After months of toiling over different kitchen designs, today was the day that Masai and I decided to go to Ikea and place our order for the kitchen cabinets for both our kitchen and the apartment kitchen. I already went once last Wednesday to get an invoice for the kitchen plan, then of course we had a plumbing debacle and had to change the plan. So, we brought our newly designed plans and reluctantly left our warm apartment for the Sunday afternoon Ikea craze! And Ikea did not disappoint; it was jam-packed with couples, singles, families, screaming babies. It was a hot, stuffy, crazy mess. After 3 hours of standing in front of the Kitchen Consultant desk, I had a backache, a headache, and was convinced that the poor air circulation was going to get me sick from someone else's germs. Masai was none to pleased, to say the least.
Below is the breakdown of our day:
9:30 am - Rise and shine.
11:00 am - Swing by Tastee Diner for breakfast.
12:30 pm - Arrive at Ikea, College Park, put our name on the waiting list for the Kitchen Consultants.
12:50 pm - Meet with John (the most wonderful Ikean ever!) to go over revisions.
1:30 pm - Finished with revisions, John starts entering our order into the Ikea computers for processing.
(Masai and I take a tour of Ikea and check in on John intermittently to see how the progress is coming)
2:15 pm - Masai has a meltdown and has to go to the Ikea cafeteria for coffee and deep breathing.
2:45 pm - Cabinet order is complete! Pay for cabinets.
2:50 pm - Go to the delivery desk with completed order to arrange for pick up.
3:15 pm - Delivery order is complete!
3:45 pm - Back at home, time to recuperate and start Sunday afternoon homework.
The light at the end of the tunnel: Ikea is having it's bi-annual kitchen sale. Since we bought three or more appliances, we got 20% off of our order. So we saved a hunk of cash. I guess that's worth a backache =).
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