Monday, April 6, 2009

6wks, 6days

The deal with the Baby Jogger:

We screwed up. Plain and simple. Our logic, before the birth, was that the Baby Jogger City Double Classic would be a good, durable stroller that would last us five years or so, if not more for future kids, and, since I plan on doing a ton of walking with the girls, the suspension would handle Jerusalem's uneven sidewalks well.

What I didn't count on was just how darn heavy it is, and how large it is even when folded. Nor did I think about while it might supposedly fit through "standard doorways," the standard in America is different from Israel and the stroller wouldn't even fit through our building's front door. Nor would we easily be able to store it down there since it'd occupy the entire width of the stairwell (since we live on a fourth floor walk-up we knew we'd have to keep the stroller locked up on the downstairs landing by the building's front door).

My wonderful in-laws, who were generous enough to get and bring the stroller for us (and were so awesome as to have bought the Elite, a step up from the Classic), got the stroller to my parents' before we really realized our mistake. They have every right to say, "I told you so" and we are truly sorry.

So we'll sell it. Meanwhile we bought a Baby Safe Twin Savvy. It's an Israeli knockoff of the Combi Twin Savvy:



When fully collapsed it's easy to carry or even just roll on the wheels, making it easy for even me to move it. It's great that it's so light since we need to bring it upstairs every Thursday before a neighbor kid cleans the stairwell Friday mornings. The width is as good as you're going to get with a side-by-side, and taking it on the bus is no real hassle.

So that's the stroller deal.

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