What did you do last weekend? We had a busy and fun weekend that sort of arose out of nowhere.<\/p>\n
On Saturday Jonathan went to the food coop in the morning while Gus played video games and I read the extra sections of the week’s paper (arts, science, dining, style, travel). Then we grew a wild hair and decided to go to Ikea. We hadn’t been to Ikea in forever and, because after all that winter cleaning I up and sold off many of our belongings a few weeks ago, we really needed a lamp. So off we went.<\/p>\n
Because it took us so long to get through &$*#$ Manhattan, when we got there we were really hungry, so we started at the cafe. Mmmm, meatballs, gravlax, and a chocolaty toffee tarty thing. So tasty we each<\/i> had our own dessert, which practically never happens.<\/p>\n
Then Gus was jonesing for some time in the ball room, so we let him go in even though he’d eaten mere minutes before. It didn’t seem like that great of an idea, but we were free for 30 whole minutes so we headed down to the lighting area to get with the lamping.<\/p>\n
We ended up getting this crazy embroidered lampshade<\/a>. I had to be talked into it but now I am glad I agreed because I too have come to love it! It is not nearly as grandma as I thought it would be. There’s a wacky little bird embroidered on it too that you can’t see in the picture. Not bad for $25! <\/p>\n After we went up to spring Gus from the ballroom (he didn’t want to go and had to be near forcibly removed) we took a tour of the showroom. Gus loves trying out all the sofas, chairs, and beds; opening drawers (it’s so nice to have someplace other than our house for him to do this!); and playing in the spinny egg chair<\/a> in the kids section that we are too cheap to buy him.<\/p>\n At one point Gus was asking how much various things cost. Jonathan said “this is a store, everything here costs money.” Gus indignantly replied, “Ikea is NOT a store!” Ah, consumerism-as-leisure claims another victim.<\/p>\n