korall haj
I love sharks. Sadly, there are not that many in Michigan … or so I thought. For Father's Day we drove to Canton's new Ikea store. Ikea, Sweden's answer to Mecca for consumers, "affordable solutions for better living," a Scandinavian Zion. We wandered from one showroom featuring a large, mindbogglingly number of cheap sofas, love-seats, armchairs, rocking chairs to another showroom all for the kitchen onto another for the bathroom, and so on. Each item was labeled in English and Swedish. I was delighted to know that "knife" in Swedish is "snitta." "Grundtal" is a "4-rod towel holder." "Dekad" is "alarm clock."
I ended up wandering through the children's section and brought home with me a "korall haj," a coral-blue shark plush toy. Everyone needs a little more korall haj in their life.