the weather was beautiful.

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