This past week was a pretty brutal one at work for me so I was feeling pretty exhausted this weekend. We still managed to make it out to the horse races during the day on Saturday at Randwick. Horse racing here is a big deal so this race is something lots of Sydneysiders attend and it was quite a scene. Everyone gets dressed up to the nines but in a very colorful way. Whereas I get mocked at work for wearing a turquoise shirt, the races were the perfect time for it. And women do wear either big gaudy hats or some big flower thing in the hair. The people watching was really quite spectacular, really makes me wish we had events like that in the U.S. where people get all dressed up and look silly. One of the more amusing things about the whole scene is there are really two distinct groups of people enjoying the event: youngerish people like us who go, have some drinks, maybe place some bets, but its essentially a big social scene and then older, wealthier people who go probably to watch the races and make big bets. These two groups are somewhat separated at the venue but since I got tickets from my boss, we were allowed into the “members” area to witness what its like for the latter group. Pretty interesting contrast…but I think we all had much more fun out with the riffraff. Michelle and I are going to “Derby Days” which is a big horse racing event in Melbourne in a couple weeks and I think the scene there is supposed to be even more over the top than at Randwick…Should be fun.
Other than that, I had a decent bit of work over the weekend but we also squeezed in a quick game of tennis Sunday morning which was nice. I caught up on as much sleep as I could so as to not start next week with a sleep deficit. Not sure I succeeded though.
A link to some more pictures from the race day:
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