We don’t need no stinkin’ instructions

My dad came to town to pick up some materials for a home construction he is overseeing. With him, came a 26′ goose neck trailer. So I asked if he would be willing to help me bring some furniture up to my house from IKEA.

Many, many carton lugging sore muscles later, Dave and I were constructing Cailin’s new bed EXCEPT there were no instructions.

No reason to panic, surely the instructions were posted to the web.

Yes and no. Yes, IKEA does post many of the instructions to the web…but no, not this bed. 🙁

Here is where past experience as an IKEA furniture installer comes in handy (oh, and Dave’s too -he has hung around me way too long – I think when he reaches 5 years they will Saint him.). Anyway, we layed out all the pieces and proceeded to put together the bed. There were just a few mishaps, which were fixed without much ado.

It turned out awesome…and there were only a few leftover pieces. 🙂

In fact, it turned out so well, my daughter spent most of the day and the evening in her bed. She has been reading, building Legos and playing on the Internet in Migoland.

So we now know that we don’t need no stinkin’ instructions! Amen!

But we are glad to have them for everything else…