Kaleb and I have a credit card with Discover, every time we use it we get 1%-5% cash back. We can then trade that in for a gift card to wherever we want. We decided we wanted to trade it in for a Cheesecake Factory gift card! Since we are a one income household we don't eat out at fancy places, so it felt like we were getting a free dinner.
We decided to go on a Saturday night, there is a Cheesecake Factory at The Grove close to our house. I get off work at 6:00 on Saturdays so it would be a later dinner. Wow what a mistake! The mall was crazy!! We literally drove around the parking lot for 20 minutes and could not find a spot! I decided to go in and put our name on the waiting list while Kaleb tried to find a spot. The waiting time at the restaurant was an hour and a half! But we didn't give up! Kaleb drove around for another 20 minutes before finally fighting his way to a spot.
We still had quite a while before we could eat so we just walked around to the stores. They had already started with the Christmas decorations and they were unbelievable!!!
The tree was HUGE!!! And they had a Santa Sled with the reindeer "flying" over the courtyard, and it was actual size. I can't even imagine the work that went into it. They also had Santa's workshop which was ginormous! It was so awesome!!
After walking around for a while we decided to go and check on our time. They said that we were close so we just sat inside. At this Cheesecake Factory the restaurant is on the second floor and the desk to check in is on the first, so they actually call your phone when they are ready. Well after another 15 minutes we asked again if they were ready for us and they said that they tried calling us. I know that I put the right number, but I guess it "didn't work". We were far past the starving phase! Luckily they just sent us on up and got us to a table.
Since we were so hungry, we got loaded nachos as an appetizer. They were delicious!!
We probably could have just ordered these because they were so big. As soon as our main course came we were already full.
We were able to get a few bites in before we had them pack it up for us.
Of course we had to get cheesecake! Kaleb isn't a big fan of it so I let him pick the flavor so that it would be sort of fair. He Loves cookie dough so we cookie dough cheesecake, which we also had to take home to enjoy later.
It was such a LONG night!!! But it was enjoyable! We vowed NEVER to go to The Grove on a Saturday night again!!! Next time it will be on a weekday!
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