It's finally done!!

A few weeks ago, I got this play structure for Emma. Should be really easy to put together right...any idiot could do it in half an hour. I swear, it's taken us a few weeks to get it together...I'm honestly pretty handy, but this thing just didn't fit right!! After our many failed attempts to get the first 3 main pieces connected, I loaded the whole thing into the van and went back to Toys R Us to ask them if they could put it together, because I thought it was defective. So, a couple of guys come out to my van and start working at it, and sure enough, 5 minutes later the 3 pieces are together... so, the playset is not defective, the 3 people in my house trying to put it together are!!lol Anyhow, the 3 pieces are too big to load assembled, so they take it apart and off I go, hoping to be able to get it to work again once I'm home. So, unload all the pieces again, and back to work. Sure enough, the 3 main pieces fit together no problem and we think we've got it made until we get to the final pieces. These 2 platforms have to fit together within a slot...we can't for the life of us get them to work...we've had 3 adults trying to force this thing together without luck. Every few days we go fight with this now beyond annoying contraption which is taunting me every day and we just can't get those last pieces together and without them, the structure isn't stable so it can't be used. Today, I was at the hardware store and I bought a HUGE rubber mallet... we head out to do battle again and with the help of the mallet and a hockey stick to widen the slot, we finally got it all put together!!! And of course we had Emma out playing with the playset but given the choice, she'd rather just climb the deck stairs...after all that work, she's gonna play with that contraption whether or not she wants!lol