Royal Ascot is a week long horse racing event sponsored by the Queen herself. James and I decided to go to the event when we found out that we were coming home this summer. It was something we needed to do and go full-out for. The Queen is in attendance the whole week so the dress attire is very strict, especially in the the royal enclosure. We could not get into that area. But we got the next best area.
The Brits love to dress up for events. This week long event is a huge production. Most men wear top hats and Morning suits and the women in fancy hats and beautiful dress's even when they don't have to. James opted out of the Top hat and morning suit so I got a new outfit for the event. We also ordered picnic box's for lunch. We were able to see the Queen twice, once coming into the race course and again presenting a trophy to the winner of the race the Golden jubilee stakes winner which is named for her.
The attendance that day was 80,000+. We choose to take the train to the race. It took 3 attempts to board the train. The train was packed full with race goers. I now know that the phrase means packed in like sardines. Overall the day was wonderful and a once in a life time event to experience.
We liked it so much we changed the title picture on the blog.
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