Thursday

We made plans earlier in the week with some good friends of ours to have dinner out at Texas Roadhouse. They now have a deal where you can get 2 Dinners for 13.99 M-F 4-6pm. Anyways, they arrived before us, got us seats (parties of 8 are always tricky) and we let all the little girls sit at one table and all the adults were at another. This worked out surprisingly well and we were having a grand time!

We got our drinks, ordered our food, had our soup/salads, rolls and we ordered an appetizer. I know...where am I going with all of this? Things were progressing smoothly when all of a sudden strobe lights started flashing and the loud "waaaap" "waaaap" "waaaap" of the fire alarm started going off. We were all like, " You've got to be kidding me!" but our waitress came out and assured us that is was just a false alarm, the building was not going to burn down any time soon and our food would be up shortly. No harm done...just annoying flashing and beeping while you're trying to carry on a conversation.

However, as we waited and no food came out and the alarm was getting more annoying, that's when we started to worry. And as we feared, the waitress came back to the table to explain that all the grills and ovens were down-automatic precautionary measure-and they would not be able to serve us afterall. We were all given cards for a free meal next time and they did not charge us anything for our pre-dinner food or drinks. And now that I am sitting here thinking about it, I realize that we probably still should have left a little something for our waitress. It certainly wasn't her fault what happened and she did a great job up til that point. Might have to see what I can do about that...

The funniest part was just a month or two ago, Mike and I were at a local hotel for the night (a gift from my brother and sister-in-law) and at 3am we were awakened to the same sounds. And yes, we had to get out of bed, use the emergency exits and stand out in the freezing cold in our jammies until we got the all clear from the Fire Department to go back in. That little nightmare was caused by 4 guys smoking and drinking and catching their bed on fire a floor or 2 above us. Nice, huh?

So, to the entire X4 family, we apologize. The "fire" last night was clearly brought on by you guys having to hang out with us. At least you weren't caught in the elevator! Ha ha ha ha..... :)