So I'm slacking... But, IKEA and such!

So since the last posting:

Firstly, I think I need to post more often. I keep meaning to and I get busy. That's a fail. Too early on in our Germany experience to suck at keeping up with it now. Lo siento. I'll try to change that!

But so Friday was valentine's day! We didn't do anything crazy special but the hubby got me roses and chocolates and we headed out to the knot with some friends. A chill evening but it was nice. We're not huge valentine's day people so it was perfect.

Saturday we field-tripped to IKEA in Mannheim. Super fun. Danette and I shopped for roughly 5 hours while the guys went to look at gun safes for Austin and browse Media Mart (kinda like best buy).

As far as IKEA goes. First I have to start with the funny stuff. Austin and Rob drop us off in the parking lot and Danette and I walk inside. It was raining so we figured we'd just snag a dry cart inside. Once inside we saw no carts and an escalator up to their restaurant. Registers to pay were to the left and really the only way to go was up. We figured we'd find carts up on the second floor...

When we got up there it was the restaurant on one side and the beginning of the show room on the other. (For those who don't know, IKEA has a beginning portion of the store you're supposed to walk through that has nearly all of their products set up in fake rooms so you can see them in action. Everything is tagged so you write down the information and snag it all in the store part afterwards.)

Example: super cute dining room set up.

Next to the top of the escalator we saw an elevator so, since we saw no carts we figured we'd hop in the elevator and go back down to get one. Once we get in the gigantic elevator and the doors shut there is only one "level" button to press. OG. So we press it. And press it. And wait some more. And nothing happens. We press the button to open the doors and were still on the same level. So that was a fail.

We decide to get off, since that was getting us nowhere in a hurry and I man up and ask someone- A if they spoke English and then B where the stinkin carts were. Since we didn't really understand his broken English we decided to start the showroom and hope we'd find them later.

*who knew shopping could be so challenging*

But anyways. Flipping love IKEA. Wish their stuff wasn't so cheaply made though. That part is a bummer. Especially for us military folk that move a lot because the cheap stuff cant handle all the moving stress. -_-

But we trekked through the showroom and the massive crowds of people (since we did come on a Saturday). After the show room we were all hearded down to the lower level for the store. And there were carts! (The bags we got while walking in the showroom were really beginning to suck a lot)

Lots of cute stuff was purchased by use both. We couldn't help it.

I bought so many pillow forms :D

Then that night we all came back to our place for an applewood pork roast rob had in the crock pot all day (thanks to Judy for our spices on that, we used a pampered chef applewood rub.) Dinner and Mexican train of course. We had to teach Danette and Austin how to play but Danette didn't need much help and was a natural winner. (We said it was because of her authentic Mexican-ness, which I still blame for her glory.)

Love Mexican train. Good way to end the day.

Sunday was just homework and cleaning as usual. I'm a slave to the college life, *hopefully only till 05/2015¡¡!! Fingers crossed! Plus Rob had CQ. So I did the learning thing ALL day and made some pillow cases at night.