A Delicious African Feast

This past Thursday Michael and I celebrated our one year of dating and to celebrate we had a lovely dinner at Carnivore Restaurant (which we reserved a month in advance). There are only three Carnivore Restaurants in the continent, with one in Johannesburg, South Africa. The décor was captivating, the service a pleasure, and the food simply delicious! My favorite part was when Mike said that we should wait for the menu to choose our dinners and he soon found out that everything on the menu gets served to you on your plate at your table. Hehe! All the food is cooked over a huge fire pit (pictured below).

Our meal started with some pineapple juice, honey bread and farmers soup (which was very creamy and wholesome – vegetable soup). Following this our table was decorated with tons of sauces and mini salads and hot sizzling plates were placed before us. Time for the main course – meat and meat galore! We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves as men with huge chunks of meat on spears swung by and carved thick slices into our plates with machete-looking knives. We ate everything from honey chicken wings, pork sausages, and roast beef to crocodile, kudu, gemsbok, zebra, and my favorite – impala. The night was topped off with some light cheesecake and then we were off to rolling our fat selves back to the car. The evening was divine and I had the best company! May there be many more for Mike and I… anniversaries that is, not huge fatty feasts. Lol.

Not much has happened in the past week. We have been slammed with homework with the kids since the strike and the pressure for getting them ready for their Heritage Day cultural concert is on. We had our second day of physician job shadowing at the HIV clinic and attended some really thought provoking academic lectures. Mike and I have also managed to land a job with my Gran for her salon – we will be working in the advertising department and start tomorrow morning. It will feel good to be working again and have money rolling in for us to do more things and bring gifts home. The Lord provides for his children….

Well, that is the latest update. Sorry there is not much to write, we usually do our fun tourist activities on weekends and just work our weekdays away. So until next time, keep well and look out for some delicious impala meat to try – I personally recommend it.

p.s. I have so far received two medical school interview requests. Keep your fingers crossed for Mike and I!