And they're off.

Once the trip from Alice Springs to Adelaide finished we made our way to Melbourne. Time for another Wicked Van, which was fine, until it started raining and we found out the hard way the their appeared to be a hole in our roof. After some very dodgy and temporary repair work by yours truly we were off. Now Melbourne can be considered Australia's second city behind Sydney, but don't say that out loud. Melbourne likes to consider itself as the intellectual, artisan capital of Oz. There's plenty of cafes and culture, but our main focus was on one thing. The Melbourne Cup. One of the biggest horse races in the world, the Melbourne Cup is made up of four days of racing with hundreds of thousands of people attending spending their hard earned cash. We weren't in Melbourne for the main event, but got tickets for the Saturday event The Emirates Stakes Day, other wise known as the Family Day. This sounded great until we arrived. You have never seen so many kids dressed up like they were auditioning for boys bands in all your life. It was unreal and there was an unhealthy amount of strutting. I even had to wear a wrist band to show that I was over 18 so that I could get a beer.