Camping, Chick-fil-a Style

We have been hearing about Chick-fil-a “campouts” for a while now and thought it sounded like so much fun. I saw a parking lot full of tents on a trip for work once over a year ago and it really made me want to do it. This Wednesday, we got to experience it and now we know it’s fun! Every time a new Chick-fil-a opens, they do a First 100 promotion. Here’s how it works: you show up on Wednesday morning by 6am. If there are over 100 people in line, everyone gets a number and they draw for the 100 people that get to stay. Then those 100 people camp out in the parking lot until Thursday morning at 6am. If you make it to Thursday morning, you get free Chick-fil-a for a year! So this Wednesday morning we left our house at 4:45 to head to the new Chick-fil-a in Denton. Ryder looked at me like I was crazy going in his room and getting him out of his bed that early! There were about 140 people in line by 6am. So we got our numbers and they started drawing….we were numbers 5 and 33 – we both got picked! It was so exciting to hear our numbers (and to get to go inside to register and have a little relief from the cold)! So then it was time to set up camp. I think we brought half of our house with us. We were just well prepared, right? Once we finally got all set up, we just hung out in the parking lot for the day. They fed us breakfast, lunch, and dinner and took good care of us in true Chick-fil-a fashion. It was really cold at night, but we were perfectly cozy all cuddled up in our tent. It was really windy too, but Jeremy gathered lots of big rocks to anchor our tent and our little house didn’t blow down! All in all, it was a great experience and best of all, we left with 104 coupons (1 per week for a year per person) for free meals!

Here we are in our tent

Jeremy's mom came down from Gainesville for a little visit in the parking lot.

Ryder was soooo good. He took great naps in the day and slept good at night. People kept telling us how good our baby was.