Tuesdays adventure

David has been wanting to visit Ikea ever since it opened, so yesterday morning we set off in pouring rain.   I had thought that it was at the north east corner of Kenaston and Wilkes.  No--it's actually on the south west corner of Kenaston and Sterling Lyon Parkway. Had a bit of a discussion about this confusion.  We got there and figured out what to do and where to go.  Off we set with maps in hand, carefully following the arrows on the floor, and incentive provided by the sign that said "Giant cinnamon bun and coffee--$2.00".  Yes, we saw wonderful things. I was really impressed with the tiny fully functional apartments they had set up.  By tiny, I mean under 600 square feet.  Two bedrooms, living room and kitchen areas and bathroom including laundry area.  Really clever!  A place for everything and everything in its place would really have to be words to live by, but you hear of these really tiny apartments etc, and now I can see how they would be put together.

 We bought three cork trivets, two toilet brushes, and a wall clock.  The clock Daddy bought me many, many years ago had finally given up the ghost, and I really missed it, so when we saw this very attractive clock for under $20 we picked it up.  We got it home and it didn't work.  Questioning the age of the batteries we used, we went out and bought some more.  It still didn't work.  This means a trip back to the other side of the city to get our money back, but, oh well,  we have some running around to do tomorrow.  We seem to have been running around for days, and until David gets into Autopac to have the 'corrective lenses" removed form his licence, I have to drive.  However,--tada--the new batteries work in the old clock and it's back up on the wall.  It must have been faulty batteries that stopped it in the first place.

When we finally got to the cafeteria at Ikea there was a huge line up, but the cinnamon buns were off to one side.  We took one look, shook our heads, and headed for Tim's when we left the building.  Since I had coupons, we tried the pannini.  Quite nice and a big meal.  Much nicer than a hard, over baked cinnamon bun.

I am grateful for the Tim Coupons, and I was grateful that the rain had stopped for our drive home.  I am finding it hard to be grateful for the yard full of snow that we found when we got up on May first.