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It's one of those moments when you wish you had a camera. My sister's Amy and Mer and niece Lydia and I decided to go to Ikea this past week. Amy wanted a few things so she could start to set up Lydia's new room and the baby's new room so we thought Ikea would be the best place to find inexpensive but cute things. While walking around the huge store we found many cute things that would be great for Lydia's new room. One of the things we found was this bookshelf.
We loaded the bookshelf into the cart along with a few other things and went to checkout. Obviously we were not thinking, for we went out side to load the 5 ft. shelf into this

and it would not fit. We tried every way to load the shelf into Amy and Jared's car including: placing the shelf in the trunk, folding down the backseat so the shelf could lay half in the car and half in the trunk, placing the shelf diagonally in the car, and finally tying the trunk shut (non of us knew what to tie the string to so that plan failed as well). After about 45 min of trying to load the shelf in the car we decided to try one more idea, laying the box horizontally in the back seat. So i got in the back seat of the car, we strapped Lydia into her car seat, then Mer and Amy started to shove in the shelf. We thought we had it, but then tried to shut the door and it would not shut. Finally we rested the shelf onto the armrest on my side of the door, Mer got in the back seat and rested her side of the shelf on her side of the armrest on the door and we finally got the door shut. The back seat got a little cozy with Mer, Lydia, me and the giant shelf resting over our laps. No one sat in the front passenger side so it was like having a personal chauffeur.

While driving home we saw this...and we were wishing we had it.

We learned a valuable lesson that day, Never go to Ikea without a truck...or an elcamino.