The Time We Bought a Bed Frame

Brynn's siblings were so generous, and gave her and Seth a gift card to IKEA to buy a bed frame.  Since we live 5 minutes from the store, we thought it would be fun to pop over there and pick one up the day after moving to Phoenix.

After looking around for a few minutes, we decided on one. We wrote down the aisle and bin number, went down to the warehouse, and stared at the box.  Obviously, the frame came collapsed, but the headboard was still 6 feet long.

We drove our biggest car, a camry, to pick up the furniture, and Brynn didn't see any way that we were going to be able to fit it in the car.  We didn't even know anyone with a truck. So, we loaded it in the cart and took it out to the car and stared at it for a little bit longer.  We considered laying the front seat down and smashing it in from the back seat, shoving it in the back seat with it hanging out the window, strapping it to the top of the car, and hanging it out of the trunk, but nothing seemed to work.  

Finally, after about 10 minutes standing in the scorching heat, Seth discovered that the back seats lay down.  The hole into the trunk was pretty small, and the box was pretty wide, so Brynn wasn't sure it would fit that way, but Seth was able to finagle it into place.  The trunk wasn't quite able to close, but because it was such a short drive, it didn't give us any problems getting home.  Unfortunately, Seth was so fast getting it out of the car that Brynn wasn't able to take a picture, but it went together fairly quickly! We can't wait to get the rest of our apartment together!