Saturday, May 11, 2013

Can someone point me in the direction of the Yellow Box?

Yesterday Jason and I were bored and decided to start our look for furniture. We looked on base at mattresses because we didn't know what to expect out in town for that. When we were there we were referred to a place called Yellow Box. We were told by the gentleman that it is "easy to find." We took some shotty directions from him and were on our way. We drove and drove and drove and did not feel we were getting any closer. We were searching for any of the cars around us to have "yankee" plates as they are called here. They are different than the nationals plates. If we found one of those we knew that the people in the car would speak English and perhaps they would know what we were talking about. Luckily, we spotted one at a stop light. Jason jumped out of the car and quickly asked them. The light turned green so we pulled up beside them so they could finish telling us THEIR version of the directions. I say their version because every set of directions we got were different. We followed their directions and still did not find the Yellow Box Furniture Store. With Colton snoozing in the back the entire time we decided we better head home so as he didn't wake up and have a fit.

We woke up this morning with a photo of a google map on our iPhone and thought we had this in the bag. Jason had routed a trip that seemed to make sense. On our way we encountered 2 hiccups. The road was detoured with no detour signs of how to get back on the road. We did a little maneuvering and found our way back just to shortly see another detour sign with no way back to the main road. We had turned around and were thinking of giving up when we saw the road we had been looking for all along! We took it. We had driven for about 1 hour (when google said it should take us 20 minutes) when we finally arrived. It turns out it was worth the trip. We found a couch that we like and set up delivery for Friday!!! I can't believe we will soon be getting out of this temp lodging.

We decided we better ask someone inside the store how to get home since we took a wild and crazy way there and didn't want to try to re-do that horror story. Jason saw on the map that it looked relatively straight. Just one time that we had to turn, seems easy enough. So we ventured on our way. We soon realized that the roads we were on did not match the directions we found and NONE of the street names were the same. For some reason we just kept going. Luckily Jason's iPhone has the compass on it so we could tell that we were at least headed in the correct direction. It took us 10 minutes to get home! If someone asked us how we did it or if we tried to retrace our steps we probably could NEVER do it again, but when Jason spotted the Sergeant Major's house on Camp Foster we were elated. We couldn't believe we were already home! If anyone asks you where the Yellow Box is... just tell them you don't know.

Here is Colton modeling our couch! Its a little stretched out. He's really not that fat (although even he was, he'd still be pretty darn cute don't ya think?)

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