Blowing it in style!

So we have ALL blown our diet today, in very grand style!! In honor of Mom's birthday, Eileen & I took her to the Cheesecake Factory for her birthday - a wonderful, decadent restaurant on the waterfront in Baltimore. Mom & I went there in February with her friend Denise, and Mom has been dreaming of having their Chicken Bam Bam (?) ever since. So today, we went - and she did - along with a share plate of nachos with cheese & spicy chicken, and a slice of plain cheesecake for dessert. Eileen also had the nachos, and for her main course had about a half portion of shrimp pasta fettucine, but really was not impressed with it, so left the rest - but munched on a lot of bread (when she wasn't busy using it to feed / capture the pigeons, that is!), and had a slice of white chocolate raspberry cheesecake (I think that was the flavoring..) for her dessert. As for me, I also munched on the nachos (they were good!), then had spicy chicken with cashew nuts & rice for my main, and a slice of dulche de leche caramel cheesecake for my dessert. All three of us ate a lot of bread too. Oh, and did I mention that the portions are HUGE at this place???

We ate like queens - and pretty much polished off our plates - and consequently all feel like we won't eat for a month now! It was very good, but very bad for our diets... We'll be lucky if we haven't each gained about a dozen lbs today!!