They were unable to fix our foundation today due to an unmarked gas line, so the foundation people will come back later. The good part of this news was that we then got to take a little trip up to Gallery Furniture. If that name sounds vaguely familiar, it's because they sponsored the now-defunct Galleryfurniture.com Bowl.
We did a bit of rearranging and decided we need another piece for the living room. The night we had dinner at the headmaster's house last week our table suggested that we visit this place if we liked Ikea. Enough with the set up.
When you see it from the road, it has spires like a castle.
There are inspirational saying painted into the lines between parking spaces.
They have a slew of final sale furniture set under a large permanent tent in the parking lot.
When you walk in the store you are greeted by chairs Poppy Bush and Bill Clinton sat in on a visit to Houston, along with a giant statue of Elvis.
There are little cart cars with cup holders in them, which we used to move Anders around the store.
The front desk has cut pieces of vanilla-strawberry cake, bottles of water, and fresh Otis Spunkmeyer cookies. Anders had one and a half cookies, part of which he was wearing along with a sugar grin.
The snack bar in back of the store has free Dr. Pepper and Pepsi.
They have exotic topical birds scattered around the store, including toucans.
They have themed bathrooms like the "Presidential Suite," the "Jungle Room," and "The Prison Cell." They also have a giant mural of Elvis and giant inspirational phrases written on random walls.
Giant Texas flags hang throughout the store.
The coup de grace was not the giant TV replaying the Packers preseason game, no. It was the monkey cage in the center of the store. Yes, a furniture store has half a dozen monkeys. Anders was enthralled, especially by the white-faced monkey in the Texas state flag diaper. He was squealing with delight, and Anders liked him too. These monkeys came at Anders from above and below to check him out. The door didn't seem like it was locked too well, but it held. Anna noted the ethical problem of holding animals this way, but on the other hand she also noted that Anders would never get to be so close to a monkey at a zoo. The monkeys seemed to be having a good time, but the birds should be in a zoo or a preserve. The fact that I'm even having this discussion about a furniture store is bizarre.
We did not find any suitable furniture, but we sure made some memories.
Anders was pretty beat by the time we got home. He said a few "no, no, no, thank YOUs" and then when to bed. We read part of "Owl Babies" and he said the babies had to be "brave" and then he fell asleep.
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