We’ve finally moved in
After much sorrow and heartache, we’ve finally moved into a flat. We lived with no furniture for about a week and struggled to get internet service. Now things are finally coming together–like our bed. We put that together this afternoon.
Our boxes arrived from the States a day after we moved into our place. We rented a van to pick them up on Friday. Our van rental coincided with an Ikea sale on the following day. We thought this sale was the perfect opportunity to save money on furniture. Since we had the truck until 9 am on Saturday and the sale started at 6 am, we thought we’d have plenty of time to purchase the sofa and bed we wanted and return the truck. We’d get sale prices and save on delivery costs. It was a great plan. I mean, who’d want to go furniture shopping at 6 am on a Saturday? Apparently, everyone who lives in London would.
When we arrived at 6 on the dot, the parking lot was full and people were running through the parking lot to get into the store. Who knew that cheap furniture you have to assemble yourself was so popular?
My first time at Ikea, I was tired, dehydrated and hated everything there. I swore I’d never go bad. So much changed after a week of fruitless furniture shopping. Ikea started looking better and better. But, it still wasn’t good run through the parking lot on a cold April morning good.
The store was a mad house. I waited in line for almost an hour to purchase our bed only to find out that we had to pick it up from another location and the wait there was three hours. We had to get it delivered anyway.
The best part of the trip was watching my husband nervously navigate the crowded Ikea parking lot in the very large van we had rented.
