Opening Night at Churchill Downs

 Nick's mom came for a visit last week, which gave her a chance to meet William and spend a little time with Nick before he leaves. I also gave us a good excuse to go to the opening night at Churchill Downs!

  

We just had general admission tickets, which meant that we were aloud most everywhere inside, but nowhere you could actually see the track.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The "betting" room had screens covering one wall, showing the races going on at all of the major tracks. It was so interesting to watch everyone betting on their favorite horses, they were so intense. Each race we would pick which horse we though would win, and I picked right almost every time!

 

After watching a few races inside, we took a stroll outside to do some people watching. They had people on stilts and of course some very big and crazy hats everywhere.

 We got to see the horses that were about to race as they brought them in and lines them up in their numbered stall right  before their race. It was pretty cool to see the beautiful horses so close up.