Road Trip-Day 1

Wooohoo! We are over the bridge and off the Cape! Today K, B and I jumped in our clean car and headed out. We stopped at a nutritionist first because my girls are blessed with completely different bodies and this has become a slight issue with one. The nutritionist is super and really going to set us on track in mind and body. M&Ms count as a colorful variety of foods, right?

We excitedly made our way to IKEA because we wanted to buy stuff and Radio Disney was doing a little promotional event. We hit a MacDonalds along the way where both girls commented on the lovely bathroom. That is in Lakeville, MA if anyone is in the area. Driving into IKEA is almost like driving into the Magic Kingdom. The big blue and yellow building looms in the foreground like the big Mickey Mouse at the tollbooth to the M. K. parking lot. (Also as the Big Moose when one visits Wally World, but that's only in the movie Vacation). So we park in section C, this is ingrained into our heads, because we (I) might forget by the time we leave. We head on up to the Radio Disney area and bop to a few HS Musical and Hannah Montana tunes. Why is it that I know every word of every song? Why couldn't I remember the entire periodic table in chemistry? Here are the girls..
OK, so we shop around, sit on couches, chairs, look at bookcases, go downstairs and fill a cart with stuff for their new rooms (we even brought the paint stick with the paint colors on them!), got some stuff for myself and perhaps a few Mother's day presents. We get to the check out, wait in line for 15 minutes or so, send the girls to buy cinnamon rolls (I am sure the nutritionist would have agreed with that after all our exercise) and I look up right before unloading my cart and it says, "we do not accept checks". What the f@*%$ does that mean? It means I cannot buy my stuff because all I have is a check because the rent check I deposited in my checking account will not clear until tomorrow. I wind up buying $30 worth of stuff and leaving my cart for some helpless IKEA person to put back while trying to put off the waterworks that are about to ensue from B. Definitely a bummer, but it's not like I can't go back and really buy everything. Today was like a practice run for when I actually want to buy a bunch of stuff. I am wondering if my husband secretly called IKEA to have them post that sign just for me. Hmmm....

Now we are in Acton. I got to go to my favorite farm stand and buy some food to make my brother, our host for the evening, a delicious dinner after his long day of work in the city. He looked like Mr. Rogers coming in and taking off his jacket and hanging it on a hanger in his closet. Funny to see him all business like dressed up. Usually I see him hammering something or mowing a lawn. Oven is buzzing, won't have a computer till Friday so you will have to wait for day 2 and 3 of our adventure .....