Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Next stop Ikea

We're going to Ikea on Friday. This time we are going to Raiso just north of Turku. It's the closest Ikea we have. It's a four hour drive without breaks, which we will have, at least one, probably two. I'm not sure when the new Ikea in Tampere will open but I think it later this year, maybe next year. That will only be 3 hours away.

However we will not buy furniture, we are already over furnitured. It's the small stuff, the little things, like maybe a new lamp, a kitchen tap and some kids stuff and we are not forgetting meatballs. The Ikea restaurant may not be a top of the line restaurant but they know their meatballs and mashed potatoes.

And as a good rule it's not a good idea to write in your blog that you are going away and leaving the house all empty. Because we are not, we are leaving behind our four dogs to guard the house and the city is digging and laying down a new sewer line right next to our house for the next few weeks every day.

2 comments:

  1. Between the city workers and the dogs....you're house will be fine! lol


    LOVE IKEA for furniture and for sure for the meatballs!!!! Shawn thinks the $1 breakfast is the best thing going!

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  2. Well I have begun worrying about the city workers. Our neighborhood is built on bedrock with a few inches (yes inches, not feet) of soil on top. People don't have basements in our neighborhood. So they are doing more blasting than digging. But apart from the occasional "earthquake" we should have a working sewer by the end of this month.

    You should look at Nina's blog, she has a bunch of pictures of Mirelle with her new Ikea stuff. I'm amazed how cheap Ikea are. We (read Nina) picked up loads of stuff and when we got to the counter I hoped that it wouldn't exceed 500 €. I paid 167 €, that is cheap. In a normal department store i probably would have paid 500 for the sames stuff...

    No meatballs, it was coffee, cake, ice cream, soft drinks and hot dogs. You got coffee, cake and ice cream for 1,20 €, again very cheap. At Wayne's Coffee something like that would probably cost around 4-5 €. We weren't that hungry, due to a few coffee breaks with something to eat(sandwich, doughnut) on the trip to Ikea. But no worries, we have already lost the weight that was gained during the trip.

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