Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Tues, 1st Nov, 2016 Mum & Dad’s, Cairns, Qld (Melbourne Cup Lunch)


Beautiful morning, just perfect temperature.

Did the washing, put dinner in the slow cooker and pottered about. Got ready to join the girls for Melbourne Cup Lunch. Luckily I had brought a couple of long dresses. Wendy lent me a fascinator and I had a bit of makeup so managed to look the part – could have had other shoes but oh well.

Dave and Wendy picked me up then we picked up Sandra and headed into the Reef Casino. 


Met up with the other ladies we went to Melbourne with two years ago to go to the actual Melbourne Cup and a few others from the line dancing group. Put our bets on – I was going for the Irish horse, Wicklow Brave.


Beautiful food, lots to drink!! And great friends so we had a ball.

There was an auction for the Hospital Foundation. We tried for No. 13 Heartbreak City and got it at $110 which between the 9 of us wasn’t too much. The race started and my Wicklow Brave was doing well then we spotted our yellow jerseyed Heartbreak City vying for first place. It was very exciting and we ended up second and won $632 so we were all very happy.
  

After it finished Sandra, Wendy and I walked across to Mondos and ordered a Toberone cocktail to finish off a great day. Forgot to take a photo of that!!

Home to a cooked dinner and lots of water!! Rang Steve to tell him about our win, he has had a few little wins too. Charles hasn’t arrived up yet as his little dog Nina passed away last night – so sad as he just loves his dogs. Jon and his mates are going up this weekend which will be great. Into bed early!!




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