Item complete - Attend the Melbourne Cup at Flemington Racecourse (#7)

After my girlfriends piked on the proposed trip I grabbed a male mate and off we went to Melbourne!  We stayed in a backpackers for two nights and the whole trip including flights and accommodation was under $500.

 Dressed up and ready to go

 Look at all the hats and fascinators - wonder where this train is going?

At the racecourse - we later tried to go back to this stand but didn't have the right ticket.  Should have stayed since we weren't stopped the first time!

All in all it was fun, but I'm not sure I'd go again.  $75 just for general entry is a bit steep (plus the travel costs) and its hard to get a good view.  But we saw some fabulous outfits (full suits of leopard print or fluro lightning strikes, couple dressed as king and queen complete with plastic 'golden goblets' for their requisite bubbly") and while we saw lots of people who were a bit merry, we didn't see anything too messy such as young ladies vomiting on their fancy shoes like you tend to see outside our Doomben races.

And we both managed to sneak in about 350ml spirits each so we only had to buy mixers, which was wonderful given the cost of drinks :)