Carnivore

This morning the Betzers, Sarah, Charity, and I left Lighthouse at 8am to drive to Pretoria for church. We attended Cornerstone Assembly, and Sarah and Charity were able to perform their sign language skills again. The church was predominantly black, so the worship and preaching were quite different from what I am accustomed to. I enjoyed the service, but was a little distracted by how freezing cold it was in the auditorium. I couldn't feel my toes by the time the service was over!

After church we drove into Johannesburg, which is about 30 minutes south of Pretoria, to eat lunch at a restaurant called Carnivore. It was such a neat experience. First, they serve bread, soup, and salads. Then they begin to bring around different types of meat for you to sample. They started us off with pork ribs and chicken wings, but shortly after that we sampled zebra, ostrich, hartebeest, kudu, impala, and crocodile meat!

My favorites were the zebra and the crocodile. Both were very tender and had good flavor. We kept joking that it all tasted like chicken, and the crocodile meat really did taste very much like chicken. The ostrich meat was really tough and took a ridiculous amount of time to chew, so I didn't enjoy that very much.

Since each person's meal comes with dessert, I had a bowl of vanilla ice cream. I love ice cream, but I haven't had much here since it's so cold in the evenings. It tasted so good!