Melbourne Cup!

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Melbourne Cup Day!! Such a big event in Victoria that everyone gets the day off work - and 110,000 folk pack into Flemington Race Course for the racing event of the year.


This week is actually the kinda main week of the racing season - the Melbourne Cup Carnival, with four big race meets happening over the week. It’s really massive - might even be bigger than the footie, which was massive!


The weather was fab - roastin hot and sunny. We arrived at Flemington at about 11am and soon found a spot to set up camp just in front of the finishing line.


Such a fantastic atmosphere - I was on the verge of wearing shorts and a t-shirt - if I had, I’d have been the only one - everyone was seriously well dressed up, even although we were just in the general admission area.


Neither of the two of us won anything - we had 2nds and 3rds in just about each race - unreal, but defo well worth going to.


We left the races at about 4pm and went for a wee night out in St. Kilda - not going to be easy getting up for work in the morning!

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Photos

The Girls
Scrubbed up well!

Kel
Enjoying the Melbourne bubbly

Flemington
The finishing line

The posh seats!
How the other side live!

At the beach
Great way to spend a Tuesday evening!