Pretty Ladies....Painful Feet

Horse racing is pretty big here and Tuesday is Melbourne Cup day which is a Melbourne only holiday, not even the whole state of Victoria but only Melbourne. Leading up to Tuesday are usually some horse races, parades, and general all night partying.

On Saturday while running our errands, we passed through/near the Flemington racing grounds, which was a really bad idea. Not only was there a sobriety road test (it was around 4:30 PM) that was causing a lot of chaos with traffic but just all the activity around the horse race brought a lot of cars, people, and detours. But driving through here we saw a lot of people all dressed up with their little or big hats. We saw several women carrying their high heeled shoes, which is apparently quite the norm.

I couldn't get a lot of nice pictures but here was some of what I could catch:

This dude in the car in front of us was hanging out of the car for most of the time waving at people and being obnoxious. Obviously "pissed up!"

- julie