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Scored!... Or going to Hell


Because Pete is a fantastic banker he got a $25 gift card for making a lot of sales. This means we get to go out to eat! Olive Garden was the restaurant of choice. I LOVE this place. I'm pretty much completely satisfied with their salad and bread sticks. If I'm feeling adventurous I order the most fattening thing on the menu, fettuccine alfredo. This stuff is incredible. It's possible while sitting in a real restaurant in actual Italy, eating authentic fettuccine Alfredo I made the comment "it's good, but it's no Olive Garden" a comment I'll never be able to live down... but it was the truth. While the food is delectable, the service out here in Casa Grande.... well it sucks.  There is no reason it should take 2 hours, when only ordering salad and bread sticks, come on people. AND our server was so annoying. It drives me nuts when the server tries to be my friend... I don't want to be rude, but it bothers me. Chances are they will get a much greater tip if they take my order, bring it out promptly and make sure my drink is re-filled... minus the chit chat. I came to chit chat with my lover, not you, annoying lady.  Needless to say, while the food was wonderful, we were ready to go. It was Audrey's bed time and nobody deserves to deal with cranky Audrey... sorry Andrew and Amy.... We handed over our gift card and the lady couldn't figure it out, which means we had to sit there for a longer period of time. Finally we get it solved, and on our way home called to check the balance to make sure she didn't screw anything up. We were pleasantly suprised to find out our balanced had not been deducted... We thought this meant it would take a couple min. to update. We get a text from my brother telling us Audrey fell asleep so we can see a movie. A DINNER AND A MOVIE in one night! This hasn't happened in I don't know how long. Of course we were all for this, and discussed how cool it would be if the gift card worked at the movies...  it totally did! We had dinner and a movie for $25... SCORE!

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Clark and Liesel said…
Wow! That's awesome! Guess it was your lucky day! :) Glad you could have a fun night out!
February 9, 2009 at 5:35 AM
kemra said…
Sweet! I'm glad you were able to have fun...and I TOTALLY agree with you about the whole waitress thing...so annoying!!!
February 9, 2009 at 9:01 AM
Jason & Amanda Chapman said…
Hi Amelia! I haven't seen you in so long!!! I hope you don't mind me checking your blog out. I found you through Vanessa's blog! How are you doing? Your little girl is a doll!
February 12, 2009 at 7:07 PM
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