On Saturday it was the annual "Royal Ascot Goat Races" at Munyonyo Speke Resort in Kampala, and organised a big group of us to go from work.
Now you might be thinking to yourself, horses... well they run because there are people sitting on them whipping them, and greyhounds... well they love to chase things so you can see how they'd be good in a race... but Goats? And quite possibly you'd be right. Enter the "Goat Push", a wheelie contraption that consists of a number of mattresses arranged perpendicular to the ground to "encourage" the goats around. Vegetarian Dan is back in the country, and as you can imagine... he was loving it!
It was a really beautiful day and the whole thing felt a bit like a school fete. I bet correctly on the first race and won 14000UGX, but the big winner was our friend Alex (the butcher, not the highways engineer) who owned a goat that won it's race, and was rewarded with 2.8mil UGX! As you can imagine, it turned into a great day!
Although the ladies all went originally wearing hats, our attire and demure deteriorated rapidly as the free booze flowed! None the less, we made it to the after-party, and danced the night (and the stench of goats' poop) away!
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