Ikea!

Yesterday my friend Natalie's mom was flying in to visit, and Natalie invited me to come along to pick her up so that we could go to Ikea first! I have been wanting to go to Ikea for so long, because Abbie has tons of stuff from there, and she is always raving about it. I just had to see what all the fuss was about!

I love Ikea! However, there are two things I want to do differently next time: I want to have more time to spend there (by the time we got there we only had about 1.5 hours, which isn't enough time in a huge place like that!), and I would like to go back with NO KIDS. It's a pretty kid-friendly place, but not when they have been sitting in the car for over 2 hours, and they haven't had a nap, and they are hungry. Not a good mix.

I got some really cute things for Abby's bedroom (some curtains, finally, and some pictures for the walls, and some neat little storage bins that hang from the walls), and I got a lamp for my bedside table (using some of my birthday money). I really wanted to get a shelving unit for our books, but by the time we were walking through the furniture warehouse room, we were in a big hurry to leave (angry kids) so I didn't have a chance to go find it. Next time, I guess... I also want to eat in the cafeteria they have. The food looked great and it was really cheap!

And, there is an Ikea in Draper, and since I go to Utah on Sunday, maybe I can convince Emma to take me there during my visit. I won't be able to get the shelves, obviously, but there are some other things I didn't get yesterday because of certain circumstances (screaming and yelling kids).