Meo's BIXI ride

I have been dying to do this for ages and today I had my first-ever BIXI-bicycle ride.  Actually four rides.  It works like this.  You pay $5 and can take as many rides as you like in 24 hours, as long as each ride is less than half an hour.  First, find a bike (a challenge 'uptown' at 11 am on Thursday - all the bikes have been ridden 'downtown', to work).  No bikes left at stand#1.  At stand#2, the last bike was just disappearing.  Aargh.  Rachel's iPhone BIXI-app showed 0 bikes at stand#3, but as we got there (Parc-Laurier), the BIXI truck had just brought 12 bikes back uptown - and I only needed one.

Bike found, we rode off to the 'Bibliotheque Marc-Garneau' - a new glass-and-living-green-wall library that Lily loves, just a bit north of the train tracks.  Really good bicycle paths and I lumbered along behind the three.  Only one hill.  Maybe 20 minutes.  We parked the BIXI, then found that the library was closed till 1pm.  All fine.  Still lots of BIXIs to choose from.  We would continue on to the Jean Talon Market (15 minutes) and return for books and a good read between BIXI rides on our way back.

 
Strawberries here too - biologique, straight from the farm.  Just about as good as Doco's.  Rachel had brought their bicycle 'chariot' to carry berries home for winter.   Now chopped and frozen.

made it!

a sustaining berry drink

a BIT bigger than the Oak Street Farmers' Market

So, now that I've done it once ...