So, Ryan and I bought these gift certificates from restaurant.com for less than the face value. We figured we needed to get out more and we might as well save money while we are doing it. Anyway tonight we went to Texas roadhouse; we had heard it was good, so we thought we would try it. We left the kids at home with Grandpa and Grandma Taylor (thanks guys!) and Ryan and I went out to eat...alone. When we got there, we saw peanut shells ALL over the floor! PILES OF THEM!!! I wondered if it was part of the Texas theme???? When they called our number and brought us to the table we realized where all the peanuts shells were coming from. There were barrels of peanuts throughout the room and each table had a huge bucket of them. There were peanut shells all over my chair and I had the waitress wipe it down for me and remove the bucket from our table. The whole time we were eating I kept crunching peanut shells under my feet.


Normally we will wash our hands and face before leaving the restaurant, but this time we decided it wouldn't do us any good. So, we decided to walk the 1/2 mile to Wal-Mart and buy a painting dropcloth so we could actually sit in our van on the way home without getting peanuts everywhere. When we got home we even left our shoes outside the house and bagged up our clothes to put into the wash.
Ryan said it felt like walking through the city and getting contaminated by the disease in the movie "12 Monkeys", if anyone has ever seen it. Now, the picture does not even do it justice. That was under the table just across from us. There were just PILES AND PILES OF PEANUTS EVERYWHERE. So, if any of you have a peanut allergy, I DO NOT suggest eating here. I think they might have some cross-contamination issues....