West Coast Wolf

Today’s adventure:

IKEA! (Pictured: A long blue building with yellow trim and “IKEA” in large letters on the front.)

They have a brochure stand by the entrance with useful maps to help you navigate the maze.

Blue brochure, with floorplans for the Showroom and Marketplace and helpful dotted lines showing where to go.

Display living rooms...

A pair of demonstration rooms furnished in Swedish Modern.

...and some people living in them.

Several groups lounging about on couches.

I thought they were trying to discourage these kinds of shenanigans.

Display sign: “Hide. Or seek. It’s up to you.”

ePROP™ Technologies—the latest in shiny boxes and machines that go ‘bing!’

A fake laptop on a desk, prominently branded ‘ePROP’

I hope that’s a prop, and not someone who’s left their glasses behind.

A bedroom display with a pair of glasses on a tray.

After my tour of the showroom, I took a brief skim through the store on the floor below and then went to see the self-serve warehouse.

So much flatpack! So many shelves!

A very long aisle of industrial shelving, with lots of pallets and cardboard boxes.

An important disclaimer.

An enormous banner advertising “Cinnamon bun $1”, with a six-foot-tall photograph of the comestible in question and some fine print stating “*Not actual size”

And, of course, I couldn't leave without sampling their famous Swedish Meatballs.

An IKEA-branded cafeteria tray, artfully arranged with a plate of Swedish meatballs, green beans, mashed potatoes, and gravy, plus a bowl of soup, a glass of lingonberry drink, and some paper napkins.

Woke up this morning to the famous San Francisco fog.

View down a street, which quickly fades to grey nothingness.