A few weeks ago, we finally found a good deal. Here she is:
And the boys just happened to be wearing blue shirts that match the stroller too...
The "new" stroller is actually a 2001 model, but it was in great condition. It came with a rain cover, which had probably never been used in Colorado, but which I'm sure we will use in Papua New Guinea. There was just one problem. The 2001 model comes with a pretty wimpy sun shade. In 2002 BOB started making strollers with a much bigger sun shade. (Is it sad that I know this much about these strollers?)
In Ukarumpa, walking is our main form of transportation. The single stroller that we have in Ukarumpa is actually a well-used BOB stroller of the same vintage, with the same style of sun shade. I knew from using it for the last two years in PNG that I really wanted something with more coverage. So... I sewed a new cover!
Voila!
I am super proud of this little sewing project. When we decided to buy the stroller, Brian told me "Well, you can just make a new sun shade for it, if that's the only thing you don't like about it." I was a bit skeptical that my sewing skills would be up to the task, but it turned out really well. We had to make it black because we couldn't match the blue fabric.
I was able to put in a nice clear vinyl window thanks to this good YouTube video that I found. (It's amazing what you can find on YouTube these days.)
Can't wait to take the boys for a ride and try it out!
Funny end to the story... although we had already bought a stroller, we still kept getting alert emails whenever someone posted a new one on Craigslist. Yesterday someone posted another stroller that looks exactly like ours, for quite a bit less than what we paid. It was such a good deal that we bought it, and now we have two! Brian is out in the garage right now tuning and tightening it up so that it works like new. We'll give it a bath and then hopefully sell it for a bit of a profit, to recoup some of the cost of our own stroller. Maybe we'll become professional stroller-flippers...