Best Night Ever

My sister Vicki and I headed out to Ikea last night to help outfit my new home to be in Redding. It was four hours of shopping madness. I don't make house purchases, especially big ones, easily, and Vicki patiently helped me deliberate each item.

Final decisions were made and we found ourselves rounding it all up in the self-help wherehouse. With thirteen minutes till closing we discovered my dining room table was discontinued. Panic! Vicki took me in hand and directed me to make a run for the display floor table I saw upstairs while she maneuvered our two bulky carts of items stacked willy nilly to the checkout counter herself. I was racing against the clock. With eyes burning, pulse racing, and a sweat breaking I quickly outwitted the labyrinth that IKEA is to find my table upstairs. They sent my table down to the "As-Is" section and said I could meet it and claim it there even though the store was closing. I almost cried. I raced back downstairs, intercepted my table at "As-Is" and I got her for $200 less than the original price! I almost cried again. I felt like I had just won the amazing race, my sister and I were high fiving, congratulating ourselves on our quick thinking and resourcefulness, it was a beautiful moment. This table is solid, heavy oak, and will stand the test of time and my children which is all a girl can really ask for. Vicki, truest of sisters, made it a reality. Love you!