Our New Sleep Number Bed
We got a mattress in a box today. It required unpacking and unwrapping and unfolding. There were instructions to be read. We've never had to read the instructions for a mattress before. We'd never watched the creation of a mattress before, either. Today was the day. The Sleep Number guys were right on time, in their Penske rental truck. They lugged our old and well worn mattress out and toted their much lighter boxes in. Unwrapping the bladders and filling them with air was the first, and longest, step. I admit that I giggled. A lot. When they were full, they were set aside to rest. The tubes stay attached. They connect to this control box which sits underneath the platform. The soft bottom layer was smoothed onto that platform, and another, softer, gooshier layer went on top of that. The edges were built, side by individual side slipping into the pre-cut curves. A piece similar to the edge...