We waited until the sun went completely behind the roof before heading up to get ready for dinner. And who would you know was out and about but my new friend the hog
and the feeding trucks were out
I'm sorry but these pictures are not good at all. I don't know if it was the lighting or what setting I had the camera on, but I'm going to post them because I was amazed how fearless that hog was around the giraffes. Something that much taller than me would be given a wide berth, but he just wandered right under their feet.
I had to tear myself away from the animals, and as it was I made us five minutes late to our reservation. And we then had to wait another 15 minutes. It was worth it because Mike, our server, was absolutely AMAZING! He went above and beyond the call of duty and just made our evening so fabulous. It was too funny because when I was writing in my journal about the meal, and wrote the word 'amazing' mom said outloud how amazing he was. It was too funny.
A little history, mom is allergic to apples and I do not like onions. And do not like is an understatement. This is one of the reasons Mike was amazing. Many of the things we ordered had one or the other ingredients in them, but Mike worked it out. He asked the chef, Jon, to come chat with us about mom's allergy which was wonderful.
Since the regular bread and butter both had onions
he brought me bread and butter without onions.
This was the fourth time we ate at Jiko and no one before that had told me there was another bread. And yes, I told them I didn't like onions those times also.
We ordered the Roasted Artichoke Flatbread, but the artichokes were soaked in apple juice so Mike had them brought on the side so I could have them.
We ended up preferring the flatbread from California Grill, but this one was still pretty good.
We asked for extra lemons at some point and we were brought a mountain of them. Absolute perfection
the dressing on the beet salad was made with onions so Mike had it left off my salad.
We noticed halfway through the salads that the pistachio crusted goat cheese had been left off so we started to look for Mike, and another server, Ryan, stopped to ask if we needed help. No no, we're just looking for Mike, but he insisted so we told him about the missing cheese. Instead of notifying Mike, Ryan went and got us the cheese himself. I know this is all probably the service one is supposed to get at a nice restaurant, but it is not often the case.
We also had the Inguday Tibs, and would you believe I forgot to take a picture.
I have absolutely no idea how that happened. Jon, the chef, had come out again, because the Tibs had shallots in them and he wanted to see if that was ok. I hemmed and hawed, because if they're in big pieces I don't like to crunch into them, but he assured me they were minced and if I noticed them they would find us something else. Well they were fabulous! Mom thought they were too salty so they were all mine
I had mom's birthday on the reservation again, well it was a birthday trip, I hope that wasn't wrong. So Mike brought her a key lime creme brulee. She was in heaven.
we also ordered the Coconut Bread Pudding which was divine. I only had a little so thankfully avoided a headache, but I wanted to finish it so badly! The icecream was caramel
It was such a fabulous meal, and Mike was truly amazing. He really made it very special with the extra attention. Those little things truly make a difference. On the way out we commented to the hostess how wonderful he was and she asked if we'd like to fill out a comment card which is put in his porfolio. Of course we would! We showered him with praise.
I forgot to mention that earlier when we got back to the resort we stopped and picked up two movies to watch that evening since we had so few options on television the night before. We chose Apocalypto and Wall-e, both movies we've seen before and enjoy. Well I made it through Apocalypto, but fell asleep during Wall-e. I woke up at 2:22am and mom was still wide awake watching the ending. I was quite amused to say the least.
That gave me the biggest smile 
and all the adults were kind of like "oh um, didn't really plan a birds and the bees discussion with the kids today!" and we all sort of looked at each other giggling. 
There was NO missing what the big guy was doing cuz he was LOUD! Then one little guy (human kind) turns to his family and says "wow, look at that one....it's wrestling the other one!" Yup THAT'S what is going on in there kiddos....wrestling! Oh look, there is a peacock! 
truly deprived I'd say! 
