I love Ikea. It's easy to say why. I don't want to sound like the person who has fallen into the cultural trap of buying useless leather sofas to replace their old micro suede couch that went out of style, but Ikea is the marvel of all department stores. Nowhere will you find everything that you need at a cheaper price including Swedish meatballs, which are only 4.95.

Due to a malfunction in the space-time continuum Colorado doesn't have Ikea. I didn't know this till I moved to California for college and found out that such a wonderful place existed. Having since moved back to Colorado I hardly know what to do with myself. Every time I need some sort of household item I begin to fidget in a panic that ends in sweat drenched clothes and a set of overpriced silverware. Ikea is the vein of existence for up start 20 somethings with finally the spending power, or credit cards, to buy something besides the lamp shades that we're passed down by your aunt Cheryl when you moved out. It's the expression of the "I can decorate my house any way I want to freedom" that we all get once we find out that Mom's little red hearts, while cute and adorable, do not necessarily make you more manly. Ikea is wonderful.

So to spend our day off on our little Texas/Kansas mini tour we decided to enter into the Ikea world in Houston to share the wonders of Ikea with the rest of the band who had never been before. Due to the lack of Ikea's existence in Colorado, Aubrea and Juli did not believe Dann when he said that they do indeed serve Swedish meatballs inside their furniture store, shun the non-believers, shunnnnnnnn... na, and the rest of us we're determined more than anything to prove to our friends that such a place exists, where cheap furniture and $0.49 hot dogs exist in the same building.

After proving to the rest of the, now Ikea loving band, that Swedish meatballs we're served fresh and hot along side perfectly decorated kitchens that you could purchase, we walked out of Ikea with a couple sets of glasses a piece; thus proving that even the dirt poorest of over debited Americans are better off financially than most of the rest of the world.

So thank you Ikea for your goodness and cheapness. If you sponsored bands of our kind we would ask you for one of those beds with the extra rolling attachment that would allow each of us to devour our breakfasts in bed in comfort. I'm sure there are better uses for our money but it would be nice to try it at least once.

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Reid