Roma Revolving Restaurant!

On Sunday, Dr. Mannie had offered to have dinner with the group of us. Dr. Noel and I were the only ones from Sunday who took him up on it and then Pat Lager and Sally Mathieson joined us as well. We went to Dr. Mannie’s favorite spot to take visitors, the Roma Revolving Restaurant. The Roma is one of just 37 revolving restaurants in the world. It is on the 32nd floor. The interesting thing about this restaurant is that it was small and round with all the seating around the perimeter. Only the outside 12 feet or so moved; the center circle stayed in the same place. It was totally cool.

Dr. Mannie was able to take us up the stairs marked as the fire escape to the roof. Amazingly, I didn’t have my camera but hope to get back there to take pictures to share; unfortunately, tonight is not a very clear night. You’ll have to trust me that Durban looked like a huge, beautiful, urban city from the 32nd floor at night. We walked around and could see where McCords hospital was (marked by a microwave tower), 10 KM away and we could see the harbor. Simply amazing perspective of the city.

Oddly enough, none of us had noticed that Dr. Mannie had a signed placed over the table which welcomed his friends from Florida. We had a great time talking as old friends.