Yesterday I loaded Jo up in the trailer and we headed out. This was her first trip sitting in the bike stroller itself instead of in her car seat installed in the bike trailer. Epic mistake. She had to wear her helmet and screamed about it the whole time she was wearing it. She's usually such a sweet baby and seems to endure the bike trailer well. Not today. And we set out after her morning nap. Around 11. Also not wise. She was hot and sweaty and grumpy about the helmet situation. Despite the grumbling from the back seat I determined to soldier on - stiff upper lip and all that.
I had to stop several times to try and convince Jo that she wasn't going to die because of her helmet. And to readjust it when it slid into her face from her attempts to remove it. She really was screaming bloody murder. After another one of my unsuccessful attempts to calm my hysterical child I got back on my bike and started off again. Soon thereafter I heard a pop and a whoosh and my tire went completely flat.
I was halfway between Costco and my house. And there's a bike store if you keep going past Costco. So that's what we did. I rolled us all the way there with a flat tire but luckily Jo gave up screaming because I took her helmet off. I then had to convince her that not everything in the store was for her.
She really wanted this...
The bike store quickly got us on our way. But there was nowhere to park our bike at Costco. Don't get me wrong - there is a bike rack at our Costco - it was just full!
The good news is that you can fit a Costco amount of toilet paper, two containers of strawberries, one container of raspberries and a 14 month old in our bike trailer. Just for future reference.
