The IKEA Experience

We have been busy doing some much needed home improvements for the past month or so. After painting Jon's bedroom (in preparation for his greatly anticipated homecoming), we also painted our bedroom and bathroom. Our room had not been painted in 22 years....so it was about time. We also needed to move some furniture around and get Josh a new dresser. He's into all the black furniture these days....SO....we headed off to IKEA last Monday night for FHE. It was our FIRST IKEA experience. I'm sure most of you have been, but I'm not into shopping unless I have to be, so we had never been there. If you have not been there, it is an interesting experience. To have an IKEA experience you follow these arrows through a huge showroom floor. There, they have displayed anything and everything you need to buy. Entire households are set up with furniture, bedrooms, closets, and even kitchens and laundry rooms!! These things are European made...appliance brands I have never heard of. BUT...you don't buy the things there. You write down the number of the item you want and then after you have walked for what seems miles, you come out into a food court. Of course, we had to have dinner, so we had Swedish meatballs and other things. Then, you go downstairs into a huge warehouse where everything is stored. We chose our item number, picked it up in the warehouse then checked out at the registers. We got home in time for Josh and Richard to put it together and now Josh is in heaven in his "matching" room. I would never have thought it was so easy to build a dresser (with instructions of course)
It seemed to go together in a snap!!
I laughed at Josh's building techniques:)
He seems very pleased:)
After cleaning out the old dresser, he went from 5 drawers down to 3...and still has room:)
Our first IKEA experience was fun and now I know what to expect next time we go there:)

What Are The Chances???

What are the chances that 2 sisters living thousands of miles apart would both go to different dentists 1 day apart to get fillings and both end up with bruises....on the same side of their faces....in the same place?????? YEP....it really happened. Just call us the bruiser sisters!!!