IKEA Brooklyn Grand Opening

Brian and I headed down to Red Hook, Brooklyn early this morning for the grand opening of the new IKEA store. We love IKEA and we had a great time this morning. This is a picture of the flags in front of the store with the big monitor showing the stage (I'm too short to get a good shot of the stage through the crowd). They had live music, speeches, a ceremonial sawing of a log (instead of ribbon cutting; crazy Swedes) and tons of free stuff. While Brian and I didn't get a free sofa or chair like those who camped out, we did get water bottles, pens, soft serve ice cream and a measuring tape.

They also has one of those mallet games where you try to hit the bell. It took Brian three tries (see left) but he eventually won a little toy.

Here he is with his prize (it's on his shoulder).

They also had clowns, as seen here doing face painting. Also, all of the free stuff was given out by women dressed in Swedish clothes, as you can see in the picture.

All in all, it was worth the trek to see the festivities. Brian bought a new chair for his desk and I got new napkins, straws and placemats. I also bought a tube of Cream Cheese and Roe because I thought it was funny. I will let you know how that goes when I try it later tonight.

Time for my exciting IKEA break to end and bar review to resume with the last day of Contracts lecture.

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