ikea

ok, so of course i had amazing pizza and gelato however, my first big craving was an ikea. basically my roommate and i found our comfortors and beds in such wonderful condition that it was absolutly necessary to replace them. im talking crusting stuff and they were damp. so, my 2 roommates and i set out for ikea my 3rd day i was here. it was supposed to be 1/2 trip, and it took easily an hour. before i go on, you should know there are two bus lines one should avoid when in rome...the number 40 and 64. if you go on these buses you will be humped, hissed at (their form of whistling) and stolen from. no joke. so of course our smart selves go onto the 40 bus for like an hour. where we are dropped off at where ikea is supposed to be. with my luck, its not. so we go ask a woman (who doesnt speak english) where ikea is. she finally literally pushes us onto a bus that is passing by and motions for us to go a long way down. while we are all ready to get off and go back, i see a sign for ikea.
we got off on the next stop, which is dark and sketchy and once agian, our smart selves follow a guy up this dark alley which connects to the highway where the ikea sign was. luckily, he overhears us speaking english and tells us that ikea is on the other side of the highway behind the biggest mall in europe. let me tell you how comforting it is to hear and see and be in a mall in a foreign country. i was soooo happy we finally made it to ikea so i can sleep without being cold and disgusted, not to mention be in a mall! soooo comforting. so we run across the highway- basically like 495. coming out, we decide to go out through the parking lot where it basically makes us merge onto the highway to cross it. oh yea, we were super smart.
and that concludes hopefully but im sure not my only stupid thing iv done so far here. but i survived so good news!