The international arrivals area of an airport is, without a doubt, one of the happiest places on Earth - and that has been particularly the case today across Australian and New Zealand airports, as international flights between the two countries took off for quarantine-free travel for the first time since the pandemic began.
Across both sides of the Tasman, celebrations over the opening of the Transtasman bubble took many forms today. From in-flight champagne to long-awaiting hugs to the sound of live music, New Zealanders and Australians have been showing how much they've missed each other and how happy they all are to be able to form one big bubble and get together again.
Among the airport celebrations, there was ... this one. A group of Australian dancers, wearing black outfits with black masks, held big clear balloons as they expressed themselves through the means of interpretative dancing all around the terminal.
Footage of their performance made it onto Twitter where viewers were puzzled by what they were seeing.
"Every day I wake up trying not to feel disdain towards the human race and every day the human race rises to the challenge," said Greg Larsen, in a tweet accompanying a five-second clip.
