Adventures in Shopping

Last Friday Andrea and Leann left the kids, (with a babysitter) took my truck up to Chicago, hooked a big strap around IKEA and hauled the whole mess back home. Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration. They were only able to get half the store onto the truck. Leann was shopping for stuff for their new house and Andrea had a long list of items to re-arrange the boy's room in preparation for little boy three. And also for our room in preparation for new built-in cabinets which her husband hasn't started yet. And something for the entry downstairs. And an office chair for the desk ... You get the picture.



Anyway, here's the result, proudly packed and piled into every available space and on top of a barely visible Yakima rack. And in spite of a crowd of highly skeptical IKEA loading dock 'experts' whose very imagnative solution to fitting six carts of boxes into a pickup was to "rent a bigger truck."

Say, doesn't that pile look like it's sagging a bit in the middle?

Yep.

I later figured that the girls had well over 500 lbs of shelves and beds and dressers on top of my bike rack bars. The bars fought bravely, but couldn't hold up to the strain. Oh well, I'm pretty pleased that everything else seems to be intact. I think I can bend the bars back, and now I know how much weight I can put up there. Five hundred pounds is a lot of bikes.

One of those boxes was a new bunk bed for the boys. Kenrick was a big help putting that together. And the boys have much enjoyed their cozy new setup.
I'll keep you posted as we get more of the stack unpacked and assembled.