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Ladies Night Out

A darn fine group of women got together Friday night at the Olive Garden for a fun Orlando Tweet-up.  Janice Croze of www.5minutesformom.com arranged the tweet-up along with Angie of @alotofnothing.  Theresa who works with Olive Garden allowed us the opportunity to experience many of the wonderful new dishes on the menu.  (My review below)  I absolutely enjoyed meeting people that I’ve been following for some time on Twitter with short one-off conversations . There is something to be said about the relationship building from Twitter.  (I’ll save that for a future post.)

Orlando Tweeters at Olive Garden

@modernmami (L) @5minutesformom (R) also @missbrit @alotofnothing @eggmarketing Theresa w/Olive Garden

@momsatwork, @themeparkmom

Janice aka @5minutesformom "Must Tweet"

Twitter Fever struck the table! @alotofnothing

My Olive Garden dinner review:

Now back to dinner. I have to admit I had not been to Olive Garden in several years… not because it’s not good, quite just the opposite. I’ve avoided going there because I know I can’t stop myself from  gorging on the mouth-watering breadsticks along with everything else they prepare.  The food at Olive Garden is so good.  This night I sampled one of their new creations, Tuscan Garlic Chicken.  It was lightly breaded chicken served atop fettucine with a very light cream sauce and tons of garlic.  It was garnished with spinach and red peppers. OMG! Sinfully delicious.  @modernmami sitting next to me had the chicken/shrimp Carbona which looked incredible as well.  We were treated to an assortment of appetizers including flatbreads, soups, and calamari.  The chicken flatbread was delicious and was much better than the basic tomatoe flatbread.  The pasta fagioli soup was just as I remembered it - yummmmmy.  The ladies on both sides of me tried the newest soup, the chicken gnocchi, which they raved about.  Check out the Olive Garden menu.  While it is not a calorie-friendly place (well actually, there are a gazillion calories there)  it is worth the splurge to taste these decadent dishes.

Final note – the service was fabulous- – great waiters/waitresses with personality plus!  Customer service makes all the difference in the world. I wish every company realized that. 

Thank you to Olive Garden and  www.5minutesformom.com for a wonderful evening.  Also thanks to Theresa who helped arrange our fabulous meal.

I look forward to my new friendships. 

(P.S. I know I missed some twitter names here but I unfortunately didn’t write them all down)