Oscar's New Bed

We bought a twin bed for Oscar from my coworker Steve.  Tina wanted to use the mattress we got from Steve as a spare for guests so we decided to buy a new one for Oscar.  The Serta mattresses at the furniture store on the local military base were more expensive than we wanted to pay so I started looking online.  I found a mattress that had some decent reviews at Wal-Mart's website and selected the option to have it shipped to me.  I was a bit surprised that this was even an available option -- I knew that Wal-Mart offered free shipping on oversized items for customers who use their Site-to-Store pickup option but I wasn't sure how they were going to send a twin mattress in the mail.

I had to wait almost two months to find out.  Finally it showed up in the mail.  Except it didn't look like a mattress at all -- it was just a gray duffel bag...

I had been expecting a bed, not a bag.  Was this really it?  Sara was very interested in the contents of the bag...

I started opening the bag.

Lo and behold -- there was a mattress inside...

 Except it was rolled up and flattened.

In order to ship it, the manufacturer compressed the springs by sucking the air out of the bag and then they just rolled it up like a sleeping bag.  Breaking the seal on the bag causes the mattress to expand to its full size.

I took a video of myself opening the bag.  Listen for the hiss as air rushes in and watch as the mattress expand.

Sara liked sitting on the new bed.

 Oscar likes his new bed and the new Mario Kart comforter I bought him to go with it (also from Wal-Mart).