have you been to.......

I'm getting the shakes just thinking about it! IKEA had a grand opening yesterday in our area. My sister "la maestra" decided that we should go. She figured that most people didn't know about it, only us. So we went. She was wrong. shake, shake, shake....

I knew we were in trouble when I saw the local police department helping in the parking lot, which was completely full and overflowing into all adjacent dirt fields. After traipsing through the field we then stood in line after line after line, outside the store! It was just like Disneyland with all the chain link directing us around and around, except "Space Mountain" was not at the end. We did get one free Frisbee and a couple of water bottles, practically as good as "Space Mountain". Fifteen or twenty minutes later when we finally got to the store, that's when the terror really hit. We could not WALK!!!!! There were so many people there we could hardly even move!!!!!!!!!!!!!shake, shake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!shake, shake!!!!!!!!!!!!

We decided right off the bat that we were not going to buy anything because we didn't have time to stand in any more lines. We were just going to "look". Ha! Good luck with that! I did catch a few glances of things that might of been cute, but it was hard to tell in the millisecond I had to look between all the passing/pressing/pushing bodies. By the time we stopped to give the baby a bottle and take the 3 year old to the bathroom, it was time to fight our way back to the entrance and leave. After following the completely inane "exit" signs that lead us around and around and around in a circle we finally found the way out of the store. Then we had to follow the pointing/shouting of the local police to get out of the dirt parking lot and away from the land of IKEA.

I vaguely remember a few cute things that were cheap and I would probably go back some day to the land of IKEA. But not for a LOOOOOOONG time. shake, shake, shake.