This morning Jordan, Mom, Dad, Aunt Cristina, Grandma and Grandpa all caravaned out to The Cheesecake Factory and its new location in Southlake to celebrate Dad's 30th birthday. For those of you who live in Dallas/Fort Worth, and have never made it up to Southlake Town Square, you are really missing out on a shopping treat. It's a new old-style downtown full of great shops (including a brand-new Apple store,with a line stretching down the block this morning) and restaurants, The Cheesecake Factory among them.
Jordan was a prefect angel throughout our 45-minute wait, and handled the restaurant really well (if you excuse him throwing up on Mom once). Mom had chicken and biscuits, Dad the chicken and avacado club sandwich, Grandma and Grandpa each had a pulled-pork sandwich and Aunt Cristina had a fettucine chicken dish. If the serving sizes weren't big enough, we had dessert. Mom had the lemon raspberry cheesecake, Dad the "boring" (per our waiter) original cheesecake, Grandma had a strawberry cheesecake, Grandpa the German Chocolate cheesecake, and Aunt Cristina broke the chain by ordering a strawberry shortcake dish that was enormous! This was the first Cheesecake Factory trip for Aunt Cristina, Grandma and Grandpa. Mom and Dad are old hats at this, hitting the NorthPark-area one several times over the years.
Afterwards, Mom had to go home to change, and we headed over to Grandma and Grandpa's to open gifts. Dad got a new battery for his digital camera, some cash and new shirts to match work's soon-to-be-revised dress code.
All and all, today was a lot of fun.
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The strawberry shortcake at Cheescake Factory is one of my most fave desserts in the entire world!
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