as the weather turns

It Saturday morning - our second full day with the bike and the last day of my weekend - and the amazingly gorgeous clear sunny cool weather we had almost all week and turned back into typical Portland spring: still cool, but with much less sun and much more drizzle, and even a bit of wind thrown in for good measure. The reports at the start of the week put the niceness coming Friday and Saturday, but it got here early and left early as well. The upside is that this will give us a chance to see how well the rain cover really works.

Anyway - I've been on the computer longer than I'd like already doing the previous post, so for now I will just say what we did with the bike yesterday and leave the how we felt about it part until later. We had two main trips: to the pediatrician for our son's checkup, and then to the farther of the two grocery stores we frequent. My mom, in her very early sixties, showed up in between the two while we were laying a little craiglisted sod in the backyard (no - didn't use the cargobike to get the sod, though I certainly could have and I consider it; in the end I decided it would be much like time my wife I had to move 19 sled dogs {and two house dogs}, one by one in a plastic sled like you'd pull behind a snowmachine/mobile, across a hundred yards or so of flooded creek bed: certainly doable, and in the end a great story, but exhausting and not exactly how I wanted to spend the rest of the day)
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So, here's what we did:
To the pediatrician - our route home was a little different as this has one very steep block of downhill, but on the way home we opted to make a more gradual but still direct (that is we looked for streets that went up, and avoided any down hills that we would just need to make up for later) route - I think it was about this.
To the grocery store - this trip was with my mom on her bought a few years ago and literally ridden twice prior up to now very cute Pepto pink wicker-basket bedecked bike (she was tired on the way back but declared it a great adventure upon our return home), and we pretty much followed the same track back - the difference of course being that we had about seven bags of groceries in the box along with our son and a bit extra gear/clothing/water.

All in all, this morning my legs are a little sore, but more in the good I had a nice workout yesterday sort of way and not the oh my god why did I do that to my body I don't think I'll ever be able to move again sort of way - more than anything I feel dehydrated which I suppose is not he bike's fault (though, while riding yesterday, I was considering places to attach water bottle/beverage holders) - no one else has gotten up yet, so not sure how they feel. Oh - for the most part, I rode the cargo bike, but my wife and I did switch on and off on both legs of the grocery run - she things blogs are silly waste of time, but maybe I'll get her to share her thoughts when I get around to sharing my own in the next few days.