Well, we split up, so to speak, this Friday night.  Basically, we left the girls with their Grandma Linda & Grandpa Ken, so we could go out for a “date night”!  It was really nice, except for the difficulty at the restaurant we chose.  We planned on seeing the new movie, “Cloverfield”, which had just been released, so we went to the movie theater first & bought tickets for a later show time, to be sure that we would get in & it wouldn’t be sold out.  Then, we went & had dinner at the Cheesecake Factory.  When we got there, it was extremely busy – we could tell by just the parking lot, but we figured we had 3 hours until our movie show time, so we didn’t feel too pressed for time.  Well, when they put our name on the list, they told us the wait would be about 20 – 40 minutes.  After about 30, we started thinking, “Ok, not too much longer now”.  Boy, were we mistaken!  After about another 30 minutes (yes, a total wait time of an hour), we were *finally* seated.  Then, we ordered our food, which thankfully didn’t take that long to get to us.  The thing is, we had originally planned on eating dessert, too, since it *is* the *Cheesecake* Factory, after all…  But, once we had our meals, we realized there was no way we were going to be able to stuff a couple of slices of cheesecakes into our tummies, too – that would just be too much food to handle!  Since the theater was just down the street, Jeremy had the awesome idea of coming back after the movie & getting some slices “to go” on our way home, instead.  Agreeing that this was a wonderful way to do things, we went ahead & paid for our meal.  At this point, we had about ½ an hour until we wanted to be at the theater.  Our show time was around 9:30 & it was about 8:30 when we left the restaurant.  As we were walking out the door, we noticed the hours posted on it – they closed at 11 p.m.!  There was no way we were gonna make it, after the movie was out – but it was too late – the line for ordering cheesecake was extremely long & we were so tired of being there, that we just gave up.  We went to the mall for a bit & then, on to the theater.  The movie was interesting… not what we’d expected at all, though!  I don’t want to give any spoilers, but let’s just say that it was taken from a unique perspective.  Jeremy said it made him think of Godzilla & I thought it was somewhat like “The Blair Witch Project”, but those 2 movies don’t actually do it justice, since Cloverfield isn’t cheesy.  It’s well thought-out, having been produced by J.J. Abrams, the guy who co-created the T.V. show LOST, which we are completely addicted to.  But again, not to reveal too much, I’ll just stop there.  You’ll have to check it out yourself & make your own opinion of it.  Since our cheesecake dessert was a bust, we decided to drive thru Whataburger & get some apple pies – yeah, not nearly the same, but not a bad replacement, either.  We also bought some taquitos & micro waved them for breakfast the next morning – something I don’t think we’ve done since before we were married, so good stuff!  🙂

The girls had a great time at their Grandparents’ house, too.  Katrina loves helping & she got to make an art project with her Grandma – a cute Valentine that she brought home.  She also got to watch Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” & “Cars”.  While there, Alyssa played with a little, ride-on, toy car that used to be Katrina’s, before she grew out of it.  Kat played with her “Barbie big wheel”.  They each rode them while watching “Cars”, so it was kinda’ like they had their own little part(s) in the movie!  Grandma took some cute pictures, but we’ll have to share them in the photo gallery at a later date.  All in all, it was a nice time for the 4 of us.  Although we missed each other, you know what they say, “absence makes the heart grow fonder”!