Life and Times of a Teacher Mom: John Camps Out For Chick-Fil-A

Many of you already know how much John LOVES Chick-Fil-A. He eats lunch there almost everyday and knows everyone in the store by name. We were even sent an invitation to attend Premire Night last night. Premire Night is an invitation only event in which they do the ribbon cutting, give tours of the new store (including a behind the scenes in the kitchen), raffle off prizes (John won an I Love Chick-Fil-A t-shirt), and give away tons of free food. It was kind of neat pulling up to the parking lot last night and having to show our special invitation to even step foot on the property.

Tomorrow is opening day...6:00 am. Chick-Fil-A has a tradition of giving the first 100 people in line a year's supply of chicken sandwiches. However, in order to be one of those 100 people you must camp out overnight to reserve your space. So John packed up his stuff and went out at 8:30 this morning to reserve his spot. He is number 48. I later found out that several people camped out last night in order to get a spot and the last spot filled up at 3:45 this afternoon.

Since Trent got out of school early this afternoon Grammy picked him up and took him to see daddy. Ella and I went before church so we could get a few pictures to remember this event...even thought it is a weird one.

The staff at Chick-Fil-A has taken really good care of all 100 customers. They provided them with lunch this afternoon and dinner tonight. They also have supplied the bottomless glass of tea and water. There's going to be an ice cream party, karaoke, and a DJ later this evening. If you will notice in this picture John is picking up his dinner...it's not very often that you get to walk through the drive-thru to get your food. Even Ella got to have a bag.

No joking - this is only half of the Chick-Fil-A "Camp". John said a lot of the people here are college students but I did see several dads with their kids. It was definitely a crazy sight.