I heart IKEA

This weekend, Bear and I went on another big day out, but it wasn't driven by the pursuit of food! No. Instead, we desperately needed more surface area to store all that damned food, so we went to IKEA! The "biggest IKEA in the southern hemisphere" no less.

Yay. It was fun. It was colourful. We collected things as we wandered around with our sticky sticky hands and after a brief sit down with meatballs and chips and a surprisingly yummy cheesecake, we decided to get this:

Whee! We couldn't decide between a table or a shelf, so we got a kitchen trolley! Its got a tabletop, and shelving, and wheels! tadah. Only $149. So everything was good, all was well, i had several more bowls and a water jug and a vase to put long utensils in and stripey napkins and tealight candles and tealight candle holders and storage jars and this trolley, and amazingly, it all fit in Bear's little Alfasud!

So happily we went home, we heart IKEA, etc etc etc. Dismantled the packaging, started assembling, and then discovered halfway through that one of the boards was cracked.

"Aaargh" said Bear.

"Aiyah" said Suyin.

So off we went back to IKEA after calling up and checking they had stock (5, apparently, although the online inventory said they had none and we'd gotten the last one in that big collect-it-yourself section)... So, half-trusting but wary, we drove back, got our little ticket. waited, and then were told, surprise surprise, in the half an hour or so since we'd called, they must've sold all 5 trolleys, because there were none in stock. Hurrah.

I still heart IKEA, because they sell those wacky perspex and blue LED light-art installations, but we're not the happiest little swedish meatballs at the moment.