Our quick 24 hour trip to Phoenix was built around a set of clear goals. Jen made a neat and pretty plan with directions from place to place, contact numbers and an estimated time frame, she even called all of the merchants to confirm hours of operation and availability of our sought product - even with this much planning none of our goals were easily accomplished.
Our goals were these: 1) Buy our very specific Benjamin Moore Oil based Satin Impervo Bittersweet chocolate paint and primer for our cabinets (a paint not available within 100 miles of Yuma but recommended for cabinet painting on all of the home improvement forums) 2) Hit both the Sunday and Monday one day one item sales at Ikea paired with a yummy free Monday Ikea breakfast 3) Stop at the pool store to buy the Kool decking patch (also not sold anywhere near Yuma) 4) Rent a one way SUV (cheaper than a Uhaul) to haul one of the few remaining Kelsey couches from Costco home. 5) Give baby Kendall a big enough snuggle from her auntie and uncle to last until our next visit.
Our first stop was Ikea, we waded through the President Day Sale crowd to the center of the store to find the Sunday one item sale was no longer available, however we load up on all toys bizzare and unique for baby Kendall, including this rat she is so lovingly chewing on in the photo. Our next stop was the paint store where we were told that all oil based paints above a quart sized have been outlawed in Maricopa county (no other counties nearby) due to environmental reasons and that many companies choose not to carry the quart size due to the minimal sales. We were given the run around for paint alternatives, visited 5 different paint stores before we found our paint, however this took half of a day, we missed our second IKEA special sale and the free breakfast but managed to get most on our list - 3 carts full! Our next stop was the pool store which we discovered was no longer in business. When we attempted to rent our reserved vehicle we were rejected by 3 rental companies because both of our licenses lack a expiration dates, which is a funny little thing WA state does for active military. After a couple of hours and some harsh words along the lines of "military discrimination" we were able to get our vehicle and be on our way.
Our snuggle Kendall and costco goals were each a sucess. Check out the photos of Levi strapping our new precariously balanced couch into the back of the SUV. The focus and the rented Ford Escape made the 3 1/2 hour trip back to Yuma but not before it rained on our exposed portion of our couch - yes, Yuma, that little city that gets between 3 - 5 inches of rain per year decided to dump on us during our midnight trip home, at this point we had to laugh, how could we expect anything less than rain in the desert after the day we had?
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