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I had SO much fun with my sister for my 72-hour "build a business" vacation. She is doing a great job getting things set up for Smart Sprouts and I know it is going to be super successful in Nashville. She already had moms stopping by wanting to sign up! I have a whole bunch of photos to post and I'm really wondering how we did everything in all my pictures in 3.5 days- I think I wore her out :) Here are some pics from our Atlanta IKEA trip Saturday that I had on my phone... the rest of the trip when I get off this plane (and maybe after I snuggle up my girls and Heff- I'm so excited to see them!)
and we're off- 8am Saturday
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Stopped to hitch up a 6×12 u-Haul trailer
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4+ hours later.
IKEA ATLANTA parking garage in a double space
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First load (our strategy - small stuff in the kids section first, wherehouse second, showroom third trip in)
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Our new friend everyone kept trying to steal
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poster looks like a random girl in the background
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2 carts down. Out to the trailer
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Next load = heavy boxes (and boxes and boxes) this was one of three flats
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small stuff in the Suburban
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Big stuff in the trailer (how was our loading practice Heff?)
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Such fun sisterly love :)
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Hour 4...
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My
FAVORITE - self checkout!
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left right before they closed at 9pm Atlanta time (yes we changed time zones for the love of Ikea) and headed home. Pit stop at a gas station after a freeway driver flagged us down to say the chain was sparking (oops- heavy trailer weighed it down)
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Back on track with road trip snacks. Only to see a "75N
CLOSED ALL LANES" sign. Use
ALT route 4 miles ahead. We didn't believe the sign. 5 miles ahead dead stop traffic for an hour.
BELIEVE the sign :) Home by 1am
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