IKEA

Wednesday was back to the old grind of work and of course more work. I thought my work schedule would die down a little when I returned from my short vacation, but I was sorely mistaken. I jumped right back in and was handed even more responsibility when someone in our office left me some of her work while she is in Europe. Fun, I love to do more work and not be rewarded for it.

After my day of work Ando came up to West Chester to try our hands at IKEA. We thought a rainy Wednesday would be a good time without a huge crowd. It turned out we were right. It was no more crowded than any other visit I have had to an IKEA. True, most of those visits were on a weekend, but hey still not bad for the first couple of weeks opened.

I was all about only looking at what we were planning on buying, but Ando wanted to go through the whole store. I tried to hurry him along and not browse too much. Everyone knows how much he can browse. Case in point the gas station on our way down to Hilton Head a couple of years ago.

We picked out everything we wanted and headed down to the warehouse to grab the furniture. We decided we needed to become a little more grown up with a matching bedroom set. Yes, it is just cheap IKEA furniture, but at least it matches. We got our cart and loaded the two dressers before heading to the bed section. After putting the bed on the cart we realized one cart wasn't going to be enough. I went back and grabbed another cart for us to put the night stands on. We looked ridiculous pushing those big heavy carts around like we didn't have anything in our house. I didn't realize each piece of furniture would have so many boxes.

Checkout went smoothly and the final bill was less than Ando and I had expected. We did buy a few other things besides a bedroom set as well. Everything fit nicely into the Rav 4, which the IKEA man helped Ando load. I think he didn't want a pretty young lady, that would be me, lifting all those heavy boxes.

It was getting a little late and we still hadn't eaten dinner so it was time for dinner. If you know West Chester then you know the choices are slim; and by slim I mean boring chain restaurants. We decided on Applebee's because it was close and we haven't had it in awhile. BH and DKNY kept saying they were going to take us in NYC, but they lied. We had to go ourselves. It was a normal run of the mill American Restaurant experience. The only truly fun part was when we first arrived and the host asked us how we were. Ando decided to try on the Rockin' response for size. I think he got a funny look and I just laughed at him.

Nothing else happened after dinner. Teed did help bring in the boxes since he decided he wanted to mix with Ando. How sweet of him.

I bought us the new furniture; Ando didn't buy me a new ring.