Ikea trip

About two or three weeks before we left Denver an Ikea store opened.  I really like Ikea.  I have only been to the store a few times but I like the style.  As we shared our news that we were moving to Sweden everyone kept saying, " have you gone to Ikea yet?"  I decided that I was going to wait until we moved to Sweden to go to Ikea.  For one thing, even if I did go I wouldn't be able to buy anything.  We were trying to get rid of everything, or almost everything!  For a month and a half our lives were literally ruled by craigslist as we rid ourselves of all our stuff. But I think another reason I didn't go to the Ikea in Denver was because I wanted to have something big to look forward to when we arrived.  My wonderful friends and coworkers gave us a very generous gift card to spend at Ikea when we arrived in Sweden so we would be able to buy some things to make our home feel more like home.  Our trip began with a borrowed car and some nice weather.  Ray got to drive in Sweden for the first time.  We had also borrowed a gps system but spent almost the entire drive trying to figure out how to change the language to English!  We arrived to the huge store just outside of Malmo and the parking lot was virtually empty.  I took a picture of it for our Denver friends who have told me that there is 50-60 people parking cars at the Denver Ikea (like at a concert!)  We dropped Annalise off at the childcare and with sleeping Lucas started through the upstairs maze.  It was a lot of fun!  And we were able to pick up loads of stuff including a crib and mattress, picture frames, things for the kids' room, kitchen stuff, and some stuff just for fun!    Then we went to the cafeteria for some yummy and cheap food.  Ray took a picture of me eating my first swedish meatball in Sweden!  Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone for the gift card.  We had no trouble using it and (we think) we got a pretty good exchange rate :)