We had a family expedition to Ikea yesterday.  Sunday is definately NOT the day to go there, people everywhere!  Fortunately, they have a brilliant supervised play area for the kids, unfortunately you can only leave them there for an hour :-(.

We went because we had to buy new dining room chairs.  Over the years we have managed to destroy all our chairs bar one, which was hanging on by the skin of its teeth.  After sitting on anything that stayed still long enough, we finally found some that fit our exacting standards (i.e. cheap without feeling like they'll fall apart in five minutes).  We then proceeded to find plenty of other junk valuable and interesting items to enrich our lives!  The kids were happy, they bought new alarm clocks ($0.95 each), I wish it was always so easy and cheap to amuse them!

Absolutely exhausted after going round in circles at Ikea, came home and put the chairs together, wondered why we hadn't paid more money for chairs that came assembled...  We were going to go to the movies as I'd won free tickets to "National Treasure, the second one they made because they made so much money from the first one", but decided snoring in cinema not friendly thing to do!  Watched two episodes of "Dexter" (love the DVR) instead.  Amazing how a show about a serial killer can be both funny and touching.  Wasn't sure if I would like this before it started but it's excellently done so far!