Dinner Out

I know I've been somewhat remiss in my blogging over the last month, but fortunately February wasn't particularly eventful. The one big holiday I forgot to blog about was Valentine's, which involved mostly hanging out at home and watching movies.* This month, however, should be much more eventful because there are so many family birthdays in it (including mine!). In fact, the birthday festivities have already begun.

In case you didn't already know, my grandma and I share a birthday, and this year we are both having kind of big ones. I am turning 25 and my grandma is turning 80. I always love getting together with my grandma to celebrate, so Garrett and I decided to take my grandma out to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner last Saturday. Heather, Lanna and my mom all came with us, and we had so much fun.

First of all, I had no idea how crowded it would be! Garrett and I got to the restaurant an hour before we planned on eating dinner so we could put our name in, and the hostess said the wait would be 60-80 minutes! Fortunately Mom, Heather, Lanna and Grandma all arrived right when they called us, so Garrett and I were the only ones who had to wait very long. And the wait was definitely worth it! The menu was ridiculously long because there were so many choices. I had the Bang Bang Chicken and loved it, but the portions were really large leaving plenty of leftovers for each of us.

Then we had dessert. It was wonderful. I had the best key lime cheesecake, and when they brought out our plates, mine and Grandma's had "Happy Birthday Sarah!" and "Happy Birthday Doris!" written on them in chocolate syrup. The servers sang to us, we blew out our candles, and each ate our fabulous desserts. Then we all had to roll out of the restaurant. We were stuffed! But it was so much fun, and I had such a great time celebrating with my grandma. I think we just might have to make it a tradition. Yum!

*I don't mean to make it sound like Valentine's was boring. Garrett and I have been so busy this last month that we really needed to spend a day hanging out at home, and it was really great. We ordered Cafe Rio and cuddled on the couch while watching romantic movies like Die Hard 4. Pretty sweet, huh?