An afternoon out

Mike and I have had a fun afternoon, we decided we would head out to Ikea and Cost Co for a look around as we needed to get a couple of things. On the way our there we bumped into a couple we had meet few weeks back when Mike first arrived in Edinburgh.

Roz and Jase are an Australian couple who we had meet on a bus one morning, at the time we didn't think to exchange details. They too had arrived in Edinburgh in August and were getting settled. Over the past couple of weeks we had wondered how they were getting on and what they were up to. Well this afternoon they hopped on the same bus as us again, it was too funny, they too were heading out to Ikea for a look around.

They hadn't looked in Cost Co before and as we were members that meant they could come in with us. On our way there Mike and I normally take a short cut through a muddy patch, but today when we got there they had filled in the muddy patch with new trees and bushes, well Jase decided we could "bush-bash" through anyway so off we set through the new trees, not damaging them, we made sure of that, only to find at the other end when we came out in the carpark of Cost Co the landscaping guys were sitting in their truck looking at us and shaking their heads as we were walking over their newly planted trees. By the dirty looks they gave us, they weren't impressed!!!

We spent some time in Cost Co looking around, the four of us decided to split up and meet back at the checkout, there were loads of people in the store doing their Christmas shopping, people were queuing for taste tests……let the Christmas madness begin.
From there we all headed back over to Ikea, the long way round this time, where this time we exchanged contact details before we split up to do our own shopping.

Mike and I spent quite a while in Ikea, and did purchase a basic book case to get some of our belongings off the floor at our flat. Shopping is hard work, so after paying for our goods we stopped to purchase what must be a Swedish delicacy, called "hot dogs" :-)