Anyway, since I have my Seminary Wives class on Thursdays, we didn't get to celebrate that night....unless you count eating Taco Bell in Caleb's car...which is actually what we ate 3 years ago for our first date. (Have I ever mentioned that I love Taco Bell?) Instead, we went out for dinner Friday night at a place called Gary's on Spring. The tv station I work for has a promotional thing on Thursdays called Be Our Guest for restaurants to come on the morning show and advertise for their place and offer half price gift cards. There were several offers online and so I went onto their web pages to look at their menus and see if there was anything from any place that I would actually order. Fancy restaurants tend to serve weird food. Gary's on Spring had bison burgers. Score! I love bison burgers, so I decided that would be the place for us to go. The deal was to get a $50 gift card for $25. Since we would probably spend about $25 at a place we would normally go to celebrate such an occasion, I figured it was a good deal.
So we get to the restaurant and are looking at the menus. Of course, I already decided weeks ago that I was going to have the bison burger. Caleb is looking at the menu and sees a $29 12 oz bison ribeye. He gives me a look like, "eh??" I told him that if we both just got bison burgers, which are $11, that then we would have enough money left on the gift certificate to come back a second time. So, that was our plan. The burgers were declicious. Then we pay for our bill and they didnt bring us back a balance on our gift certificate. I knew that other restaurants from the Be Our Guest promotions would allow you to use a partial gift certificate, so I asked about it. They came back and said that unfornately they don't do that at that restaurant. He offered to bring out a menu for us to get some meals to go or we could order some desserts to go. We went ahead with the desserts, but most of the delicious ones like apple pie with ice cream on top aren't exactly ideal to take to go, and we were completely stuffed. We thought about just adding the remainder to someone else's bill, but unfortunately the computer wouldn't allow the waiter to transfer the money between tabs. So, here we are stuck with trying to find something to spend our remaining money on. We ended up ordering three slices of pecan praline cheesecake at $7 each (yikes!) Technically we could have ordered 4, but it worked out well that we didn't because we were supposed to be responsible for tax, and our waiter ended up taking the tax out of our remaining balance. Here's what our bill ended up looking like:
$21 in cheesecake!!! Better be some good cheesecake, right? Wrong. It was all crumbly and not creamy. The lady I sit next to at work who just starting making cheesecakes as a hobby makes waaaay better ones. Way better. Eating the cheesecake almost isn't worth the calories. I say that as I sit here eating the last half of the last piece. But really, its not really worth the calories.
In the end, it all ended up working out fine since I only paid half price for the gift card. It just wasn't the deal I thought I was getting. Had I known, I would have encouraged Caleb to get the $30 steak because really, how many times are we going to be able to afford a $30 steak? I also told Caleb that I would have gotten a soda if I would have known, then he pointed out to me that it isn't the kind of restaurant that serves soda. Too fancy for that. If you want something other than water, they have wine.
Then Caleb found $20.
No, really. He did. After we left, we went to Target to get a few things and as we were walking through the parking lot, Caleb found a $20 bill in the parking lot. There was nobody around it who could have just dropped it, and it was soggy from being out in the rain. We knew nobody would want that poor soggy thing, so Caleb gave it a good home.
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