Summer in St Louis

So I've been home for about a week, and it's been really nice so far. The comforts of home abound :) I haven't had too much to do (except for studying for the GRE and catching up on sleep), so I'm trying to figure out how to furnish my bedroom/bathroom when I do move. It's going to be design on a dime, so I'm starting to look for low-cost solutions (aka the Ikea catalog) to find what I need.

The rather unfortunate thing about the apartment is the carpeting...I much prefer wood floors, but we have carpets in the living room and the bedrooms. So I have to find looks that can work with very white carpets. Can you put area rugs on top of carpet?

Anyway, I've been meaning to upload some pictures that I've been taking with my new camera- I took more when my cousins were here last week. (Here's Madison, Asia, and the hippo at the zoo)

Happy Wednesday!