We made it to real Paris Ikea!! It was the one at Thiais Village, which is the second closest to work (and therefore the second closest to the car), but this one was a real Ikea and not just the kitchen supplies.
We managed to get just about everything on our Ikea list, so that was great. We didn't get there in time for the food court to be open though, so we missed the Swedish meatballs, but hey, you can't win them all. I also got to drive in the pouring rain on the way there, but we still made it successfully even with the crazy French road signs and driving. It was stressful, but worth it.
As part of the journey, we also picked up a Queen sized foam mattress pad, since the bed in the apartment was kind of hard and Kara's back wasn't agreeing with it. We had to figure out a French map to the warehouse about a kilometer away, but with the map and the nav system, figured it out.
And to expand on the last post, let me just say, there's a major difference between visiting France, and living in France. And that difference is lugging a 50 pound Ikea foam mattress, plus 2 heavy Ikea bags, on the metro across a transfer and then 4 blocks to our flat from the metro stop. When the RER train driver saw us with this gigantic rolled up mattress, we could see his disbelief. But we made it!
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