Sofa Shopping with the In Laws

janelle and i had the night off yesterday, so we called up her parents and decided to go sofa shopping.

so, after a wonderful meal with janelle's parents (baked potatoes, cheesy broccoli (how do you spell that anyway??), and roast beef (i think), with delicious carrots--i think she baked them with honey and orange juice--yum) i was full and sleepy. perfect for sofa shopping.

the first place we went to was ashley furniture in bayer's lake. it's a fantastic store with a huge sales floor full of sofas, mostly, tastefully arranged and set up to sell. also, the sales staff is really helpful and not pushy at all.

sofa shopping, especially when i'm not doing the purchasing, is probably one of the most relaxing things there is. i just sat on all the different couches and recliners while we discussed the pros and cons of different couches. we found one sofa that we all really liked, that would look excellent in janelle's parent's apartment but we were still wondering what else there was out there, so we went to sears.

sears is a ridiculous store. they just put everything they got on the floor with no arrangement or design to it so you have to go looking for what you want. anyways, we just sat in one couch and talked about the one we liked from ashley's, then we went back to ashley's and janelle and i waited in the car while mister and misses went inside to buy the sofa.

afterwards, we all went over to our apartment and played apples to apples and banagrams while we feasted on whole grain tortilla chips and cheesies and some caramel brule and wine. it was an altogether fantastic evening.

after they left, i was in a hurry to get out of my pants because they were getting painfully tight.