Amelia and I decided to go and get some coffee from Woolworths Cafe at the Garden Route Mall, quite some time before closing, but the Cafe was already “Closed” pretty lame when the rest of Woolworths is still open.

Considering we were unable to tame our desire for a good cup of Woolworths Coffee Goodness, we decided to try and find some of our favourite Tiramisu. After searching the entire refrigerated section for the good stuff we gave up and decided to ask for help. We were disappointed to find out that Woolworths have discontinued the best pre-packaged Tiramisu that we have found thus far.

Such a lot of good and such a lot of disappointment all in one visit. Woolworths, please make us happy and extend your Cafe hours and bring back the Tiramisu.

After calming my craving, I hit the road off to centurion, for a short meeting with Marius from Balance Your Debt.

I then began my way towards the head office of the Banking Association of South Africa(BASA), where we were to have a meeting with some of the major banks and credit providers in the country. We had quite a productive session and made quite a few decisions, relating to standardisation within the Debt Review sector.

After the meeting with BASA, we decided to have a short Credit Technology Association(CTA) meeting.

Then for the long drive home in some serious traffic. You never truly understand, what is meant by peak traffic until you sit in it yourself.

I honestly believe that Gauteng people have been gifted with a surprisingly large amount of patience, if they didn’t have it, I am sure there would be far more reports of road rage. The traffic seriously moves at snails pace and a distance that would take you ten minutes to cover during the middle of the day, easily takes up to an hour to cover in peak traffic.

I hope that the Gautrain has the positive impact that it was intended to have as this could not only reduce traffic and frustration, but also reduce the amount of unnecessary fuel consumption during peak hours.

Amelia and I wanted a snack so off to McDonalds for 2 McFeast Deluxe Meals with a cappuccino and an orange juice.

The service was friendly, for the early hours of the morning, the food took slightly longer than usual, I would assume that it is because they’re not that busy, around 03:00.

I can’t wait until more restaurants catch on to this trend as people are spending more time working and we need to be able to eat at flexible hours.

The food was good, but was getting a bit cold near the end. We by far prefer sit down meals over take aways.

If you’re awake in the early hours of the morning, go down to McDonalds and super size it.

On arrival we were to our surprise promptly asked if we had voted and then offered a complimentary cup of coffee, which we gladly accepted.

The coffee didn’t take long, but was lukewarm when it got to us.

When we got to adding some sugar and having a sip of the warm liquid, Amelia asked me if they had forgot to add the coffee, as she was convinced they had given her a cup of warm milk.

Considering we were not paying we didn’t complain but did however think that this was not the best advert for Wimpy Coffee…

Ziyaad and Parveen went all out with the catering and their was still some great tasting pudding left, that we gladly indulged in.

I made OB and myself some coffee, using his awesome Siemens Espresso Machine, i could so do with one of these at home and the office.

The youngsters decided to go out clubbing, so Amelia, Parveen and I, after finishing our coffee with OB hit the road back to George.

We had a braai in some crazy ass, Rheebok wind… the fire was blazing on the balcony and we had some of the hottest tunes from 2008 pumping throughout the evening.

Amelia and i had the biggest steak I’ve seen in my life, 3.4 Kg of tender beef…

Amelia, Parveen and Lunchen whipped up some potato bake to go down smoothly along side the steak and my Heineken.

Finished off the night with a really smooth cup of coffee…

Happy New Year Everyone!!!
May this year be filled with good food, good drink and good money!!