Our GPS leads us to roads that don't exist......but we finally got to Ikea!

I'm not lying.  Perhaps it's time we update the maps or something (though that's expensive!), because our GPS keeps leading us to roads that dead end or don't exist.  Luckily, Ikea has lots of flags, signs, etc because we did finally get there!

Now, we went last week (our first time ever) and spent a couple of hours wandering the place.  If they hadn't closed when they did, I'm sure we could have wandered another hour or two.  They have a ton of room set-ups, and we were just amazed at all of the decor, furniture...everything.  We didn't buy anything (hard to do there) but I definitely made notes of things I wanted.  And then promptly scratched off the $5000 kitchen that I wanted.  :)

We went back today with a budget, and didn't even spend all of it!  (We did spend about 4/5, but still....)

It's hard to see (please ignore the empty boxes behind our stash), but we got:

• A bulletin board
• 2 storage boxes
• 2 sets of glasses (6 in each set)
• 3 floating shelves
• 2 flexible cutting boards
• 4 wall hooks
• 1 small floating shelf/key hook
• 3 trivets
• 4 kitchen/dish towels
• wok

All for under $100 :)

We also dropped by Bed Bath and Beyond (because we were looking for placemats and didn't like any of the ones at Ikea) and found these little beauties.  Except ours are black.  Quite the productive day!  (Especially considering we ran other errands as well :))