Well Melbourne Cup Day dawned and while enjoying our breakfast at Secret Garden we decided it just couldn't go ahead without us so we headed around to Kuta Townhouses to watch the big race.
We wriggled through reception and the main restaurant on our bellies in case Baldie or Denis were in residence and settled ourselves in a corner near the screen. We ordered our food and a nice cold beer, well a nice cold beer for me and a soft drink for the KK who was on antibiotics and couldn't drink. (nooooo honestly it was a chest infection) and all proceeded very well.
Then Olivia Newton-John had to go and spoil it didn't she? She struck up "Advance Australia Fair". What's wrong with that I hear you ask? Well the whole bar leaped to its communal feet and belted it out. It wasn't at all tuneful but in it's own way beautiful not in a bang the drum American kind of way but in a down to earth Aussie kind of way. Well first I felt one tear starting to break free and slide down my face, mingling with the sweat, then another followed by a little sob and that was it, I lost the plot. Thank God no one knew the second verse or I would have had to be carried out!
God how I envy those women who can cry daintily with no redness and definitely no snot! It completely spoilt my chicken wrap and required another Bintang. I hold Olivia completely responsible for this. Plainly she should never be allowed on a racecourse again.