IKEA take II

I guess I've recovered from our harrowing visit to IKEA when it opened, because Brick and Houdini and I went back yesterday. There were about 2 billion less people there and we had a fun time. We leisurely wandered around picking up a few goodies here and there. We went upstairs to the cafe area and had a good meal. Brick picked out a stuffed elephant that cost .49 cents. (He had his own dollar burning a hole in his pocket.) Then we went to the "self serve" area where we had to get the boxes for our 3 large pieces of furniture. This is where I started to give myself a hernia. I finished giving myself a hernia while attempting to put these LARGE HEAVY boxes into our LARGE car.

Then I spent the afternoon assembling our furniture. You know it's quality furniture when you have to assemble it yourself.

Here are the pics:

~The white bookshelves are in Hootis' room.

~A new storage bench/ottoman thingy for our room because the "man of the house" likes to sit down to put on his shoes.