a family day

family day

on saturday we got the chance to hang out with our wonderful ohio family right here in columbus. due to some other scheduling, the family was in our neck of the woods and we decided it would be a good idea to get together for dinner. so the family (pat, david, jen, maddie, heather & miah) came to spend some time at our apartment before we headed to easton mall to meet up with jody for dinner. we had initially planned on eating at the local buca di buppo, but when heather tried to call for a reservation, we were told they were pretty much all booked up until late, late evening. since it was a saturday night, we received the same response from another 3 restaurants before deciding to head to the cheesecake factory, who doesn't take reservations, but told us that we could come and wait and it would probably only be about an hour. since we had a large party and the restaurant is at the mall, we figured one of us could wait while the others walked around and then the person waiting would just contact the rest of us when the table was ready.
well, it was good in theory! when we got there, we found out it was actually a 3 hour wait, but the max & irma's in the same mall only had a 1 hour wait. i'm not sure we even ended up waiting a whole hour, but we got to eat some yummy food and spend time with everyone, which was what it was really all about to begin with!