Sunday, January 20, 2013

Fun, when we least expected it... at The Meydan Racecourse

Saturday morning, Hafizka's cousin and wife called up saying they'll be dropping in after attending their daughter's Sports Day. Her school is near our place...

I cooked up some lunch and we headed out after a bit of tea around 4:30 in the evening...
Ayaan delayed our departure a bit by pooing in his diapers when we got into the car.. :)

Hafizka's cousins love exploring new places. They have been to most places in Dubai, so touring around with them is fun...
They had been to the Meydan before of course, but as we hadn't we headed there...
The Meydan Grandstand and Racecourse is considered an ultimate venue for horse racing. 
The Meydan also has the world's first track-side 5-star hotel... 285 suites offering direct, unobstructed views of the racing action... and also has an IMAX theatre, the Meydan Musem and Gallery...

We didnt actually see all that :) .... we went to see the racecourse without a clue that it was the racing season.. and there were races going to be held that particular day. It was free.. no ticket... so we got in to see why such a rush...

The race course was wow!!


This pic hardly captured how beautiful it really was...
I had never been to a horse race... this was fun... :). We were given the program guide, a lucky draw slip where we just had to give our name and mobile no., and an entry form (to put in our predicted outcome of the races)
We couldnt make head or tail out of the form :P
An Arab guy behind helped Hafizka out... :D


I was least bit bothered with the forms... i was more interested in the program guide... I loooove races... the thrill of the running..... :) the horses were sooo beautiful.... I really wanted to take more pics of the race and the horses... they were quite far thou... and ayaan got into cranky mood around the 2nd race (which was amazing! found this link on youtube of the race: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KunNqGE5-s )


I got ayaan to sleep right after the 4th race... we stayed there long enough to check out the lucky draw winner and the 5th race... then we got home... the last race was around 9:25 pm...
We needed to get home... the kids had school the next day.. and the guys had office...

All in all it was a fun day :) I really enjoyed it...

The next race is on 2nd Feb according to their site: http://www.meydan.ae/#index
:)

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