Mattress Shopping in Metairie

We moved our belongings into our new Uptown home on June 24. The very next morning we boarded a plane to Newark for a wedding in Scranton. So, we arrived home late to Bordeaux Street the following Monday evening to a mess of boxes, garbage bags and random light bulbs and pieces of who-knows-what.
We've come a long way, baby. Despite the absence of a few key pieces of furniture, our place has come together nicely. We've got a "tete-a-tete" for the porch, matching lamps in the bedroom and we even have a "man" room with a weight bench and what I keep calling the "weight holder," but is apparently supposed to be called a "weight tree."
BUT, we do not have a bed for the guest room. And this is a problem, because in six to seven hours, my mother and sister will arrive from Jacksonville. And while my little sister might not mind reliving her college days by camping out on cramped sofa, my mom might be a little sore the next morning if I toss her a sleeping bag and clear a spot on the hard wood floor.
There is only one solution: a saturday trip to Metairie! We've been to a sketchy furniture warehouse, Best Buy, Big Lots, Home Depot, my personal favorite World Market and a sorta scary but sorta fun used furniture store.It was there where Bryan picked up an old promotional mirror for George Dickel whisky that features two handsome cowboys beguiling against a fence and is straight out of Brokeback Mountain. For some reason, it features the faux signature of Merle Haggard in the lower right corner. Best $10 we ever spent.
Back to Metairie. It's a suburb, but it's close. And it's where you have to go for any of the "big box" stores or for any sort of apparel item that you aren't willing to fork over more than $100 for on Magazine Street.
Today we are going to the futon store and the mattress store. We are so grown up. If Bryan isn't fed up with the traffic and people, we might even get to stop at World Market and get wine! Rows and rows of wine in the home goods store! Pennsylvanians can't even imagine ... you can buy hand towels and wine! I'll take this dining room table and six bottles of wine! Oh, I just needed a new toothbrush holder and some wine!!!
We'll see how it goes!