Bloody Chicken

I was expecting today to be really boring, we had three different sessions to meet with people from various businesses in Cape Town. Our first stop was at the Platteklip Wash House in Table Mountain National Park. We met with Quintin Vaughn, the tourism manager at the one point in the park. He described the different things people can do at the park and the different places they can stay overnight. The location of the meeting was so cute, it was a lodge, but had contemporary fixtures and two lofts with steel stairs. After, we met back up with Ivan Groenhof and he spoke to us about The Rim of Africa and the various trips he takes people one. He started this business with one other person, they are in the beginning stages. I really enjoyed listening to him, although it was a little slow at time, we got to hear about his different careers and how he ended up
in the one he is in now.
We then drove deeper into Cape Town and stopped for lunch before meeting with Cape Town Tourism. A couple of us went to Spur, a local sit down Rib/Burger joint. I went the safe route and ordered a chicken burger, since I don't think the beef burgers are real. I took one bite into my chicken burger, looked at it and saw blood. I guess they don't clean their chicken as well as we do, that was the grossest thing ever, I spit it right out!!! The tourism meeting was by far the best of the day, we met with Lianne Burton the Director of Marketing and she talked to us about the effect of the World Cup on Cape Town. She did a forty-five minute presentation, and at no time did i check the time or want the presentation to be over. Her information was very interesting and appealing.
Meganne and I broke off from the group after the meeting and met up with her friend at a bar on the Water Front. We stayed for a couple drinks and were able to catch the USA game and England game at the same time. Go USA!! We eventually took the train again, and that is the last time we take it at night. It took us an hour, the train had to stop at every stop and at random times, that were not even stops.