Good car!

We went to Ikea so make some big (as in large) purchases, but were a little fuzzy on the details about getting everything home. Turns out, wardrobes as big as a walk-in closets take up a lot of space, even in unassembled form.

This isn't the actual car, but you get the idea...

We made a Focus unicorn!!! Or a narwhal.

Someone mocked my (albeit slightly sarcastic) idea that we'd have to arrange the boxes to go through the sun roof. Since driving with the back of a hatchback open is a scary, scary business, this was the only way to bring home our haul in one trip. We still had to take most of the planks out of the boxes to make it all fit! The diagonal boards and boxes took up most of the room in the car, so we had to scoot up veeeery close to the dashboard. And then drive extremely slowly home. And then unload into the house, piece by piece, for nearly an hour, well into the twilight.

We were well pleased when we got it all in and found out that we had not bought a piece of furniture taller than my ceiling :)